TL;DR: The vendors do have access to all our prompts and the generated code. They just need to analyse, classify and use that data to train their models. Simples. i.e.: we are paying them for the p...

TL;DR: I built a small project in a few days to compare code metrics across AI-assisted and non-AI-assisted open-source projects. You can explore it at csq.shibuyaltd.co.uk. Preamble A few days a...

This morning an email popped up in my inbox, with the subject “The mirage of visual understanding in current frontier models”. This sounds interesting enough, I started to read. Quickly I ended up ...

I see a lot of backlash from software engineers against AI assisted coding, and for a while I was in that camp, but as I gained more experience with the tools I warmed up to them. Over time I reali...

I’ve taken the liberty of reusing the title of a Substack post. It’s a great post and worth reading, although it makes a different point from the one I’m making here. When one is prompting the lan...