With a little prompt craft, you can get some good regional maps out of ChatGPT.
Here is the original photo I took on a flight from London for Amsterdam:
The prompt I used:
Use this image to determine the layout of a D&D map in the style of Dungeons and Dragons adventures and maps. Pay attention to the rivers, coastline and building placement.
The result was cartoonish, so I prompted it again with:
If you’re into release notes, this is a good one. Also, they’ve been steadily making microphone control more like the desktop.
Remember when DevSecOps was all the rage?
Enterprises are till trying to figure out DevSecOps:
[M]any organizations remain stuck in siloed approaches that pose problems due to competing demands for speed, efficiency and risk reduction. Enterprises that effectively integrate security into software development and deployment–both through platforms and tools, and via cross-team collaboration– are better positioned to drive velocity, quality and innovation while maintaining and even improving security."
Also, if you must Kubernetes, try to run just one, or as few as possible: ”given the array of tools and personas involved, organizations must contend with complexity, staffing and other hurdles in addition to cost, security and integration issues.
Many times in London I’ve smelled perfume that smells like super-sweet cotton candy. Is that a thing now?
“…the Gen-Z exit…” overheard near Bank, London.
What AI is used for in the SDLC - inner and outer loop watch
“adoption rates varied across the SDLC. Coding and testing were the top use cases for leveraging AI (48% and 47%, respectively). Lagging behind were priorities such as finding development insights, at 33% of respondents.”
🔗 Predictions 2026: Software Development Goes From Jamming To A Full Orchestra
"we now have more than 7 million total ChatGPT for Work seats (up 40% in just 2 months)."
A big deal:
more than 800 million weekly users already familiar with ChatGPT, adoption and ROI within businesses is realized more rapidly–pilots are shorter and rollouts face less friction. We’re seeing this with the growth of ChatGPT for Work–we now have more than 7 million total ChatGPT for Work seats (up 40% in just 2 months). ChatGPT Enterprise seats specifically have grown 9x year-over-year.
Impressive momentum. This is a good customer reference and boasting press release/blog.
Gemini could lap ChatGPT in app features
This would be great. I implicitly trust Google because my stuff is there. While I love using ChatGPT and Gemini, I have less trust in their security (they just don’t have the track record yet) and even less on their morals and law-following (they obviously blatantly violated copyright for their models). // If things keep up in this trajectory, Gemini might be a real content, feature-wise for ChatGPT Anthropic is really good at app innovation though and will be hard to beat.
AI use in banking, BBVA
The use of OpenAI tools is becoming widespread among employees who, with more than 4,000 active GPTs and an average use of 4.1 days per week, claim that it saves them nearly three hours a week. This impact translates into time-savings of up to 80% for certain specific tasks, such as report writing or risk analysis.
🔗 Antonio Bravo: “AI is driving a structural transformation within the banking business”
Questions asked and not asked of Andrew Clay Shafer
We interviewed Andrew for Software Defined Talk last night. It will be our next week. Here are some questions I had prepared. I didn’t get to all of them of course.
How do you prepare for things? I can never tell if I prepare too much or too little. How do you figure out applying academic knowledge to business? Would you work at a big company again? What’s the difference between “not having a boss” and having clients?