I wrote and contributed to a few tech books between 2004 and 2009. One of them was obsolete before it hit the shelves, thanks to changing versions and APIs. In another case, I joined the company I'd written about and personally outmoded whole chapters. Great for my career, terrible for book sales!| blog.lmorchard.com
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I've been trying (and often failing) to be careful about my language around the current wave of LLM-powered tech that folks are calling "AI"| blog.lmorchard.com
TL;DR: In my previous post, I used APIs from OpenAI to roughly cluster ideas by named topic. In this post, I'll try that again, but this time with local models on my own hardware.| blog.lmorchard.com
TL;DR: FigJam has a feature where you can automatically cluster sticky notes by topic. I wanted to see if I could glue some things together to implement this myself.| blog.lmorchard.com
TL;DR: I like deploying robots to include more of the team in our core development loop| blog.lmorchard.com
TL;DR: Why bother sharing anything on the open web if it's just going to be fodder for extractive, non-reciprocal bots?| blog.lmorchard.com