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Here, I'll be sharing my thoughts and experiences across a variety of topics that matter to me. Whether you're here for tech insights, professional musings, or the occasional review of something new and exciting, I hope you find something interesting.

Is it Cheating if it Applies?

People staring at a person using AI for their job
Google Gemini

Some context to get you started.

If you’ve read my recent posts, you know I’ve been down a rabbit hole trying to apply more engineering-focused skills to my daily work. Over time I’ve been spending quite a bit of time going all-in on understanding how the current LLM models are generating code and how effective they can be at building things I might want to use day-to-day.

My current work environment doesn't naturally reward pushing AI workloads into daily workflows. The ecosystem isn't there yet, and as I’m not a 'real' engineer, it's not my general realm to dabble in. 

So what have I started? Well, I used an LLM to generate a Terraform migration script and some test policies to migrate part of our existing Jamf Pro environment, using the available provider, turns out they’re already pretty good at this.

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AI isn't fun.

AI isn’t fun.. it’s pure excitement, an addiction machine. Honestly, it’s no different from any drug in the way it hooks you. And let’s be real: nobody likes having their own addictions shoved in their face. Maybe that sounds dramatic, but comparing AI users to hard drug addicts isn’t as far-fetched as it seems. I’m not into drugs, but if this is what a good high feels like, then yeah.. I’m hooked.

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Review: Meta Ray Bans Headliner

Why am I doing this to myself 🤔

EDITORS NOTE: I will preface that my intent is to return to the OPSM I purchased these from for remediation of some issues which don't necessarily relate to the frames themselves, which I may bring up in this week-long impressions of the glasses. There may be a follow-up review of OPSM's customer service at a later time.

Honestly? The primary reasoning is that I have longed for a device that can put a camera, microphone and speakers onto my head in the same way that Google Glass once did—just in this case without a display (we're not there yet..)

The biggest issue going into this was the cost which I've got below from a snippet of the invoice from OPSM for my pair, which are intended for me to wear throughout the day as a replacement for regular glasses and sunglasses, more on that bit later, so for me the investment seemed kinda worth it.

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