The story so far

I originally became interested in AI based on what I heard from two very different sources: clients at the marketing agency where I consult on product messaging and content strategy and my school age kids. The former are both eager to harness AI as a low-cost content-generation tool and worried about their jobs, and the latter want to make AI voices say "butt."

To gain a better understanding of this technology and what it might mean for my family and our future, I started looking into how AI works, which involved a crash course in machine learning, learning about prompting and Python, and even training an image-generation model. I've also been learning a little SwiftUI so I can incorporate AI voices into iPhone apps for my kids.

This process has been fascinating and also pretty regularly frustrating, as I try to wrap my mind around new concepts and struggle through buggy APIs and interfaces. But I'm sticking with it, because I'm excited about what future iterations of the technology may have in store. Right now, I'm primarily using AI to build starter code I can then adapt into useful tools and even products.

My latest works in progress are:

Good Bloggy, an AI wrapper that structures writing prompts as creative briefs and supports style guides, writing samples, etc.

Piskeddy, a dead simple project management tool for anyone who wants to quickly create timelines and status reports without having to first define complex workflows

Stay tuned. This page is a work in progress. Please use this form to provide feedback, suggest topics for future experiments, or just say hey.