An old Dinosaur in a modern world
This is not about writing a book about programming but how I recently realized just how similar the two skillsets are. You d think that they are at opposite ends of the spectrum really. One is about literature, art if you like, and the other is an engineering discipline. Hardly close relatives. Since I did my [ ]
The Good I knocked up (as in created!) a web app in 90 minutes! OK, so I spent a couple of nights and most of Saturday tweaking it to get it to where it is now but even so, it was impressive how easy it was to create a simple app like this. I was [ ]
Several years ago, I tried making an iPhone app. Not helped by the fact that I did not have a Mac and so was using a virtual one to do the development on. I got something working in the end, but it was slow and painful. Then, a few days ago I was in Claude [ ]
Don t get too excited, it s not about computing although I have just started work on one on that is computing related but it s going to be a while before that one comes out (if ever LOL). But my book writing endeavor is AI related because I used AI a LOT to help me write it, [ ]
So, a small update on my recent post that said I thought my job was safe. from being taken over by AI One of the guys I work with has also been experimenting with AI to generate assembler code and had quite a lot more success with it than I did. That said, you still [ ]
If AI is doing all the easy stuff and allowing people to churn out apps and web sites and backend code like a machine gun firing bullets, then how is anyone learning coding basics. If I tell an AI to write me some code to do xyz am I a programmer if I ve never even [ ]
There is a feature in Claude Code (let s call it CC from now on to save me some typing) called Plan mode that makes CC a) Do a lot more research before deciding what to do and b) Generate a plan of what it is going to do before it actually does it. But the [ ]
I was really excited when I discovered that Claude Code understood IBM z/OS Assembler, even more so when I asked it if it understood EXEC CICS commands and it replied that it knew some at least although I have not explored that any further yet, so for now I want to offer my thoughts on [ ]
Claude code has amnesia, at least when you close the terminal window it does. While the window is open it will remember details about what you have done so far. For example, I recently created a version of my name token test program, then changed some settings and wanted to run the command prompt again. [ ]
It seems to me that a new AI platform comes out every five minutes and from time to time I have a little play with different ones suh as ChatGPT, CoPilot and NotebookLM to see how well they do with IBM High Level Assembler. So far they have pretty much all crashed in a heap, [ ]