I want to tell you about a neat experience I had with AI-assisted programming this week. What’s unusual here is: the AI didn’t write a single line of my code. Instead, I used AI to build a custom debugger UI… which made it more fun for me to do the coding myself.| www.geoffreylitt.com
The time to figure out how to use generative AI and large language models in your code is now.| InfoWorld
OpenAI is the gateway platform to our industry’s next major revolution, leading to a massive increase in individual, team and company productivity. If you’re trying to understand the impact of Large Language Models on developer productivity you should definitely be following recent work by Simon Willison, creator of Datasette, and Django OG. He’s documenting his| James Governor's Monkchips
How to use AI coding assistants without letting your hard-earned engineering skills wither away.| addyo.substack.com
The bicycle of the mind, with E.T. sitting in the basket.| olano.dev
Online discussions about using Large Language Models to help write code inevitably produce comments from developers who’s experiences have been disappointing. They often ask what they’re doing wrong—how come some …| Simon Willison’s Weblog
Thinking out loud about AI, code, and whether or not I'll be able to make a living in a few years.| www.coryzue.com
There’s a lot of chatter in the media that software developers will soon lose their jobs to AI. I don’t buy it.| O’Reilly Media
The Oxide and Friends podcast has an annual tradition of asking guests to share their predictions for the next 1, 3 and 6 years. Here’s 2022, 2023 and 2024. This …| Simon Willison’s Weblog
Yesterday I finally developed something I’ve been casually thinking about building for a long time: django-http-debug. It’s a reusable Django app—something you can pip install into any Django project—which provides …| simonwillison.net
AI can be kind of useful, but I'm not sure that a "kind of useful" tool justifies the harm.| Citation Needed
Here is a short, illustrative example of one of the ways in which I use Claude and ChatGPT on a daily basis. I recently learned that the Adirondack Park is …| Simon Willison’s Weblog
2023 was the breakthrough year for Large Language Models (LLMs). I think it’s OK to call these AI—they’re the latest and (currently) most interesting development in the academic field of …| Simon Willison’s Weblog
The Turing test is dead, and we killed it. The Turing test is a test of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human. From the 1940s to the 2010s people programmed computers, and computers could only do what they were programmed to do in a rules-based deterministic manner. Sometimes a person would program the computer and it would do something unexpected, but 100 out of 100 times the computer was doing what it was programmed to ...| fabisevi.ch
I gave an invited keynote at WordCamp 2023 in National Harbor, Maryland on Friday. I was invited to provide a practical take on Large Language Models: what they are, how …| simonwillison.net
Throughout history, great thinkers have made predictions about how new technology would reshape the way in which humans work and live. With every paradigm shift, some jobs grow, some change, and some are lost. John Maynard Keynes wrote in 1930 that new technology meant humans would be working 30 hours a week or less, and that the main challenge would be what to do with all our free time. So far, predictions of this nature haven’t exactly come true. As new technology empowers us, we push our...| stackoverflow.blog
