How far can we push AI autonomy in code generation?
Birgitta Böckeler reports on a series of experiments we did to explore how far Generative AI can currently be pushed toward autonomously developing high-quality, up-to-date software...
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Partner with the AI, throw away the code
Matteo Vaccari shows why the common metric of AI code acceptance has big hole. An LLM can be helpful even if you throw away its code....
Read more2000 words about arrays and tables
I’m way too discombobulated from getting next month’s release of Logic for Programmers ready, so I’m pulling a idea from the slush pile. Basically I wanted...
Read moreCursor makes developers less effective?
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Programming Language Escape Hatches
The excellent-but-defunct blog Programming in the 21st Century defines “puzzle languages” as languages were part of the appeal is in figuring out how to express a...
Read moreThings To Do After Installing Fedora 42
Fedora releases a new version of their distribution every 6 months, with each new version being supported with updates for 13 months in total. The distribution...
Read moreWho is LLM
It’s become a common habit for developers to give Large Language Models (LLMs) a persona when working with them. I describe four of them, a stubborn...
Read moreGenerative AI in software and essaying
Korny Sietsma has a great example of how using an LLM for coding is very helpful but with limitations… and a thoughtful general essay on why...
Read moreMaybe writing speed actually is a bottleneck for programming
I’m a big (neo)vim buff. My config is over 1500 lines and I regularly write new scripts. I recently ported my neovim config to a new...
Read moreThe Pulse: Section 174 is reversed! Mostly, that is
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Read moreBrave Now Has 59% as Many Users as Firefox Worldwide
Brave is a privacy-focused web browser based on the Chromium browser, which places it in the same family of browsers as Google Chrome, Edge, and Vivaldi....
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