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6 months ago

Greg Thomas

Paying for the Right Answer

AI has cracked the “Getting the Answer” Code. Upgrade to Max Subscription. Get the Plus Package. Purchase the next Tier. Sign up for our best response. Yes, imagine that, to get the best answers from AI, you have to pay for it! Just last night, I was working through a coding problem with ChatGPT and was downgraded to their lower model, where the answers got worse, redundant, and started going in a circular fashion.  Even when I said stop, it got going (like someone who doesn’t want to give up). But if I upgrade, I get the better answer package.

6 months ago

Greg Thomas

Good Weather

In Good Weather, anything is possible. The sun is shining, everything is dry, possibilities are endless. But in Bad Weather, it rains, it snows, things get wet, leak, the temperature is cold, everything is imperfect, and harder to do. You might have loved to run and bike in the summer, but now, in the fall, in the winter, what are you going to do? Trudge through snowdrifts, wear heavy boots?  And run? You need to plan what you do, between Good and Bad Weather.  If you have tasks that need to be completed in Good Weather, get them done before

6 months ago

Greg Thomas

The Hot Tub Experiment

I had to winterize a hot tub this weekend. I have never done this in my life. I watched YouTube, I asked ChatGPT, and I looked up the model I had. In the end, water was everywhere, the power was off, and it took longer than I thought. Such is learning, that’s exactly what it is – and now I know how to do it better for next season. Don’t turn that goodness completely over to AI; you’re doing yourself a disservice if you do that. Take your experiment, make it up, jump in, and work the problem. It’s the

6 months ago

Greg Thomas

You’re Not Winning

But you’re not losing either. You just haven’t won that “thing” you’re after. That’s it, you’re not there yet, but you’re on the right path. When you connect, I don’t know, heck, I don’t even know when I’ll connect. But you’re not losing, you just haven’t won yet. Or so the speech goes.

6 months ago

Greg Thomas

Clarity Isn’t Just for AI

If you give out sloppy directions with AI, you’re going to get sloppy outputs. This is the proof of the words – Garbage In, Garbage Out – that humanity has been saying for years with respect to leading and guiding your team. Give people vague and cloudy notions, and what you’ll get back is vague and cloudy solutions – not very valuable. The difference between AI and Humans is that with AI we get immediate feedback on how horrible our instructions are, whereas with Humans, we try to make it work, we try to figure it out, we try to