Technical Debt. All those tradeoffs and delayed changes done to meet deadlines. Who has time to even keep track though, when everything not due today was due yesterday? Let's hope it doesn't erupt as a costly emergency later.

Enter AI assistants, which can now make documentation a side-effect of the work: Trackable choices checked into GitHub. Fast and detail-oriented collation of needs from over the project's full history, quickly delivering useful work that rarely gets attention.

Let's look at how to take advantage.

Many small businesses and brokers have to reference a variety of documents to execute core tasks. Often a helpful staff member summarizes it all into another PDF-as-index. Recently, I explored changing a search and hope activity into asking plain language questions of a trained LLM. Working with a mortgage broker, we created a personal research assistant available via a private Discord chatbot. "Morty" references a private vector database about regulations and turns a desktop filesystem task into a personal chatbot available from nearly any networked device.

"_____ cuts thousands of jobs as it embraces AI": The impact on large businesses from AI is real and meaningful. What about small businesses? Although there are real issues to watch for, I'm seeing AI tools help businesses expand while enabling their live staff to focus on where they are best.

Getting ready for an AI project at your business? Cool, what kind? An essential step towards AI success is to understand which usage pattern will address your business need. There are seven key patterns, summarized below.

The CPMAI framework is a methodology for success with AI projects. It helps prevent you from rushing off without a proper grounding in your business needs, data safeguards, and other key factors. A CPMAI certificate holder can guide your organization through these pitfalls to a successful delivery.

The Monster Tales iOS app enabled young learners to create their own stories with whimsical settings and customizable monsters. They could add text and audio, effectively creating their own interactive books.

The following slideshow supported my presentation at mLearnCon 2012, in San Jose. The purpose of the presentation was to try and develop a framework for inclusion of mobile learning with structured syllabi.

Math in a Minute provides arithmetic practice for pre-K through 6 students. We are very excited that The Record (northjersey.com) covered us!

The Clear Speech iOS apps were authored by Judy Gilbert and developed by Cambridge University Press. As Press employee, I facilitated the software specification with Judy and Editorial, and oversaw the design and development process with substantial contributions to activity conceptualization and design.

Bald Eagle Village is a townhome community in northern New Jersey. We delivered a website enabling communication from the management organization to residents.