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Threads Dev Interview #20: How much AI do you use in your current work? And for what?
How much AI do you use in your current work? And for what? [Threads] [Web Archive] I use it a fair amount for writing docs, creating presentations, generating meeting summaries (for meeting I did not attend), literature reviews (if I am working on research). I am yet to use it for writing code. Will be…
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Threads Dev Interview #20: Are we going to start seeing “no-code developers” emerge?
This was a follow up question to my response on, What is a draw-back of no code solutions? Are we going to start seeing “no-code developers” emerge? [Threads] [Web Archive] That is a distinct possibility that we cannot rule out. Already, we are talking about Prompt Engineering as a speciality. So, no-code developers may indeed…
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Threads Dev Interview #20: What is a draw-back of no code solutions?
What is a draw-back of no code solutions? [Threads] [Wayback Archive] We shouldn’t confuse no-code tools with programming. I think that is where the perceived drawbacks will emerge from. I think No-code will be great for localized, cookie cutter automation or system building. But there will be limits to the amount of customization you can…
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Threads Dev Interview #20: What excites you about the future of software?
What excites you about the future of software? And what are some areas of our life’s which will be positively impacted by future software? [Threads] [Wayback Archive] No-code excites me about the future of software. I was not sold on this for a long time, and then this past winter, I had a bit of…
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Threads Dev Interview #20: What are the concerns of software written by AI?
We are entering an era in which AI can write code, what are the concerns of software written by AI? [Threads] [Wayback Archive] Great question! And I wanted to couch my answer in some basic outlook I have about coding: Coding is simultaneously an act of expressing and comprehending human needs. That is, we write…
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Movie watching is entering a hybrid mode
I love going to the movies. Before the pandemic it was all I would do over the weekend. But more than that, I also love streaming content in my living room. That might sound paradoxical to many, but I love both things: theaters and Netflix. More paradoxically, I caught on to bingeing Downton Abbey (the…
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Spatial Computing does not scare me. Artificial Intelligence does.
The past six to eight months have been a study in contrasts, in tech. Roughly eight months ago (may have been earlier), OpenAI put out a simple looking demo, backed by incredible engineering and technology, but little to no product finesse. ChatGPT was a roaring success. It heralded a new age in AI, a new…
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Productivity gains swing both ways
Productivity gains that we make with technology, apply to both good and bad actors of this world. I was watching Skyfall yesterday. It is my favorite Bond movie. I love the scene when M quotes Tennyson to a Parliamentary hearing, while fending off questions about the relevance of the double-O section. It is a well…
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A (pithy) case for skipping GenAI while composing emails
When the goal is communicating or collaborating with another human to get something done, I suspect that nothing will substitute the manual acts of reading and writing (pithy?) emails. Think about that for a moment … are we really going to automate away the acts of reading and writing to machines? And whatever happens to…
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AI Poetry Slam: Chuck
Welcome to Poetry Slams on Winter Rant! Today’s LLMs [↪]: GPT 4 on chat.openai.com GPT 3.5 on chat.openai.com Google Bard Microsoft Bing on Edge Prompt: Write a poem with rhymes for the following title: "Chuck" GPT4 In a town where the laughter and cheers would abound, A jester named Chuck would oft be found, A…
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