This spring, I read the book Atomic Habits by James Clear. Published in 2018 and now in its 7th printing, it’s a remarkable and “highly effective” way to learn how to eliminate negative habits and develop positive ones that stick. More than that, throughout the book, Clear reinforces a key pearl of wisdom: we are our habits.Continue reading “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Centaur Programmers”
Category Archives: Coding Philosophy
AI – The End of Puzzle Solving?
For me, writing software has always had one fundamental reward – the endorphin rush that comes from solving a complex puzzle. Yes, being paid to solve puzzles (professional coding) is rewarding, but in all honesty, it is secondary to the rush that comes from the moment when that final piece clicks into place. The puzzleContinue reading “AI – The End of Puzzle Solving?”
The Conversation Persistence Artifact
For an AI-generated podcast of this blog post, created with Google’s NotebookLM (free) service, click on the audio player below. As I’ve evolved and refined my Centaur Programming Model for iOS app development using the Claude Sonnet AI from Anthropic, retaining persistence between chat sessions with the AI has emerged as fundamental to this methodology.Continue reading “The Conversation Persistence Artifact”
AI As A Spider
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”
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”
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”
Spiritual Resonance and AI
If you are interested in an AI generated discussion of this post click on the audio player below. I am currently working on an iOS app to help with my spiritual meditations. Years ago, thanks to my love of science and technology and a growing fascination with philosophy and its intersection with spirituality I discoveredContinue reading “Spiritual Resonance and AI”
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