Category: Automation
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Building Aria: Part 3 – The Separation of Brain and Body
By the end of Part 1, Aria had a voice. She could hold a conversation, remember names in a fact table, and respond in Discord as more than just a proof of concept. Part 2 gave her agency: the ability to act through tools, recall through layered memory, and refine her own decisions when a…
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The Convenience Trap: Why Borrowed Solutions Build Fragile Companies
Author’s Note Every time I teach someone to automate a daily task — or pitch a simple tool that quietly saves an hour a week — the same question always comes up: “Why should we spend hours or days building something that only saves minutes or hours?” I see the same question through a different…
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AI Art: Ethics and the Misplaced Fury of a Disrupted Age
Author’s Note This isn’t a confession—and it isn’t a eulogy for AI art. It’s a line I’ve chosen to draw, and a prototype I’ve chosen to share—because refusing to use exploitative tools is only half a solution. The other half is creating an alternative: one built on consent, transparency, and the dignity of original work.…
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The Unmaintainable Future—Or Not
We’ve been automating labor for millennia—but only now can we skip understanding completely. Millwrights in ancient Persia and medieval Europe captured the steady push of wind and water to grind grain and saw lumber—turning the brute labor of entire villages into the quiet arc of a wheel. Coal and steam amplified that leverage; the Industrial…
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Experimental Article: What We Build Reflects Who We Are
This article began as a reflection on a question that I find both inspiring and unsettling: What kind of future are we creating with the tools we build today? In my work and conversations, I often encounter the tension between technological progress and ethical responsibility. It’s easy to marvel at the incredible potential of AI…
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Elegance in Execution: The Timeless Power of Simplicity in Business and Tech
In a bustling café in downtown San Francisco, two entrepreneurs, Alex and Mia, find themselves engrossed in a passionate debate. Alex, with an animated fervor, sketches out a complex flowchart on a piece of paper, detailing a new software solution brimming with features, each one promising to be the next big thing. He believes in…
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Empowering Digital Transformation: The Rise of No-Code/Low-Code Platforms
Recommended Listening: In the ever-evolving digital age, business agility is of utmost importance. Rapid development of solutions to complex business problems is now a strategic imperative, but traditional software development often struggles to keep pace. That’s where No-Code/Low-Code platforms step into the spotlight, ushering in a new era of swift, responsive, and user-friendly solution development.…
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Championing the Chat: A Beginner’s Guide to Mastering ChatGPT
In a recent article, I peeled back the curtain on the world of generative AI, providing an overview of the major categories that are making waves today: text, image, music/sound, and data generation. That article was the first step on a larger journey, as I now plan to dedicate a series of deep-dives to each…
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Unleashing Creativity with Generative AI: Exploring Benefits and Navigating Ethical Considerations
Step into the dazzling world of artificial intelligence, and you’ll quickly encounter the awe-inspiring domain of generative AI. This rapidly advancing field is crafting a new narrative in the digital era, empowering machines to create, innovate, and transform various industries in ways we once thought were exclusively human territories. From penning compelling prose to creating…
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Mastering the Game: Pattern Recognition and Process Mining in Your Automation Strategy
While our modern lives may not require us to track animals or predict weather changes, our brains continue to seek patterns in the environment, and not just in the physical world but also in the sphere of our daily tasks.
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