Happy International Workers' Day! Did you know that labor unions and computers are unlikely cousins, with a common ancestor in the loom. Across 1801-1804, Joseph Marie Jacquard invented the eponymous Jacquard Loom. It used punch cards to control intricate weaving patterns. This made weaving far less labor-intensive, and over
I’ve been teaching my ten-year-old daughter spec-driven development using GitHub Copilot. Picture this in your mind: The main character is an axolotl. It is represented as a pink circle, 4% of the width of the play area, with blue dots for eyes and two half-circles side by side with
I keep my hands dirty. Director title be damned — if I'm going to lead development teams building AI-powered systems, I need to know what the tools actually do, and most of all how well they do it (or don’t). So I built something. And because I spend
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