Why AI Needs a Data Model (Just Like Power BI Did)
The Myth of the Magic Brain Pet Peeve of the week: everyone treating AI like it’s some cosmic fortune teller that just knows things. Type a question, boom, instant genius. […]
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AI Fatigue Is Real (And Your Context Window Is to Blame)
When AI Gets Punch-Drunk You know that feeling when you’ve been in back-to-back meetings for six hours, someone asks you a simple question, and your brain just… stalls? That glazed-over, […]
Why “You Can’t Change the AI” Is Actually Good News
The Liberating Truth About Building with Large Language Models Some people hear, “You can’t change the AI,” and panic.We hear it and exhale. Because if you’ve ever wrangled data for […]
Pivot Tables for Words: Why LLMs Are Just Excel for Text (And Why That’s Huge)
The “Holy Smokes” Moment Remember the first time you built a pivot table? You had this gnarly spreadsheet—10,000 rows of pure chaos. Sales numbers, dates, product codes, all mixed up […]
Prototyping Your Own AI Data Preview
What We Learned Building Before Buying On the surface, it sounds a little reckless: why build your own AI data preview when Microsoft and others are already weaving Copilot into […]
Why Good Questions Stop at Dashboards (and How AI Opens Them Up)
When every new question feels like a new project, curiosity gets buried. Dashboards look great in demos. The charts sparkle, the filters line up neatly, and the presenter makes it […]
Your Most Valuable BI Breakthrough Just Vanished Into Thin Air
Your Most Valuable BI Breakthrough Just Vanished Into Thin Air Copilot Chat History Disappears the Second You Close the Window Here’s the thing that’s driving me crazy. We finally cracked […]
The Death of Dashboard Storytelling: How Copilot for Power BI Puts Users in Control of Their Data Narrative
Dashboards don’t lie. Not outright. Their trick is subtler — more like white lies. Lies of omission. They show you the truth someone thought mattered, but quietly leave out the […]
AI Ate My Homework (And Now It’s Working For My Competition)
The Excuse Era Is Over Not long ago, you could ask ChatGPT about your industry, get a reply that read like bad improv, and chalk it up to the modern […]
AI Context Window: A Million Tokens and Still Forgetting the Middle
Machine-fed data still needs a human-led brain. AI says it can handle a million tokens. That sounds unstoppable. A million tokens! You imagine handing it a 100-page report and watching […]
AI Isn’t Just for Suits and Server Rooms. It’s for Job Sites, Too.
If You’ve Got Boots on Gravel, AI Should Be in Your Toolbox Ai doesn’t care where your office is. But your business should. When materials don’t show, when schedules slip, […]
How AI Is Improving Data Management
AI is revolutionizing data management by automating routine tasks, enhancing data quality, and delivering real-time insights that drive business growth