Category: Generative AI
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Are AI Coding Tools Devaluing Software Products?
A recent LinkedIn post triggered me to thinking again about the devaluing of software engineering: People severely underestimate the last 20% of getting something to being launched, and also generally forget about all the work it takes after you think you are finished building a thing. Not to mention getting…
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Welcome the Puppet Infra Assistant to the Team!
This article was originally published on 2025-06-26 on dev.to: https://dev.to/puppet/welcome-the-puppet-infra-assistant-to-the-team-1902 Your Job isn’t Easy It’s Friday afternoon and you just want to hit the weekend, but another compliance audit request just came in. Oh joy! Responding quickly to these “fire drill” requests is getting harder. Infrastructure isn’t just growing –…
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Failing Over Between Gemini Models
In a recent article I highlighted how to use Google Gemini LLM for tagging content, but I also highlighted that the free tier offered has daily quota that you need to stay under. Each model that you connect to has its own quota, and with some simple error trapping we…
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Using Google Gemini to Suggest Tags From a Taxonomy List
I recently wrote about using OpenAI as I was exploring doing some tagging of content based on product or article information. After seeing the cost it would be for a large number of requests, I looked into what might have a more generous free tier and found Google Gemini to…
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Using OpenAI to Suggest Tags From a Taxonomy List
To be able to search and list products by tags, the data in a database needs those tags associated to every product (or piece of content). Sometimes, that is just too large to manually curate. I wanted auto-tagging, but not just whatever tag the AI could think up. I have…
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Elephant in the Room: Are Enterprise CMS Too Expensive for Today’s Economy?
After seeing some more folks on LinkedIn talking about being let go, I started thinking about the business of trying to sell Enterprise CMS in a market where folks aren’t sure if they can afford their groceries. I decided to quickly jot down a few thoughts on a Friday and…
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Opinions wanted: how do we identify AI misinformation?
I’m curious as to how others are tackling this issue: How do we get AI users to know that AI is giving them garbage? For those of us who have years of experience dealing with misinformation, but also a whole lot of experience with actual true facts, there’s a bit…
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Is Bing indexing now an SEO priority because of ChatGPT search?
I was recently sharing an article about how to get yourself into LLMs so that you get picked up in the pattern matching, but now with ChatGPT Search growing in popularity, and Microsoft’s influence over what is going on in the chat search space, we might actually have to care…
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Is Sitecore really holding back Optimizely with the announcement of Sitecore Stream?
I made the claim earlier this week that Sitecore’s move with Stream would allow them to hold a lead. For a while, it feels like Sitecore has been trying to be disruptive, including disrupting themselves, racing to get to “where the puck is going to be” as the saying goes…
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Does GitHub Copilot actually raise bugs in code by 41%?
“Many developers say AI coding assistants make them more productive, but a recent study set forth to measure their output and found no significant gains. Use of GitHub Copilot also introduced 41% more bugs, according to the study from Uplevel, a company providing insights from coding and collaboration data.” I’ve…
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Podcast: Fireside with Voxgig
Back in August, I appeared on the Voxgig podcast to discuss the nature of DevRel as a practice, and the skills involved, how a great deal of DevRel has crossover with other fields. This is something that appears to be inspiring not just just DevRels themselves, but employers in other…
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The Trust Factor: The Ethics of Crediting AI in Content Creation
With an unbelievable 30% of people now using generative AI tools daily for professional work, content is being generated at an astonishing rate. How can we trust the information being put in front of us? Disclosing AI content might just be a first step. Readers may have noticed that I…
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Balancing Innovation and Regulation: Navigating the AI Governance Landscape
Right now, the hype around AI continues to boom while the evolution of the tools keeps accelerating. The massive leaps in capabilities in the last 24 months have gone from the much-joked-about “AI wrote me a script” memes to strikes and walkouts over the AI usage in the film and…
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The space between the words: tackling generative AI email messages
I started this as a reply to a LinkedIn post by Deane Barker that got me thinking. Then I started it as a separate LinkedIn post because it was getting too long. Now here I am writing a full article because I can’t keep my character count in check! (Perhaps…
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Generating a LinkedIn Learning horror story with Microsoft Copilot
As part of keeping up with tech as it comes out, I decided to take some LinkedIn Learning courses on generative AI. During a particular course covering the capabilities of Microsoft Copilot, I asked it to generate a horror story about LinkedIn Learning, and this thing is absolute gold! 🤣😂Somehow,…
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