Introduction In an age of GPT-5 and ever-smarter AI tools, creative professionals and entrepreneurs find themselves asking a vital question: Are these tools here to replace our thinking, or to elevate it? The good news is that humans and AI together can achieve feats neither could alone. A famous example comes from the chess world – after IBM’s Deep Blue defeated grandmaster Garry Kasparov, players began teaming up with chess … Read More

The way people search is changing. Fewer users are clicking through pages of blue links – instead, they’re asking questions and getting instant answers from AI chatbots and generative search engines. Tools like ChatGPT, Perplexity.ai, and Google’s Search Generative Experience (SGE) synthesize information from multiple sources into a single answer, rather than simply presenting a list of websites wordstream.com sagefrog.com. This shift has massive implications for … Read More

Ever since I started experimenting with prompt engineering for GPT-based models, I’ve been on a quest for consistency. I remember the first time I asked ChatGPT for a structured output and got a beautifully formatted JSON snippet back – I was hooked. In this post, I want to share how using JSON formatting in prompts became my secret weapon for getting reliable, easy-to-parse responses from GPT … Read More

When it comes to image redaction, a “quick and dirty” blur or pixelation might seem like the way to go—but as we’ll see, these techniques have security vulnerabilities that a determined attacker can exploit. In this post, we’ll not only dive deep into image obfuscation techniques like blurring, pixelation, and opaque overlays but also explore how developers can implement these methods using actual Python image processing … Read More