Almost Entirely Human

09
May
Episode 12 - Wait, ChatGPT Made this Recipe?!?

Episode 12 - Wait, ChatGPT Made this Recipe?!?

It was 5 p.m. The end of another day of back-to-back meetings. The kind that drain your soul and leave nothing but empty coffee cups and half-scribbled notes in their wake. I wasn't sure what the evening was going to hold for me, but I was about to find out.
7 min read
02
May
Episode 11 - The Final Chunkdown - Building Smarter Summaries

Episode 11 - The Final Chunkdown - Building Smarter Summaries

The final episode in my mini-series about building a blog summary generation tool.
7 min read
25
Apr
Episode 10 - What Your Content Looks Like in Embedding Space

Episode 10 - What Your Content Looks Like in Embedding Space

Yesterday, April 24th, 2025, I gave the closing keynote at the GIS in Action conference in Portland, OR. It was
8 min read
18
Apr
Episode 9 - How to Find Content like you Find Places on a Map

Episode 9 - How to Find Content like you Find Places on a Map

Part 2 of a series about building a blog summarizer tool.
8 min read
11
Apr
Episode 8 - One Summary to Rule Them All

Episode 8 - One Summary to Rule Them All

Part 1 of a series about how to build a summarizer of Blog posts.
13 min read
04
Apr
Episode 7 - Dear HAL, is This Drain Name Something I can say to my Mom?

Episode 7 - Dear HAL, is This Drain Name Something I can say to my Mom?

A quick look at an old idea I had a few years ago to use LLMs to filter or protect input data. Also a pretty good try by ChatGPT to make a four panel comic.
9 min read
28
Mar
Episode 6 – Where I Teach You to Build a Losing March Madness Bracket

Episode 6 – Where I Teach You to Build a Losing March Madness Bracket

In this episode, I show you how I used AI to make "average" March Madness brackets. Spoiler, they are not very good, but I learned how good AI is at impersonating a human for repetitive or tedious tasks.
9 min read
21
Mar
Episode 5 - From Words to Code (aka Coding by Vibe)

Episode 5 - From Words to Code (aka Coding by Vibe)

In Episode 5 we are going to look at how we think, how the web has evolved, and the shifts that are happening as AI and LLMs take on some aspects of software development – and explore what’s left for the Humans (spoiler: the fun parts, I think).
8 min read
14
Mar
Episode 4 - Disposable Apps

Episode 4 - Disposable Apps

Esri Developer and Technology Summit A quick shout out to everyone who attended my packed talk at the Esri Developer
6 min read
07
Mar
Episode 3 - Building a Thanksgiving Dish Assigner

Episode 3 - Building a Thanksgiving Dish Assigner

Welcome to Episode 3! This week, we will examine our first real-world coding example to build a Thanksgiving Dish Assigner. Yes, this was a real thing, that was really used!
10 min read