Build versus Buy

Build versus Buy

Before we dive into the mechanics of building your own AI thingummy in a huge project, it's worth considering the various existing products and tools. You might not need a development project at all, but simply a DevOps project to integrate a new third-party commercial product into your company's infrastructure.

For example, if your project goal is to have staff writers being more productive in creating drafts of various documents or marketing copy, there's this product called ChatGPT from OpenAI. Maybe you've heard of it?

Actually, there are any number of other tools for writer productivity using AI capabilities, some of which use ChatGPT underneath, and some of which are independent. Similarly, there are already a number of “AI coding copilot” type products, which might make your C++ programmers even more amazingly, astoundingly, RSU-worthily useful than they already are. Across the whole spectrum of creative endeavors, there are also numerous AI products that create images, animations, 3D models, and videos.

More generally, there are starting to be AI products for almost every use case that you can think of, and in all of the major industry verticals (e.g. medicine, law, finance, etc.) so it's worth a little research as to what's currently available that might suit your needs. I'm reluctant to offer lists, because it's changing daily. Anyway, it's not my job to review them; it's yours!

Overall, it's fun to build anything with AI technology, but it's faster to use something that's already been built. And these new AI tools are actually so amazing that it's also fun to test them.

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