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Posted on June 22, 2025June 22, 2025 Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Software Development

AI Pair Programming – The Confidence Multiplier

TL;DR AI pair programming eliminates the fear of unfamiliar territory. With expert guidance always available, generalists can confidently explore new domains without the anxiety of...

Posted on June 22, 2025June 22, 2025 Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Software Development

AI Pair Programming – Learning Acceleration for Generalists

TL;DR AI pair programming doesn’t just fill knowledge gaps – it accelerates learning across domains. AI consistently explains context and reasoning, making you a better...

Posted on June 22, 2025June 22, 2025 Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Software Development

AI Pair Programming: On-call Subject Matter Experts for Generalist Developers

AI Pair Programming: The Ultimate Subject Matter Expert for Generalist Developers TL;DR AI pair programming solves the generalist developer’s biggest challenge: context-switching overhead. While you...

Posted on June 18, 2025June 18, 2025 Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Fine-tuning Deepdive Python Software Development

Deep Dive Series: Fine-Tuning (Small) Large Language Models on a PC

Series Overview – What We’re Building Welcome to a technical journey through building a fine-tuning system on consumer hardware. The End Result: What Success Looks...

Posted on June 18, 2025June 18, 2025 Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Fine-tuning Deepdive Python Software Development

Fine-Tuning Small Language Models on a basic Desktop PC

Can you really fine-tune a language model on a medium-spec desktop PC? Spoiler: Yes, and it works better than you’d expect. TL;DR: The Results Here’s...

Posted on June 16, 2025June 16, 2025 Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning MCP Security Software Development

Project-Based MCP: Targeted on-demand AI Integration

Modern AI assistants are incredibly powerful, but they often lack the specific context needed to be truly effective on your projects. While general-purpose integrations help,...

Posted on November 19, 2023November 19, 2023 Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning fast.ai Kaggle Pandas Software Development

Machine Learning / Glossaries!

A quick post – having found (and really liked) the Google Developers Machine Learning Glossary (good content, cross referencing between related topics) I thought it...

Posted on June 22, 2023June 22, 2023 Software Development SysAdmin

Migrating git to svn (subversion)

I’ve found that most documentation / forum discussion around the web for this topic tends to be about migrating svn to git – so here’s...

Posted on March 18, 2022March 18, 2022 Linux Shell Scripting Software Development SysAdmin

Increasing / decreasing number of xargs parallel processes (at run time!)

xargs makes it very easy to quickly run a set of similar processes in parallel – but did you know when you’re half-way through a...

Posted on October 13, 2021October 13, 2021 Software Development

Vim sub-replace-special – ampersands in substitute search/replace

Curious… While editing in vim you want to search and replace including a sub-string with an ampersand (&) – this doesn’t have an special regular...

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