Vanessa Henson

AI is not just for highly technical people. It truly is beneficial for almost everyone. It's not just deepfakes and chatbots; it really can help you be more productive. It can co-write emails, sales pitches, business plans, Instagram blurbs, a dating app bio, a mission statement, heck, even a funny joke to text a friend. The list is truly endless.   (This article focuses on AI writing generation, but the prompting techniques are the foundational pieces that are applicable to all AI generation.) This doesn't mean it replaces you, ...quite the opposite, in fact. It helps you articulate your thoughts or gather correct information. Here are some tips and tricks to help you navigate:   It needs your touch and your voice Don't just copy and paste what AI tells you. Often, the first pass is bloated, overly complicated, and overwhelming."  We still have to massage the data (or the prompt) to be human-digestible. If you wouldn't write it or read it with compl...

  LLMs, ML, NLP, MCPs, RAG, Agents, and MCP Servers . . . the list goes on and on and how the heck is anyone supposed to keep up? Every day a new model, tool or term is introduced it's daunting trying to understand how much you need to learn about them.  Don't worry it's not nearly as scary as it sounds! Once you grasp the fundamental concepts, you will start to see the patterns and how most of the new terms fall into general categories. Then you can pick and choose what works best in your workflow. So take a deep breath, and lets put this in very basic terms to help you grasp the foundational picture. Keep in mind that each of these terms and topics can go very deep, but for most of us, you really only need a general understanding of what these things do in order to become more proficient in AI.  LLM - Large Language Model:   This is where the magic happens  - the brains of the operation. They can be generalized knowledge ( Chat GPT ) or very specifically ...

AI, It's incredible how two letters can bring up so much emotion.  Excitement for the new advances we can make as a society, the potential for people to make more money then they ever dreamed possible, power, scarcity, and worst of all - Fear. I doubt there is a space that isn't being changed by the introduction of this technology. It is a tsunami that is hitting the entire world and whether we like it or not it's coming straight for us.  It was only a few short years ago when being a Programmer was number one job on the US News 100 best job list. I felt like I had finally "made it" and it was an incredible feeling. Being in such a highly coveted position, finally achieving the success that I had earned through endless hours of studying, late nights, long on call shifts, tears, headaches, self help and therapy journeys to overcome the soul crushing imposter syndrome. I remember the pride I felt reading that article thinking it was all worth it because I was finall...