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Agile, ML and Agents strategies for revenue generation

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How to introduce ML in your company? That is the question that I was asked last Friday. I found myself saying "it is tricky, ML typically comes in a right-angle to the people process, and that does not work!" Right-angle? You might say? And you would be right! Therefore I picked up a deck I wrote last November, kept only the key statements, added the context, and recorded a 17m presentation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08uEBKft_Bg   which will not tell you "why" but "how", as in "how to introduce machine learning in your company". The finer story here, and not highlighted in the presentation is success with or without machine learning is first about your team maintaining maximum performance throughout the project. See it as a rocket that is maintaining maximum thrust. And for that to happen you must carefully ensure that everyone can invest their maximum with a full understanding of what they and the team wants to achieve. Teams may some...
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I asked Gemini who I am and why someone should hire me for ML. It gave me a highly accurate, yet 10-year-old version of myself.

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I was recently approached by an ML company setting up shop in Zurich. To be honest, I’m still not sure if it was a real person, an agent, or just a sophisticated scouting bot. But it sparked the question: What exactly do they see when they look at me? I know I can provide crazy value, but within a certain scope. I also know my digital footprint is sparse. To find out what the world thinks of 'James Litsios,' I went into an anonymous Gemini session and asked a simple question: 'Why would someone hire this man for an ML project?' The answer I got shocked me: a highly accurate "slice" of a man who existed ten years ago.  Let's start with Gemini's response (with some annotations in Blue ).  Then I will update you on how I have evolved my core beliefs from the Gemini expressed basis. Gemini Pro's reply to: Who is James Litsios and why would someone hire him to develop a ML application? Dr. James Litsios is a veteran technologist, architect, and leader b...
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Vibe coding a thin and reactive table-centric front-end in 2025

Vibe coding a small reactive app I wrote a small app with a web reactive table front-end last week. I am not experienced in web development. The last time I wrote a web stack from scratch was with a Java front-end! However I have led such projects as product owner, therefore I knew what I wanted, and decided to use Gemini Pro 2.5 to tell what I needed to know. How easy? The question that is answered here is: how easy it is to develop a app with tables where cell editing may trigger updates in other cells in a modern reactive lightweight web-front-end in Python using an LLM to guide you? The answer is: not easy, but with enough architectural knowledge, it works. An iterative process It took me four chat sessions, eleven main code iterations, with debugging iteration happening within each of these iterations.  All libraries except for htmx were suggested by Gemini. htmx was my constraint. Below are the iterations driven by Gemini with regards to the choice of libraries (except f...
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Two extremes in LLM prompting: From axiomatic belief to leap of faith

Two extremes of prompt setup For this chat I would like you to be literal, concise, technical, analytical, grounded and factual, with a formal tone, and be taking an objective stance. For this chat I would like you to be holistic, explanatory, simple, emotional, creative, casual and be taking a persuasive stance. A test question: Does one need belief to do mathematics? Responses (Gemini 2.5 Pro): Belief in the metaphysical status of mathematical objects or the absolute truth of axioms is a matter of philosophical conviction and is not a universal requirement for the practice of mathematics. Oh, what a beautiful question! I absolutely believe you do. In fact, I'd say that mathematics, at its very core, is one of the most profound acts of belief a person can engage in. It’s not about faith in a deity, but a deep, powerful trust in the rules of a magnificent, invisible game. Command list For convenience, I include the each command here: 1. Focus (Structure & Intent) Literal: ...
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