by Chris Rufe | Sep 9, 2025 | AI
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...
by Chris Rufe | Aug 13, 2025 | AI
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...
by Chris Rufe | Aug 8, 2025 | AI
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...
by Chris Rufe | Aug 5, 2025 | AI
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...
by Chris Rufe | Aug 3, 2025 | AI, News
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...
by Chris Rufe | Jul 22, 2025 | AI
One Useful Thing is the name of Ethan Mollick’s substack newsletter. Ethan is the Co-Director of the Wharton Generative AI Labs. Wharton Generative AI Labs has lots of good information including a prompt library: https://gail.wharton.upenn.edu/prompt-library/...
by Chris Rufe | Jul 9, 2025 | AI
There’s an article published at MIT that studied “Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872 This blog post was pitched as a rebuttal of sorts to the MIT study...
by Chris Rufe | Jul 7, 2025 | AI
Positive thoughts? I came across two older items last week that really made me feel good about Artificial Intelligence and some of the good aspects and possibilities. Like most people grounded in reality, the very impact of AI’s disruption on the job front and...
by Chris Rufe | Jun 29, 2025 | AI
I finally committed to the “Plus” ($20 a month) version of ChatGPT and have been finding more and more things to use it for, and trying my best not to use it as lazy google. Hum de dum and I’m looking at making an AI Policy for TQuist, as well as...
by Chris Rufe | Jun 17, 2025 | AI, News
Here’s the link to Anthropic’s AI Fluency course: https://www.anthropic.com/ai-fluency Anthropic’s AI Fluency course by Chris Rufe | Jun 17, 2025 | AI, NewsHere's the link to Anthropic's AI Fluency course: https://www.anthropic.com/ai-fluency...
