OK, I'm back...
30/12/25 11:19
Holiday season is in full swing… Santa has come and gone but there's still enough champagne in the fridge for New Year's!
Took an interesting "course" with Jeremy Utley - it reinforced my recent learning and thinking about AI: you need to work with it everyday. Not just as a tool but as a sounding board, an idea generator, a constructive critic (although it's so damn positive it's a bit weak at that). In other words as a partner.
I started a conversation yesterday with my AI (tweaked for what I think is important) about goals, personal and professional, for 2026. This conversation will continue all year I suspect… and it really is a conversation. To heck with typing - it's too artificial. People (at least me) talk! So, we're talking.
This begs the Turing test issue but that's for another day.
And for you project managers out there: I just responded to a PMI poll about what is my number one PM priority. There were five options. "Mastering AI tools for PM" is in first place with 64.7% of the vote… next closest is 11.8%… so, AI and PM is NOT going away in 2026!
Took an interesting "course" with Jeremy Utley - it reinforced my recent learning and thinking about AI: you need to work with it everyday. Not just as a tool but as a sounding board, an idea generator, a constructive critic (although it's so damn positive it's a bit weak at that). In other words as a partner.
I started a conversation yesterday with my AI (tweaked for what I think is important) about goals, personal and professional, for 2026. This conversation will continue all year I suspect… and it really is a conversation. To heck with typing - it's too artificial. People (at least me) talk! So, we're talking.
This begs the Turing test issue but that's for another day.
And for you project managers out there: I just responded to a PMI poll about what is my number one PM priority. There were five options. "Mastering AI tools for PM" is in first place with 64.7% of the vote… next closest is 11.8%… so, AI and PM is NOT going away in 2026!
Hmmm
04/11/25 12:15
Haven't posted in a bit as I
1. have been swamped and,
2. am not sure what to think about AI these days
Trying to keep up is almost a full time job… and yet, the changes, all breathlessly announced, don't seem to have really amounted to much in "real life". Is it just me? I use AI regularly but maybe need to up my game. There's much talk about using AI as a partner and not just a tool… perhaps this needs some practicing…
1. have been swamped and,
2. am not sure what to think about AI these days
Trying to keep up is almost a full time job… and yet, the changes, all breathlessly announced, don't seem to have really amounted to much in "real life". Is it just me? I use AI regularly but maybe need to up my game. There's much talk about using AI as a partner and not just a tool… perhaps this needs some practicing…
ChatGPT Atlas browser
22/10/25 09:22
ChatGPT has just released a browser; needless to say, ChatGPT is embedded and allows users to take action directly in the browser. This was inevitable I think - how many users are defaulting to an AI now rather than a browser… when I ask a question I want an answer not a bunch of links to check out. But all the browsers out there will integrate AI… it's already happening actually.
But here's what I'm pondering… do I really want my AI enabled browser being able to track everything I do while using a browser? Like my banking? Email? Certainly ChatGPT is talking up their privacy controls but you'll excuse me for being a tad sceptical. Mind you, my browser can track all of this now… have we already crossed the privacy Rubicon?
But here's what I'm pondering… do I really want my AI enabled browser being able to track everything I do while using a browser? Like my banking? Email? Certainly ChatGPT is talking up their privacy controls but you'll excuse me for being a tad sceptical. Mind you, my browser can track all of this now… have we already crossed the privacy Rubicon?
Pygmalion and Galatea
18/10/25 16:25
I'm late arriving to this issue!
ChatGPT is going to allow its software to participate in, and I quote, "erotica for verified adults".
This is fraught I think but also not a surprise in any way: plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose
Sex and computers go way back. Why would AI be any different? But this is different of course in that it's interactive in a way that wasn't possible before. People are already having less sex than in the past. I can't see an AI "partner" helping much.
ChatGPT is going to allow its software to participate in, and I quote, "erotica for verified adults".
This is fraught I think but also not a surprise in any way: plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose
Sex and computers go way back. Why would AI be any different? But this is different of course in that it's interactive in a way that wasn't possible before. People are already having less sex than in the past. I can't see an AI "partner" helping much.
OpenAI's AgenKit
10/10/25 10:26
OpenAI just released a kit that enables users/developers to build AI agents. This is significant - it just keeps getting easier to build agents AND to build workflows with multiple agents. Up to now I've been playing with Zapier (which is terrific by the way) but the more the merrier! If you've ever wanted your own chat agent, now's the time…