Engineering vs prompt engineering

I think whoever came up with the term “prompt engineering” may have misunderstood what “engineering” is 😊 Alternatively, they might have honestly hoped the art of composing those AI prompts would turn into the actual engineering; but, I think, so far it has not happened, and it’s probably unlikely to happen. Just look at how… Read More »

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Are we being driven towards extinction through the use of AI?

I know the title of this post may sound like what a conspiracy theorist would have said.  However, even if we are being driven to extinction through the use of AI, I don’t think it’s being done intentionally. That makes it anything but conspiracy.  The world around us is largely ignorant of our desire for… Read More »

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You can’t create a custom function in Power Pages liquid, but you can get close enough

Have you ever thought of creating a custom function in liquid to reuse it in multiple places? Technically you can’t, not a custom function. However, you can create web templates as components, and that allows us to use such templates almost in the same way we’d be using functions. For example, you could easily re-use… Read More »

Need to set null lookup value through the Power Pages web API, and your copilot does not know how to do it, yet?

Let’s say you are trying to use Power Pages web api to set a lookup column to null. You might want to ask copilot, but, depending on which one you ask (maybe none of them?), it might not know, not yet at least: Well, normally, you’d be using this syntax to prepare your data object… Read More »

Request to Azure Resource Manager failed with error in the Power Pages flows

As usual with such posts, there is the same story: there was a time our Power Pages flows were working fine, until they were not, since we started to get an error, and, to be more specific, here is the error: Request to Azure Resource Manager failed with error: ‘{“error”:{“code”:”InvokerConnectionOverrideFailed”,”message”:”Could not find any valid connection… Read More »

Implementing GC Web (government of Canada) theme. Part 5 follow up – when a PCF component messes it all up

In the Part 5 of my GC Web series, I wrote about creating a completely custom form in Power Pages, and it all worked just fine up until the moment I added a PCF component to the page using codecomponent liquid tag. The result was just short of disastrous. To illustrate/troubleshoot what has happened on… Read More »