Articles for category: Drive

2 weeks ago

Greg Thomas

How about Fixing Traffic?

If there is a problem that everyone in the world has experienced at some point in their lives, it is traffic. Whether in a car or stuck behind someone on a sidewalk, traffic is where we can spend a long time thinking about life. Because what else are you going to do? There really isn’t much. And yet, we have done nothing to solve the traffic problem. And when I say solve, I don’t mean “alleviate”, “minimize”, or “reduce”, I mean solve the problem of traffic. Get me from Point A to Point B without any issues whatsoever, without an

3 weeks ago

Greg Thomas

I got Skillzzzz

I’ve been playing around with Skills on Claude quite a bit lately – automating common tasks that I’d agonize over that cover all the bases and give me the output to move forward with. Like anything, I’ve discovered there is a whole “Skills” marketplace, which brought me back to last year when people were buying and selling prompts on prompt exchanges. I think skills are a great workflow tool. I like being able to tailor and focus them on the work that I do specifically – essentially becoming an extension of my work and less about the prompt I put

3 weeks ago

Greg Thomas

Who Generated this Code?

Is that the question we will be asked going forward? What tool did we use to generate code? If we answer that we wrote it ourselves, will we be revered as an elder who once used the magical keyboard of Orbos to decipher the code of Phobos? I don’t think any of that exists. This was a question that mattered 4 – 5 years ago when something looked off, and you wondered how something was being built. Does it matter now, though? Is it more a question of “How was this code generated?” that we will be asked going forward?

4 weeks ago

Greg Thomas

Research, Analysis and Dissemination

Want to look good at working on a problem? Research – Identify the issue, what are the different “things” that could be causing the problem, dig deep into what they are, don’t scratch the surface. Analysis – Look at your research, what applies, what doesn’t, what is feasible, what isn’t, what could work, and what can’t.  Come up with a solution that fixes the problem and explains why. Desseminate – Complex solutions don’t always have simple answers. Being able to disseminate to an end user, another team member, or your manager is a skill beyond value when you can translate

4 weeks ago

Greg Thomas

The Importance of Design

Design without code is not a great design; it’s airy, never been proven, just there, who knows what it could mean. Design is important, whether you do it with AI or on your own; there is value in that work, and it is largely unhidden. If it fails, everyone knows it was a bad design. If it works, no one ever mentions it again. Some of the best code I ever wrote was a simple design to send out invoices every day to customers to get our money.  It ran for years without ever needing someone to coddle it or

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