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9 months ago

Greg Thomas

Show Your Work

In High School, showing your work on how you solved a problem was a big deal. You could have the correct answer, not show your work, and you were punished for it in your score. “How dare you know the answer and not show how you got there?” How much of your work are you showing now? Are you showing your prompts that you give to Chat GPT? Are you showing the questions you ask? Are you showing how you Vibe code? Or are you simply doing it? This works, not showing your work, and we’re all happy and moving

9 months ago

Greg Thomas

The Big Move

The Big Move takes time. Whether it’s a job, a house, a new project – the move to something new, and generally bigger takes time. When you get there, what you don’t know is that it’s going to be even bigger than you thought. You will need more things. You will need more people. You will need more dollars. You can budget for the big move as best as you can, but there will always be something else to add on once you get there. Does this mean you shouldn’t do the Big Move? Never. It means be prepared for

9 months ago

Greg Thomas

The Automated Agent

Everyone has an agent and a bot. But how many times do you speed through it to get to the agent? If everyone is trying to bypass your agent, your customers are trying to tell you something.

9 months ago

Greg Thomas

Is Blogging Dead?

I’ve been working with GitHub Copilot – which truly is a timesaver when it comes to writing code I’ve written many times over for new projects and lately instead of spending time searching for an issue, I’ll ask ChatGPT how to solve it. They don’t always get it right, but their track record is pretty good. As I ask these technical questions, I keep asking myself – is this the end of technical blogging, and if so, what’s next? There are many blogs I still read because I want to understand more than simply a snippet of code and want

9 months ago

Greg Thomas

The Problem with Windows Updates

I’ve always thought that how you update your system is the most important part of any software you will ever build for one reason: that everyone will see it over and over again. It has to be good to go, resilient, and infallible. The “Restart” updates for Windows have to be the oddest option that could truly benefit from some AI applications. For instance; If an update doesn’t need to be restarted immediately, do you need to install it now?  Download it and hold off on the install. If you haven’t detected any activity on my computer, but applications are