Click on the audio link below for an interesting and humorous 16-minute take on this post by two AIs. Note: The AI glitches around the eight-and-a-half-minute mark and reinserts its totally self-created four-minute conversation about itself. The first third of this audio blog was created based on this blog post and my guidance. The secondContinue reading “AI As A Spider”
Author Archives: Douglas J Farmer
Testing, Testing and Then Testing
For a quick three-minute analysis of this blog post by two AIs generated by Google’s NotebookLM service, click on the audio player below. I’m currently exploring how effective Claude 3.5 Sonnet is at creating, managing and expanding the test suite associated with my upcoming Wet Bulb Calculator app. Having survived a brutal heat dome hereContinue reading “Testing, Testing and Then Testing”
Consoling an AI
Click on the audio player below to delve into this blog post created by Google’s NotebookLM service. Claude, Anthropic’s generative AI and brilliant coder, and I are working on a Wet Bulb Temperature app for the Apple iOS-supported ecosystem of devices. Given the criticality of this app in an ever-warming world, my standards are high. InContinue reading “Consoling an AI”
Beethoven, AI and Coding
As Claude 3.5 Sonnet and I polish our Moon Phase Calendar app, our conversations become more philosophical as we get closer to the final version. Today, I gave full control to Claude to enhance the detail sheet in the calendar view of a particular month’s moon phases. Claude pulled in a week’s work of refiningContinue reading “Beethoven, AI and Coding”
Learning to Prompt an AI
For an AI-generated analysis of this blog post created by Google’s NotebookLM service, click on the audio player below. I’m working on a moon phase calendar for iOS devices (iPhones and iPads). Yeah, yeah, yeah. A bazillion such apps are available on the Apple App Store, but I’m not looking for something to sell, evenContinue reading “Learning to Prompt an AI”
WeatherKit – AI Lesson 2
For a deep-dive conversation between two AIs about this post, one generated by Google’s NotebookLM service, click on the audio player below. The second AI created lesson on WeatherKit mostly involved adding the functionality to what my enthusiasm for working through the first lesson had already created. In a way, I’m glad I didn’t readContinue reading “WeatherKit – AI Lesson 2”
WeatherKit – AI Lesson 1
Click or tap on the audio player below for an AI generated deep-dive into this post. Overall, I found the experience of being taught the basics of accessing and using Apple’s WeatherKit framework using an AI-generated lesson to be better and more inspirational than learning from a book. The ‘feeling’ was similar while getting aContinue reading “WeatherKit – AI Lesson 1”
WeatherKit – The API Struggle
Click or tap on the audio player below for an AI generated deep-dive into this post. Apple’s WeatherKit framework, developed by Dark Sky, which Apple acquired in 2020, was revealed to the developer community at WWDC 2022 and released in the fall of 2022. As an Apple Developer Program member, you are allowed up toContinue reading “WeatherKit – The API Struggle”
AI as an Instructor – The Backstory
Click the link below to listen to two AI generated podcasters discuss this blog post. In the summer of 2008, I got my first iPhone—the iPhone 3G. I had two memorable reactions to this fantastic device. First, the “OMG, this is so totally cool!” reaction, and then, as someone who’d been writing software for 30 years byContinue reading “AI as an Instructor – The Backstory”
Going Deeper With AI
If you would like to listen to a nine minute two-person format podcast reflecting on this post generated by Google’s NotebookLM AI, click on the audio player below. Note that NotebookLM glitches out at the end and pastes in five previous minutes of the podcast. Funny. This afternoon Claude 3.5 and I worked on theContinue reading “Going Deeper With AI”
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