I've been heavily using AI for the last couple of years, mostly but not entirely to write code, and I've also been browsing/searching the internet since the '90s. I have questions!
I do semi-apologize for that headline. But, you know, it's a real thing—in fact, that's how Scarecrow's file monitoring got started. A local business owner came to me with a question: Is there a way to prevent this from happening...again?
Uptime guarantees are great! Especially if valid and properly verified. But what they're promising is not necessarily what we actually need. I realize this is controversial in some quarters. But, especially for small business owners, let's consider where we stand:
Well. Here we are, two years later. Lots of other things have happened, sure. But still. Two years is roughly as long as it took me to get the first version written!
Okay. If there’s a point to today’s rant, it’s that I hope Cabin Fever never puts anybody into a situation like this. The more irritated I get with these one-size-fits-all companies that assume ad-speak is all they need, the more I think I don’t want to deal with them.
Remember: single malt is about doing something different and not easily repeated. It is not the same as a blended whiskey. It’s not trying to be.
In which I muse about hiring people, WordPress, and how PHP is not a programming language
I think we’re heading into a future where small businesses not only thrive, but become the only type of business that works. This will come about within a world of complicated interconnections, with no easy sound bites about who’s doing what–if we want to root for an “industry,” well, they might be hard to spot. Though there will still be soccer.
Nothing’s ever as simple as it first seems. Scarecrow, a product we’ve been working on lately, started out as a “simple” request from a local business owner. He wanted to know: is there some sort of script that can tell me if my website gets hacked?
Somebody or other once made a comment about the value of contracts–those documents that allow us all to state in writing, politely, each and every way we don’t trust one another.