Let’s start with a reality check: Large Language Models (LLMs) are, essentially, very expensive autocomplete engines. They are magnificent at mimicking the cadence of intelligence, but they possess the factual reliability of a sleep-deprived undergrad during finals week. If you ask a vanilla LLM about a niche scientific paper published last Tuesday, it won’t tell […]
Let’s address the elephant in the room: most “AI specialists” currently flooding LinkedIn believe that “fine-tuning” is something you do by typing a few instructions into a web interface and hitting “Save.” Let me be clear: that is not fine-tuning. That is prompting. Prompting is like giving a student a rubric and hoping they don’t […]
I have spent a significant portion of my professional life oscillating between two worlds: the chaotic, fast-paced reality of software engineering and the slow, often suffocating bureaucracy of academia. For six years, I served as an Instructor and Coordinator for the Computer Information Systems program at Amarillo College. My philosophy was simple: teach the “why” […]
I stare at my inbox, at the list of ideas, at the half‑written code. My brain tells me “later.” My schedule screams “now.” The tug‑of‑war feels endless. I have built SaaS products, launched a new startup, and guided students through labs. Yet I still wrestle with the same old enemy: procrastination. 1. Write the “Why” […]
