Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips We tend to ban the latest tools in school so that students won’t “cheat.” Today’s kids laugh at what prior generations banned. My granddaughter is in high school (I have to take a moment to comprehend how that happened so fast). We had a short discussion last night on tools for learning. […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Now and then, something surfaces that is BIG and IMPORTANT. What was believed to be important in the past isn’t. Move on. Who, however, moves on? Person A: Look what I found. This is important. Person B: What now? Person A: No look. This is really important. This is the way we […]

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by Dwayne Phillips We have invented a new job: it is the chatic (pronounced like “static”) or the chattering bot technician. I often work as a chattering bot technician. Substitute the name of your favorite system (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Coilot, Mistral, Qwen, Grok, etc.) for chattering bot and you have it. We employ “ChatGPT technicians” […]

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by Dwayne Phillips AI enabled completing a 12-page report in five minutes. No, that took ten years of effort. Somehow, using a new piece of software became cheating or something bad. A request arrived at work. Click. Boom. Pow. Out goes a 12-page report. Five minutes. Next? Cheating! Consider, however, that the five-minute task was […]

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by Dwayne Phillips These blog posts are longer, i.e., don’t have many words. Sorry, I can’t help myself. My blog posts aren’t very long (see, I could have shortened that sentence by removing the word “very” and also the word “blog.”). I recently wrote about the Paramedic Method of Editing. That method helps editors shorten […]

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by Dwayne Phillips If it is important to me to tell others what I think, I write it myself. If it is just stuff that a machine could write, let the machine write it. I write this blog. I sit in the coffee shop on Saturday mornings and press every key on the keyboard to […]

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