I was talking with my boss about this the other day. I use Chat-GPT all the time to do the dirty work of research for me. I ask it a question, it searches the internet, parses results, and presents me with information I could never get from a search engine. I haven’t used Google in…

Going back many years, I had never actually worked with someone from India but I read about how information services were being outourced to companies in India where they could get an Indian engineer for a fraction of the cost of one in the US. I’ve always felt a little threatened by offshoring, regardless of…

I ponied up for the monthly membership for Chat-GPT Plus and it’s worth every dime. It’s teaching me new things. I have an ongoing conversation with it about containers as I learn how to work with those and Kubernetes. It helps me find errors in my shell scripts. As long as I know what I’m…

1. Choose songs you know the words to, or at least most of the words. I like to learn them all, so I practice at home. 2. Stay in your vocal range. I cannot sing just any song. There’s a song by Whitesnakle I’d love to do but I cannot hit the high notes. I…

I’ve poo-poo’d the very idea of artificial intelligence as just another marketing scheme to get people to buy something. But after using X’s Grok (now behind a paywall) and Chat-GPT (hello, new friend), I’ve finally come around to admitting that it really is some impressive technology. Is it actually “intelligent”? It doesn’t seem that way….