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“I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.”
—Flannery O'Connor.

What a fascinating sentence.

So sad that this platform never took off. I am seeing almost zero posts from anyone I follow.

In software:
Why do so many think you can serve either consumers or prosumers?

Either workplace or personal?
Either enterprise or creator?
Either B2B or B2C?

I don’t see it.

We can build adaptable UIs, UXs, marketing funnels and perspectives.

We build cars for everyone too.

Prompt Engineering? Sounds difficult. But most of the time, it’s just about clear communication. And it’s easy once you know a few basics.

I’ve learned one thing:
average in = average out.

Let me show you the most important aspects of my learnings:
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How to talk to AIs – prompting is a communication skill. A few valuable tips. (This text is intentionally not passed through Chatty, so excuse my human mistakes) I´ve been using a wide spectrum of AIs for almost two years now, gaining some interesting insights - and lot of prod...

I written up a little piece on how few things we need to know about talking to LLMs.

How to talk to AIs – prompting is a communication skill. A few valuable tips. (This text is intentionally not passed through Chatty, so excuse my human mistakes) I´ve been using a wide spectrum of AIs for almost two years now, gaining some interesting insights - and lot of prod...

I written up a little piece on how few things we need to know about talking to LLMs.

Why speaking computers? Conversational AI shines most where natural interaction is needed but simply missing:

Rusty chatbots in the bottom right corner
Waiting on hold
Minutes long phone menus
No one answering at all
Voicemail

Soon, all of these will be a thing of the past.

We have just launched an AI meetup in Hamburg, Germany.

No slides, no talks, just interesting conversations with nice people.

We call it:
The Prompting Club

Next round:
October 2nd

DMs are open if you happen to be in Hamburg and would like to join for inspiring chats about AI.

What of your AI could speak for you?

Excited to share my upcoming startup.

You are invited to join the waitlist!
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I would feed the links (or texts, not sure if the Apple docs are parseable by AIs yet) to an AI and start asking questions.

What are the most important X. And why and where. How do people Y? Why does Apple want us to pay attention to Z?

Also, Emily Chang is a really good journalist. And she doesn’t quote Musk as „Elon“.

YouTube video by Bloomberg Originals Inside OpenAI's Stargate Megafactory with Sam Altman | The Circuit

AI doubles its capabilities every 6 mon. And we humans are not wired to grasp exponential functions.
500B are expected to flow into OpenAI’s infra alone over the next 4 years.

…Meanwhile, in Europe, we’re busy discussing the next set of regulations after the cookie banner.

AI 2027 A research-backed AI scenario forecast.

This is a seriously interesting and fascinating outlook into the nearer future.

Based on scientific research, it’s been called a paper, but reads almost like a documentary.

There’s an audio version, too.

Highly recommended 💡🚀.
(But not without unthinkable worst case scenarios.)

ai-2027.com

There is a billion dollars per DAY being invested in the AI space today.

— Peter Diamandis in his Moonshots podcast, 23. April

What is going on with Apple?

Naming is so hard - in overcrowded namespaces everywhere.

I do really like this name. Many criteria fulfilled. Short, rememberable, story-telling, etc.

I actually write a lot of code, too.

Prompt results are often too far away from a working or efficient solution. Architecture becomes messy too soon.
Very close, but too often just not functional.

But in Typescript it becomes more of a rewriting or changing based on a good basis.

Probably the most difficult aspect of working in different programming eco systems in parallel:

Dependency hell.

AIs are really good at taking over these parts.

I work in 4+ languages now. With control and arch decisions still 100% on my end.

Will release two complex products this year.

Simply not possible 2 years ago. 🤯

Looking forward to this episode!
It’s easy to step into the not-yet-possible trap - happens to me all the time.

In my recent particular work in Swift, being 8 years into it, the AIs were perfect discussion partners for me, even better in complex UIKit matters, than in SwiftUI.

Never really delivered working code architecture for me.

Typescript, Python, even Golang:

Entirely different story.

And that applies to phone carriers, too.

The deeper you dive into programming in different languages and domains, the more you realize:

Everything in the tech world is a wrapper.

Around something that was there before.

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Working in Swift can only be loved.

Ie. type safety is so much ahead of any other experience I’ve gained. The right balance of {}()_; nightmares. 100 things.

Nevertheless, for years it was wondering if Apple works on Xcode.

Now this:
firebase.studio

Seriously worried about Apples edge.

👩‍🏫👨‍🏫 Learning.

Fascinating when you think about it:

Teaching and learning historically was in a one-to-one relation. Think master and apprentice, etc.

Then came one-to-many. School systems, unis, book and readers.

Then many-to-many. The internet.

Now:

Trend leans towards one-to-one again.

Nice!

Amiga 500!

Swift Friends!

Honestly, it is simply the most beautiful and solid language to work with.

I am now using 4 languages. Swift, TypeScript, Go and Python.

Imagine more people outside of the Apple ecosystem would be able to experience the difference.

Totally agree.

I’ve searched for it: the episodes are actually real one-shots. No VFX.

It took up to 16 takes (ie 1 take = about 1h) to get it right. Plus extensive rehearsals before shooting. The actors and crew went through some serious work here.