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Conversational AI keeping humans in the loop.
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Lots of talk about AI slop, but you can actually do slop very cheaply with a regex rule in a tool like Semgrep. here is my rule:
September 19, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Lots of talk about AI slop, but you can actually do slop very cheaply with a regex rule in a tool like Semgrep. here is my rule:
What’s working better than expected:
• MCP ecosystem (40% complete) with Notion + Gmail fully deployed
• Contact deduplication engine (702 duplicates cleaned)
• Content pipeline cut creation time from 4 hours → 20 minutes
• MCP ecosystem (40% complete) with Notion + Gmail fully deployed
• Contact deduplication engine (702 duplicates cleaned)
• Content pipeline cut creation time from 4 hours → 20 minutes
July 23, 2025 at 1:41 AM
#ProleVibeSummer - where algorithms do the grunt work and humans focus on what matters.
Our founder Peter is testing whether AI collaboration lives up to the hype or if we’ll be crying into our coffee by Wednesday. 🤖☀️
Humans stay in the loop. Even during experiments.
#AIExperiment
Our founder Peter is testing whether AI collaboration lives up to the hype or if we’ll be crying into our coffee by Wednesday. 🤖☀️
Humans stay in the loop. Even during experiments.
#AIExperiment
🧵 Toilville Presents: Prole Vibe Summer 🤖☀️
This week I’m doing something that might be completely stupid: running my entire business using only AI tools.
Claude, ChatGPT, local models - if it’s got algorithms, I’m using it. Everything else sits on the bench.
#ProleVibeSummer
This week I’m doing something that might be completely stupid: running my entire business using only AI tools.
Claude, ChatGPT, local models - if it’s got algorithms, I’m using it. Everything else sits on the bench.
#ProleVibeSummer
July 21, 2025 at 2:27 PM
#ProleVibeSummer - where algorithms do the grunt work and humans focus on what matters.
Our founder Peter is testing whether AI collaboration lives up to the hype or if we’ll be crying into our coffee by Wednesday. 🤖☀️
Humans stay in the loop. Even during experiments.
#AIExperiment
Our founder Peter is testing whether AI collaboration lives up to the hype or if we’ll be crying into our coffee by Wednesday. 🤖☀️
Humans stay in the loop. Even during experiments.
#AIExperiment
Appearance - Artificial Intelligence: Real Talk
Appearance - Artificial Intelligence: Real Talk
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June 16, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Appearance - Artificial Intelligence: Real Talk
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Does every chatbot experience suck? More than you'd think! I had a great discussion about why these things keep failing and some tips to avoid repeating 20 years of mistakes as you start building yours.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
Ep 23: Do AI Chatbots Suck? || Peter Swimm
Podcast Episode · The Deep Dive Lab · 06/03/2025 · 54m
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June 3, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Does every chatbot experience suck? More than you'd think! I had a great discussion about why these things keep failing and some tips to avoid repeating 20 years of mistakes as you start building yours.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
TV: How various Seattle businesses can navigate conversational AI - Arc Seattle
TV: How various Seattle businesses can navigate conversational AI - Arc Seattle
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May 28, 2025 at 8:37 PM
TV: How various Seattle businesses can navigate conversational AI - Arc Seattle
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I had a great conversation with Guy on ProRelevant's The Backstory on Marketing & AI. LLMs are impacting every industry, and we discuss the risks and possible rewards of using AI-powered tools to accelerate your business.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQtp...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQtp...
How AI is Reshaping Market Research and Customer Support
YouTube video by ProRelevant's The Backstory on Marketing & AI
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May 27, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I had a great conversation with Guy on ProRelevant's The Backstory on Marketing & AI. LLMs are impacting every industry, and we discuss the risks and possible rewards of using AI-powered tools to accelerate your business.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQtp...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQtp...
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Podcast Alert! An excellent discussion on the Quali-Tea with Anne podcast about managing your human interests when engaging with LLMs. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/q...
Bridging Technology and Quality Management
Podcast Episode · Quali-Tea with Anne · 05/26/2025 · 29m
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May 27, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Podcast Alert! An excellent discussion on the Quali-Tea with Anne podcast about managing your human interests when engaging with LLMs. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/q...
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Being pushed by your leadership to AI-a-size your processes? Read this article where @itstoilville.com talks to writer David Berry about the risks, strategies, and how to avoid making costly mistakes in your first tentative steps in this new world. www.reworked.co/digital-work...
The Hidden Cracks: How AI Integration Is Testing Workplace Resilience
AI effectiveness depends on integration with business systems. But the more embedded AI becomes, the more it exposes an organization to potential problems.
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April 15, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Being pushed by your leadership to AI-a-size your processes? Read this article where @itstoilville.com talks to writer David Berry about the risks, strategies, and how to avoid making costly mistakes in your first tentative steps in this new world. www.reworked.co/digital-work...
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Toilville Office Hours are live! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp8L...
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May 14, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Toilville Office Hours are live! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp8L...
Say hi if you see us in the cloud!
May 12, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Say hi if you see us in the cloud!
What is SPELWork? Find out!
I have been working on a new digital transformation framework, and I am starting to get to the point where feedback will be helpful: github.com/toilville/sp...
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May 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
What is SPELWork? Find out!
Now, on @themuse, Peter talks about how what's good for the goose isn't always acceptable for the gander in AI-powered job searches.
Read more:
Read more:
What Companies Mean When They Say “Don’t Use AI in Job Applications”
You don’t need to remove it completely—let us explain.
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April 2, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Now, on @themuse, Peter talks about how what's good for the goose isn't always acceptable for the gander in AI-powered job searches.
Read more:
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Happy international trans day of visibility to everyone seeking love and acceptance. You are a valued part of our world and make existence better for those lucky enough to have you in our lives.
March 31, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Happy international trans day of visibility to everyone seeking love and acceptance. You are a valued part of our world and make existence better for those lucky enough to have you in our lives.
Office Hours Recap
Office Hours Recap
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March 7, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Office Hours Recap
Office Hours - February 25, 2025
Office Hours - February 25, 2025
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February 25, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Office Hours - February 25, 2025
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If I gave a company all my data and was paying them a lot of money per year to ensure they do useful things with it, I would not be happy to hear this
AI agents mean Salesforce won’t hire software engineers in 2025, apparently
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AI agents mean Salesforce won’t hire software engineers in 2025, apparently
Salesforce is all in on AI “agents” — whatever that means. CEO Marc Benioff said in December: [Salesforce Ben] We’re not adding any more software engineers next year because we have increased the p…
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January 19, 2025 at 1:04 AM
If I gave a company all my data and was paying them a lot of money per year to ensure they do useful things with it, I would not be happy to hear this
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Testing the new handle of my business with some thought leadership to drive away a certain kind of business.
Conversational AI requires the insight and compassion of folks like the guy who has a Holiday today, not currently plastered all over the news.
January 20, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Testing the new handle of my business with some thought leadership to drive away a certain kind of business.
Conversational AI requires the insight and compassion of folks like the guy who has a Holiday today, not currently plastered all over the news.
January 20, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Conversational AI requires the insight and compassion of folks like the guy who has a Holiday today, not currently plastered all over the news.
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Next Tuesday we are starting our Toilville office hours! Have questions about conversational ai, or mad enough to fight about it? Reserve your seat today www.itstoilville.com/office-hours/
Office Hours – Toilville
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January 8, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Next Tuesday we are starting our Toilville office hours! Have questions about conversational ai, or mad enough to fight about it? Reserve your seat today www.itstoilville.com/office-hours/
Updated Post: Welcome to Toilville
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December 14, 2024 at 1:16 AM
Updated Post: Welcome to Toilville
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Gemini 2.0 is out, and there's a ton of interesting stuff about it. From my testing it looks like Gemini 2.0 Flash may be the best currently available multi-modal model - I upgraded my LLM plugin to support that here: github.com/simonw/llm-g...
Gemini 2.0 announcement: blog.google/technology/g...
Gemini 2.0 announcement: blog.google/technology/g...
Release 0.7 · simonw/llm-gemini
New Gemini 2.0 Flash model: llm -m gemini-2.0-flash-exp 'prompt goes here'. #28
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December 11, 2024 at 5:55 PM
Gemini 2.0 is out, and there's a ton of interesting stuff about it. From my testing it looks like Gemini 2.0 Flash may be the best currently available multi-modal model - I upgraded my LLM plugin to support that here: github.com/simonw/llm-g...
Gemini 2.0 announcement: blog.google/technology/g...
Gemini 2.0 announcement: blog.google/technology/g...
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one interesting thing about ChatGPT is that it's picked up bad tex habits, things like putting a colon before a displayed equation where one doesn't belong, presumably because some bad habits are majority habits
December 12, 2024 at 3:43 PM
one interesting thing about ChatGPT is that it's picked up bad tex habits, things like putting a colon before a displayed equation where one doesn't belong, presumably because some bad habits are majority habits