Thinking

Will AI Oversaturate? (2000s Calling… They Want Their Hype Cycle Back)

M.Joel / 2023-10-03

If the “XML hype cycle” doesn’t spark vivid memories, go ask someone who’s been in IT for 25 years. 🙂 […]

M.Joel / 2023-09-25

Arguably, present AI systems as well as those on the horizon don’t fundamentally offer new capabilities. They make easier things

M.Joel / 2023-09-18

You need a second brain to avoid information overload. But what goes into composing that system may not be what you think.

M.Joel / 2023-09-12

I’ve long appreciated the aphorism: Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first

M.Joel / 2023-09-07

You may not have heard of him, but James Clerk Maxwell wrote down what we now think of as four

M.Joel / 2023-09-05

Author Michael Chrichton coined the Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia effect in a 2002 speech. Paraphrasing: ‘The effect is as follows. You

M.Joel / 2023-08-31

A bit more on my educational history. It made me imagine that I hated math. I took zero math-related classes

M.Joel / 2023-08-28

Generative AI prompting 101. There’s a lot written about how to prompt AI, especially chatbots and text-to-image generators. But I

M.Joel / 2023-06-21

We’ve all done it–struggled over some problem until a frustrating end of the day. But after “sleeping on it” and