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  • When AI Agrees With You, Should You Trust It?
    By Jorge Pereira • 2026-10-20
    When AI Agrees With You, Should You Trust It? Why preventing hallucinations is only part of building a more reliable relationship with AI. An AI that avoids hallucinations but agrees with every questionable assumption is still unreliable. Think about that for a moment. We spend considerable time talking about AI hallucinations, those situations where an…
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  • Beyond Docker Hub: Exploring Private Container Registries
    By Jorge Pereira • 2026-10-17
    Understanding your options for storing, managing, and distributing private Docker images while balancing cost, control, and infrastructure complexity. If you work with Docker containers long enough, you eventually face a question that doesn’t get much attention when you’re starting out: Where should you keep your private container images? When you’re experimenting with one or two…
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  • Google’s Gemini Agent: Personal AI Agents Are Moving Into the Workplace
    By Jorge Pereira • 2026-10-14
    In my previous post, Personal AI Agents Are Having a Moment, I explored a topic that continues to attract my attention: AI that moves beyond answering questions and starts helping us get things done. Google’s latest announcement gives us another reason to pay attention. On October 8, Google introduced the Gemini agent at its Gemini…
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  • Does This Task Need AI? Three Filters to Help You Decide
    By Jorge Pereira • 2026-10-10
    Before adding AI to a workflow, evaluate predictability, complexity, and risk. Not every business problem needs AI. Sometimes the right answer is a database query. Sometimes it is a script, a clearer process, or a better way to apply rules you already understand. The question is not, “Can AI do this?” It is, “Is AI…
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  • How to Build RAG: A Practical Guide
    By Jorge Pereira • 2026-10-08
    This has come up a number of times in my mentoring sessions and conversations with people and companies. Connecting an AI model to company documents sounds straightforward: upload the files, ask a question, and get an answer. Building something people can reliably use requires more than that. But first, an important distinction: giving AI access…
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  • Jorge InfoBits 20261006: From Personal Tools to Personal AI Partners
    By Jorge Pereira • 2026-10-06
    October 5, 2026 In the last issue, The MicroApp Opportunity & Challenge, I talked about how small, focused applications can improve personal productivity while creating a challenge for organizations. A tool that solves a problem for one person can quickly become something IT needs to understand, support, and govern. The opportunity is real, but controlling…
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  • I Don’t “Use” AI Anymore. I Work With It.
    By Jorge Pereira • 2026-10-05
    I haven’t been posting much on my blog over the last couple of weeks because I’ve been working on a couple of long-overdue projects. Here is the first of several: my new ebook, Don’t Just Chat, Partner: The Non-Technical Guide to Building Your AI Ecosystem. This is the third book in the Don’t Just Chat…
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  • Jev: The AI That Decides Instead of Writes
    By Jorge Pereira • 2026-10-01
    Why an AI model that cannot write a sentence could become a useful building block for enterprise workflows—and what a sub-500-millisecond trading demonstration actually shows. Most conversations about AI focus on what models can generate: articles, emails, software, images, and explanations. But much of the work inside software does not require a paragraph. It requires…
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  • Personal AI Agents Are Having a Moment
    By Jorge Pereira • 2026-09-30
    The recent surge is real. Whether it becomes a lasting shift depends on what happens after the launch. Over the past three weeks, personal AI agents have seemed to appear everywhere. New products, major funding announcements, and moves by established platforms have converged into a remarkably concentrated wave. The impression of acceleration is not simply…
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  • Microsoft Copilot September 2026 Changes
    By Jorge Pereira • 2026-09-28
    Microsoft Copilot is changing again. But the important story is not simply a better chatbot or another feature inside Word. Bottom line: Microsoft Copilot: More Capabilities, Two Ways to Pay The changes announced across August and September 2026 point toward something bigger: a unified place to ask questions, delegate work, build applications, and run proactive…
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    Email Verification & Deliverability: Build or Rent
    By Jorge Pereira • 2026-09-26
    So, you have a list of roughly 2,500 email addresses and you’re about to launch a new campaign. Before hitting “send,” there’s one crucial question you need to ask: Are these emails valid, and will they actually reach the inbox? Whether your list was collected over time through lead magnets, pulled from an old CRM,…
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  • Local Hard Drives vs. Cloud Backup: 10TB Showdown
    By Jorge Pereira • 2026-09-24
    If you have 10 Terabytes (10TB) of data to back up—whether it is a massive collection of family photos, a lifetime of video projects, or critical business files—you are facing a unique storage challenge. 10TB is a massive amount of data. With a budget of $500, you have two excellent choices to keep your data…
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