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PAAD v2 is Released!
PAAD v2.0.0 is now out. Weeks of personal use, plus feedback from others, has led to a version of PAAD that you can easily customize. Security is also improved.
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Be Skeptical of AI Studies
A new study that Ars Technica reported on found that AI coding is not generating more value because reviewing the code has become the bottleneck. Even if the study’s findings are correct, the limitations of the study make its conclusions useless.
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PAAD’s Test Roadmap: Instant Test Suites!
After training many development teams on writing production quality code with AI, the primary blocker for legacy systems was the lack of a test suite. Now, you can create one almost immediately with PAAD’s test roadmap skill. Unfortunately, it keeps finding-zero-day exploits.
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AI didn’t break copyright. It exposed it
Many people are upset about AI and copyright violations. The copyright mess is far more complicated than they think.
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Learn How to Write Production-Quality Code with AI
Most systems to write code with AI use “AI-driven engineering.” That lets the AI make too many decisions and this has led to the proliferation of “AI slop.” This article introduces a free online-training I am offering to teach “engineering-led AI” using PAAD (https://github.com/Ovid/paad). You can still take advantage of AI, but now you have control of quality instead of the AI.
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Watching Claude Sonnet Outperform Opus
We are finally getting to the point where we can write excellent software with AI, but only if you put engineering first. This article explains how.
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AI Coding: Typing Was Never the Bottleneck
Code production was never the bottleneck in software development. This is why making it cheap doesn’t do what the replacement narrative claims it does.
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Why I Am No Longer Reading the AI’s code
I set out on a year-long quest to find out if we can really use AI to write production-quality code. I assumed the answer was no. I was wrong.
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Introducing the arXiv Explorer
The arXiv Explorer uses a novel recursive language model technique to allow you to use a normal AI-chat to query megabytes of arXiv documents at a time.
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Real-World Value with Generative AI
Despite claims to the contrary, AI is generating strong real-world value and it is easy to demonstrate.