Friday Thought:

will be streaming at 12PM CST today on my word famous (according to me) show, Code Break - come heckle me! https://cfe.dev/talkshows/codebreak-05052025/

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Names are now BOLD on jira comments, this is a game changing enhancement, AGI beckons

Well, I made it to 65 everybody! Yay!

this is truly gloriously bad https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43995122

Hi All. I'm not sure if this makes the cut for cfml-general, so posting it here. We provide a CF based CMS/CRM platform and a client wants to include chatbot like functionality that will answer basic FAQ style questions automatically for users in order to cut down on support requests. This is fairly small scale - not tons of pdfs, etc. Has anyone had success with this kind of thing? Are there tools that are better (or worse) for this that you are aware of?

Sorry this is probably more relevant in here given the hour: > Any AWS oriented devops people online by chance? > Trying to deploy via github to ecs and getting an error referencing a problem in code that isn’t there in the repo

wow! This is scary! I have heard similar things on the news and have read similar stories online. But this is actually happening to me. My wife got a voice mail from an unknown number. That whoever left a voicemail for my wife. That voice sounded very much like my voice but that voice mispronounced my wife’s name. That voice was probably AI generated by some scammers. I might have answered some calls by accident and that was probably from a scammer. From my saying “hello” or whatever else I might have said, they had enough of a sample to generate whatever they need. The fact that they called my wife shows that this person has done some research to find the details of who I know and the details of the people that I know.

When Steve Jobs marketed Apple Computer in the early days, he used the analogy of a "bicycle for the mind". The concept that personal computers (then later phones) improve human productivity with software. So thinking of Steve Jobs, I often wonder what he would think about AI. So far at least, AI is not reliable, steals from others, and is environmentally destructive. Not the makings for a great Apple product. As a software engineer, I appreciate the technology behind AI, but after learning more, I choose not to partake in it. A bicycle makes it easier for you to travel as long as you crank the pedals. It still takes work, but is more productive than walking. But an AI agent promises "I'll do everything for you, there is no need for you to work at all".

AI now is like Czech beer - 2/3 foam, 1/3 beer 🙂 There's certain use for some of models - the better LLM is trained, and narrower data set is - the better. But it's not 'intelligence' it's a 'large language model', it cannot think, it cannot reason. Imitate, hallucinate - and then let human to sort results. Hype will eventually fall down, but some useful things remain. I hope we not cut all the trees to build datacenters.

The potential of AI? It all depends where you look. Software engineer Demis Hassabis, together with chemists David Baker and John Jumper, developed an AI model to solve a 50-year-old problem whose answer is crucial to the understanding of life itself: predicting the complex structure of proteins. For this, they received the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. just saying.

AI is taking the fun parts of a job and giving us more of the stuff that's not fun. Like, AI can scaffold out an application very quickly, leaving the last 10% to a developer. AI is terrible at maintenance. I don't know about you, but I enjoy greenfield development, the last 10% is always a slog, and maintaining legacy stuff has always been less than fun. AI is sucking up content from the free web and giving nothing back to the sites and people who provide its fodder. Eventually, the only content out there will be AI-generated. What then?

Some of you may find this interesting. I've been collecting and cataloging vintage print ads. I built the backend catalog on Lucee. It's been a slog, but I'm cataloging a lot faster after I started using GPT to extract meta data about the ads. https://adretro.com/

My mouse has developed an annoying habit of double clicking when I don’t mean to and although it’s annoying personally it’s also not something I want when I’m doing deployments or other operations that can be impacted with a double click. It happened before with my old (2016) Macbook, I now have a new (M4) one but it seems to continue to be a problem. Has anyone else encountered that or solved it? My current mouse is a Corsair Harpoon plugged into my (Apple) keyboard USB port.

It’s especially infuriating in my IDE when I try to double click to highlight something and end up with the whole row and other small issues

I’ve changed mouses over the years and as far as I can remember it seems to stop for a while then crops up again

for those familiar with OSX my double click speed is set as such in the settings:

anyone else getting called by LLM powered recruiters after applying for work? I just had a 5 minute conversation with one. It was pretty life-like and had to announce that it was "automated".

Hey folks, at 12PM CST today I'll be hosting a live stream on building desktop apps with Python and Flet - please show up and heckle me. 😉

I imagine this has been asked before, but I am curious : what other languages are you using to ensure you can find work?

OT: The vendor we've been using to send and receive authentications via SMS/text messages is discontinuing that service. They'll continue to allow customers to use SMS/text messages for authentication, but customers have to provide their own service to relay these messages. ("Bring Your Own Telephony.") They're suggesting we set up a node.js server for that purpose, which we can do, but we don't currently use node, and don't have deep experience in the security and maintenance required. Does anyone know of a service like that, affordable for a non-profit? (I'm not the main person we have looking into this, just thought I'd ask this bunch of smart folks.)

In this WaveForm podcast, they discussed the Pixel 10 leaks. Marques suggested that it would be interesting for someone to make a "commercial" for Pixel 10 before Google does. That gave me an idea. For the next CF major release, during the beta stage, perhaps we can create a promotional CF video/material before Adobe has its own official one. However, the NDA may prevent this from happening though.

Does anyone know Steve Neiland? He previously worked with CFWebtools and later SiteVision. I saw that he was a guest on a TeraTech podcast back in 2017.

Random thing I noticed when reading news today about a public company that was trending higher; Circle is a stablecoin business and it was founded and ceo’ed by Jeremy Allaire! https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/CRCL

The gov't allows tax credits for software development. It's more than a tax deduction - this is a tax credit. Form 6765.