http://nickwhiteley.com/tags/ai/Recent content in AI on Nick WhiteleyHugoen-gbSat, 07 Feb 2026 15:13:08 +0000http://nickwhiteley.com/posts/life-gets-agentic/Sat, 07 Feb 2026 15:13:08 +0000http://nickwhiteley.com/posts/life-gets-agentic/<h2 id="the-world-changed"> The world changed <a class="heading-link" href="#the-world-changed"> <i class="fa-solid fa-link" aria-hidden="true" title="Link to heading"></i> <span class="sr-only">Link to heading</span> </a> </h2> <p>In 2022 OpenAI made ChatGPT publicly available. Meh, I thought. Another chat bot. How wrong I was. It marked the start of a new era in software. In my life there have been a few significant computing milestones.</p> <ul> <li>1981 - the launch of the PC</li> <li>1993 - the World Wide Web officially released by CERN</li> <li>2006 - first &ldquo;hyperscale&rdquo; cloud launched</li> </ul> <p>The large language models coming of age is the latest and most transformative of these changes. It would not have been possible without the others mentioned and myriad other innovations over the past 150 years.</p>