I tried an interesting experiment recently… What happens if you take a file in a proprietary format that runs only on a single OS platform, with no published spec, and you hand the plaintext export of that same file to a sophisticated coding agent? Maybe you ask it to generate not only the file spec but also the read/write library in the target programming language of your choice. And then walk away… How do you suppose that ends? Suh-PRISE! You get a rough draft of the spec that generalizes to your sample files, and you get the first iteration of...
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GenAI Coding assistant updates
A colleague was asking what models I’ve tested for local GenAI coding, and what might fit on a MBP configured with enough RAM. TL;DR: These are the models I’ve downloaded to the DGX Spark for testing: Also, be aware that ollama out of the box often has a small default context window (global setting) – which is too small to do anything meaningful in a codegen scenario – sample overrides below:
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I was reading Boris Tane’s “The Software Development Lifecycle Is Dead” and agree with several of his points, but also understand from >30 years’ XP in industry and a couple years working with GenAI and actively researching neurosymbolic AI for the better part of the past decade, I can see where there are some oversimplifications in his post and some bleedover from the GenAI hype. That being said, and considering he calls out Claude Code in a few places as one of the silver bullets to SWE, I thought what better to analyze Boris’ post and provide counterpoints based on...
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