A friend of mine has the Deep Rock Galactic board game that comes with multiple figures that can be painted. Of the six types of figures I’ve done from this set, this was the most frustrating. Over-painting corrections looked super…
Professional Development – 2025 – Week 30
AI Does AI Actually Boost Developer Productivity? (100k Devs Study) – Yegor Denisov-Blanch, Stanford The New Code — Sean Grove, OpenAI Software development ‘Make the Code Change Easy’ Demo – Trivia Legacy Kata with Ivett Ördög Testing in Python 3…
Professional Development – 2025 – Weeks 28 & 29
AI Why Understanding AI Doesn’t Necessarily Lead People to Embrace It “Our studies found that the greater interest in AI wasn’t because people with less knowledge thought AI was more capable or more ethical. Quite the opposite: People with lower…
Professional Development – 2025 – Week 27
Business Gen-Z Workforce: AI Can’t Replace A Critical Generation In The Talent Pipeline I’m all for this idea of getting fresh perspectives from younger folks and partnering them with more senior people for cross-learning. Cognitive bias Research: Executives Who Used…
Professional Development – 2025 – Week 25
AI The AI Revolution Won’t Happen Overnight This article was full of insights that don’t break through the media hype around AI. The transformation will be impactful, but will be “slower, messier, and far less lucrative in the short term.”…
Professional Development – 2025 – Week 24
AI Is the AI Apocalypse Inevitable? ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills, According to a New MIT Study Caveat (even called out in the article) — this hasn’t undergone peer-review and the sample size isn’t very high. I, too,…
Professional Development – 2025 – Week 23
AI GitHub Copilot Coding Agent If you manage/track issues in GitHub, you can assign them to Copilot. Once complete, it creates a PR with its changes. Advanced AI suffers ‘complete accuracy collapse’ in face of complex problems, study finds “Apple…
Professional Development – 2025 – Week 23
Consulting Unblocking the Power of Thinking (Ryan Ford) Rethinking Sales (Liz Heiman)
Professional Development – 2025 – Week 22
AI How to ride the shifting tide of AI correctly The author proposes that we can either be the dinosaur staring at the oncoming meteor or we can be the surfer riding the large wave. AI has gone through several…
Professional Development – 2025 – Week 21
AI The Copilot Delusion “Copilot is like a thoughtless yet high-functioning, practically poor intern.” The article covers some areas where tools like GitHub Copilot can be quite helpful. The author makes arguments about how we have the potential to cede…