AI hallucinated a table, wrote a lovely query against it, and handed the whole thing over without blinking. Say hello to Cardinal.
AI Generated ETL Worked on Day One. Then Came Monday.
AI generated ETL ran clean on the first try, and it took six weeks to find out what it was missing. A late Monday file, a file sent twice, a file full of zeros and mangled names all got through. The ugly old job had a rule for every one of them, and nobody had written those rules down. Now I ask AI for the failure list before I ask for any code.
Navier-Stokes Problem: What It Is and What AI Found
The Navier-Stokes problem in plain words: what the famous fluid question asks, what AI says it found, and why it is not official yet.
Fermat Left a Note in a Margin. Other People Spent 358 Years Finishing It.
That note kept mathematicians busy for the next three and a half centuries. Let us talk about what Fermat left in a margine.
Everyone Expected AI to Come From the Big Companies
Everyone expected AI to come from the big companies. The research did come from their labs, but the products did not, and the reason is not talent or budget.
Ten AI Phrases We Use Too Often
In 2013 I wrote a small list of phrases developers used too often. Twelve years later, here are ten AI phrases I hear every week, and what each one means.
Tech Conferences: Five Questions About the Money
I said tech conferences are worth every hour and the sessions are not. Nobody argued about the sessions. They wrote about money instead, and five questions arrived.