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Fried Dog Sticks, Anyone? Fine-Tuning Isn’t Just for LLMs

Posted on February 22, 2026 by William Li

At our household, a favorite game is to throw different grocery names at the Alexa shopping list and see what the NLQ interpreter comes up with. For many items, like “milk” or “sourdough bread”, Alexa does pretty well across the household. For others, not so much. For example, “fried dough sticks”, which is an English…

(AI) Tools don’t make products.  Strategy makes products.

Posted on December 20, 2025December 31, 2025 by William Li

Unless you live under a rock, you’ve been hearing and seeing a lot about the introduction of AI into software development processes.  I’ve seen it happen myself – the impetus can come from both developers wanting a better way to automate drudge code conversions as well as upper management wanting to reduce headcounts. AI-assisted software…

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