by Dwayne Phillips AI capabilities are increasing fast. Too fast for some of us. What do we call this? This past week, Anthropic showed people what Mythos could do. WOW! That is amazing. Why only a few months ago… Where were we way back then? And, by the way, how do you pronounce Mythos? There […]
Entries Tagged as 'Artificial Intelligence'
Moore’s Law for AI
April 13th, 2026 · No Comments
Tags: Artificial Intelligence · Change · Chaos · Computing · Time
This is Not AI: Rogue Agents
April 9th, 2026 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips I would hope that journalists would understand AI and software better than this. I am disappointed. I recently read this story about a rogue AI Agent: A rogue AI agent recently triggered a major security alert at Meta Platforms, by taking action without approval that led to the exposure of sensitive company […]
Tags: Artificial Intelligence · Journal · Learning · Mistakes · Programming · Software
This Just Got a Lot Easier
March 26th, 2026 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Working with text and changing file formats just got a lot easier. This little essay was written to be posted in a WordPress blog. I have been doing this blog writing bit for a few years and have over 1,800 posts. Seems like a lot, but a couple of posts a week […]
Tags: Artificial Intelligence · Context · Programming · Word · Writing
The Bottleneck
March 16th, 2026 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips These new tools, ahem all that AI, are boosting productivity in our work. And then we hit the bottleneck and come to an emergency inducing crisis. Yesterday and today I have been using one of these new tools (some folks them AI, I don’t). I have accomplished in an hour what would […]
Tags: Artificial Intelligence · Chaos · Emergency · Failure · Management · Tools · Work
AI, Productivity, and Choice
March 9th, 2026 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Some AI tools increase productivity in some areas. Okay, I’m done with this task. Now what? That choice can be vexing. I used an AI tool (won’t mention which one). I completed a two-day task in an hour. Now what? Hey boss, tell me what to do now. One answer: go to […]
Tags: Analysis · Artificial Intelligence · Choose · Management · Time · Tools
The Middle Manager and the Entry-Level Employee
March 2nd, 2026 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips The middle manager has been replaced by the entry-level employee. What? Ah, the bane of 20th century civilization—the middleman. The middleman was the person in the middle who did nothing but pass a product along from the producer to the consumer. The middleman did nothing of value, but took a good 10% […]
Tags: Artificial Intelligence · Computing · Jobs · Management
Machine-Aided Decisions
January 15th, 2026 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips We have come a long way with AI aiding in decisions. The machine is powerful and new. Or is it? AI is helping us decide what to do. It performs analysis in seconds that would have taken weeks or months. Wow! Look at us now—machine-aided decisions. Great new stuff. Or is it? […]
Tags: Artificial Intelligence · Decide · Humility · Humor · Machine Learning · Management · Technology
Be Curt … It’s Okay
January 12th, 2026 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips The one great advantage to working with a chatbot. curt: adjective, using or expressed in few words, in a way perceived as rude. Ah, that’s it. That’s what I like about working with a chattering bot: I can be curt and I won’t hurt anyone’s feelings. I was attempting to create a […]
Tags: Artificial Intelligence · Competence · Computing · Language · Word
AI Coding of Sorts
January 8th, 2026 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Software that writes software is quite helpful. Well, maybe sort of not. MIT jumps into the fray and asks a few dozen programmers if AI that writes software is helpful to people who write software. First, the folks at MIT are smart enough to not base a survey piece on a survey […]
Tags: Artificial Intelligence · Computing · People · Programming · Tools
It All Comes Down to the Bathroom
January 5th, 2026 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips This current AI boom all comes down to the cost of providing bathrooms for people. Or so it seems. I think we are over thinking the idea of what we think about these chattering bots. Folks, the chatbot is just software running on a computer. Yes, some of that software makes me […]
Tags: Artificial Intelligence · General Systems Thinking · Money · People · Systems