If, you like me, are tired of listening to Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart agree agreeably on The Rest is Politics, then I might have something for you… 🥁🥁🥁 It’s an 11-part podcast series on Web Development – planned, researched, scripted and read aloud for your entertainment by ROBOTS!!! Huh? Well, not robots robots; I’ll […]
Category: AI
How Vibe Coding Led to a Crypto Mining Attack on My Web Server
I was surprised the other day to learn that my web server was under attack. I was remoted in to the DigitalOcean Droplet instance where my web server is hosted (I moved off of AWS a few months ago), when I noticed that system load was unusually high. Investigating further, I checked out CPU usage […]
GPT-4o – Hype and Building Stuff
Hype GPT-4o is OpenAI’s latest frontier model, announced by CTO Mia Murati in a livestream yesterday at 18:00 UK time, and at first glance the new capabilities that it promises are extremely exciting. The “o” in GPT-4o stands for “omni”, a reference to the native multimodality of the new model, which was trained end-to-end on […]
How ChatGPT’s New “GPTs” Feature Can Help You Develop Software
OpenAI’s Dev Day took place on November 6th and it’s fair to say there was a lot of hype leading up to the event. Nowhere was this more palpable than the hive of optimism that is the subreddit r/Singularity, which I am slightly ashamed to admit that I follow avidly. Confident predictions of an AGI […]
Learn Español with the GPT-3.5 API
I’ve been using ChatGPT on a daily basis ever since last December, but it was only the other day that I actually got round to having a play around with the OpenAI API for the first time. It was an interesting experience that culminated in the production of a useful little language-learning app, that I […]
My First ChatGPT-Assisted App and the Future of Software Development
ChatGPT is an absolutely incredible tool and if you’re not already using it, you should be. You really should. It doesn’t matter who you are, or what you do for a living – it’s so versatile that it can turn its hand to pretty much anything you want it to do. Among many other things, […]