So, this hit my newswires today: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23331144-500-ai-learns-to-write-its-own-code-by-stealing-from-other…
Popular media loves to talk about "artificial intelligence" these days. It is a hot topic, one riddled with misunderstanding. Artificial…
Thinking over Typing 2.0 As a developer, I've found it possible to describe to ChatGPT my general programming style and have it generate a…
The idea of an Agent is something that has developed over the course of applying Large Language Models (LLMs) to problem solving. You can…
A Simplistic Example Let's start from a simplistic example so that you can get a sense of where I'm thinking. The way I work as a developer…
I've been doing a lot of my ML coding in Python. Honestly, for a long time I resisted it, but the tooling moves so fast and is so simple to…
It's been 4 months since the last post, and I wanted to put out this interstitial post just to cover the time lapse. Since my last post…
Many words have been written about the biases in "AI" training datasets. I last blogged publicly on this topic about 6 years ago, and it…
Back in June, I was playing with structured semantics as a way to interact with an LLM for applications. Today, I watched a video that made…
Introduction Being extraordinary, it's a good feeling. My first electronic enhancement was a calculator. Forget long arithmetic, this was…
I saw today that Bumble is incorporating into their business model a way for "AI" to "go on dates" instead of people. Selling their…
This post has moved, I have renamed it. Read the post here - What Is A Developer? I've been using the word "bionic" for a few years now as…
You gotta love the "AI" newsfeed these days, fast and furious. So, along the path of writing this 6th instalment, a number of things emerged…
Today, in "building LLM agents is hard". I'm experimenting with a novel problem-solving model using the little Qwen2.5 14B parameter model…
Stepping Up the Complexity Up to this point in the blog series, we've laid a little groundwork, and demonstrated a very simplistic example…
A group of us sat down to do the Bowling Kata the other day, to see if we could get the GenAI to do the implementation as we wrote the spec…
I'm talking to more people lately who are fearful for their profession in an age of AI. I keep coming back to "The Map Is Not The Territory…
Following up on yesterday's post , we can't digitize empathy, feeling, etc. I have a certain kind of person that starts looking at me funny…
Gen AI in Software Development, Not Coding 1 I feel like I want to do a "stop talking about Gen AI generating code" series. Maybe I'll just…
I was talking with a colleague today about how GenAI is rewriting all our playbooks. Not just the technical ones—the organizational ones too…
Thanks to a colleague, I came across this article today, and it's been energizing. The author and his editors at O'Reilly have put together…