How you use customer GPTs - Great looking uses for custom GPTs, and thus AI in general.
United credits tech and staff investments for rising NPS scores - A rare example of an enterprise praising better user experience for helping the business. // “to create an airline that customers choose to fly, we need to deliver a great customer experience."
What Is the Point of Austin’s Fake AI Restaurant? - You usually this to build up follow for an account to sell to someone, then they delete all the content and start new with all those followers. But wouldn’t be it cool if it was some kind of new, surreal performance art?
Medieval Fantasy City Generator 0.11.4: forests - This looks great: I like this map generator but always want more trees.
Three fun fonts and stories of enterprise data integration
Let’s start with some YAGV (yet another goofy video):
Relative to your interestsSpring AI: An AI framework for Java developers - No python? No problem.
The Great Data Integration Schlep - ‘Every company has something fucked-up and dumb going on somewhere, no matter how admirable they are in other respects, and if they’re facing an existential crisis there’s definitely something going badly wrong that somebody doesn’t want to face. If you ever want to get all your data in one place, you need to figure out some of the shape of the Badness, in an environment where most of the people you meet are presenting as “reasonable and highly competent professionals” and everybody’s got a different story about the Badness and why it’s unavoidable or someone else’s fault.
The Cloud Foundry Renaissance, Julian Fischer, CF Day EU 2024 - This is a good talk, content wise and also structure wise. It has a point of view, a vision, finds a problem, and then launches a product.
Nick Cooke’s Exentrica - ”it seemed as though it were a bridge between Jugendstil and Art Deco — the missing link, so to speak.”
Risks vs. Harms: Youth & Social Media - “Do some people experience harms through social media? Absolutely. But it’s important to acknowledge that most of these harms involve people using social media to harm others. It’s reasonable that they should be held accountable. It’s not reasonable to presume that you can design a system that allows people to interact in a manner where harms will never happen. As every school principal knows, you can’t solve bullying through the design of the physical building."
A History of Microwave Ovens - As it says.
The XOXO 2024 Talks - People keep raving about these.