The Big Shift Part 4 – The Purpose
This time last year was when I was first writing about what I perceived to be the need for a tool like PerformaGo. At that point, I was framing the problem in terms of lack of provision. L&D not being able to provide much in the way of post-training support. Primarily because it frequently wasn’t […]
The Big Shift Part 3 – The Prototype
As I mentioned in the previous post, I’ve started work on a PerformaGo prototype. Had I been working on it this time last year, the prototyping process would have been much less AI assisted than it is right now. Love it or loathe it, AI continues to change and improve at pace. I’m generally trying […]
The Big Shift Part 2 – The Foundational Thinking
The world of EdTech is littered with less than prestigious applications and tools. The majority have some success, a small band of avid users but never get any significant traction. Rather depressingly, a tiny minority become quite successful even though, in my humble opinion, they are not very good. A similar small number are actually […]
The Big Shift Part 1 – The Tech
When I started the PerformaGo Diary last summer, it was all about the AI. The vision was to create an AI-first performance support tool for learning and development. Consequently, many of the posts I wrote during the second half of last year were tech (and more specifically) AI-focused. If you look back and go through […]
Where Did Andrew Go?
The keen-eyed amongst you will have realised that it’s been several months since I last posted in the PerformaGo Diary. Which may have left you wondering, ‘Where did Andrew go?’ Not an unreasonable question, under the circumstances. Well, there’s been a lot going on, that’s for sure. And in case you are wondering, PerformaGo is […]
The Great ‘Uncoding’ — How AI Is Democratising Software Creation
There’s a phrase that’s been whirring around in my head for a few weeks now. It came to mind soon after the realisation I wrote about in last week’s post. To me, this phrase perfectly describes the shift that’s currently taking place in the tech world. The shift that is enabling non-technical people to create […]
Breaking the ‘Priesthood’ — What AI Is Really Doing to Technology
As I’ve written about before, I got really excited about the possibilities of AI for L&D in the spring and summer of 2024. I rolled up my sleeves and dug in – only to be disappointed. At that point, in my view, the hype was outstripping the reality. So, I dialled the enthusiasm down, took […]
How the Golden Triangle Comes Alive Inside a Performance-Support GPT
A few weeks back, when I first wrote about the triad of tech ‘languages’ (Markdown, JSON and Python) that I’m calling the Golden Triangle, I definitely understood it conceptually. JSON structures data. Markdown provides order and consistency when data and content is output. Python carries out actions. Clear and simple. But as I got deeper […]
Python’s Hidden Ecosystem: The Quiet Force Behind Modern AI
When I started to find out about Python, I’d imagined it would just be another piece in the ‘how to build a custom GPT’ tech jigsaw puzzle. But it’s turned out to be so much more. Aside from understanding what Python does, why it became so popular and the slightly quirky story of its naming […]
Python: The Language That Turns AI Thinking into Action
Like many people, I grew up watching Monty Python sketches and movies. It’s easy to forget that many of the sketches on the weekly TV series were not that funny; but a few were absolute corkers and deserve the adoration they still receive. The origins of Python However, who knew that the deliberately crazy name […]