18 hours ago

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 …

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2 days ago

You’ve hit your Usage Limits

Greg Thomas

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 …

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3 days ago

Critical Thinking and Problem Solving

Greg Thomas

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 …

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1 week ago

AI Naming your Classes and Projects

Greg Thomas

AI will never name its classes or projects as cool as I do. I can prompt it, kick it, push it – but it will never be as cool as the ones that I give it. Never be steeped in so much meaning from what the team has been through that only they get the inside joke. Maybe one day. But not for a while, hopefully for a long time, because this and our cool variable naming is what makes our code amazing. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook or Paperback …

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2 weeks ago

More Manuals

Greg Thomas

I still write documentation and/or review it. There is still a need for it. Whether it’s done quickly by AI, reviewed by me, or written by me from scratch – we need to know how things work. When I would have problems studying, writing things out always helped me learn more and fill in gaps of what I had missed. That is the magic of a manual when you give it to someone – here is the recipe, the plan, the instructions for how to accomplish a task. There is a reason that anything you buy comes with a paper …

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2 weeks ago

Things AI Does Not Have

Greg Thomas

Grit. Sweat. Impostor Syndrome. Perseverance. Desire. Fear. Persistence. We read a great deal of what AI can do and what it does have, but we don’t highlight what it doesn’t have and will always be impossible to have.  Some of these might be seen as bad traits – Fear, Impostor Syndrome – but look deep, and they are probably what have driven you to success in many of your endeavours.   Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook or Paperback on Amazon (CAN and US).  I’m also the co-host of the Remotely …

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Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook or Paperback on Amazon (CAN and US).  I’m also the co-host of the Remotely Prepared podcast.