i'm tim bornholdt. this is my website.

🤷‍♂️ what's my deal?

I help people figure out how tech stuff works.

I'm also CTO at Bionic Giant, a software architect, proud dad, happily married, avid public speaker, Ruby on Rails/iOS developer, anecdotalist, musician, and endurance athlete.

You can read more about me here.

💬 a good quote

Power doesn’t always corrupt. Power always reveals. — Robert Caro

✍️ recent posts

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  Blazing Trails with Rails, Strava, and ChatGPT

  Published on September 01, 2023
  People are constantly talking about how LLMs (like the one that powers ChatGPT) will take jobs, especially software engineers. I put that to the test by using ChatGPT to help build a tiny, well-defined feature for my website. →

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  Prompt Engineering: How to Think Like an AI

  Published on May 12, 2023
  If you want to get the most out of ChatGPT and other LLM-powered tools, you need to know how to write the best possible prompts. This article will take you from "what is an LLM?" through "complex prompt chaining" and make you a prompt engineering expert in no time! →

🔗 recent links

• 2023-09-18: Andrew Ng: Opportunities in AI
• 2023-09-14: The Never-Ending Then
• 2023-09-07: Buggin'
• 2023-09-06: A year after the disastrous breach, LastPass has not improved
• 2023-09-06: This time, it feels different

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