Tetris and the art of software development
Jon Ayre What has playing Tetris got to do with software development? Quite a lot as it turns out, and not just as something to kill time while you're waiting for your…
Artificial Intelligence
That’s not code – it’s hopes and prayers
Regardless of the language you're using, if what you write describes accurately and unambiguously what a machine needs to do, you're writing code.
Emulation or plagiarism? That is the question.
I was browsing LinkedIn, and came across a post in which the writer asks an important question. If you give an LLM a sentence and it provides you with paragraphs…
Run as fast as you can, says the AI adoption man
People keep telling you AI is moving so fast you've got to keep up. If you don't, you'll be left behind for good. They're wrong of course. The reality is…
The man who saw God in the plagiarism machine
It would appear Richard Dawkins believes Claude (or Claudia as he likes to call it) is conscious and self aware. It seems he believes this, not because he has proof,…
Clichés, clichés everywhere – the AI albatross
Why do posts written by AI stand out so badly and say so little? It's obvious if you look at what an LLM does. It encodes the probability of words…
So many words but so little meaning
It may come as a surprise to discover that vision models and text models trained on apparently different sets of inputs converge in the same model, but it really shouldn’t.…
Change is coming – but not as fast as you think
You think AI is going to completely change business in 6 months. I know a company that's still replacing lotus notes and another that uses carbon paper to make triplicate…
Money, money, money, or burn baby burn?
The AI cost issue is already rearing its head. People are using workarounds, and AI companies aren't even charging a fraction of what it costs to run the models. What…
It’s English Jim, but not as we know it
If you think talking in plain English to an LLM (large language model) will produce a coded solution that does what you want, does it well and will stand the…