Blogging Roller

One way to get perspective on AI in software development or programming, as we still call it, is to start with a discussion of the media of programming. The medium matters because it affects how we record instructions, share them and check the results. My mom studied computer science and graduated from the UNC master’s program, but before that she worked as a computer and later as a programmer at Southern New England Telephone.[Read More]

I would say that 99% of the code in the Investor Ping's backend and iOS app was written by LLMs, but I did not vibe code it. My definition of vibe coding is when you use an LLM to write code that you do not review or even read. Nope, I ran the project like I always do with design docs, issue tracking, pull requests and CI/CD sandbox and production deploys (in this case to DigitalOcean). I review all code and try to enforce some architectural constraints, mostly about separation of concerns, configuration and secrets management; but maybe less so in the iOS app because I am new to iOS and Swift.[Read More]