Coding matters: Doctor vs Doctor
Jacqui Coosner
2025-08-22
Who would win in a competition between Dr Google, Dr AI and a real doctor? Jacqui puts it to the test.
Software and Tools
Coding matters: Check the teeth
Jacqui Coosner
2025-07-31
Seeing is no longer believing. AI deepfakes and voice cloning mean that we are more vulnerable to scams than ever before. Here are a few tips I found for identifying fake videos.
Coding matters: Hedge your bets
Jacqui Coosner
2025-07-24
ICYMI: Replit AI deleted a production database during a code freeze. Don’t assume your job is doomed by AI. Keep developing your skills and your knowledge. It’s the best protection you can have.
Coding matters: The slopocalypse
Jacqui Coosner
2025-06-27
Like spam, the rise of AI slop is annoying. But as AI gets better, AI videos have more serious consequences.
Coding matters: Dumb and dumber
Jacqui Coosner
2025-06-20
Are we getting dumber? The combination of AI and social media is not good for our brains.
Coding matters: I can’t CAPTCHA
Jacqui Coosner
2025-05-16
We all hate CAPTCHAs on sites. Those squiggly characters and photos of traffic lights. Robots can now solve them better than we can, so what’s the point? And how do we know who is human and who is robot?
Coding matters: Computer zombies
Jacqui Coosner
2024-08-01
A zombie computer is that old WIndows PC that hasn’t been updated in more than 10 years. It’s running some obscure program. Nobody quite knows how it works, but they absolutely need what it does.
Coding matters: We live in interesting times
Jacqui Coosner
2024-05-16
You have probably seen this news by now. ChatGPT got an upgrade. GPT 4.o (o as in omni, not 0 as in zero) has been released. And it’s free to all users. The omni in the name is becauwe it can “see” and “hear” and “speak” in real time. I
What the bot said
Jacqui Coosner
2023-02-09
There’s a lot of buzz in the tech world about ChatGPT. ChatGPT is an AI chatbot that can create human-like answers to any question you ask it. What the bot said about Eskom After all the rave posts on LinkedIn, I had to try ChatGPT for myself. It’s spectacularly better
What plumbing and software have in common
Jacqui Coosner
2022-11-03
Plumbing and software have more in common than you’d think. And not just because good plumbers cost a lot.