# Jason Michael Perry

> Thoughts on Tech & Things

## Posts

- [Writing an AI-Optimized Resume](https://jasonmperry.com/2025/02/12/writing-an-ai-optimized-resume/): Earlier this week, Meta began a round of job cuts and has signaled that 2025 will be a tough year. But they’re far from alone—Microsoft, Workday, Sonos…
- [Savings Unlock Calculator](https://jasonmperry.com/2025/09/03/savings-unlock-calculator/): The Savings Unlock Calculator looks at AI through a different lens: time, efficiency, and “salary not spent.” It shows how much capacity your team can unlock…
- [Growth Unlock Calculator](https://jasonmperry.com/2025/09/03/growth-unlock-calculator/): I built this Growth Unlock Calculator to test how AI-driven productivity gains could flow directly into top-line revenue. By plugging in team size, average…
- [Development Needs an AI-First Rewrite](https://jasonmperry.com/2025/07/24/development-needs-an-ai-first-rewrite/): I’ve spent the better part of the last two decades running or being a part of development teams, and as a developer I’m experimenting a lot with using…
- [The Problem with Data](https://jasonmperry.com/2025/07/16/the-problem-with-data/): Everyone has the same problem, and its name is data. Nearly every business functions in one of two core data models: ERP-centric: One large enterprise system…
- [What the Heck Is MCP?](https://jasonmperry.com/2025/06/25/what-the-heck-is-mcp/): AI models are built on data. All that data, meticulously scraped and refined, fuels their capacity to handle a staggering spectrum of questions. But as many…
- [A Week of Dueling AI Keynotes](https://jasonmperry.com/2025/05/27/a-week-of-dueling-ai-keynotes/): Microsoft Build. Google I/O. One week, two keynotes, and a surprise plot twist from OpenAI. I flew to Seattle for Build, but the week quickly became about…
- [The AI Evolution: Approaching Data and Integration](https://jasonmperry.com/2025/05/15/the-ai-evolution-approaching-data-and-integration/): “I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe.”– Roy Batty, Blade Runner Working in consulting gives you a kind of X-ray vision…
- [Bye SEO, and Hello AEO](https://jasonmperry.com/2025/05/13/bye-seo-and-hello-aeo/): If you caught my recent LinkedIn post, I’ve been sounding the alarm on SEO and search’s fading dominance. Not because it’s irrelevant, but because the game is…
- [Welcome to the Vibe Era](https://jasonmperry.com/2025/05/06/welcome-to-the-vibe-era/): Early in the AI revolution, I sat across a founder pitching a low-code solution that claimed to eliminate the need for developers. I was skeptical, after all…
- [The Worst It Will Ever Be](https://jasonmperry.com/2025/04/13/the-worst-it-will-ever-be/): One thing I often say in my talks is that this version of AI you’re using today is the worst it will ever be. It’s not a knock—it’s a reminder. The pace of…
- [Rise of the Reasoning Models](https://jasonmperry.com/2025/02/18/rise-of-the-reasoning-models/): Last week, I sat on a panel at the Maryland Technology Council’s Technology Transformation Conference to discuss Data Governance in the Age of AI alongside an…
- [Maps Are Much More Than a Pretty Picture](https://jasonmperry.com/2025/01/28/maps-are-much-more-than-a-pretty-picture/): It’s easy to forget just how decisive and contentious the topic of maps can be. I’m reminded of The West Wing, Season 2, Episode 16, which perfectly captured…
- [I Read the DeepSeek Docs So You Don’t Have To](https://jasonmperry.com/2025/01/27/i-read-the-deepseek-docs-so-you-dont-have-to/): DeepSeek is turning heads in the AI world with two major innovations that flip the usual script for building AI models. Here’s the gist: Skipping the Study…
- [Jonathan Turkey](https://jasonmperry.com/2024/12/02/jonathan-turkey/): Looking to chat with Jonathan Turkey a conversational AI agent? You should see a widget floating to the bottom right of this web page with a button that says…
- [Tic Tak Yo](https://jasonmperry.com/2024/04/16/tic-tak-yo/): To play the game, tap the text below that says Play Now, and enjoy! Play Now – – – – – – – – – Play…
- [Introducing my AI Playground and Lab](https://jasonmperry.com/2024/01/05/introducing-my-ai-playground-and-lab/): I’m excited to open up my little corner of the web I’ve been tinkering with – an AI sandbox to easily compare and play with various conversational…
- [My interview with Bru, Meta’s AI chatbot](https://jasonmperry.com/2023/12/21/my-interview-with-bru-metas-ai-chatbot/): I did an in-depth interview with Bru, one of Meta’s AI bots. We talked about all types of things, from dad jokes, Saints, and kids’ sports to the best places…
- [Apple’s Walled Garden](https://jasonmperry.com/2023/07/18/apples-walled-garden/): Austin Carr has an interesting piece on leaving Apple’s walled garden. “Over the past few years, though, it all started to feel claustrophobic. I…
- [Mindgrub and the Baltimore symphony Orchestra present AI in A Minor](https://jasonmperry.com/2023/07/17/mindgrub-and-the-baltimore-symphony-orchestra-present-ai-in-a-minor/): I’m beyond excited to announce AI in A Minor! The Mindgrub team and I have spent the last few months working to generate music and transform it into sheet…
- [Meta Threads Countdown](https://jasonmperry.com/2023/07/04/meta-threads-countdown/): It appears 9to5Google got it’s hands onto an early APK release of Meta’s Twitter competitor Threads in “Threads, Meta’s Twitter clone…
- [Screen Scraping](https://jasonmperry.com/2023/07/03/screen-scraping/): Gizmodo has a piece on “Google Says It’ll Scrape Everything you Post Online for AI“: One of the less obvious complications of the post…
- [Cord Cutting](https://jasonmperry.com/2023/07/02/cord-cutting/): From Variety’s “Cord-Cutting Hits All-Time High in Q1, as U.S. Pay-TV Subscriptions Fall to Lowest Levels Since 1992“ Cable TV…
- [What Security?](https://jasonmperry.com/2022/12/29/what-security/): Every year all Mindgrub employees are required to complete our annual security training. This year we switched it up and moved to the well-received KnowBe4…
- [Secure Software](https://jasonmperry.com/2022/12/29/secure-software/): Reading about Anker’s recent security issues has been interesting. In reading I came across this great comment on The Verge’s article : “why did this happen…
- [CES 2023 Recap](https://jasonmperry.com/2023/01/10/ces-2023-recap/): I last attended CES in 2020; shortly after, doors closed worldwide. After a two-year hiatus, I had no idea what to expect and feared the conference would lack…
- [The Bank Unbundling](https://jasonmperry.com/2023/01/12/the-bank-unbundling/): The big news in the finance industry is Wells Fargo, the number 1 player in the housing market, making a decision to pull back on mortgages and focus on a…
- [Security Best Practices When Using AI to Write Code](https://jasonmperry.com/2023/04/19/security-best-practices-when-using-ai-to-write-code/): At Mindgrub, the engineering team, like many, has found itself wondering just how good AI is at writing code. What do these things really know, and can they…
- [Originality](https://jasonmperry.com/2023/05/30/originality/): AI has moved the idea of derivative work into the headlines. After all, originality makes the greats great, or does it? “Great Artist Steal” – Steve…
- [Open API’s](https://jasonmperry.com/2023/06/03/open-apis/): The idea of open APIs and access to platforms has become a surprisingly divisive thing. Like most stories in 2023, our story of APIs starts with Elon Musk and…
- [Reddit and end of Open API’s](https://jasonmperry.com/2023/06/10/reddit-and-end-of-open-apis/): This sucks. Apollo has been my go-to Reddit reader, and I don’t want that to change, but come the end of the month, it’s happening if I like it or not…
- [A world without CarPlay](https://jasonmperry.com/2023/04/09/a-world-without-carplay/): Whenever I rent a car, I have a straightforward request. Please support Apple CarPlay. It is single handily the most important thing for me in the next car I…
- [Is AI the end of Search Engine Optimization?](https://jasonmperry.com/2023/04/04/is-ai-the-end-of-seo/): In testing the new crop of AI ChatBots, I noticed a consistent and fascinating trend, hunting for search results really sucks, and I want someone to tell me…
- [Is ChatGPT a Big Deal?](https://jasonmperry.com/2023/01/30/is-chatgpt-a-big-deal/): For the last few weeks (maybe months), OpenAI and several of its products have been in the press. If I knew nothing, this was the first time anyone had ever…
- [Apple Maps Ready for Business?](https://jasonmperry.com/2023/01/25/apple-maps-ready-for-business/): How many of you remember the great Apple Maps debacle? In the business books of major failures – Apple Maps must sit in the top 25. I never stopped…
- [You hear me?](https://jasonmperry.com/2023/01/12/you-hear-me/): Since StarTrek TOS I have imagined living in the future. Talking with a computer conversationally and using our words to do anything sounds like a dream come…
- [Did Southwest’s Tech Fail?](https://jasonmperry.com/2022/12/31/southwest/): Many news sources cite Southwest’s lack of investment in technology at its scale. I’m an outsider here, so I can only speculate how this happened, but I find…
- [The Paywall](https://jasonmperry.com/2022/11/23/the-paywall/): I share article excerpts with friends and family frequently. Sometimes it’s something fun like a Buzzfeed listicle, but most times, it’s an…
- [Migrating](https://jasonmperry.com/2022/12/14/migrating/): My friend recently made the big shift from Android to the iPhone. As I celebrated her finally joining the blue text messages club and her ability to join…
- [Google Analytics 4](https://jasonmperry.com/2022/11/23/ga4/): Google Analytics 4, or GA4, is a reimagining of the analytics platform for a world that is post page views. Many of us still think of web traffic in older…
- [It Wasn’t Me](https://jasonmperry.com/2022/12/13/it-wasnt-me/): Arstechnica has an amazing piece on the dystopian possibilities of AI images and deep fakes. As the article notes – deepfakes have been a reality for…
- [DALL-E](https://jasonmperry.com/2022/11/23/dall-e/): DALL-E and the world of generated images have captured the attention and imaginations of many. When I first watched the video, humans need not apply…
- [Alexa](https://jasonmperry.com/2022/11/23/alexa/): The recent layoffs by Amazon targeting its device unit have sprung up many articles on Amazon’s inability to monetize Alexa – especially…
- [Welcome to the metaverse](https://jasonmperry.com/2022/11/07/welcome-to-the-metaverse/): When Mindgrub announced our move to the metaverse, we wanted to explore the many sprouting virtual worlds and determine where to plant our virtual roots. The…
- [The algorithms did it](https://jasonmperry.com/2022/11/07/algorithms/): Over the weekend, I read a piece on algorithms running the city of Washington DC. Articles like this frustrate me in their ability to take a word that once…

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