PERSPECTIVES
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Process, technology, and AI in everyday work — field notes, opinions, and what keeps me going, from SMB consulting to personal projects. Filter by tag.
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On-demand ephemeral environments
CI/CD pipelines, per-engagement isolation, and automatic teardown — professional DevOps work I care about delivering well.
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Vibe coding: useful applications for less — three community labs
Three volunteer projects in Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval — carpooling, festival, cultural showcase — show how AI-assisted vibe coding can ship real apps faster, at a fraction of traditional cost.
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Drone and FPV — learning by flying
Aerial capture and editing around the territory — exploration, not a billable service.
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Home Assistant — automation at home
Sensors, automations, and Lovelace dashboards — the same integration mindset I bring to SMB pilots, applied locally.
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Learning craft beer — process and patience
Mashing, boiling, fermentation with a master brewer — another way to think about flow, quality, and iteration.
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Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval — autumn colours (2025)
A short landscape edit — personal capture and montage published on YouTube.
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Winter winter winter
Winter mood in images — a short edit on my YouTube channel.
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Six prompting techniques for everyday work (plain language)
Direct ask, examples, step-by-step, break it apart, critical reread, and role framing — six practical ways to get usable AI output without jargon.
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Why AI adoption fails: five pitfalls (and how to avoid them)
No use case, vague prompts, no integration, weak governance, cost-only ROI — five predictable reasons AI pilots stall, plus the "new team member" fix.
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From Site Walk to Signed Report: A Construction AI Field Assistant Workflow
Site meetings are verbal and fast; reports must be precise. A realistic Capture → Transcribe → Structure → Generate → Validate → Send workflow — with a schedule-delay example.
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Why context in your prompt is crucial (with before/after examples)
Generic prompts produce generic answers. Three practical before/after examples — client email, internal change, executive summary — that any team can reuse.
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Autonomous AI agents and workflows: digital coworkers, not magic
What agentic AI actually does today — tools, cross-platform tasks, guardrails — and how SMBs can pilot without losing control.
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