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4 minutes ago

Greg Thomas

Your Daily Learn

What is your daily Learn? Don’t leave it to the weekends, it won’t happen. Don’t leave it to some great big 8-hour marathon, it won’t happen. Don’t leave it till the night before, you won’t retain anything. Learning is still a process that we iteratively go through and need to not forget how to do. YouTube, Blogs, Udemy – there is so much out there – taken in increments, you’ll be much farther with what you do each day in your growth if you start with a plan today.

1 day ago

Greg Thomas

I Don’t Know

I want an AI prompt to return – “I don’t know”. I want it so bad. I don’t want other options or ideas, I want that one line. To me, that’s when AI has closed the gap on working with humans – when I can have a conversation with you and get back “I don’t know”. When someone on a team replies with “I don’t know,” that’s when you realize the pivot, the next course of action, how to take a step back and rethink the problem – all of those great reset moments. No adjectives, no verbs, no 14

2 days ago

Greg Thomas

The Developer Leadership Balance

Team Leadership for developers is at a very tricky point right now. We have had code generators in the past that improved developers’ work, but we would never compare a developer to a generator. But now, agents and application generation are letting those thoughts permeate into our minds as we work and lead our team. It’s easy to show up to a meeting, now, and have a user type in a prompt, during a meeting, and show the app they have created in minutes. To add to this, many organizations are tracking token usage to ensure developers are using AI

3 days ago

Greg Thomas

You’ve hit your Usage Limits

I tried out Claude Design this weekend. Pretty cool, lots of fun. I thought I’d build a presentation with it.  I got pretty excited as I worked through it, and then after a few hours of work, I hit my weekly usage limit. One presentation, 32 slides, 2 hours of work – usage limits hit for the week.  No deep thinking on learning. Does it mean it’s a bad product?  No, I just didn’t plan for the usage limit to kick in before I was done, or know what it equated to. What I learned; When you hit your usage

4 days ago

Greg Thomas

Critical Thinking and Problem Solving

In University, I took a critical thinking course with a slant towards Psychology.  Others took critical thinking courses with a slant towards Philosophy. I’m sure there are other options out there. Regardless, they were two (separate) books, you had to pore through.  They weren’t easy reads, and they made you question many things. But they taught me how to approach problems, how to break things down, how to make the complex simplified. In the age of AI, getting to the root of a user’s problem is the most valuable resource you have.  Anyone can go type into AI and get