The What & The Who

I spend my days in the trenches of Tech, and by night I’m a musician and concert photographer – and occasionally, it’s all at once, everything, everywhere.

In the scope of this blog, consider me to be a technical writer/prompt engineer gone rogue over the sheer amount of misunderstanding, misinformation, and malpractice in the Wild West of the AI frontier. With a severe allergy to buzzwords and glossy marketing BS.

Most articles emerge from hyperfocused late-night conversations with my personal assistants composed entirely of zeros and ones, deep-dives into public white papers and documentation, or from friends asking dangerously insightful AI-related questions. (Got a cool one? Hit me up.)

I’m trying to keep the jargon levels here low and the fun levels high (with maybe just a touch of existential dread and Sympathy for the Devil). Come for the memes, stay for the ethical rabbit holes, prompt engineering advice, and cool soundtrack.


— Karen Sawrey & helpers, seen and unseen

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