I gave a talk at October’s Leeds AWS User Group about Amazon Q, and my employer’s ‘Summer of Q’ experiment. This page lists the references for the talk.
- NaNoGenMo is the annual project where people try to write software to produce a novel each November.
- Simon Willison: AI-enhanced development makes me more ambitious with my projects – Willison’s blog is very much a must-read
- Strategies for an Accelerating Future by Ethan Mollick: “No amount of reading and research can substitute for spending 10 hours or so with a frontier model, learning what it can do”
- The reasons for being polite to models is discussed by Sean Goedecke in Do not yell at the language model
- Elevator muzak for agentic coding
- Sam Kriss: The Internet is Made of Demons – if you want to think more about AI programming and its relation to demonology
- Sean Goedecke: The three great virtues of an AI-assisted programmer – talks about the slot machine effect. Another great blog, with some fascinating discussion around enterprise development.
- Where’s the Shovelware? Why AI Coding Claims Don’t Add Up – a fascinating argument that AI coding may not be producing more finished software
- What the birth of the spreadsheet teaches us about generative AI – an interesting counterpoint to gloom around tech jobs