Tag: chatgpt

  • Summarizing Articles with ChatGPT Works Again

    Summarizing Articles with ChatGPT Works Again

    Our final talk in our software stuff for financial organizations is coming up tomorrow. Above is a little anecdote that Darran made to me as we were working on it. If you’re into security, compliance, that kind of thing, check out the third part of our series: “How Cloud Native Improves & Ensures Security, Governance,…

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  • ChatGPT web traffic falls 10%, analytics show – Indeed. I think I’ve found the limitations. The main one is the limit in the text you can feed it. If I could build up my own training data, that’d be something! The Link Reader plugin solves the summarizing web pages problem that I was having. What…

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  • 2023-07-07 day note

    Put out a newsletter today. The musings on using ChatGPT for school obscure the real treat: me goofing around at the expense of DevOps and Platform engineering. I also finished up a mostly polished draft of a webinar I’m giving next week. Working with Darran has been great. He knows his stuff and helps me…

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  • How can my kids use ChatGPT to be better students?

    How can my kids use ChatGPT to be better students?

    When a good teacher seems like cheating All of the worrying about cheating with ChatGPT is hiding its biggest potential: being a teacher. As an “expert” (or, at least, well read) in digital transformation, DevOps, cloud native, blah blah, when I ask ChatGPT to do things for me, it’s mostly smell-free garbage, kindergarten stuff. But,…

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  • The Homework Apocalypse substack.com/inbox/pos… How to incorporate ChatGPT (etc.) in school and lessons…in a good way.

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  • 2023-06-13 day note

    What is the deal with Disney live action kid shows? Do they have a team that makes sure they all have the same…vibe? It’s so weird. (This Jessie show is ok. Not sure about the handsy ten year old: Jessie: “Do you have an off switch?” Handy ten year old: “yup. Do you wanna try…

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  • An Infinite Game: Interview with Laurel Schwulst – “when I use ChatGPT, I’ve noticed that I’m getting better at talking to a computer. To me, it underscores how amazing the ability to simply have conversations is. And if you’re someone who enjoys having conversations with yourself, I think it helps if you personify the different…

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  • Majority of Americans have heard of ChatGPT, but few have tried it – “Just 14% of U.S. adults have tried ChatGPT” – until that gets up to 50%, a lot of the freaking (& hype) is like fearing necromancy. Once you use it a lot you’re like “oh, I see. Not a threat. That dumb-ass…

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  • Platform engineers don’t have time for infrastructure

    Platform engineers don’t have time for infrastructure

    That’s from a 15 minute version of my platform talk. I focused just on the seven tips to get your platform group started and scale it. I’m recording this for a conference, but I think I’ll need to record it again – which means this version is a bonus video! 🤖 Fully dedicated to “juggling…

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  • 20230327 – Big 🤖 edition here

    20230327 – Big 🤖 edition here

    You know, maybe this would be a good notebook for my ChatGPT/AI stuff. I do a lot of it, and it’s fun to share. I’ve yet to find a good source of prompts (I don’t want to go to reddit or Discord – I really want just a curated list), but it’s sort of fun…

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  • ChatGPT creates a digital transformation strategy for a pharmacy company – you’ll never guess what happens next!

    ChatGPT creates a digital transformation strategy for a pharmacy company – you’ll never guess what happens next!

    Pretty long one below, but fun if you’re into exploring the potential for AI stuff to make work-life less tedious. In case you just wanted something fun, scroll to the bottom to see me become the victim of my daughter’s favorite joke. Coming up with a digital transformation for a pharmacy company Midjourney prompt: a…

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  • Some “Coherent Nonsense” for the weekend

    Current status: I’ve got a good, old fashioned cold. I’ve forgotten how weird it is: you just find yourself sort of staring at nothing. And the snot. I didn’t have time to self-promote my content. Next time! Also, you know where to find it. English Class Essays, Insider Sales Emails, Webinar Landing Page Copy –…

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  • Automating bullshit – OpenAI ChatGPT removes office worker toil

    Current status: there’s about two weeks left before the work year is over. I’m lucky that I get a lot of time off at the end of year. VMware gives a whole week. The idea of the world being shutdown and, thus, feel guilt free about doing nothing is more appealing than it’s ever been.…

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