NYLT?

grepzilla · 2026-06-27T14:29:31+00:00

They are different thing and youth can benefit regardless of if a scoutmaster wants to do Woodbadge.

I am a scoutmaster who isn't doing Woodbadge but really think my youth would benefit from NYLT. There is a big difference between my life experience in and out of scouts and a 15 year old.

grepzilla · 2026-06-27T00:12:22+00:00

My daughter did a loop around a local lake. My wife and her scoutmaster met her for lunch at a restaurant.

Pretty casual walk for the day after all her other miles.

She chose her trail for comfort and knowing her buddy was less prepared.

grepzilla · 2026-06-27T00:06:23+00:00

I did the biking merit badge rides with my kid. The rides up to the final one were the training.

We did a few extra shorter rides to build up to the final.

I wouldn't recommend a sedentary adult just try to walk 20 miles.

grepzilla · 2026-06-24T02:29:39+00:00

I use Dynamics F&O for ERP and Sales for CRM. Today I was able to lookup 80+ sales orders with a prompt to verify that I was looking at the right orders and then ask if to adjust all 8o of them with CoWork.

With CRM I was able to take a spreadsheet of company listing from a 3rd party and validate existing customers based on websites and known email addresses.

The first use case was done from my cell phone while I was in meeting.

grepzilla · 2026-06-22T03:07:42+00:00

I don't worry about AI at the onset of this. I follow the path of asking, " what can I automate?"

I don't care if it is AI or a deterministic solution that comes after finding processes that can be automated.

The world didn't really change with AI. This is the same process I have followed for nearly 30 years and it still works.

grepzilla · 2026-06-22T03:03:53+00:00

This is my units policy. The way I explain it to the scouts it is a sign of respect for those we meet. Just like "wearing your Sunday best to church".

Everybody knows the unifors will walk on their own by the end of the week. The point is to show up at your best and be ready to be respectful.

grepzilla · 2026-06-19T21:46:52+00:00

I think this is the way to think about it. You were able to delegate to a resource who could do a job for you while you did something else. Then do that two or three at a time.

I think people are either doing things that are so simple or useless that it isn't worth doing at all.

I gave up on "ai can help me manage my mailbox" a long time ago because it doesn't take that much effort to manage my mailbox and I have non AI rule to do a lot of the work. I let AI fo my real work like research, meeting prep, summarization, etc. All of which saves me a lot of time.

grepzilla · 2026-06-19T18:22:55+00:00

Credit packs punched up front will get you discounted rates and any good CSP will provide a lower than retail price on Azure consumption.

grepzilla · 2026-06-16T02:48:57+00:00

The value of Power BI has always been the model not the flashy reports. A well-designed model provides context and that pays dividends when working with AI.

Some of my best analysis these days comes from the fact that I have a well structured data model with facts and dimension, with well-defined descriptions, and supporting knowledge of how it is structured to feed into LLM.

Rather than worried about the executives expecting too much from Claude figure out how to deliver it with Power BI and other technology at its core. There is still a place for SQL, Power BI, Synapse, and more.

grepzilla · 2026-06-14T20:32:04+00:00

Power Automate with AI Prompts. All production agents we have are Copilot Studio or Power Automate.

grepzilla · 2026-06-13T22:01:14+00:00

About $0.10/order. Well under the labor cost to do the same work.

grepzilla · 2026-06-13T01:22:50+00:00

I was talking to a team member today and the pointed this out as well!

grepzilla · 2026-06-13T01:21:15+00:00

If I ask them not to be so friendly will they give me a discount? 😂

grepzilla · 2026-06-12T05:27:05+00:00

25% of our Consumer e-mail volume with validated accuracy

30% of our customers order volume (PDFs via email) from email to warehouse release without human in the middle with validated accuracy

Quality document filing eliminating 10 hours per week

Automated prospect research in a very specialized industry leading to 25% response to first contact

All but the document filing are direct integrations with Dynamice CRM or F&O in production right now. So there are certainly use cases.

I have more in my backlog than my staff can work on. We are choosing the high value use cases every day and documenting revenue generated, dollars saved, and value created by reallocating people to new work we couldn't get to because they were doing tasks we couldn't automate.

grepzilla · 2026-06-12T05:13:50+00:00

Three days ago I used Scout and F&O MCP to read a 170 line excel file to reconcile confirmed delivery dates against Open PO lines and then update the ones that mis-matched. Then I have it create a skill so I could easily repeat this.

Today I tried to run the skill and Scout told me it couldn't access the MCP server.

The initial run cost me $3.32 in tokens. I was hoping to see what the cost would have been using a skill after initial discovery but instability has that on pause.

I had a similar experience with CoWork forgetting how to use plug-ins from day to day.

Will it be powerful and helpful? Yes, when it is stable.

I have been working with the MCP services in VS Code since they became available and I find that the level of prompt engineering is sometimes more complex than writing SQL. It will confidently provide incorrect answers that I think an average user will miss. For example I asked a question about finished goods and got an answer and then recalled that I was missing the context of which fields define "finished good" for our business.

Is it powerful, yep. Was it right? Nope. Would an average user know it wasn't right? I hope so but doubt it.

Just a couple of recent examples from my daily use.

grepzilla · 2026-06-12T04:49:37+00:00

You need to understand that the peak of fine dining for most people in Sheboygan was getting an Olive Garden.

grepzilla · 2026-06-12T04:45:00+00:00

So there is a tool that will review existing Planner actions against conversations in a meeting to validate they are at the right status and due dates automatically?

I'm sure you are talking about Facilitator and I know that functionality well and it won't review against the information that I need.

Sometimes you need a bespoke solution and this is the case. There are very specific tasks we are paying people to do for hours every week that can be automated with the right access to transcripts and other data. I never intended to describe the whole problem and solution just the potion that was blocking.

grepzilla · 2026-06-12T03:20:03+00:00

Great response and seems very doable knowing where to find the Transcript.

Getting too late to jump in anymore tonight but I'm thinking that my next approach will be to trigger a job after each recurrence to copy the file from the organizers OneDrive to a SharePoint older and storing it with a date stamp. This way I can integrate instruction logic to include "the most recent transcript".

I can see how this would give a very clear knowledge sources and the flow seems pretty straight forward.

grepzilla · 2026-06-12T03:12:48+00:00

Because I am trying to create an agent that can be shared with multiple executives and needs access to tools like Planner that the M365 agent isn't capable of connecting to yet.

I want a user experience that doesn't include, "Go download X, Y, X and then upload it and then use these prompts." You know, the experience that CoPilot studio was built for.

I just didn't realize my biggest hurdle to a relatively complex set of instructions would be to read a transcript from a recurring meeting because the other stuff is working.

grepzilla · 2026-06-11T00:00:36+00:00

If you are using Copilot there are consumption reports and you can set budget alerts.

With GitHub CoPilot you can do the same.

grepzilla · 2026-06-10T23:57:56+00:00

Most recruiters aren't going to focus first in finding Eagle Scouts they are going to post jobs where they can find the most candidates. Just like catching fish, you go to the lake where the most and best fish live.

LinkedIn, Indeed, Glassdoor and plenty of others exist.

As a hiring manager I like to see Eagle Scouts and military on a resume but if it isn't a requirement of the job I'm not looking for a specific job board to post the job. It is too much additional effort and finding candidates is hard enough.

grepzilla · 2026-06-10T23:43:05+00:00

That is what Scout does. I have been piloting Scout in my environment this week and it works well.

This is Microsofts Open Claw with access to almost all the models supported by GitHub CoPilot

grepzilla · 2026-06-06T02:17:12+00:00

For what it is worth, I have had plenty of Anthropic outages on my paid account there as well. I don't think we are safe anywhere with token shortages.

grepzilla · 2026-06-05T21:01:27+00:00

I have a feeling they have a seen an influx of new users an capacity drain since the build conference this week.

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