Alexandra
The strength and weakness of modern LLMs is their non-deterministic nature. Even the same task can be solved in different ways by the same model, resulting in different costs. However, organizations still need to plan and forecast AI budgets. And this is what I set out to test – how much can...
Alexandra
My husband and I started experimenting with AI about six months ago. Since we were both on a career break, we were careful about spending. So we set a strict rule – no more than $100 per month on anything AI-related: APIs, tools, subscriptions, all of it. I wasn’t trying to analyze the costs at...
addshore
Earlier this week, someone asked me if they were perhaps late to making use of AI-assisted development, as they dove into it in the past 2 months (using GitHub Copilot) and are already seeing large gains in a small team in terms of leverage of time. I thought for a second and responded that they...
Alexandra
Not long ago, I created Virtual Alexandra, a chatbot that answers questions based on my writing and instructions. The final implementation turned out to be so simple that even someone with no AI or coding experience can create their own virtual self. If you are brave enough to look at yourself in...
Alexandra
After a holiday break full of travel and family affairs, I am finally back to blogging. Since my silence was longer than I expected, I decided to introduce a new project right away. Say hi to Virtual Alexandra. Virtual Alexandra is a chatbot that uses OpenAI (gpt-5.2 at the moment) to...
Abhijit Jana
Unlike implementation-heavy certifications, the Microsoft AI Transformation Leader certification evaluates structured enterprise decision-making around AI adoption at scale. I recently cleared the AI Transformation Leader (Exam AB-731) and wanted to share my perspective, practical,...
Alan Johnson
I have adopted a new way of taking on complex projects, and it is radically increasing my productivity. The idea is simple: I use documents as the shared canvas for collaboration between myself and chatbot sessions. The result is far more powerful than the sum of its parts. I call it...
Alan Johnson
We’re in the midst of a massive pivot in the entire line of work of software development. At least in some places, like where I work, everything is different. Breakneck change A year ago, I thought agents were vaporware and LLMs were not to be trusted with anything where truth is...
Herb Sutter
2025 was another great year for C++. It shows in the numbers Before we dive into the data below, let’s put the most important question up front: Why have C++ and Rust been the fastest-growing major programming languages from 2022 to 2025? Primarily, it’s because throughout the history of...
Alexandra
Now that I had the game stabilized and feature-complete, it was time for code review. I decided to do a first pass with AI coding tools and then ask the architect (aka my husband) to give his verdict. To make the post easier to follow, I am finally going to share my code. Just keep in mind...
Allen Sallinger
I went to Kubecon 2025 this year, over in Atlanta. The main talks I attended were on Backstage and Developer Experience, as well as AI. As everywhere else, AI was a popular topic at the conference. This took place on nearly every level of the platform. Coding Agents, SRE tooling, FinOps, and how...
Alexandra
The beauty of the diary blog is that I keep making new discoveries while writing my posts. And so I updated my mini LOTR-themed adventure game once again. With the new version, you don’t need to wait 30 seconds for each step anymore – the content will start showing up in less than one second. Plus...
3amto5amclub
The best way to convince you is to share a conversation with one of my favorite AI sites, Geminigoogle.com I have to explain before I paste in the conversation we had this morning about how it functions in a way. When you use it, you will at times, feel like you are talking with a human with a...
Anthony Destefano
AI can code like us, they should remember like us too. What I’ve learned working with AI agents over the last seven months and how that led me to developing Claude Code Memory, https://github.com/adestefa/ccmem an MCP server that gives Claude Code persistent memory and human-like project...
Adam’s Rambling Blog
GPTs gone wild. We’ve got ChatGPT and Grok exposing secrets to the whole world some wild ideas that their makers probably don’t want you to know. If you’ve seen the viral videos going around where users provide a GPT 4 rules then ask Chat GPT if it’s connect to the end of time, Jesus coming back...
philipjkerr
Cambridge publishes a series of short academic titles called ‘Elements’. There are dozens of them and, for a few weeks only after publication, they can be freely downloaded in pdf format. They vary in quality. Some are very useful. For others, the quality is commensurate with the price you pay....
Abhijit Jana
Microsoft Build 2025 made one thing clear: AI isn’t just part of the solution anymore—it’s the core platform driving everything we build today ! Here are a few key highlights that really caught my attention:1. GitHub Copilot becomes a true AI teammateCopilot is evolving from helping with...
Aditya Rohilla
You might have read the news that OpenAI is buying Windsurf for a whopping 3B! In other news, Anysphere, the parent company of Cursor, is raising 900M at a valuation of 9B$! That’s a lot of money for code-generating applications. However, it seems reasonable when you realize Cursor is currently at...
Maximilian Speicher
Tales of Design & User Experience (ToDUX) #15 ⁂ Dear readers & friends, So, you might have noticed by now that “research done wrong in industry” is kind of my pet peeve, and I’m sorry you have to endure that. However, I’m not quite done with the topic yet. My new article in The UX...
philipjkerr
English language teacher education, says the British Council (Edmett et al. 2024: 21), ‘must include a focus on AI literacy’ and ‘teachers also need to develop their learners AI literacy’. This report is referring to Generative AI (e.g. ChatGPT), the focus of my discussion here. There are...
Allen Sallinger
It’s the start of the second quarter of the year. You have some education budget that was refreshed and some companies goals you set. Know is the time to start planning out how you are going to use the budget for the year so that you can get the most out of it. If you don’t know what you want...
0ut3r Space
Someone might think, “what has this man come up with again”. I sometimes purchase the pro version of ChatGPT and test its capabilities. As I’ve been doing the SANS SEC565 course recently (highly recommended) and I slowly need to prepare for the
philipjkerr
Much of the language we use is metaphorical. These metaphors both shape and reflect the way we think. Often, as in the preceding sentence, they give agency (a human attribute) to non-human entities, they give architectural form to abstractions and make them appear visible. We struggle to function...
philipjkerr
In the British Council’s recently commissioned report on AI and English language teaching, the ‘Executive Summary’ suggests that, ‘when it comes to AI replacing humans, the majority view is that AI will not replace the need for human teachers any time soon’ (Edmett et al., 2024: 11). This is based...
Aditya Chaturvedi
For the past 15 years, Hacker News has been my main source for daily content. From technology news to startups and global events, Hacker News provides an amazing real-time list of what's interesting and important. However, for the last five years, I've been bothered by the increasing amount of...
philipjkerr
Forgive me if you think these are badly-framed questions. Asking whether ChatGPT enhances learning is no different from asking whether technology more generally will enhance learning (a question that is fundamentally unanswerable), something that I had hoped we had moved on from some time ago. But...
Aaron Knobloch
Listen to an AI-generated overview of this article.0:00/625.321×Recently, I've been messing around with generative artificial intelligence at work. In particular, I've been experimenting with large language models (LLMs). In my journey, I've found it pretty difficult to find resources for...
philipjkerr
The July 2024 edition of ELT Journal (78 / 3) contains an article entitled ‘ChatGPT in ELT: disruptor? Or well-trained teaching assistant?’ (Ahn et al., 2024). It aims to ‘contribute to the growing discourse on technology integration in ELT and offers practical recommendations for creating a...
Sufian Rhazi
gpt.py is a minimal commandline application to query OpenAI
Martin Ehrnst
For those who experienced the “real Microsoft Ignite” this years event is not the same. We are defiantly in the … Continue reading News from Microsoft Ignite 2023 The post News from Microsoft Ignite 2023 appeared first on adatum.
Maximilian Speicher
Tales of Design & User Experience (ToDUX) #12 ⁂ Dear readers & friends, Smashing Magazine has published a new article of mine, which I co-authored with the fantastic Johanna Jagow. The article introduces Iɴᴜɪᴛ, a questionnaire (or instrument) for measuring usability. I...
Martin Ehrnst
The Challenge of Long Chat Threads During Incidents Everyone is an AI expert these days. After OpenAI released ChatGPT it’s … Continue reading Using Azure OpenAI ChatGPT for incidents The post Using Azure OpenAI ChatGPT for incidents appeared first on adatum.
Aaron Knobloch
I've been working on a personal project, as a shallow excuse to play around with some of the impressive generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, Bard and GitHub Copilot. The main motivation, aside from my ever-present curiosity, has been to understand more about where they fit into my professional...
Yuval Aloni
ChatGPT is great for a lot of things, one of which is answering questions on a broad amount of subjects and categories, and getting expert, detailed answers --- something that Apple's OS: IOS's "personal voice assistant" - Siri doesn't do very well, and most of the times will just answer with:...
Brian
Some things I might have posted to Twitter… if Twitter wasn’t run by this guy. So yes. Elon Musk picked a fight with a wheelchair-using Icelandic entrepreneur with muscular distrophy on a public twitter thread, hoping to humiliate a parasitic do-nothing employee, and instead revealed the damage...
Martín Villalba
Now that everyone is talking about Large Language Models (LLMs) in general and ChatGPT in particular I thought I would share a couple thoughts I've been having about this technology that I haven't seen anywhere else. But first, let's talk about chess. Chess is a discipline notorious for coming out...
Rhys Campbell
Of course everyone has now heard about ChatGPT. I’ve seen a few posts on LinkedIn where people have used it to generate code. I thought I’d have a quick go at seeing if ChatGPT would generate useful units tests. So I gave it the following bash function… mytest () { var="$1"; if [[...