Tag: Automation Process
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AI Has Grown Up. Now Stop Measuring It Wrong.
A follow-up to The Golden Hammer Syndrome — six months later, AI is delivering real ROI. The problem is we’re still asking the wrong questions. In January I wrote about using LLMs to check if a number is even. People laughed — and then sent me screenshots of their own codebases doing the same thing.…
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The Era of AI Chat is Over. It’s Time to Issue Orders.
The tech industry has a massive blind spot when it comes to Artificial Intelligence. If you read the standard advice online, everyone tells you that the secret to mastering Large Language Models (LLMs) is learning how to have a better “chat.” The prevailing wisdom treats the algorithm like a new hire on your team: brainstorm…
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Don’t Teach AI – First Teach People to Ask Questions and Verify Answers
The conversation around AI enablement often focuses on training models, fine-tuning prompts, improving usage metrics and optimizing workflows. But here’s an uncomfortable truth: if your organization struggles with innovation today, AI won’t magically fix that tomorrow. The real barrier to AI adoption isn’t technical—it’s cultural. And it starts with something surprisingly basic: the ability to…
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AI-Driven Development in Corporate Teams: A Strategic Implementation Guide
As a Lead Software Engineer who has observed numerous AI implementation attempts across various teams, I’ve seen the same pattern repeat countless times: teams rush to deploy AI tools expecting immediate productivity gains, only to find themselves struggling with inconsistent results, poor code quality, and frustrated developers. The recent discussion from r/VibeCoding about using AI…
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Exploring Snowflake DocumentAI for Supermarket Price Tag Recognition
Exploring Snowflake DocumentAI for supermarket price tag recognition, I experimented with extracting product names and prices from images. After setting up a schema and storage, I refined the input data by isolating price tags to improve accuracy. The model achieved 80% accuracy for product names but struggled with price recognition. Automating the process with queues…