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8 posts tagged ai.
We lose our understanding of our software when we don't review the AI output. This goes for code, tasks, emails, Slack messages and bug reports. AI replaces our mental model of the software systems we are paid to understand.
Tracking Minneapolis crime numbers on Glass on the Street comes from one dataset: the City of Minneapolis Crime Data on the open data portal. This post covers how to access the public API, pull the data and how to parse it.
Chat GPT and Claude continue to drive down my blog traffic. How-to posts and technical coding posts have been on a downward slope since Gen AI has gotten more popular.
I read Peter Bloem's post about the ten rules for keeping your critical thinking while using AI to code. I don't follow all of them but it's a great list to keep in mind so you don't forget how to think when you are using agentic coding.
I'm going all in on vibe coded side projects this year. So far I have a handful of applications that I've built that I never would have had time to build in the past.
Real-world ways I use AI tools like GitHub Copilot to speed up .NET development without sacrificing quality or my job.
I use AI in my day-to-day life as a developer and human. One way that I use AI as a developer is to understand code bases that I'm not familiar with.
Today is my dad's birthday. This morning Siri put a prompt on my homescreen to tell me to call him today. That's the AI I want in my life.