Coding matters: A weird AI story
Jacqui Coosner
2023-08-03
We don’t know how AI will change the world, but here’s a weird AI story. Some thoughts on the future of programming with AI.
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Coding matters: Sinkholes ahead?
Jacqui Coosner
2023-07-13
Are our travels on the internet about to become bumpier? Will AI be a sinkhole or a bridge when we search for information? There are some scary predictions, but one reason to be optimistic is that humans are resilient.
Coding matters: Are the monkeys real?
Jacqui Coosner
2023-06-29
I was alone in a doctor’s consulting room yesterday, waiting for my appointment. A chatty member of the staff came to show me a photo on her cell phone. She was wondering if the photo was real, or manufactured. It was a photo of the monkey orchid: a plant whose
Coding matters: Your cyborg rights
Jacqui Coosner
2023-05-25
The frenzy about AI and ChatGPT makes me wonder how long until more fiction becomes reality. Androids and cyborgs have been part of stories and movies for decades. The traditional definition is that androids are robots that look and act like humans. Cyborgs are humans augmented with machine or computer
Coding matters: Between outdated and bleeding edge
Jacqui Coosner
2023-05-18
The fashion industry isn’t the only industry where it is hard to keep up with trends. Sometimes technology leaves us confused: stuck somewhere between outdated and bleeding edge. Is this new tech just another bright shiny object? Or are we already late to the party? The bleeding edge The Miriam-Webster
Coding matters: How would you cope?
Jacqui Coosner
2023-05-03
What would you do if there was no technology, no internet, no cell phones? How would you cope? We depend on tech for so much. Has technology already changed our skills?
Coding matters: The good, the bad and the ugly
Jacqui Coosner
2023-04-13
I’m presenting the XML and Schemas course this week as a favour to a client. I suspect I’m one of a small minority of people with a fondness for XML. (Although I can’t say the same for schemas.) Probably because I learned to use it for documentation, which I enjoy,
Coding matters: Cats take over ChatGPT
Jacqui Coosner
2023-04-06
Last week I shared some thoughts on how ChatGPT is a turning point. Will it improve life for everyone, or create an even bigger gap between the haves and the have-nots? I don’t know. What I do know, is that cats have already taken over ChatGPT! If you don’t believe
Coding matters: Turning point times
Jacqui Coosner
2023-03-30
I don’t know if it is a curse or a blessing, but we definitely live in interesting times. More than that: we are living through turning points in history. Sometimes we live through changes that we will only later recognise as turning points. The soldiers who fought in the turning
Coding matters: Thoughts about productivity
Jacqui Coosner
2023-03-16
Do you think that people want to do good work? Do you believe productivity is what makes developers happy? Jacqui shares her views, and a few comments about productivity measures.