AI
The AI Forgot My Instructions.
AI may not have forgotten your instructions. They may be stored in the wrong place. Why persistent project rules need more than a conversation to survive.
Brian Pollack
Great Software Teams Need Both Experience and Fresh Energy
by Brian Pollack If you needed to build a wall, would you hire a young go-getter with lots of energy and muscles or a wise mason with 30 years of experience? Honestly, you need both. Tech teams especially need a mix of senior developers and leads who have seen all
AI
Your AI Doesn't Experience the Time Between Your Questions
Illustration of how ChatGPT and generative AI process conversations as successive interactions rather than experiencing continuous time, using stepping stones and a river of lost context to explain AI context loss and conversational memory.
Software Ownership
The Cost of Owning Software
by Brian Pollack Clients rarely misunderstand the cost of building software. That part is simple: the client asks for software with a goal, we build it, the transaction is complete. But that’s only the first step. Once software exists, someone has to own it. Below are those ownership costs,
AI Lab
You Know AI Matters. But Where Does It Actually Pay Off?
by Brian Pollack After 30 years of building software for healthcare, telecom, and many enterprise companies, I've pointed Protovate at one thing: AI software development. Custom software with AI doing the actual work inside it. Not chatbots. The unglamorous stuff. Recently we automated customer service requests and followup