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Using AI tools such as Large Language Models to help write code.

2022

Over-engineering Secret Santa with Python cryptography and Datasette

We’re doing a family Secret Santa this year, and we needed a way to randomly assign people to each other without anyone knowing who was assigned to who.

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2:03 am / 11th December 2022 / cryptography, glitch, projects, datasette, chatgpt, llms, ai-assisted-programming

AI assisted learning: Learning Rust with ChatGPT, Copilot and Advent of Code

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I’m using this year’s Advent of Code to learn Rust—with the assistance of GitHub Copilot and OpenAI’s new ChatGPT.

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9:11 pm / 5th December 2022 / education, github, projects, ai, rust, gpt-3, openai, generative-ai, chatgpt, github-copilot, llms, ai-assisted-programming

Using GPT-3 to explain how code works

Visit Using GPT-3 to explain how code works

One of my favourite uses for the GPT-3 AI language model is generating explanations of how code works. It’s shockingly effective at this: its training set clearly include a vast amount of source code.

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3:19 pm / 9th July 2022 / ai, gpt-3, openai, prompt-engineering, generative-ai, llms, ai-assisted-programming

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