Musings – Prompting, productivity, and context

Prompting, Productivity and Context Finish the following sentence: “Blogging is so …” and yet here I am. Prompting I’ve been trying to engage people close to me as to their AI experiences and uses, either professionally or personnally.  I find...

Always clever Google

Tuckahoe! I wanted information on how RAG and Live Intenet Search work with LLMs.  I chose Gemini 2.5 Pro Reasoning, Math & Code for the task.  The final example included as a follow up to expand on real time search included my physical location, which is freely...

Comparing LLM responses

LLM Responses compared I thought a nice exercise would be to take a relatively simple prompt and assess how the Closed and Open models currently available compare.  This is the prompt that I used: <PROMPT> I’m taking my daughter to an oral surgeon today to...

Perplexed-ity?

Perplexed-ity? I came across this blog post from Cloudfare: Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives I’ve read and heard a lot of positive things about Perplexity’s Comet browser.  I want to like them and I want...

AI Action plan, and stuff

AI Action plan Here ya go folks – this is the current administration’s AI Action Plan:  https://www.ai.gov/action-plan Here are some words from the current administration about preventing “woke AI” in the federal government...