Sunshine and Water

Click on the audio player below for a discussion of this post by two AIs, in podcast format, created by Google’s NotebookLM AI. In the sci-fi novel ‘Semiosis’ by Sue Burke (2019), we are introduced to the planet Pax and its dominant life form – Stevland – a multimillion-year-old plant. I highly recommend the novelContinue reading “Sunshine and Water”

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”

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 – 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”