https://www.rockyoliver.com/tags/it/Recent content in IT on Elder IT GeekHugo -- gohugo.ioenRocky OliverThu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.rockyoliver.com/post/what-ai-is---article-02/Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.rockyoliver.com/post/what-ai-is---article-02/ <p>So you've decided to byte (ha! see what I did there?) the AI bullet; but you've seen the horror stories about how people have used AI to write elegantly bloated and broken code. How do you avoid creating crappy code at breakneck speed? By understanding what AI is - and isn't. Once you understand the nature of the beast, you can go about taming it, ultimately turning it from a wild stallion into a racehorse.</p>https://www.rockyoliver.com/post/ai-and-your-career---article-01/Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.rockyoliver.com/post/ai-and-your-career---article-01/ <p>So, you’re staring down the barrel of AI - and it’s squarely pointed at you. If you’re an IT professional, you may be dubious. Tentative. Excited. Even scared.</p> <p>And rightly so.</p> <p>How we, as IT professionals, understand and adopt this technology will determine not only our success in the near term, but the trajectory of our entire career overall. But the way you work with AI (and whether you want to or not, you WILL be working with AI) will greatly determine how your career unfolds.</p>