Bronze Age Brain Cloud

Discussions about the use of AI (specifically LLMs) in business are all around right now. Here’s some link soup, with fresh ingredients sourced over just the past few days: use of AI tools at work mandated vibe coding drops production database (but the question of not using the LLM doesn’t arise) AI generated music purportsContinue reading “Bronze Age Brain Cloud”

Maybe Don’t Do That?

Right, so I am working on a service that replaces a single part in an existing workflow. The workflow itself has been in existence for, like, 30 years and really, I’m not prepared to go down the path of explaining why the whole thing isn’t being replaced with a shiny new integrated and up-to-date system.Continue reading “Maybe Don’t Do That?”

Let’s Not Argue About Tools

I just ran across a thread in which a person asserts that GitHub Copilot is a bad tool precisely because it makes it easy to write lots of repetitive code. Their argument amounts to the claim that repetitive, boilerplate code is bad, and if you find yourself writing enough of it that Copilot seems likeContinue reading “Let’s Not Argue About Tools”

Be Careful What You Wish For

So, a lawyer decided to use ChatGPT to “help” write some papers he filed in court, but got in trouble when the included citations were bogus. The naive interpretation of this is that the computer program is broken, and it’s a danger to society and ought to be really regulated, and actually, I don’t disagree.Continue reading “Be Careful What You Wish For”