AI

I’m excited to announce GuessTheUS.com, a challenging quiz on important topics regarding current American government, law, and economics. In my previous post, I explained how I used AI to build a website using a language with which I had little familiarity, Python. In this post, I’ll simply focus on what I built and why anyone might care. I created GuessTheUS because too many Americans aren’t paying attention to politics/government, aren’t bothering to vote, and are voting against their selfish economic interests and our broad collective interests....

The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the development time. The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the other 90 percent of the development time. — Tom Cargill, Bell Labs In a follow-up post, I’m announcing the official launch of GuessTheUS.com. This post explains how I used AI to build GuessTheUS.com to become more familiar with AI and what I learned about AI’s current abilities and shortcomings....

After watching videos to see how veteran programmers – and even non-programmers!!! – are using AI to code, I decided to grab the wheel and take AI for a spin. I heard great things this weekend about Google’s brand new Gemini 2.5 Pro, which was initially free because Google still considered it experimental. It was reportedly close to the coding performance of Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet, which many consider the best coding LLM, but with several advantages: the paid version would be significantly cheaper than Claude – “Sonnet is 2....

For many years, I’ve been a programming machine, obsessively churning out code that powers my employers. I love coding and pour my heart into it, but I’m pretty wiped by the end of the day/week. I’ve seldom taken as much vacation as I’m entitled to. And even when I’ve changed jobs, I’ve seldom given myself any break… generally finishing on a Friday and starting my new job the following Monday....