An essay about the naivety of Large Language Models meeting the naivety of business users. Update (03/20/2024): Find some scientific background from the founder of Mathematica, Stephen Wolfram here “Can AI Solve Science?” (Stephen Wolfram Writings). Navigating the Ethical Minefield of Business Process Automation In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, Large Language Models… Read More Meeting of the Naive
First release in ’24 with another great set of refinements on almost all features the platform provides. Make sure to watch the product announcement webinar on Youtube. In this post, I will cover only three of the updates, but discuss them in more detail. Write Records Smart Service This smart service seems to be stuck… Read More Appian 24.1
The applications developed by us in Appian can have a variety of features. From simple database frontends for create-read-update-delete operations, this can lead to case management, process-driven, and ultimately fully automated processes without human intervention. Our perspective and opinion as experienced Appian consultants often differ from the ideas that someone from the business operations field, a business analyst, COO, or a young Appian developer may have about process operation, process design, and process digitization.
We try to cover the important aspects of this topic while focusing on raising awareness of other perspectives and showing respect for them.
First Principles Reasoning Boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there. Most of our life, we reason by analogy, copying what other people do with slight variations. Elon Musk While Elon Musk is considered an innovative person, the idea of first principles reasoning goes back to the ancient greeks and Aristotle.… Read More First Principles Approach to Appian
Thank you very much for your patience. It took a while to get access to this new Appian feature, which is part of the 23.4 release. In this post, I want to share the experience I made while chatting with my data, the greatness, and weirdness of large language models and thoughts on possible use… Read More Chat With Records
Just like whether androids dream of electric sheep (Philip K. Dick), we do not really know if developers dream of documentation. But we still do our best to address most stakeholders in a software project with their specific needs for great documentation. And, as someone gotta write it, we discuss why and how to make documentation a crucial part of each project.
In the last few versions, Appian learned to deal with partially populated records for reading and writing data. We can now query just the data that we need, which reduces the amount of data fetched from an external system, saving precious CPU cycles and memory. And, when writing data back to a database, we have… Read More Partially Populated Records
Asking for help is easy, but only one side of the coin. Giving a great answer is the other, and not that simple. We discuss what it means to give great answers, and what is needed to make this a satisfying experience for both sides of the coin.
Put yourself in the role of a user of your process driven Appian application. By process driven, I mean the application conducts the process and assigns a task to you because your specific human capabilities are required. There is a ist of tasks … click … understand task user interface … think … think …… Read More What to Expect Next
While using Google Suite, I had this crazy idea! I wanted to replicate some of this email address entering magic in my next Appian application. As I would rather not bother you with all the loops I had to go through, let’s put some plutonium and banana peels into our flux compensator and jump a… Read More The Master of Email Address Fields
