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Save Time with ChatGPT: Practical AI Strategies for Busy Professionals and Business Owners
Struggling to keep up with your growing to do list? ChatGPT can help. This AI assistant handles routine writing, planning, and problem solving so you can focus on higher value...
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10 Things Developers of All Skill Levels May Be Surprised to Learn About AI Coding Assistants
AI coding assistants are changing how developers work, but they come with surprising quirks and challenges. From context window limits to prompt engineering, this post covers...
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Real-World AI Applications for UK Businesses: From Solopreneurs to Scaling Enterprises
AI isn't just for tech giants. UK businesses — from sole traders to 250 person companies — are using it right now to handle client proposals, manage inventory, automate...
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AI-Driven Enterprise Development: Lessons from Hands-On Experience
Between job hunting, I've been going deep on AI powered development — Cursor, Windsurf, Aider, paired with ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and DeepSeek. Here's what works, what...
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Generative AI Predictions for 2025: Stay Ahead of the Curve
Generative AI is moving too fast for annual predictions to keep up — but here are 6 trends that will matter in 2025 regardless. Hyper specialised models, million token context...
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Google Gemini 2.0: The Catalyst for Agentic Generative AI in Enterprises
Google's Gemini 2.0 handles text, images, and speech simultaneously, runs agentic tasks autonomously, and costs less to operate than GPU dependent alternatives. That...
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AI-Assisted Writing Feedback: Concepts Worth Exploring
I've been prototyping AI powered writing feedback that runs locally — no cloud APIs, no data leaving the server. Here's what the prototype does, what it gets right, and why I'm...
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DailyScribe — Build a Daily Writing Habit
Building a daily writing habit is hard — the blank page, the missed days, the 'I'll write twice as much tomorrow' trap. DailyScribe is built to solve that: 500 words a day,...
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How to Make Agentic AI Work for You
Agentic AI sounds great in theory. Making it work in a real organisation is harder. This post covers the implementation framework, the use cases that actually deliver (IT ops,...
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Aider was close, but not quite right
Aider moved the coding conversation into the terminal and repository, which was the right direction. A small comparison with Cursor showed that technical direction and daily...
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