Episode 29 - AIs don’t learn, but they sure look like they do

LLMs do not learn on the fly, their training is compute-intensive and cannot currently be done dynamically. Instead, they can recall messages from previous conversations, making them appear to have learned things about you.

Episode 28 - Google’s AlphaEarth Changes GIS, a little

AlphaEarth is a set of pre-computed embeddings across the entire Earth (over time) that makes it possible to search for similar locations. But what does that mean for GIS?

Episode 27 - AI Is the Magic Genie

AI is like a magic genie, incredibly powerful, but deeply literal.

Episode 26 - An AI by any other name (but please pick one)

I wasn't going to write about GPT-5 this week, but since it's all the internet can talk about, I guess I’ll join in. My hot take is this: It isn’t significantly better than the previous models.

Episode 25 - How I Use AI to Edit My Writing

TL;DR: Ask for feedback! This lets you shorten your editing cycle without asking an AI to write it for you. That keeps it your original work, but you get it done faster and with higher quality.

Episode 24 - AI Deleted my Database

TL;DR:  Even the smartest AI agents can nuke prod—treat them like junior devs, fence them off from production, and Back Up × 3.

Episode 23 - AI Wins a Gold Star

Google's AI wins a Gold Medal in a mathematics competition. What does this really mean?

Episode 22 - AEH visits the Esri UC

This week, I attended the Esri UC in San Diego. Let's take a quick look at where Esri is building AI and what folks think about it!

Episode 21 - AI of the Beholder: Crafting a Civil War Book Cover

Our first guest post! Holly, dymaptic's COO, talks about her journey helping her husband design a book cover using AI!

Episode 20 - AI Generates Maps

Happy 4th of July. Let's take the week off by looking at some silly AI generated maps.