AI

Cursor has an “auto” mode, “but if you care about cost or predictability, it’s worth picking models manually.” says Steve Kinney.

Cursor is an AI-focused VS Code fork. Here’s Steve Kinney with a nice overview of what it offers and how to start getting help out of it right away.

Nicholas C. Zakas: I’m confident that going forward, software engineers will need to relearn how to create detailed tech specs for complex changes. It’s also likely that AI will help write and review these specs before implementing them. It’s time to embrace tech specs again because they can be a key to advancing your career. […]

A very interesting aspect of the AI smashing its way into every software product known to man, is how it’s integrated. What does it look like? What does it do? Are we allowed to control it? UX patterns are evolving around this. In coding tools, I’ve felt the bar being turned up on “anticipate what […]

I enjoyed this video from Kristian Freeman from Cloudflare on building something quickly with their AutoRAG feature. RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), as I understand it, means that you’re going to ask an AI model a question, but you want that answer informed by a whole corpus of documents. As in, ask the question “how do I […]

It was a lovely day on the internet when someone asked how to CSS animated gradient text like ChatGPT’s “Searching the web” and promptly got an answer saying “Have you tried asking ChatGPT? Here’s what it told me!” – well, maybe not these exact words, but at least it rhymes. Both the question and this […]

Steve Yegge makes the prediction in Revenge of the junior developer that this current wave of AI “agents” that help us code with more capability than just type ahead suggestions and refactorings, like file creation, command line usage, and more, is just the fourth wave of six. The fifth is an individual developer managing multiple […]

Dries Buytaert: I have 10,000 photos on my website. About 9,000 have no alt-text. I’m not proud of that, and it has bothered me for a long time. Going back and hand-writing alt for 9,000 images isn’t a job that most of us can fit into our lives and I empathize. Are computers up for the task finally? […]

The typical approach for these inputs is using multiple HTML inputs, one for each character. But is that a good idea?

There are A LOT of options these days for getting AI help right in your code editor. What seemed to begin with plugins has morphed into a lot of VS Code forks.