Articles for category: Drive

We used to be Organized?

We used to be organized, now we hope pointing an AI agent at our work is going to resolve the issue. It won’t. That’s not how it works. You need some base level of organization and standards to make it work. Also, have you noticed how organized teams are able to adopt AI faster?

2 months ago

Greg Thomas

Build Something Better

The default tool doesn’t do what you need it to do. It hasn’t been upgraded in 10 years, and now it’s not even a feature; it’s more like a hanger-on, and that’s about it. You can mock up and build something that much better in 30 minutes. You can give your users a better experience. You can get them excited to use your tool. That’s what building something better is about – getting people to see a new way of using something that they’ve been forced into for years and then wondering why they didn’t do this themselves in the

2 months ago

Greg Thomas

Setting the AI Foundations

If you’re running your business from Notepad, AI won’t help much. Maybe if you had thousands of text files to comb through, it could provide an analysis and give you some details on what is what. But would you want to keep running your business that way? Would you want to, inefficiently, ask AI to parse through thousands of text files of data on a daily basis, just to “figure out” what to do? At some point, the AI is going to come back and say, “there is a better way to do this”. So why not do that better

2 months ago

Greg Thomas

The Frenetic Developer

Fast, energetic, and Wild in an Uncontrolled way – that is Frenetic. It sounds like a great word, but when I think of it, I think of rubber balls bouncing off the wall in a completely uncoordinated fashion. It looks like lots is getting done; it feels like process, but what it is is just movement with no goal directed from it. There is no point in trying to “Out-Prompt” someone; there is no value, there is no purpose. With AI and immediate development, we’re moving, not inching, but full on moving, towards a continued world of Frenetic Development where