Diving into AI as a Jaded Technologist

Having worked in the software engineering industry professionally for coming up on 15 years, I've seen quite a few hype cycles and fads come and go in various states. Blockchain, NFTs, Microservices, Gatsbyjs, SSG - are but just some that have rocketed themselves into the minds of us nerds more recently. Generally, the popularity and relative impact and value provided by each of these topics can be quite disconnected.

On December 10th at 9:06pm, Lily Joy Phillips was born. Weighing in at a mighty 5 pounds and 12 ounces, Lily came into this world and had been an absolute blessing to both Melanie and I.

While migrating this website over to its current iteration, I went back and forth on how much of the previous content to migrate. Most of the old posts were very specific on technical implementations and most of them were horribly outdated by now.