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1 week ago

Greg Thomas

Maintaining your Expertise

Our expertise is currently in an evolutionary stage of change. You might have titles and awards that you have earned, but does AI answer everything you do better? It’s a hard pill to swallow, but yes, it truly might – but it hasn’t seen or done what you have done.  So the next question becomes – what is your value to evolve to in this area of growth and development? What your expertise is in today might not be what it will be a year from now, so the question is, how will your expertise evolve, and what steps will

2 weeks ago

Greg Thomas

Tokens for learning

I see lots of articles on how many tokens you are using to accomplish your task. The tradeoff is whether you are learning at the same time that your token use is skyrocketing. If you are beautiful, if not, I have questions. Don’t give up your learning for a few token counts – iterate, research, read, improve – those are tokens we’ve been consuming all along.

2 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.

2 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

2 weeks ago

Greg Thomas

Things AI Does Not Have

Grit. Sweat. Impostor Syndrome. Perseverance. Desire. Fear. Persistence. We read a great deal of what AI can do and what it does have, but we don’t highlight what it doesn’t have and will always be impossible to have.  Some of these might be seen as bad traits – Fear, Impostor Syndrome – but look deep, and they are probably what have driven you to success in many of your endeavours.