Tag Archives: Artificial Intelligence

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Centaur Programmers

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”

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”

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”

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 – 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”

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”

Centaur Programming Podcast

This year Google released their NotebookLM. This free service lets you upload PDFs, websites, YouTube videos, audio files, Google Docs, or Google Slides, and NotebookLM will summarize them and make interesting connections between topics, all powered by Gemini 1.5’s multimodal understanding capabilities. It also has the ability to generate compelling and professional sounding podcast audioContinue reading “Centaur Programming Podcast”