January 05, 2025

Prompt engineering - or should I say “Prompt Negotiation” - is (currently) an important part of working with GitHub Copilot. Your success in working with the various available models will be directly related to how well you prompt them. While GitHub Copilot tries to handle much of the prompt engineering...

November 02, 2024

I’ve had a lot of blogs over the years. I think I started on Wordpress (as one does) and then moved to Tumblr (yes, that happened) and then to my own site, then to Medium when that was the thing to do and now I’m coming to you from GitHub...

September 26, 2024

There’s a lot of debate these days on whether or not AI generated code is a good thing. People are quite worried about the volume of code being written by AI right now, and how that’s going to affect us all in this field down the road. Most developers don’t...

September 08, 2024

My father passed away suddently in April of 2021 almost to the day of his 76th birthday. An otherwise healthy man, he was sitting in the back yard reading and journaling as he often did when began to feel unwell. Returning to the house, he sat down in the living...

May 16, 2024

Since the birth of ChatGPT, we’ve been fascinated by this new idea of “Prompt Engineering”. Much has been written on this subject with multiple Prompt Engineering tutorial sites springing up and countless videos on the subject. I’m guilty of making them myself. The term “engineering” implies (at least to me)...