Model-Context-Protocol, or MCP as it’s more commonly referred to, came about in November 2024 when Anthropic introduced it to the world. But what is it really, why do we need it and how to get started? What is it? In its name, there are 3 elements: Model: This is the brain (the AI). It understands the question, figures out what it needs and when to ask for help. Context: Context of the situation (e.g. historical chat transcript) ...
The UK government recently released a report on their cross-department adoption and usage of M365 Copilot with some interesting results. It was an experiment that ran for 3 months across 20,000 government employees (Sept 2024 - Dec 2024) with a main goal being to understand how AI could impact productivity. Top-Level Insights From a positive persective, the key findings are as follows: Average Time Saved: Users reported saving an average of 26 minutes per day using M365 Copilot—equivalent to 13 working days per year. ...
The amazing leaps and bounds in the past few months with generative AI have changed the landscape for how AI will drive faster efficieny. ChatGPT is going to revolutionize development. Don’t believe me? Well here are 8 ways to interact with ChatGPT to super charge your development right now! Get started right here - https://chat.openai.com 1. Generate boiler plate code Ever sat down to start your next project and then had to go do a bunch of searching to figure out the right starting point. I have. Every. Single. Time. Probably because I am not coding everyday anymore but still, its a pain. ChatGPT makes this so much more efficient. Not only giving you the starting point but also a recommended structure too. ...
I have been exploring a bit around platform engineering. Its a new paradigm in software development, an evolution of DevOps. ...
Thought of the week Don’t make things unnecessarily complex. In many conversations I have with customers, colleagues and others, it is this strange desire to make things more complex than they need to be that causes a lot of headaches. You are not Netflix. Bleeding edge for the sake of bleeding isn’t the right strategy. Start with the end in mind and march towards it in the simplest path, you might save yourself a lot of trouble along the way. ...
Chances are you have never heard of moldable development. And that is OK. But it is an interesting approach to try to solve the biggest time sink in development, namely understanding the current system. Developers spend over 50% of their time trying to figure out the system - can we make this more efficient? Enter Moldable Development. ...
This is part 2 of my series on the metaverse, NFTs and more. Check out part 1, The Metaverse, Explained, Kind Of Photo by Clark Tibbs on Unsplash Part 2: NFTs, Intrinsic Value and the New World Order It was in early March of 2021 that digital artist, Mike Winkleman, sold an NFT for a 5000 piece collection of his art for a staggering $69 million through the auction house, Christies. It was the first ever purely digital artwork offered through Christies and was a grand entrance into mainstream for NFTs. You can read more about it here but it was a huge amount of money for something that represented a digital file that anyone else could get. So what is this all about? ...
So you may have heard about NFTs in some form or another. You may also have heard of the metaverse (if you haven’t, you will). You may have been scratching your head about what it all means. Having been in the same boat, I decided to spend some time to try to breakdown - mainly as a forcing function to help me understand it, but I figured others may benefit as well. This is a multipart series, where I start with the Metaverse but explore NFTs and the technology that will potentially power the future. ...