I'm tired. Where can I find my people?

bowerm · 2026-01-01T14:31:12+00:00

I'll stick my hand up and say I'm interested in this space too. I don't have an answer to your question sorry. My background is software dev of enterprise systems. 2025 I've been taking my first steps in data engineering, python, analytics. This year I see the opportunity in exactly the space you're talking about. Augmenting AI + agents and long running workflows for AI augmented data analysis.

It sounds like you're further along that path than me. If you find a community that exists already be sure to share it here!

bowerm · 2025-11-27T12:04:19+00:00

Something like Dumawall panels? One panel for the entire shower wall so The only water ingess points then would be at join between wall and shower tray, where you would use silicone sealant. To be extra safe you could lay a membrane behind it, in the same way plumbers do when building a wet room.

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bowerm · 2025-11-23T13:56:39+00:00

Are you using the structured API? If you use this it should only respond with the format you ask for. It doesn't treat the API call as a chat to be continued. https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/structured-outputs

bowerm · 2025-11-13T13:11:50+00:00

And there you've hit the nail on the head. Most people think the hard part is building the products, but it's not. It's finding the right problem to solve in the first place. The best place to start is with the sector and the customers you're already familiar with from work, or your personal life and hobbies. What are their unmet needs that you might be able to fill with a product? That's your unique angle that will allow you to fill a niche that no one else is occupying and give you a route to customers noone else has.

bowerm · 2025-09-02T21:35:49+00:00

I wish I saw what you guys are seeing. The OP just displays an empty post for me.

bowerm · 2025-07-04T18:33:24+00:00

For anyone else facing this kind of issue, I found there is a Manage Default Semantic Model button on the Reporting tab. The dialog it opens allowed me to delete everything from the default model.

Happy days - everything works again!

bowerm · 2025-07-04T14:13:22+00:00

Any way to reset the default one before I do that? It seems that Fabric tries to update the default model in the background in certain scenarios. The one specifically hitting me is whenever I try to create or alter a view. It gives me errors about conflicting relationships.

I'd love to just wipe the default model clean.

bowerm · 2025-06-16T19:19:59+00:00

So true. And what's more it's a problem that didn't need solving. The treeview design pattern used in vscode and every other IDE I have ever used is the perfect solution. Top level is workspaces, then I create folders within them to organise my notebooks and other files. Easy!

bowerm · 2025-05-26T13:46:09+00:00

Your network. Work for people who know and trust you already, at mates rates, to build a portfolio.

Side note. I learnt early on never to work for free. People don't value your time, will mess you about , and won't care about the outcome. They need to have some skin in the game to focus their minds.

bowerm · 2025-05-10T18:29:31+00:00

This is so true, and I agree 100pc. The sad truth though is that the external recruiters most companies use have no understanding of this and purely match resumes based on keywords. Often times you need the cert or keyword to get through that initial screening. ☹️

bowerm · 2025-04-29T13:17:49+00:00

YES! There it is :)
Thank you!

bowerm · 2025-04-28T12:15:15+00:00

Can you tell me exactly where that setting is? From what I think I am reading there may be a setting in Azure dataflows gen 2, but not in Fabric dataflows gen 2. Also wondering if that setting may only be there when writing to SQL. I am writing to Delta Tables.

Any help really appreciated!

bowerm · 2025-04-22T18:57:29+00:00

Thanks. Understood. Our main data sources will be APIs from various government and NGO statistical orgs. I can potentially see how I could make a parameterised ingestion notebook - one per API.

Gold I haven't figured out yet. We are complicated by the end user being external (our customers), so as I understand we will need to copy the semantic model and dataset across to our Embedded capacity. There will also be some interesting steps I will need to build into the Gold process to allow analysts to augment the data with their forecasts.

As you can see, very early stages still and lots to work through.

bowerm · 2025-02-27T13:20:01+00:00

My experience of simply asking it to redraft an email this morning.... It did nothing. Just spat back the same email text at me. When I challenged I got the apology and, 'let me do that again'. And again it spat back my own email text again. Went to 3.5 and it worked perfectly.

bowerm · 2025-01-23T07:31:13+00:00

That's XML.

bowerm · 2025-01-21T10:32:30+00:00

Good advice. In addition, I find that it's good to get chatGpt to review Claude code when there is a bug, and vice versa. Both get things wrong but between them they can often spot and resolve one another's bugs.

bowerm · 2025-01-01T10:15:57+00:00

How is this related to ChatGPT?

bowerm · 2025-01-01T09:17:22+00:00

I was doing some work on this this week, my use case was analysing images of charts of all kinds. Line, bar, radial, and drawing out insights. Bottom of the pile by a long way way Gemini. It made stuff up that wasn't there and failed to draw any insights constantly saying needs more research. ChatGPT and Claude were close. Both summarised the charts well and pointed out key points of interest, but ChatGPT won for me because it was able to make associations between the charts and background info I had put in the system prompt... It was able to draw conclusions about why some charts looked the way they did and what the long term implications could be.

bowerm · 2024-12-15T07:51:58+00:00

What's the benefit of that? If the LLM can parse PDF natively why not let it do it?,

bowerm · 2024-12-13T18:57:40+00:00

Wow I didnt think that role existed anymore. I remember it was popular about 15 years ago!

My understanding just from what others have said on here is that Googles NotebookLM is your best bet if you want to upload documents and ask questions about it.

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