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I Wrote This Because …

September 3rd, 2026 · No Comments

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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Tags: Artificial Intelligence · Commitment · Communication · Ideas · Time · Tools · Value · Work · Writing

Code Reviews and Unintended Benefits

August 27th, 2026 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips AI writes more code than people can review. Now AI can review code. So why waste time by having people review code? There are benefits. AI is writing code, i.e., software is writing software. AI can write code 24 hours a day without a break. Wow! And AI writes code fast. Double […]

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Tags: Improvement · Learning · Management · Process · Programming · Reading · Value

The Round Table of Librarians, Updated

October 16th, 2025 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Perhaps these chattering bots fulfill the role I requested. Some ten years ago, I wrote about The Round Table of Librarians. Since all the knowledge of the world was on the Internet, we just searched for it with Google et al. and found it. What were we to do, however, if we […]

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Tags: Expertise · Knowledge · Library · Time · Value

Useful and Helpful Software

May 5th, 2025 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Instead of wiggling around so we can call our efforts “AI,” let’s focus on useful and helpful software. Over a decade ago (yes, that long), I was working with a graduate student on their writing. They had difficulty describing their research to others. Their work was wonderful. They had developed a concept […]

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Tags: Artificial Intelligence · Concepts · People · Technology · User · Value · Writing