Like I said before, I've been very busy. Buckle up, this is a long one...

Welcome to the grand unveiling of my new company, Vision Studios LLC.

Something changed for me this year. AI has just about everything to do with that. I said before that I went out looking at AI tools as a developer, and came away with my curiosity in AI stoked to a raging fire.

Don't get me wrong, I've always been interested in AI, but this was new. The weeks that followed consumed me with two primary activities: one was to research just what exactly was going on in this world, because clearly I had been sleeping on a lot. The other was to start playing. When you are a developer, the best way to learn a new language, technology, whatever is to literally dig in and start playing with things. Rip it apart, put it back together. Add things, take away things. See how it works and what you can do with it. That's what I started doing with things like OpenAI's ChatGPT API and Whisper API.

I started making things like codebot and scribe. Tools that could leverage the bleeding edge of AI to do cool things. It felt like I was living in the future. I also made a plugin for ChatGPT, and later a few custome GPTs when they announced them. And of course, I've made an iOS app in the past.

This presented a problem: I wanted to share these creations with others, and who knows, maybe even parlay some of them into an income stream, but I've never hosted tools like this on the web and didn't really know how. So then came another step that AI enabled: I needed to learn web development. If I was going to do that, why not learn by making websites for others and maybe even get paid to do it? Ok, this is another income stream. Also, I just got a fancy new camera for my new YouTube channel The Great Indoors, so I could do photography and videography for others as well - another income stream.

So finally, I decided that if I was going to do all of these activities that could result in an income stream - Software development, web development, web apps, photography, videography - and who knows what else I'll think of, I should probably start a company. So I did. And that's how Vision Studios LLC was born. I had a vision... well, lots of them.

But I didn't know how to start a company. The only reason, and I mean the ONLY REASON I've been able to accomplish everything that I have this year is because I leveraged AI to help me. I learned what paperwork I needed, write contracts for my clients (and yes, I have clients and I'm looking forward to sharing the work I've done for them soon), it helped me create assets for my YouTube channel, I created the logo for Vision Studios LLC myself but used AI to help me learn graphic design. I even used AI to help me write this blog post. I'm not kidding ya'll: I'm using github copilot to write this blog post and the entire paragraphs it suggests as I type are so good it's SPOOKY. It's seen enough of my writing that it just seems to know how to write like I do now.

It's not going to stop here: I have so many ideas swirling around in my head, and there are not enough hours in my day to explore them all. I am a kid in a candy store. I've recently completed websites for 2 different clients, and will probably take a break from new website for a bit while I focus on my channel, The Great Indoors. I want to get that to a point where I have a good team working with me, I can film what I need and baton to them and get it posted. After that, I will turn my attention to maybe some photography but definitely exploring web apps and getting cool new technology tools posted to my site for you all to try out. I'm super excited, and can't wait to share my work with you.

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my work. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.