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I am currently focused on an educational site https://www.higherscoresdfs.com/dfs/spa/welcome/ that helps Daily Fantasy Sports fans improve their DraftKings and FanDuel gameplay. W…

For me, CQL will always mean Cassandra Query Language https://cassandra.apache.org/doc/4.0/cassandra/cql/

From the article. The French government did not provide a specific timeline for the switchover, or which distributions it was considering. Got to be Mandrake right?

If only the AI understands your code, then vendor lock-in and exposure to price hikes will be the least of your problems. I don't think that you will be able to add Claude as the D…

Thanks for writing this blog. Others are also starting to notice these impacts and writing about them. I believe that it is important for more voices to be heard. What resonated mo…

I am working on an app that uses old-school predictive AI (i.e. pytorch and scikit-learn) to predict professional sports outcomes in a way that is useful for DFS fans. Here is the …

That's a type of fatigue that is not new but I hear you, context switching fatigue has increased ten fold with the introduction of agentic AI coding tools. Here are some more types…

Good question. Several reasons. 1. Since the same AI writes both the code and the unit tests, it stands to reason that both could be influenced by the same hallucinations. 2. Havin…

I think it is now pretty clear what impact agentic AI has on coders. I am curious how technology leaders (e.g., software architects, staff engineers, senior developers, team leads)…

Using AI to predict professional sports outcomes. https://www.exploravention.com/products/sports/

How are these libraries curated? I ask because Clojure Land includes Donkey https://clojure.land/?q=donkey which was abandoned a couple of years ago. Not sure about your informatio…

The conversation here seems to be more focused on coding from scratch. What I have noticed when I was looking at this last year was that LLMs were bad at enhancing already existing…

I used a graph database in https://www.exploravention.com/products/askarch/ because software architects typically need to understand the dependencies of a complex software system b…

I agree. Permit me to rephrase. From this learning adventure https://www.infoq.com/articles/architecting-rag-pipeline/ I came to understand what many now call context rot. If you w…

Location: Bay Area of California Remote: yes Willing to relocate: no Technologies: https://www.exploravention.com/services/ Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gengstrand/ Email…

I am currently building a lot of AI models for predicting both individual athlete and team based performance for https://www.higherscoresdfs.com/dfs/spa/welcome/ Like the rest of o…

It is true that there are significant benefits to monorepo but it comes at a cost. Managing a monorepo is more expensive than polyrepo. For the details behind that claim, check out…

Kotlin does not lock you in and has not locked you in to IntelliJ. About a year ago, I coded up a Kotlin service using VS Code. See https://glennengstrand.info/software/coding/csha…

I recently released an AI software architect chat app. https://www.exploravention.com/products/askarch/ It is an interesting discovery journey on extracting relevant information fr…

I really appreciate the overall gist of this blog and find value in the mech suit vs human replacement analogy. The "near zero time" observation is not consistent with my own findi…

I recently blogged about the developer experience with server-side Kotlin at https://glennengstrand.info/software/coding/csharp/kotlin so you should know that the IntelliJ folks of…

I am currently testing the hypothesis that RAG can reduce the likelihood of LLM hallucination when it comes to software architecture (existing or proposed enhancements or tech debt…

While I was working on this piece about using LLMs to migrate code https://glennengstrand.info/software/llm/migration/java/type... I experienced a first hand encounter of review fa…

Have you ever wondered what adding that missing feature to your favorite open-source software would take? I want to explore how effective RAG-focused LLMs can be in accurately answ…

I went with a more clinical approach and used models that were available a half year ago but I also was interested in using LLMs to write unit tests. You can learn the details of t…