🧠 Prompting is a power skill. Day 1 of #100DaysofAI in the #ZerotoBuilder series is all about how to talk to AI. Because better questions lead to better outcomes. You don’t need to code (yet). Just ask smarter. 👇 Start here: open.substack.com/pub/zerotobuil…

Day 2 of Zero to Builder is live. We’re not just writing code — we’re learning how real developers think, work, and debug. Today’s lesson is about: •Using Git and the terminal the way professionals do •Prompting AI to help you, not confuse you •And the hard truth that your AI

#GoogleCloudNext 2025 analysis is HERE! 🤯 Futurum analysts @Nick_Patience, Keith Kirkpatrick, mitchellashley , Alex Smith and Keith Townsend unpack the BIG AI & cloud announcements: Agent2Agent, Ironwood TPU, Gemini for GDC, & more! Hot take: Google is redefining its cloud

“Can’t give Hoppers away”? That might excite Wall Street, but it’s miles from enterprise reality. Grace Hopper is still powering real AI workloads—from factory floors to call centers. Ripping and replacing for hype’s sake? That’s not how enterprise IT works. 🧵Why Grace Hopper

🧠 Day 6 of #ZeroToBuilder: Learning to write functions — and more importantly, learning how to ask AI for help when we’re not sure what’s going on. Today I hit a docstring that said Args: and realized... I think that means arguments? 🤔 But I wasn’t totally sure. So I did what

Day 7 – Debugging with AI: Fix Code and Your Thinking | #ZerotoBuilder youtu.be/tkcKje_vb5A

Day 8 of #ZeroToBuilder had me rewiring decades of muscle memory. In BASIC, I had to build my own key-value logic. In Python? Just type: <see image> It feels like cheating—until you realize it’s progress. 📚 Today’s lesson: Python Dictionaries ▶️ Video: youtube.com/watch?v=daefaL…

You want to see my learning process for #zerotobuilder and the types of questions I'm asking ChatGPT as I learn to manipulate strings? Here's my chat session for day 9 (tomorrow's corse). chatgpt.com/share/68070c34…

Fun with #zerotobuilder. I used Cursor AI to create a basic prompt app that calls OpenAI's API in about 45 minutes. Something that would have easily taken me all day, if not longer, at my current development skill level. linkedin.com/events/7321544…

The GPU market is more complex than it seems. 🧐 Keith Townsend (Keith Townsend) from The Futurum Group, provides a nuanced perspective on H100/H200 demand from Google Cloud Next, highlighting the ongoing importance of these chips in the AI infrastructure landscape. #AI #GPUs

Today's #ZerotoBuilder marks the beginning of a significant transformation. We are moving from being users of AI for generating code to application builders. It's critical to get proficient in the fundamentals. I'll have to push myself as I work on the excerces tonight.

Ever wonder what @decorator or yield actually do in Python? Day 27 of #ZeroToBuilder is all about: Writing memory-efficient generators Adding functionality with decorators Using AI to help you build, debug, and understand both I used to skip over these features. Now they’re

🧠 Day 29 of Zero to Builder: Feeling like it’s all piling up? You’re not alone. Today, we hit pause to reflect how far we’ve come—and then built a real CLI app using: ✅ Classes & objects ✅ Decorators ✅ Unit testing It’s okay if you don’t remember every concept. I couldn’t

Just wrapped a hot take on #QlikConnect—lots of potential as the front end for enterprise data across structured and unstructured. They’ve made smart acquisitions, but the big question remains: who in the enterprise actually owns this? That’s the strategic challenge. Watch the

#DellTechworld has a really great photographer taking professional headshot. This may have saved me $150.

🧱 Day 37–38 of #ZeroToBuilder Built a CRUD app? Now it’s time to ship it—and go cloud-native. Today we: ✅ Deploy your Flask app ✅ Explore Google Cloud Firestore (NoSQL, serverless, free tier) ✅ Drop in a real GitHub starter repo 🔗 Learn, fork, and launch:

Day 53 of #ZeroToBuilder There’s a moment when vibe coding stops being enough. You’re not just learning to code anymore—you’re building software. That shift demands more than just clever prompts. It requires structure. Today’s lesson is about recognizing that moment—and using

A few folks have asked the question, what happened to @theCTOAdvisor. First, I’m the CTO Advisor. As long as I’m around the brand will exist. I’m going to continue to use the brand to publish content. But The Advisor Bench (TAB) is the new company and focus.

First business trip and it begins with a cup of Joe. #TABUP2025 Keith Townsend

Impromptu roadtrip to check out the Signal65 AI Data Center and drop off some equipment. Driving 14 hours is what Melissa Townsend and I call Monday. We also got a chance to ride to the top of Pikes Peak. The last time was 13 years ago.