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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

6 months ago

Greg Thomas

The Bugs Won’t Fix Themselves

If you want to bring your list bug list down, start cracking. When they are assigned to you, they are on you to work on, you to identify, and you to close. You can leave the list there and ignore it, or you can do what everyone is waiting for you to do. Start closing bugs. It’s not flashy, it’s not the greatest work, but the people depending on that work being done, will definitely appreciate it and that should be enough for you to slog through it and make it happen.

6 months ago

Greg Thomas

What can’t AI do?

It’s the same problem as before. What other people can’t do, you do. If AI can’t build it, then you build it. If AI can’t figure out how to sell it, then you sell it. But don’t make the mistake of ignoring it. Incorporate it, work with it, understand it, learn from it, incorporate it. Microsoft was able to famously say, “The Internet was a fad”. Microsoft also had billions of dollars behind it to pivot to reverse that decision. You don’t build it now.