I absoutely love self-service through AI. What I can't stand is when a company like @runwayml uses an AI to gate customers from ever having access to a human responder. It's not lousy customer service... it's no customer service.
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Don Barger ☕️
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Don Barger ☕️
@donbarger
Husband, Dad, Granddad, UAB, Mac, Orality, AI, Innovation, and quite the Coffee Snob.
Richmond, VA Katılım Ekim 2008
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Claude to the rescue :)
Ted Esler@tedstur
@donbarger I am running a couple local llms but the issue isn't the speed or ability, but the technical knowledge needed to install and maintain them. I have some tech chops, but could never imagine my team being as patient as I have been getting the quirks out.
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You can get a non-profit license with Anthropic. None of the self hosted solutions will come close to approaching Claude code.
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I use a Mac Studio for text to speech that feeds into the video games like wew.thegreatpursuit.faith - this is very prototype right now. I also has some qwen and llama models on it, but it’s quite a machine with 128 ram - Mac mini will leave you disappointed. (Cont)
Ted Esler@tedstur
Are any small teams sharing a Mac Mini across the team for AI processing? I'm not talking about the solopreneur here. I'm thinking more about the small ministry team with four to ten staff distributed around the world. I'm looking at the various tools our team is using and we're getting death by a thousand cuts from all these small subscriptions. I'm wondering how realistic it would be for a person to have a Mac Mini running, servicing a small team. The need here isn't for huge data center-style computing but for the kind of stuff we do in Copilot or Gemini or other office tools along that line. I easily see how it works for me as I set up a local instance of a llama but I am thinking more about making something like that available for a small team.
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Presentation today at the SE EMS gathering. Co-presenting with @donbarger and Chris Neal. QR code for you, if you desire a copy of our paper on a Case Study of the @IMB_SBC and AI.
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AI language coaches won't replace human connection, but they will remove the "I don't speak the language" excuse for sharing your faith. The future isn't coming—it's here. [link] donbarger.substack.com/p/the-future-i…
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Gaming companies panicked when AI could generate 3D worlds. But the real threat isn't AI, it's pretending nothing's changing. Churches and faith-based orgs face the same choice: adapt or become irrelevant. donbarger.substack.com/p/googles-proj…
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The church's greatest AI risk isn't missing out. It's thinking we can keep doing ministry exactly the same way and just "add AI" to fix it.
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Congrats to @Yaxel_Lendeborg - This Blazer is so happy for you!
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AI helped me write a eulogy for the penny—America's smallest currency is gone, and we barely noticed. Sometimes the things we mourn most are the ones we stopped valuing years ago. donbarger.substack.com/p/how-i-used-a…
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@BonSecours I have reached out again. I have spent hours on the phone, mailed a demand letter, and sent emails through the patient portal.
Crickets.
So, I now have submitted through the link. Maybe someone will actually own the problem.
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@donbarger Hi Don. We’d like to connect you with the right team to discuss your concern. For your privacy, please fill out our form at bonsecours.com/billingexperie… so we can assist you further. Thank you!
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@BonSecours continues to bill me for services I do not owe. I have spent dozens of hours on the phone with them. They say I don't owe anything, yet they continue to send me past due notices.
BonSecours is a mess... A big mess.
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Stop using AI as a glorifed Google. Make it a thought parter and stress sest your ideas and strategy using AI open.substack.com/pub/donbarger/…
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Delta is officially suspending travel perks for members of Congress until Republicans stop blocking TSA funding.
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The real AI job threat isn't that people will lose to others who use AI. It's that AI itself is replacing entry-level work entirely. 37% of managers now prefer AI over hiring new grads. That's not coming—it's here.
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The canary in the coal mine has stopped singing. AI is already shrinking job markets—writing down 30%, software down 20%, design down 17%. The data's a year old. Imagine what it looks like now. [link] donbarger.substack.com/p/the-ai-canar…
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