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# George Hepworth's Blog
- URL: https://nolongerset.com/george-hepworths-blog/
- Published: 2026-08-24T23:40:02.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-24T23:40:02.000Z
- Description: Looking for good Microsoft Access content in 2026? Look no further than the revived blog of former 13-time Access MVP George Hepworth.
- Author: Mike Wolfe
- Tags: Announcement

Former longtime Access MVP, current President of the Access Pacific User Group, and friend of the blog, George Hepworth, has been posting new content to [his site](https://www.gpcdata.com/blog) recently:

[Blog — Grover Park Consulting![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/eb/d7/ebd732c1-5f03-4f07-b386-5d08557e15c9/content/images/icon/favicon-fc59e421-71ed-4452-a055-762d2aea14de.png)Grover Park Consulting](https://www.gpcdata.com/blog)

## Incorporating AI into the Access Dev Workflow

George's website includes the following summary of his current interests under the banner, "**NOW EXPLORING**":

> George is actively incorporating **AI assistants** into the Access development workflow — primarily **Claude** and **Claude Code** — and will be sharing findings and techniques here as that work develops.

I'm looking forward to learning and incorporating ideas from George's AI workflow into my own.

## Watch for Future Articles in my Week in Review

I've been remiss in not including his content in my [Week in Review series](https://nolongerset.com/tag/week-in-review/). I will remedy that moving forward.

In the meantime, here is a list of his most recent articles with one-line descriptions (*via Claude Opus 5*) to get you caught up on what you (and I) may have missed:

- [Wanna say something? Go right ahead and say it. I'm listening.](https://www.gpcdata.com/blog/260): *Announces that the GPC blog now supports reader comments — built "with Claude Code's help" — and invites readers to start a dialog rather than treat the site as a billboard.*
- [Open Scaffold Templates: A Midstream Correction](https://www.gpcdata.com/blog/258): *Explains why he scrapped his rule-heavy approach to AI database templates after concluding that "an AI agent is not a compiler," pivoting to specify outcomes instead of procedures.*
- [My AI assistant called a "prefix" a "marker"](https://www.gpcdata.com/blog/257): *Traces why Claude Code kept swapping database terminology in drafted instructions back to his own plain-language rule, illustrating that inexplicable AI output almost always has a findable upstream cause.*
- [What building an "AI wizard" cost me — and it wasn't in tokens](https://www.gpcdata.com/blog/255): *Shares what building an AI-assisted template library taught him about user-facing prompts: strip the jargon and rationale from the question and tuck the reasoning behind an optional "Tell me more."*
- [The Benefit of AI and the Risk of AI Are the Same Thing](https://www.gpcdata.com/blog/254): *Argues that AI's real value is lowering the cost of exploring beyond what you already know — and that the same leverage erodes the judgment you need to catch its errors.*
- [Why I Don't Mind That AI Makes Mistakes](https://www.gpcdata.com/blog/253): *Compares three decades of learning Access by trial and error to working with AI agents, making the case that corrections are the feedback loop that forces reasoning into the open.*
- [Why I Track AI Costs I Don't Pay](https://www.gpcdata.com/blog/252): *Explains why token accounting matters even on a flat subscription, after measurement revealed roughly 94% of tokens go to re-reading conversation history rather than producing new work.*
- [Design first, build second: Open Template Scaffolds is now public](https://www.gpcdata.com/blog/251): *Introduces a free, open-source library of AI-readable templates for Access and SQL Server that lets you review and approve a database design before the AI builds anything.*
- [The $265 Query Fix: What Two Tools Couldn't Show Me About My Own Work](https://www.gpcdata.com/blog/250): *Recounts how his own DevPulse tracker surfaced a $265 session cost misattributed to a single trivial task — an accounting error Azure DevOps and Linear both showed as plausible.*
- [Is Your AI Assistant a Consultant or an Agent?](https://www.gpcdata.com/blog/249): *Contrasts the episodic "ask a chatbot" model with agentic AI that reads your schema and runs your code, and lays out the version control, scoped permissions, and context docs that make the latter safe.*

## *The Parable of the Beautiful Tree*

This [article](https://www.gpcdata.com/blog/23) is a bit older (published September 8, 2024), but anyone who's spent any time answering reader questions on an Access forum will immediately appreciate the metaphor:

[The Parable of the Beautiful Tree — Grover Park Consulting![](https://static.ghost.org/v5.0.0/images/link-icon.svg)Grover Park Consulting![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/eb/d7/ebd732c1-5f03-4f07-b386-5d08557e15c9/content/images/thumbnail/Abeautifultree-3800b51a-fd69-47f9-83ea-ccd2ca02559b.png)](https://www.gpcdata.com/blog/23)

*Special thanks to Access MVP Colin Riddington for pointing me at George's resurrected blog!*