Tag: AI
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devPRops – better put PR in your backlog
Better put PR on the backlog Art for no one, by no one. Art whose only audience is the collective pathos. Incredible. [AI culture problems as art] The Gemini thing: the conversation around AI technology is now based on how it can navigate social and cultural issues, less if it “works.” These social and cultural…
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Potato chips that taste like Thanksgiving stuffing – what could go wrong?
Relative to your interests Cluetrain at 25 – This was an important book to me when it came out. It probably had a huge influence on my professional life. All these years later, I think it was right. The biggest evolution, unexpected, was that the Big Bad Corporate Octopus took it seriously and figured out…
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I only give one talk a year, but I give it many times
Relative to your interests Can we reenergize the transactional workforce? – Hmm. Cloud without Kubernetes – Start by hiding Kubernetes, only touch it as needed. There’s enough work to do already. Wastebook “Unhappiness with air travel took a new turn when maggots rained down on passengers on a Delta flight from Amsterdam to Detroit, Michigan,…
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This apple has a butt
Never use slide notes Relative to your interests Organize Your Change Initiative Around Purpose and Benefits – ‘An easy method of finding a change project’s purpose is to continuously ask, “Why are we doing the project?” Usually, you need to ask this question three to four times to get to the core purpose.’ // Does…
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A ChatGPT prompt for solo roleplaying Dungeons & Dragons
Here’s an overview of the prompt I’m currently using to play D&D with ChatGPT: In my mind, I’ve got as new talk that evaluates several of the AIs out there based on how well they can play Dungeons and Dragons. After using ChatGPT for about a year, I have first hand experience that makes all…
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Touching the Flying Spaghetti Monster
Upgrade That Spring! If you do Spring stuff in a large enterprise, you should check this thing out. Relative to your interests AI for Economists – Some prompt formations and stuff for the ChatGPT and friends. Signs that it’s time to leave a company – Attempts to get people back in the office are something…
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New prompt to get ChatGPT to Dungeon Master Solo Dungeons & Dragons
Update: here’s a newer prompt I’ve been using, plus more how to play D&D with ChatGPT. Here’s another prompt I’ve used to have ChatGPT be a dungeon master for ChatGPT. See the older one here. I think this one is probably too long. What I’ve done here is, largely, dropped any instructions on mechanics (skills…
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What is a Kubernetes “distro,” and why are there so many of them?
Here’s the second little interview I did with Torsten Volk at EMA research. We talked about security concerns with Kubernetes. He’s done a great, very thorough look at Kubernetes usage and the state of things. You can get it for free thanks to my work. Torsten says that last he counted, there were over 140…
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We Fear Change (because we don’t get any rewarded for all the risk)
Suggested playlist for this episode. We Fear Change, a new talk I’ve got a mostly newish talk coming up next week about people’s fear of change in organizations, on Oct 24 2023 at 11:00am Amsterdam time. Register to Watch the Talk It’s narrowed down, of course, for software and ops stuff. You know: all that…
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There is no relationship between The Doobie Brothers and AI generated D&D battle maps and
If you thought yesterday’s edition was way too long deep into some stinky, weeds, today’s episode is for you! Johnny Ghoul. Using Midjourney and DALL-E to generate Dungeons and Dragons Battle Maps It works well enough, I think, given how cool they look. The scaling is obviously not perfect, but it’s fine. I just did…
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Why do they even have nets in Dungeons & Dragons 5e?
Software Defined Talk #434 That’s the opening topic of our podcast this week. Oh, and we talk about a bunch of tech shit too: Watch the video above, or just listen to the audio only, edited podcast. Do Less My colleague Bryan Ross has been writing up some tiny videos I made last year. They’re…
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“We gave a profession of bullshit generators access to GPT-4. You won’t believe what happened next.” – If the work you’re doing is predictable – in this case, a lot of the junior level work at management consulting firms to come up with new strategies and GTM – the AI can help. The positive side:…
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What is a service mesh? Why do you need a service mesh? And which is the best service mesh?
The infrastructure drives the app architecture A cloud native applications is typically designed as a bunch of little components that coordinate with each other over a network. They may use events instead, and while that isn’t the same as point-to-point network communications, it follows the same idea: you have a bunch of indepedent-ish bundles of…
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Survey: Majority of US Workers Are Already Using Generative AI Tools, But Company Policies Trail Behind – “The new survey finds that 56 percent of workers are using generative AI on the job, with nearly 1 in 10 employing the technology on a daily basis. Yet just 26 percent of respondents say their organization has…
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Taking a careful approach to AI in marketing – There’s a lot of analysis that we should all be doing with marketing, but it’s often hard to get at data and figure out what to do with it. // “Fifteen percent said that more than a quarter of their tasks today are intelligently automated, but…
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VMware Introduces Frameworks And Services At Explore Conference To Enable Enterprise Adoption Of Generative AI – Quick analysis of VMware’s AI strategy.
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Focusing on just outcomes leads to whacky tech decisions
Confusing outcomes with capabilities I don’t have this sorted out well, but the baby keeps crawling on me to remind me to chill the fuck out about being a professional thought leader and be more of a professional dad. (That’s right, I’m blaming my three year old for the shoddiness of the below!) In the…
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