Making AI Practical and Practicable
I sit at a really weird saddle point currently. Professionally, I’m obliged to engage with generative AI technologies. I’m an AI technologist. I’ve been doing this for nearly twenty years at this point, and over ten past the doctorate. I can’t just ignore a new technology because it’s built on…
Yesterday, July 24th 2025, was a Thursday, and I just couldn’t find my footing. Now, I know not being able to get the hang of Thursdays puts me in solid company, Arthur Dent seems like a mensch, but it’s not great to struggle your way through a workday. Much like…
I turned 41 earlier this year. That means, by my count, I’ve been playing RPGs for something like 37 years in one form or another. It started with games of pretend, proto-LARPs which ended in a lot of “I hit you!”s and “Nuh-uh!”s. As I got older, my games became…
The inimitable and unbelievably generous David Giard was kind enough to invite me onto his podcast to discuss artificial intelligence.
If you’ve been alive in tech anytime in the past two years, you’ve been told, repeatedly, loudly, often by people who discovered prompt engineering five minutes ago, that large language models are here to revolutionize everything. Your job. Your team. Possibly civilization itself. This is not that article. Instead, I…
With my thanks to AgileIndy for putting on a lovely show, and my colleague Adam for taking the video. Abstract Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer science fiction; it’s here today, and it’s here to stay. It is in the products you use every day: home automation, digital assistants, or…
The AI gold rush has created a weird kind of pressure. If you’re not chasing the trend, you’re behind. If you ask hard questions, you’re a stick in the mud. If you jump in too fast? You might end up with a flashy prototype and no plan to support it.…
I love a good case study. AI never crops up in the ways you think it will. Here’s a discussion of optimization for the lumber industry that I first gave at Nebraska.Code() back in ’23, with many thanks to the folks at Amegala for putting on that show, and my…