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Handing the Team the Method - presenting on my win to the company
A long overdue update on my Big Win post. Finding that while the world of AI in here moves at light speed you can't push the rest of the world forward as well. So I put together a presentation on the AI tooling I'd built across two projects ā a pipeline of scripts that took a full-day manual process down to almost nothing, and a set of in-engine tools that made an otherwise undeliverable mixing project actually possible. But the tools weren't the point. The point was the pattern behind them, and it's simple: surface the pain point, describe the workflow you wish you had, then let AI help you build it. You don't have to know how to code. You have to know what's grinding on you and be able to articulate it clearly. (I've shared my slide deck below but unfortunately have to redact some client sensitive information) People were rather quiet during my presentation but after I turned off the PPT people immediately started engaging. My boss and our CEO were more vocal than I've ever seen them about getting people to think differently about AI. One coworker told me it was the first one of these meetings they'd looked forward to in a long time, because honestly these standing daily meetings had been stagnating and we'd largely been skipping them. Then one colleague asked the question that's been sitting with me since: "How hard would it be for me, with no coding knowledge, to start?" So that's my next goal ā figuring out how to actually share these systems with everyone else, especially people just starting out, not just demo them. Curious how other people are doing this, handing your process to people who don't code, what's your process?
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This is an excellent post, Roc. "Finding that while the world of AI in here moves at light speed you can't push the rest of the world forward as well." That's swirling around in my brain too. My team is so overworked they don't have time to evolve. I worry that a company with more bandwidth rolls right over us one day. Our competition's solution will be faster, more accurate, more consistent, cheaper, because they had the time to actually learn these tools. We seem great right now, but it feels temporary. Like we're just waiting to get blindsided. The method I just started using... 1. Free up time. Hard to ask an overworked person to get curious. There's not much room. So I build apps that take a chunk of their day back. 2. Now that they have extra time, show them how you made it. The goal is to get them to feel like they could have made it themselves. 3. Give them a quick win. Sit with them as they describe a simple pain point directly to an LLM. Maybe an annoying thing they redo by hand every day, the report they reformat, the list they re-sort, the files they rename, and instead of building a solution for them, they watch the LLM provide the solution in real time. Be right there to answer questions so there's as little friction as possible. 4. Reinforce. When they come back to me for the solutions, redirect to the LLM. Sit with them again. Answer questions again. I think we're playing the long game really. You and I and this community seem to dig into this stuff like it's buried treasure. Looks like most people don't see it that way, though. It's going to be a marathon of baby steps that will win them over. No rushing. Make it fun. Be there with them.
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@Roc Lee I like that you feel better about not being left behind. I bet you're right. Maybe we're the black swan that blindsides the competition.
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3d ā¢Ā
šHuge Win! Generative AI Ambassador
Hello Clief Notes Family! You may have noticed that I have not been posting as much. Some of that has been intentional, I was posting a lot and being number 1 feels good, but seeing others who work so hard to bring knowledge and value to our community shining feels good also! Another big portion of why I have not been posting is that I have been chasing my dream, I have applied to many ambassador programs and I have been ghosted or I have not been the right fit for them. This does not mean I was not the right fit to be an AI ambassador! I wanted to share, that today is different, today I have won, I have been accepted as Generative AI Ambassador in the company I work for! I will be giving workshops, writing articles and sharing my knowledge with my colleagues everyday, I will be Teaching about AI, 2 of my passions in one place! Teaching and AI. I wanted to thank you all for being one of the most supportive, inspiring, and impactful forces in my life. You have all given me the confidence, the energy, and the care I needed to keep pushing for this. We truly learn, grow, and win together š¤šŖš With all of my heart! THANK YOU š
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Brainsplosion! AI Generative Ambassador?! That's a thing? That's sick! Now I want to be that thing...
5d ā¢Ā
Sortable Posts - Clief Notes Sidebar - Easy Copy/Paste
I wasn't sure how to frame this one, so I'll just show you. You copy/paste a snippet of code (Claude wrote it) into your browser console, and it drops a sidebar onto Skool that sorts every post in the community. Most liked, most commented, newest, hidden gems that got buried. Skool doesn't have this currently. How to run it: 1. Hit F12 while in your browser (tested in Chrome and Brave) 2. Click "Console" 3. Click the input line, paste the code (see attached txt file for code), hit Enter 4. The Skool Sorter sidebar appears 5. Hit F12 again to close the console This is something that Claude threw together to help me sort through all the posts. Few minutes, start to finish. It's like disposable software. Wonder what else we could do with this method? Doesn't have to be a post sorter. I'm sure you guys can find other use cases. Also, if you use Claude Code or any LLM with browser control, this gets really fun. It can throw together a quick UI and use a site's own backend to do things. Claude just has to play with the site for a bit to get an idea of what it can do. This sorter is the most boring possible version of that. Have fun with it š¤
May 9 ā¢Ā
TIL (today I learned) - let's share the 'stoopid' moments
I realized I have a bad habit of dropping abbreviations figuring the audience gets it. IYKYK kind of BS. I dropped IWKYM in a conversation with a friend who hasn't read "Dungeon Crawler Carl" and she called me out with a WTF. This group is getting large and people are coming at this (AI, large language models, programming, etc.) with varying degrees of comfort and familiarity. Feeling like I've coded since the stoneage, I grew up with this stuff. From vacuum-tube tape-drive building-sized mainframes to tiny little nano computers, I've been lucky enough to have some hand in things at a lot of layers. I see several posts where people are feeling discouraged when they hit a wall. They aim high and are frustrated when it lands low. Don't compare yourself against the rushing torrent of build posts (especially the successful build releases). You don't see the hours, weeks, months, of struggle - frustrations - and dead-ends hit to get past the pain and into the happy spot where things work (at least for a little while until they break and we go back to the basic(s)). So share your stupid here. Be vulnerable. Let others know the struggle is real and wide. Whether a total new player on the field or the top-tier champion, we all hit the wall. I put this under "General discussion" as it's less about looking for an answer and more just venting. I've learned that one late in life (ask my partner if she wants me to listen or problem solve when I notice she's unhappy about something... much better convo :)
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My 'stoopid' is thinking that I'm wasting my time. That everything I'm doing with AI is just going to be reduced to a simple prompt in a year. That I'm just a fool thinking I'm doing something useful when it's just a pipe dream. That kind of thinking is stoopid because it's noise that I let myself believe. My realization is that all this work is part of a process. At the very least, I'm becoming more realistic, and learning how to mine value. History is mostly failures. Novel successes are earned in the trenches. I run into issues WAY more than I have eureka moments. In the beginning, it's mostly ending up with things that don't work, tinkering, getting frustrated, and trying again and again and again, and then some random intuition bubbles up and pops in my face. That new thing came from all that sweat. It's the only place it could be. The easy stuff has already been captured over and over again.
1 like ā¢ May 9
@Deacon Wardlow That would be both flattering and flattening. I might put that on my resume š
Apr 28 ā¢Ā
Do you use AI for your hobby?
I'm curious what everyone here likes to do for fun (of course building stuff with Claude is fun too lol), and if you've applied any AI to your hobby. For me it's been super useful for DND planning and I find I get to stay in creative flow more. Curious what other people are doing
1 like ā¢ May 8
...man maybe i should post about that project
1 like ā¢ May 8
@Ernesto Romero I bet Claude or some other LLM could help you through the whole thing. That sounds completely doable.
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@jason-jennings-5855
Sign designer turned AI addict. I build web apps that LLMs can use.
3toedsoftware.com is my playground.
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