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As we approach FY27, it dawned on me that I really have become a true AI Geek over the last couple of years: ✅ Previous role: technical SME for Microsoft 365 Copilot ✅ Current role: technical SME for AI development on the Azure platform That means I've helped customers with prompt engineering & lightweight agent development so individuals across a company can get productive with off-the-shelf AI tools. It also means I've helped customers leverage VS Code and Microsoft Foundry to build their own AI tools & custom agents to deploy within their organization and to their customers and constituents. I'll continue to chronicle this journey online at MoreCowbell.me/about. This is a great time to be Solution Engineers and Forward Deployed Engineers - we're working right in the middle of AI innovation. The pace is often overwhelmingly fast, but the ride is thrilling! 🚀 Looking forward to the new opportunities FY27 may bring.

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I was inspired by Vesa Juvonen's office pic and the resulting shares of ideas and pics in the comments. (I've also got nostalgic flashbacks to my 2021 setup) Sharing my current setup here as well in the hopes of getting some new ideas & suggestions: What does yours look like? 🤓 LinkedIn Post Nov 2024

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I've been a premium LinkedIn member since 2017. A lot has changed on the platform since that time. They say you should start with a complement before you start talking about your gripes.... 🫤 I like that for the most part LI has stayed professional. I've stopped using other similar platforms because they've just become too sloppy & often negative. Tho, it could be that I've chosen to follow only well-behaved feeds on LI. What I'm not a fan of on LI, tho, is how the algorithm has been changing. I think a lot of good genuine content is not getting the eyeballs it should, and that it normally used to get. ( Jesus Serrano  helped open my eyes to this - his analysis is amazing) Maybe the influx of AI-generated content is to blame? What's your thoughts on the state of LinkedIn these days?  MoreCowbell.me/cubetalk

I enjoyed sharing my Kwanzaa 2025 thoughts with you this year! As a final gift ( #zawadi ), I've listed all 7 LinkedIn posts here for your convenience. Enjoy, and please use the comments to share your thoughts: Umoja:  https://lnkd.in/eK-e5Ytb Kujichagulia:  https://lnkd.in/eM5fXG7w Ujima:  https://lnkd.in/e8VcVZ5J Ujamaa:  https://lnkd.in/ergJ4qEW Nia:  https://lnkd.in/eczkAPc6 Kuumba:  https://lnkd.in/ewkFSpsw Imani:  https://lnkd.in/eaYZjzDU MoreCowbell.me/cubetalk

I'm a beast in OneNote. I'm not exaggerating when I say that probably 20 years of my professional and personal notes are stored there, with a large amount of those pages being handwritten. Yes, I've been using digital pens & tablets since before they were kool - back when they were heavy and nowhere near being mobile friendly. These days, thankfully the Surface Pro and Surface Pen make my journaling and diagramming in OneNote a much more satisfying experience. They allow me to enjoy writing on glass rather than on paper. Here's the question: it's a new year, and many folks like to start with a fresh new Notebook at the beginning of the CY or FY. I, however, keep the party going as long as the "topic" of the Notebook remains relevant (my job role; a project; etc etc) What's your approach? Start fresh yearly? Or allow your notebooks to span multiple years? MoreCowbell.me/cubetalk

I don't know how to use my wife's air fryer. But I wanted some fish fillets. So, I put the bag of frozen fillets in front of the air fryer and took a picture. I gave the picture to Copilot. All I said was, "tell me how to cook this fish with this machine. Assume no prior cooking experience".  It proceeded to give me step-by-step instructions. It knew the model of the air fryer, so it let me know exactly which buttons to press. It knew at what temperature that particular brand of fish fillet should be cooked. In 15 minutes, I was eating fish fillets. This is the kind of practical real-world AI scenarios I like sharing on my blog and my YouTube streams. Not all of us are involved in the massive enterprise use cases for AI that will change the world. Sometimes, we just want a snack... 🤓 MoreCowbell.me/cubetalk

I become a spreadsheet nerd around this time of the year. This is when I take my full previous-year statements from my different accounts and do analysis on the family spending.  I. Geek. Out. Pivot tables. Categories. Charts. A nice cup of coffee. [insert Homer Simpson drool image] 🤣 This year, tho, I'm gonna see just how well AI allows me to ask questions of the raw data versus doing my own manipulations. Instead of a multi-level pivot table to figure out how much Dining Out we did last year compared to previous, I'll just ask for the answer. And then ask follow-ups to help me determine which restaurant was the most evil seducer of our appetites. :) (Yes, I'm looking at you, Cheesecake Factory) 😋  Any tips & tricks from fellow data dudes/divas that have this same ritual? MoreCowbell.me/cubetalk

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