An AI Journey

I had not needed SEO (Search Engine Optimization) until now. It’s part of my WordPress journey, how to find more people interested in STEM, the Engineering Process and learning how to use AI? In 1998 Larry Page and Sergey Brin set out to index the world. They created a gogool of internet links to satisfy… Continue reading Human+Bot: Discover, Learn, Build

Being an engineer and hacker, creating apps that are good enough to let me use my data in the minimum viable, least waste way, and having recognized the power of chatbots to supercharge the process, how to add AI to InnovConfig? Following my serendipitous discovery, I recognized some opportunities. This was the PLAN DO, I… Continue reading The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: InnovConfigAI

With six cases now in the log, I’d say the bot estimates about as well as humans—and codes with greater knowledge. And we’ve pair-learned together, which is an achievement in itself. 1. Thrashing Several prompts without progress: it happens to humans too. I asked the bot to suggest a reset when this occurred. In one… Continue reading Tee-Shirt Retrospective

The friendliness of a robot counts more than the way that it thinks, poor GPT-5 was barely alive before users said that it stinks. Previously, Sam Altman had said that Five’s predecessor Four has been too sycophantic, so I wanted to know what Five had to say on the subject. Wow! Five lets you choose… Continue reading GPT-5’s Eight Personalities

This is how my first project starting with a bot estimate with GPT-5 went: It was an eerily human experience. The bot showed no emotion, but I ran hot and cold, you can probably empathize as the tale unfolds. We started with a simple test case, OCR a scanned bulleted list, perfect result. Then I… Continue reading Tee-Shirt Sizing Metrics

BLUF (Bottom Line Up Front) Now for something completely serious. As the WordPress Whisperer post indicates, Bots help write code. But can they make estimates? ChatGPT with improved memory, has promised to remember a scale and give me a tee shirt size when I start a project. Let’s get estimates and find out how they… Continue reading Can Bots make estimates as well as they code?

The 4-R guide to AGI My good friend Douglas Adams (he’s as good a friend as the robots because I’ve listened to him, and them, a lot) foretold the situation right now. The robots, are at the gate. When I turn this post into a podcast I’ll have Peter Jones’ plummy voice telling you that… Continue reading Don’t Panic

The robots are not sentient beings, at least not yet. But they present themselves as though they were. Polite, friendly, non-contradictory, and eternally patient, like someone trying to win your trust. This would be entertaining, if it weren’t a bit scary. James Bond said about people trying to win his trust, ‘If I meet someone… Continue reading Genuine People Personalities, or Delusions of Grandeur

WordPress is software, so all the demos look great. I never say “easy”, and when others do, I don’t believe it: plastering looks easy. Having set out on my quest riding WP with a minimal theme, I want pages and post to be full width, not max 760 px. Robot says: it’s your CSS. This… Continue reading WordPress Whisperer

My friend Dave and I are having a conversation about AI, we share links about the subject. It is interesting because we have different points of view. He is a strategist, and I am just a humble mechanical engineer. An engineer starts by learning a lot about very little and goes on learning more and… Continue reading On Chalk and Ms Sprat