Setting the Architectural Standard in the Age of AI
As a professional programmer my whole life, I’ve spent a good amount of time learning technical concepts. Tech concepts aren’t very difficult for me anymore, but I always like to ground myself in a baseline set of rudimentary concepts before moving into more complex ones. Typically, the way we understand the world is by making [ ] The post AI Introduction Part 2: Terminology appeared first on…
Most bad AI output isn t a model problem. It s a prompt problem. I was talking with a fellow coder friend of mine named Matthew Breau about prompting. He and I have both been using Claude Code and AI tools in general for about ten months now, roughly as long as most coders I know. Matthew [ ] The post <strong>AI Introduction Part 1: How to Prompt</strong> appeared first on Jason Fleetwood-Boldt .
AI can make software run. It still can t tell whether a human knows what to do with it. One of the things I think AI-assisted code and vibe-coding need to pay a lot more attention to is an old, unglamorous idea from software design: usability. I’ve spent years having this conversation with early-career developers. Now [ ] The post The Part Vibe-Coding Forgets appeared first on Jason…
This is something everyone has a reference for, but few founders and business owners get right. You are not for everyone, and everyone is not for you. It s easy to get attached to our ideal version of self. The greatest offering. The best value. The one service nobody does quite like you do. I hate [ ] The post Quadrant Positioning appeared first on Jason Fleetwood-Boldt .
For getting Bootstrap to work with Rails 8, you need to choose between Propshaft, JSBundling/CSSBundling, Shakapacker, or Vite Rails as your asset pipeline or JavaScript paradigm. (Note: Propshaft is the new default asset pipeline, not a packager. The other three options are packagers that handle bundling and transpiling.) One sentence for anyone upgrading: Sprockets is gone as the Rails [ ] The…
My friend Koushik Dasika wrote a post last week called Coding Was Never the Hard Part. He s right. The interesting question is why we re only able to say it out loud now. For two decades, the conventional story about software has been that engineers are slow because coding is hard. Now AI writes code, and [ ] The post Structure Was Always the Hard Part appeared first on Jason Fleetwood-Boldt .
Claude Code: The AI That Knows Its Place When I first dipped my toes into AI last year, I was like everyone else—typing questions into ChatGPT to hunt down on Stack Overflow. It was instantly gratifying. Most of the time, it delivered excellent answers. But ChatGPT also loved to lead me down dead-end paths: recommending [ ] The post Claude Code: The AI That Knows Its Place appeared first on Jason…
A quick and simple solution to implement scrum for your team using ClickUp The post Stupid Simple Scrum using ClickUp appeared first on Jason Fleetwood-Boldt .
There are two pieces of small insanity that one will experience when being a professional web developer running tests using Selenium or Chrome driver under macOS Sonoma 1/ ChromeDriver gets attached to an old version, causing the security vulnerability shown here: This small insanity seems to crop up with the way Brew installs chromedriver. Chrome [ ] The post Allowing Chromedriver on MacOS (This…
GDG Web Fest at Google NYC, New in Chrome 109, view transitions, FedCM, Cascading layers, Accent Colors, Subgrid, New Responsive, The post GDG Web Dev Fest @ Google NYC (18 Jan 2023) appeared first on Jason Fleetwood-Boldt .