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  • OpenAI Developer Day and the World’s First AI Platform

    A few weeks back, I surmised that now was the time for builders given the state of Generative AI. And, with yesterday’s Developer Day, OpenAI has completely upped the game on the entire industry on innovation once again AND reinforced the point that now is indeed the time for builders. In short, yesterday’s announcements evolved…

  • Are product experiments going too far in 2023? A look at recent actions from Big Tech…

    Experimentation has been a critical topic in product management over the last several years. However, an interesting trend I’ve observed in 2023 is that of taking experiments much further than in years past – and shipping some seriously half-baked products that were positioned to the market as being generally available. This is not coming from…

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  • 11 Months with Generative AI; the Implications for Software Development

    Next week, the world will have had generative AI within its repertoire for eleven months, as ChatGPT was first released on November 30th, 2022. Debatably, the world of computing has never seen such a pace of innovation and seemingly gone through the equivalent of a Gartner Hype Cycle in less than a year. My post…

  • Using a Nest Hub Max with Google Workspace 2022 Edition

    The instructions I had previously written back in 2020 now no longer work. After a few more weekends of trial and error I finally figured out how to setup a Google Workspace account with a Nest Hub Max that is part of my personal Google Home. Fortunately the process is now quite a bit simpler.…

  • Setting Up a Second Ubiquiti Unifi Site

    To finish out my misadventures in home networking, I wanted to capture the process to add a second site and setup the site-to-site VPN. It was less than obvious. Preparing Your First Site The first thing one needs to do is prepare the first site. This involves enabling Multi-Site Management and then configure the USG…

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