Month: September 2024

How I assess AI-coding assistants and AI devtools

Modern AI is – by nature – non-deterministic; if you take this away, the quality goes down while the predictability goes up. But worse: most of the big wins from AI vanish, and you’re left with small wins (which are good, better than pre-AI, but … you’ve killed a lot of the potential). Evaluating coding…
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A Practical Guide for non-Technical people: Create Your Own Custom AI in Minutes

It seems that AI is highly complex with huge budgets being spent. It’s not hype – it actually works – but many people are scared of building their own, even though it’s easy (and essential to staying ahead). You can have a working version up and running – with no prior tech knowledge – in…
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What does ChatGPT actually do, how does it work, and how can I use it?

Technologists often say new technology is ‘easy’ to learn – but easy for them is often hard for everyone else. We hear frequent stories of people making costly mistakes by trusting AI too much, and that can make exploring ChatGPT, AI, and LLMs feel risky. Together these drive most people to sensible caution and slowness…
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What does this job-interview question mean?

Background Many interviewers are untrained at hiring or communicators, they’ve been doing it for years. One of the common weaknesses is: asking direct open-ended questions without context. These questions are technically correct English, but without indication of what the interviewer wants to know it’s impossible to answer them correctly. The successful candidates learn to ignore…
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