I think that because of my Highlighting And Annotating habit, it's harder for me to write long paragraphs. I write single-sentence paragraphs, often bullet points. (more)

Joe Procopio: OpenAI Is Building 'Her' and Big Tech Is Still Defending SaaS Canned Reports. I don’t have any great love for this current version of genAI. (more)

Joe Procopio: The Problem With GenAI? It's Too Much 'Gen' Being Sold as 'AI' I’ve been neither a proponent nor an opponent of genAI, but I have pulled some of the threads on either side of the pro/con argument. (more)

Joe Procopio is the founder of TeachingStartup.com and chief product officer at Get Spiffy, an on-demand vehicle care and maintenance startup. He was chief product officer at Automated Insights, which was acquired by private equity firm Vista Equity Partners in 2015. In 2013, Joe sold his startup, ExitEvent, to Capitol Broadcasting. Before that, he founded and built Intrepid Media, a social network for writers. https://www.inc.com/author/joe-procopio https://joeprocopio.com/

John Cutler: TBM 3/52: Real-World Learning Review. This week I will try something new, and I hope you like it. As some of you know, I am an investor in DoubleLoop.com, an early-stage startup based here in the United States. I was chatting recently with Daniel Schmidt (the founder/CEO), and he said he wanted to do a learning review session for DoubleLoop and share it with the world. (more)

Automated Insights (AI) is an American-based technology company specializing in natural language generation (NLG) software that turns big data into readable narratives.[1] Automated Insights is a company that specializes in natural language generation (NLG) technology. Their flagship product, Wordsmith, transforms structured data into written narratives, allowing businesses to automate the creation of reports, articles, and other content. This technology is used by organizations like the Associated Press to automate the generation of news stories from financial data. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_Insights

Retrieval augmented generation (RAG) is a technique that grants generative artificial intelligence models information retrieval capabilities. It modifies interactions with a large language model (LLM) so that the model responds to user queries with reference to a specified set of documents, using this information to augment information drawn from its own vast, static training data. This allows LLMs to use domain-specific and/or updated information.[1] Use cases include providing chatbot access to internal company data, or giving factual information only from an authoritative source. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrieval-augmented_generation

An epistemic community is a network of professionals with recognized knowledge and skill in a particular issue-area. They share a set of beliefs, which provide a value-based foundation for the actions of members. Members of an also share causal beliefs, which result from their analysis of practices that contribute to set of problems in their issue-area that then allow them to see the multiple links between policy and outcomes (doctrine?). Third, they share notions of validity, or internationally defined criteria for validating knowledge in their area of know-how. However, the members are from all different professions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemic_community (cf Shared Understanding, Scenes, Collaborations, Inventions, And Progress; different from Community of Practice) (more)

Joe Procopio: Dear Startup Investors: It's Not Us, It's You. There are essentially two questions that infuriate most serious entrepreneurs. (more)

Joe Procopio: How the Tech Industry Stopped Building Things Customers Want. When was the last time you waited in line to buy the latest and greatest tech product? (more)

Joe Procopio: The Slow, Painful Death Of Agile and Jira. Agile has stopped being agile, so it’s time for Agile to go and take Jira with it. (more)

Joe Procopio: The End of SaaS Is Closer Than You Think. As more and more companies hop on the A.I. train in what seems like a panicked game of musical chairs... it just might be actual panic driving the decisions in those executive boardrooms right now. (more)

Simon Willison on Imitation Intelligence, my keynote for PyCon US 2024. I gave an invited keynote at PyCon US 2024 in Pittsburgh this year. My goal was to say some interesting things about AI—specifically about Large Language Models—both to help catch people up who may not have been paying close attention, but also to give people who were paying close attention some new things to think about. (more)

Joe Procopio: The Untimely Death of Product Management. I’ve known her since she founded her startup while still in college in the late 2000s (more)

Joe Procopio: Um, Hi. This Is What Generative AI Is For. It's for When SaaS Is Dead. Oracle and SAP aren’t going bankrupt tomorrow. But we’re quickly approaching the inflection point where the user expectations and the tech are converging on a Do-It-for-Me brand of data analysis that’s going to eclipse the current Do-It-Yourself model. (more)

Simon Willison: Zero-latency SQLite storage in every Durable Object. Zero-latency SQLite storage in every Durable Object (via) Kenton Varda introduces the next iteration of Cloudflare's Durable Object platform, which recently upgraded from a key/value store to a full relational system based on SQLite. (more)

Robin Sloan book; also a bread-dough

Dorian Taylor: Agile as Trauma. The Agile Manifesto is an immune response on the part of programmers to bad management. The document is an expression of trauma, and its intellectual descendants continue to carry this baggage (more)

Product Management Theater - the equivalent of Dark Agile - process that pretends to support Agile Product Development but is just more control/waterfall bullshit. (more)

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