Articles for category: Drive

3 weeks ago

Greg Thomas

Critical Thinking and Problem Solving

In University, I took a critical thinking course with a slant towards Psychology.  Others took critical thinking courses with a slant towards Philosophy. I’m sure there are other options out there. Regardless, they were two (separate) books, you had to pore through.  They weren’t easy reads, and they made you question many things. But they taught me how to approach problems, how to break things down, how to make the complex simplified. In the age of AI, getting to the root of a user’s problem is the most valuable resource you have.  Anyone can go type into AI and get

3 weeks ago

Greg Thomas

Yes, But What does it do?

If you can’t tell me what it does, then it doesn’t matter what the fix is, we have a much bigger problem. And that is, we don’t know what it does. Whether it’s you, AI, or Fred at the coffee shop, you need to know what it does. Base metric.

4 weeks ago

Greg Thomas

The AI Pivot

If you’re not considering this as part of the product, you’re moving backward. The massive pivot that is AI is reshaping every aspect of what we do. This pivot feels like it is happening overnight, but it will be longer. It only feels shorter because we are all going through it, whereas generally, one industry goes through a pivotal change at a time, but now it’s everyone. And if you haven’t felt it yet, that’s okay, you get to plan your pivot before it does hit, because it is coming.

4 weeks ago

Greg Thomas

AI Naming your Classes and Projects

AI will never name its classes or projects as cool as I do. I can prompt it, kick it, push it – but it will never be as cool as the ones that I give it. Never be steeped in so much meaning from what the team has been through that only they get the inside joke. Maybe one day. But not for a while, hopefully for a long time, because this and our cool variable naming is what makes our code amazing.

4 weeks ago

Greg Thomas

More Manuals

I still write documentation and/or review it. There is still a need for it. Whether it’s done quickly by AI, reviewed by me, or written by me from scratch – we need to know how things work. When I would have problems studying, writing things out always helped me learn more and fill in gaps of what I had missed. That is the magic of a manual when you give it to someone – here is the recipe, the plan, the instructions for how to accomplish a task. There is a reason that anything you buy comes with a paper

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