AI is perhaps the first time in my life where I am being forced to really change my thinking patterns. I have been in IT for 22 years, and for better or worse, I have reflexive thought patterns towards problem solving. My brain tends to fire in a certain, almost instinctive way when presented with a challenge. In the last two years I have been trying to force myself to adopt the new kids on the block, those being gen AI tools. I have been experimenting with ChatGPT and Copilot for about a year now, and I still find myself thinking about it second, or third. My goal for this year is to force myself to go AI first when approaching things, in an effort find the value.

I have also been having some fun with Sora, which is OpenAI’s image generator tool. And, it’s really quite good. It will also make video, which is wild. So, here’s some of those.