About the author

Meet Travis Frisinger - Your AI Adventurer!

Welcome to AI Buddy, where the magic of AI meets the thrill of innovation and intrigue! I'm Travis Frisinger, a seasoned software engineer with over 20 years of global experience in roles ranging from mainframe operator to CTO. Currently, I’m on a mission to show how AI can make us Better, Faster, and Stronger while blogging and streaming and podcasting about it!

My AI Experiences Includes:

AI Adjacent

  • Youth Sports Tournament Scheduling: Leveraging SAT solvers, I learned to master the art of managing latency and probabilistic outputs in software systems. These are two key lessons in AI software development!

Thought Leadership

  • AiBuddy.software: My blog about AI-related topics.
  • GptWithMe: Live streams of me integrating Gen AI into my life. Mainly me building things and workflows with ChatGPT. YouTube Link
  • AI Unplugged: A podcast where I dive deep into the world of generative AI and its integration into my life as a software engineering. It explores the practical, philosophical, and technical aspects of working with AI. YouTube Link
  • Talks at DevOpsCon and DevOpsMidwest: “The Role of AI in DevOps.”
  • Talk at Rocky Mountain AI Interest Group (RMAIIG): "The myth and reality of generative AI in the wild."
  • Talk for 8th Light University: "Beyond Autocomplete: A developer's guide to harnessing the power of ChatGPT." YouTube Link

Speech-to-Text and Text-to-Speech

  • VoIP Middleware: Work I did under my old business, StoneAge Technologies, focused on VoIP solutions, including IVRs and middleware.
  • Universal Threads: Personal project for video content automation from about 1 year ago. 100% AI-generated content. The goal was to see if I could generate value with pure Gen AI content and only received 53 views. YouTube Link
  • Karat Inc: Led a project using speech-to-text for quality control during technical interviews.

Generative AI

  • Health Care Chatbot Hack-a-thon: Collaborated with fellow 8th lighters to create a healthcare chatbot. Chatbot Link.
  • Web Cat: Created a custom GPT that scrapes web pages and injects content into chat, exploring Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) concepts. Web Cat GPT Link
  • Mr. Fluffles' Reign of Tiny Terror: A revisit of using Gen AI to produce valuable content. Created a metal album about my cat Mr Fluffles in 1 week using ONLY Generative AI for lyrics, music, and art. I prompted, picked, and combined to make the songs and achieved 1.1k views on YouTube in 4 days. YouTube Link

Join me on this AI adventure, and let's explore the future of technology together!