Tag Archives: AI

Follow Your Hunch

Posted on June 17, 2026 by way0utwest

For a while, I kept seeing that the cost of writing code was approaching zero. So many people felt that with an AI LLM, the costs would go way down to produce software. I’m not sure that’s true. In fact, … Continue reading →

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The Slow Growing Problems

Posted on June 15, 2026 by way0utwest

Both as a DBA and developer, I’ve had plenty of immediate, this-is-broken, fix-it-quickly issues. Usually, I, or someone else, wrote some bad code and somehow got it deployed. I mean, I do test things, and I would (probably) never change … Continue reading →

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AI Experiments: Parsing Payment Memos

Posted on June 15, 2026 by way0utwest

As part of my running the SQL Saturday charitable foundation, I get sponsorship money from vendors. Primarily Microsoft and AMD, but I hope to change that in the future. In any case, I recently got a payment notification that my … Continue reading →

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Liability for AI Errors

Posted on June 13, 2026 by way0utwest

This week there was an article that speculated that doctors in the UK could be liable for errors made by AI tools unless rules are changed. The argument is that AI tools should be treated as products, which isn’t necessarily … Continue reading →

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