Articles for category: Drive

1 month ago

Greg Thomas

Counting Token Shock

Counting Lines of Code became… Counting Number of Unit Tests Generated became… Generating the number of class files became… Ensuring we had everything commented, which became… An unlimited number of TODOs in our code. And now we are counting Tokens of usage and surprise, surprise – we are gamifying and overusing them so that our metrics look inflated. I AM SHOCKED!!!! Yes, your team should be using AI. But if you’re measuring your team by their token consumption, it’s a lazy, easy metric. Instead, why not look at; As with development metrics of the past, the first metric identified is

1 month ago

Greg Thomas

Training an LLM for a Marathon

Training a Language Learning Model is much easier than training to run a marathon. You assemble your data, you set your parameters (depending on the scope, you do a bunch of other things), and then you click “Train”. And it runs, for however long it needs to run, it runs. It does its job, you walk away and let it work, let it run, let it train. Everything we do today is not nearly as clean or as easy as clicking the “train” button – if it were, I’d be selecting different models and hitting “train” all the time. Want

1 month ago

Greg Thomas

Your First Meeting

As far as I can think back, my first professional meeting was when I was working part-time at A & W, and we had to have some sort of staff meeting on a Sunday night. I had no idea what was happening, but I got paid to be there, and we had free pop and danishes. The Impetus for the meeting is someone had just been fired, and it became a bit of a forum to air dirty laundry. My biggest issue was that my pants were 3 sizes larger than I wore, and it was an awkward belt I

1 month 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

2 months 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

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