AI
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February 2026
GeLLMan amnesia
AI will automate every job except the ones I'm deeply familiar with
November 2025
AI fills my day with busywork
Remember when AI was gonna take our jobs? I've never felt busier. The more I get done, the more there is to do.
April 2025
re: The Industrialization of IT
I guess if AI is what it takes to finally get people to care about architecture and team structure then mission accomplished?
March 2025
AI writes good tests, actually
I've been using AI to write tests and it works surprisingly well! Here's how.
January 2025
Coaching AI to write your code
Working with AI is here and it's skill. Just like google-fu became important in the mid 2000's. A few things I've learned.
May 2024
Why you shouldn't use AI to write your tests
If you derive tests from your implementation, you can't apply the Beyonce rule. What if the code is wrong and that wasn't the programmer's intent? We'll never know. The bug now exists in both places.
March 2024
How to start playing with generative AI
Generative AI is entering the early adopters phase of Moore's technology cycle. Lots of people have been asking me for the quickest and cheapest way to get started.
January 2024
How I Added a Related Articles Feature on Swizec.com Using GPT-4 Embeddings
Making 15 years of blog archives easier to navigate with AI and cosine similarity to build a related articles featur
October 2023
I tried generative AI on lots of data and we're not quite there yet
Lessons learned from running GPT-4 on lots of data using the same task.
AI Engineer Summit report
AI is the easy part of the equation. The real game changers in #AIEngineering are mastering data engineering, handling non-deterministic outputs, and nailing product development.
April 2023
I went to "AI Woodstock" and wow
"AI Woodstock" was a HuggingFace meetup showcasing groundbreaking AI projects and innovations. Here are some of my favs.
March 2023
The programming tutorial SEO industry is dead
20 years ago greybeards laughed at us for Googling. Now they laugh when we ask ChatGPT. But the leverage is 馃殌
Build semantic search in an afternoon? Yep 馃く
Learn how to build a powerful semantic search engine in just 2 hours with the OpenAI API.
February 2023
Building browser extensions with NextJS
NextJS can be used to build browser extensions. This is a novel way of building extensions that allows developers to use familiar tools and technologies. Here's how
January 2023
Building apps with OpenAI and ChatGPT
Generative AI has made big strides in recent years. Diffusion models make decent art and modern large language models can out-write even the best college student on a deadline. Over the holidays I tried it out by building an app.
November 2022
Stable Diffusion on an iPad 馃く
When's the last time a piece of tech blew your mind? I tried stable diffusion on my new ipad and wow
July 2021
Why a coding AI like Github Copilot won't take your job
It might. What's your job? If you're in the *"write code to exact specifications"* business ... now's a good time to start leveling up. The AI's not ready yet.