New automation and the machine learning revolution are coming to a workplace near you.

It’s time to change the definition of Artificial General Intelligence, but only because the old definition is both useless and confusing.

Developer quality is the biggest determinant of software project success, greatly exceeding the contribution of all other factors. Developers differ in capabilities by more than a factor of ten. At Mighty Ant DataWorks, we’ve observed such a 10x advantage.

In August 2016, Glenn Smith of Mighty Ant DataWorks moved from Southern California to West Lafayette Indiana and opened up a new Mighty Ant office in the Purdue Technology Center (part of Purdue University.) In February 2017 an old friend from Pasadena California emailed asking for advice on hiring cheap developers when you didn’t have the money for a full service firm. Below is the (lightly edited) exchange.

100% of our lead designers recommend these 9 free design tools. (Ok, Thomas is our only design lead at Mighty Ant, but if you do any kind of front-end development, he thinks you will find these free tools / links super helpful.)

Various local news outfits, as well as the Purdue Technology Center itself have taken note of Mighty Ant’s new office in the Purdue Research Park. One advantage our new Mighty Ant East office has over our Caltech adjacent office in Pasadena: Geese!

Our Lead Designer Thomas demonstrates how to quickly remove an image’s background without permanently deleting any portion of it by using layer masking. An example of non-destructive editing. The little boy in the video? That’s Thomas! (when he was younger)

Our Lead Designer Thomas demonstrates how to quickly automate repetitive tasks in Photoshop by using "actions". This tip is going to save you a lot of time and help you deliver consistent quality.