This week I have learned:
- when you get to meet with people who are just amazing conversationalists, it’s wonderful. There were two conversations like that this week.
- I successfully used ChatGPT for something this week. It helped me to design a game. It made me realise that up until now I might have been deliberately trying to make it fail.
- however I do think the idea of “prompt engineering” is too much like “shit computer programming” to be a credible future.
- I also do wonder why more people in development roles aren’t more scared. It’s a classic case of “this will impact everyone, apart from me”.
- One big idea from conversations this week: that we have already created Artificial Intelligence and it’s called a corporation. It’s also, unfortunately, psychopathic.
- balancing work and family is hard. It’s a constant exercise in prioritisation and learning which shits to give.
- the idea that you can only scale interactions by converting them to transactions is interesting in the era of GenAI. I think a lot of people will think they are rich interactions, but they’re merely simulations.
- I’m increasingly impressed by the conversations that can be sparked on LinkedIn. There’s a lot that used to happen on Twitter that is now happening there. Although it does still feel like being in a management convention centre rather than the pub that was the bird site. Sadly the violent bore who used to start fights in the corner is now the landlord.
- I’ve pretty much checked out there now as a result.
- I love the storytelling in Welcome to Wrexham.
Next week: back in the 100 Coffees saddle
The week in photos:
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