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Human-Centered Automation

“That Don’t Impress Me Much”: Why GPT-5 Missed the Mark on Human-Centered AI

Sure you think you’re Brad Pitt.   I watched 45 minutes of the OpenAI announcement about GPT-5. I wanted more “whoa.” I wanted more. I wanted a different paradigm in thinking. Don’t get me wrong, the GPT-5 enhancements are actually super impressive. Some of the reasoning and security updates? About time. The coding capabilities? Yep,

samcourtain@gmail.com August 8, 2025
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Why Tech? A Story of Finding My Way Back

I’ve been thinking a lot about why I’m so drawn to tech, and slowly getting to the root of it. Tech was my comfort zone when nothing else made sense. In a world of unwritten rules and subtle cues I couldn’t quite grasp, binary code was beautifully simple – just 1s and 0s. That’s something

samcourtain@gmail.com December 7, 2024
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the one thing

welcome to thinking out loud. no filters, no edits – just my raw thoughts on business, life, and the messy space in between. grab a coffee, it might get weird. ready? i used to think simplifying meant overhauling everything. turns out, it was one small change that made the biggest difference. for me, it was

samcourtain@gmail.com September 23, 2024

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