Time for some updates

Time for some updates, isn’t it? So for the last few months I’ve taken mostly off of work for personal reasons (no worries, I’m doing well!). I’m ramping back up now. During that time I’ve not maintained full radio silence, but I’ve not done much more work other than basic maintenance, some wrapping up of projects, and a little post here or there — in other words, nothing major, and it’s been good. I’m very happy I had the opportunity to do that, I needed a bit of a mental reset. –x– As you might know, I have a someone complicated relationship with AI: While I most certainly am not on the hype train, I also don’t fall squarely into the critics camp. But given the speed and momentum of what’s been going on, I figured it’s time to share how I see this all going right now. In no particular order: The AI story is, right now, the story of everything. It’s almost the whole story of the economy (together with, but quite possibly more important than, even the turmoil around oil and energy…