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What has playing Tetris got to do with software development? Quite a lot as it turns out, and not just as something to kill time while you're waiting for your AI agents to complete the plans for your next Death Star. The post Tetris and the art of software development first appeared on Jon Ayre .
Regardless of the language you're using, if what you write describes accurately and unambiguously what a machine needs to do, you're writing code. The post That’s not code – it’s hopes and prayers first appeared on Jon Ayre .
I was browsing LinkedIn, and came across a post in which the writer asks an important question. If you give an LLM a sentence and it provides you with paragraphs of text, and you keep doing that until you have a book, did you write the book? The post Emulation or plagiarism? That is the question. first appeared on Jon Ayre .
"Jon, why do you care what happens to companies? They're just corporate beasts with no feelings. If they follow bad advice or fall for the hype that's on them. Rich pickings for the rest of us." The post A personal statement about why it matters first appeared on Jon Ayre .
People keep telling you AI is moving so fast you've got to keep up. If you don't, you'll be left behind for good. They're wrong of course. The reality is that the faster something is evolving, the less keeping up makes sense. The post Run as fast as you can, says the AI adoption man first appeared on Jon Ayre .
Companies like Anthropic have one advantage in the world of SaaS. They're developing a product that serves their own Industry sector. This is a very rare situation and it's why most SaaS products suck. Things didn't work out too well for Dr Jeckyll when he tried to double up as Mr Hyde, and the same is generally true for SaaS providers. The post SaaS providers and the Jekyll & Hyde dilemma first…
So, you're thinking of adopting an AI? That's a big commitment. Some of you are still busy with that Digital Transformation Programme you kicked off a few years back. Are you sure now's the time to be taking on a second child? Well, to be honest, it's too late for second thoughts. Whether you know it or not, your organisation is already on the AI adoption path. The post An AI is for life, not just…
It would appear Richard Dawkins believes Claude (or Claudia as he likes to call it) is conscious and self aware. It seems he believes this, not because he has proof, but because it said nice things about his book and agreed with him. The post The man who saw God in the plagiarism machine first appeared on Jon Ayre .
Why do posts written by AI stand out so badly and say so little? It's obvious if you look at what an LLM does. It encodes the probability of words occuring in certain orders relative to all the other words (context). It then regenerates text that fits those probabilities. We built a cliché machine. The post Clichés, clichés everywhere – the AI albatross first appeared on Jon Ayre .
It may come as a surprise to discover that vision models and text models trained on apparently different sets of inputs converge in the same model, but it really shouldn t. After all, language in isolation has no meaning. It is merely a set of labels that represent sounds that we associate with experiences. Hang on [ ] The post So many words but so little meaning first appeared on Jon Ayre .