Almost Entirely Human

This is what happens when you let an engineer use AI to try to play Jingle Bells. Spoiler: it's bad. But also kind of wonderful?

New year, new tool! Our first episode of 2026 tells the story of how I built the Accessible Map Agent, a new way to make maps understandable for everyone.

My dentist sent me a Wrapped this year. Apparently, I was in the top 15% of flossers in their practice...

I've been talking to my computer. Like, out loud. Full conversations. I use the dictation feature on my MacBook to tell Claude what I want instead of typing it, and I can't believe it took me this long to figure this out.

You can send satellite imagery to an LLM, ask it to "draw a red box around every swimming pool," and then extract those red boxes as vector features. No GPU required. No domain-specific training. Just an API call and some image processing.

I try to explain the different AI tools in ArcGIS that can classify or extract information from imagery.

This week I make an AI powered thermometer to take the temperature of conversation in a room! Perfect for Thanksgiving politics discussions.

This week, Holly takes the wheel and describes her AI Story: How it started and how it's going.

This week I recap a presentation I did walking through different ways you can use AI and GIS today.

This week I introduce The Arbiter, our AI restaurant assigner that was the best team building and educational event I've ever done.