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Recently a video popped up in my feed about a developer’s experience of coding with AI and why they were done with it. I found it interesting and began writing a comment to respond to it, only to realise it became rather long. So I thought I’d expand it into a blog post about my thoughts on coding with AI, LLM-based agents etc.
Contine reading...I’ve recently been rereading short stories from The Complete Robot by Issac Asimov. I’m particularly fond of the Powell and Donovan stories and the Susan Calvin stories. It was while rereading “Galley Slave” that I realised the monologue at the end of the story by the professor was quite prescient to our modern AI and Large Language Model world.
Contine reading...Large Language Models (LLMs, and what is currently being called AI) are incredibly divisive right now. On one side you have those hyping them up as a small step from ushering in the singularity. And on the other side those who think they’re a colossal waste of electricity and water, that all they produce is “slop”, and they’re going to take away everyone’s jobs. As with most things in life, the reality is likely somewhere in the middle.
Contine reading...Model Context Protocol or MCP, is quickly being adopted as a standard for extending Large Language Model (LLM) based AI functionality. But what is it? By the end of this post I hope to have explained the main concepts of MCP and have built a simple Dice Rolling MCP Server.
Contine reading...With the rise of Large Language Models (LLMs), I’ve been spending some of my free time experimenting with them. I’ve mainly been interested in seeing what can be built with them, getting to grips in general with how they work, and practicing how to best use them.
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