I’m very excited to have another guest writer on my blog: OpenAI Deep Research! I didn’t write this post. I heavily relied on OpenAI’s Deep Research. I did review, clean up, and modified a little, but this is a guest post from ChatGPT ;) My prompt was: Write a comprehensive blog article, following my style,... Continue Reading →
Rise of the Agent Director
In my last post, Where have all the Engineers gone?, I wrestled with some tough questions we're facing today, in the age of AI-powered engineering. I can't just leave it there... Just as the rise of automation and CI/CD pipelines reshaped operations teams by forcing traditional sysadmins to upskill into DevOps engineers or risk obsolescence, we’re... Continue Reading →
The Illusion of Thinking: Models Don’t Actually Reason
I grabbed my morning coffee and dove into Apple’s new paper, The Illusion of Thinking (okay fine, ChatGPT and I dove into it together). And you know what? None of this really surprised me. I've been working through creating custom "thinking" agents, leveraging reasoning models. The head-shaped-hole on my desk tells you how well it's... Continue Reading →
Context Switching and LLMs – A Cognitive Parallel
Photo by Mike van den Bos on Unsplash We've all been there: managing many moving pieces in our heads and then, BLAM, Slack dings, we’ve lost our perfect mental model faster than closing an unsaved file. Working with LLM agents has upped the ante in terms of what we have to keep in context in... Continue Reading →
Proposing ‘h11n’: A New Buzzword for an AI Hallucination
I don't know who gets to pick industry buzzwords, abbreviations, and the like, but I'd like to propose h11n for a short form of an AI hallucination. I swear I gave the LLM the right data but it h11n anyway! My prompt is killing me, it keeps h11n on this one question... That's all, let... Continue Reading →
Embrace AI: The Key to Staying Relevant
Above image created by GPT 4o: Create an image for my blog post. I talk about people using AI and ChatGPT. Create the image photo realistic, and make it look like it’s from the 1930s Brooklyn This guest post is written by my good friend and colleague Karl Schwirz, Director at Slalom, master of AWS, and... Continue Reading →
