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View All TagsWhen ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini suddenly throws errors or gives strange answers, check the official status pages first to tell whether it's your prompt or code, or a service outage. Here's the order I follow, plus a script that checks all three services at once.
In a one-day AI workshop for non-developers, initial setup alone took 2 hours and we only got through half the curriculum. Here's how I changed the way I run workshops, in 5 steps, including a check script participants run the night before and a timetable for the day.
If information can't leave the company, it doesn't go into AI either. Here's a 5-step process: checking ChatGPT and Claude training settings, a 4-line do-not-enter list, a Python script that masks and restores names, amounts and contact details, and a review checklist prompt.
After working with data at SOCAR, TADA, Zigzag and Coupang, I left to start DataPopcorn. I pictured a 'DataPopcorn Universe' where analysts create content and courses together, but 80% of first-year revenue came from lectures I taught myself, and when the lectures stopped, the company had nothing it could do on its own. This is everything I think about DataPopcorn: why I started it, a look back at year one, what students taught me, the year-two strategy, what I learned running a company on my own money, and why I now want to go back to working at a company.
