Category: machine-learning

machine-learning

Autonomous coding agents: A Codex example

In the past few weeks, multiple “autonomous background coding agents” have been released. Birgitta Böckeler tried out giving a task to OpenAI Codex to see what she could learn. Here…

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Should I still use analytics?

I set up Google Analytics on my site in 2010, and since then use it to track page views to my site. I only care about page views, which I…

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Bliki: Say Your Writing

Here’s one of the best tips I know for writers, which was told to me by Bruce Eckel. Once you’ve got a reasonable draft, read it out loud. By doing…

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Interviewed by James Lewis at goto Copenhagen

At goto copenhagen last year, my friend James Lewis interviewed me and Goto have just released the video. I talk about when I learned about iterative design from Kent Beck,…

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Building Custom Tooling with LLMs

Tools that treat diagrams as code, such as PlantUML, are invaluable for communicating complex system behavior. But Unmesh Joshi often wished for an extension to walk through these diagrams step-by-step….

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Coding Assistants Threaten the Software Supply Chain

We have long recognized that developer environments represent a weak point in the software supply chain. Jim Gumbley and Lilly Ryan explore how agentic coding assistants expand the attack surface…

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Function calling using LLMs

While LLMs excel at generating cogent text based on their training data, they may also need to interact with external systems. Kiran Prakash describes how we get them to construct…

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Building TMT Mirror Visualization with LLM

Creating a user interface that visualizes a real-world structure — like the Thirty Meter Telescope’s mirror — might seem like a task that demands deep knowledge of geometry, D3.js, and…

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Guiding an LLM for Robust Java ByteBuffer Code

AI editors like Cursor can generate code with remarkable speed using LLMs, handling boilerplate and providing functional snippets for various tasks. However, when building robust systems, functional correctness is only…

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Social Media Engagement in Early 2025

A few years ago, whenever I published a new article here, I would just announce it on Twitter, but since the Muskover its importance has declined, and now I post…