by Scott Howard Swain | Jan 13, 2026 | AI, All Articles, Coding Assistants, LLM, Machine Learning |
Phase 1: Veteran Coder Early teens: Geekin on 8-bit computers; Vic 20 and C64, making games.1995-2017: Full-stack freelancing: Mostly web/database SAAS. Phase 2: Machine Learning Pioneer 2018-2021: Codification of cognitive empathy combined with SQL and huge amounts...
by Scott Howard Swain | Dec 23, 2025 | AI, All Articles, Coding Assistants, LLM, Machine Learning |
A couple quotes that caught my eye today: “We are dangerously confusing computational speed with legal reasoning. While AI can be extraordinarily useful, it cannot replace the reasoning of educated, experienced lawyers. The fact is that AI only simulates...
by Scott Howard Swain | Dec 13, 2025 | AI, All Articles, Coding Assistants, LLM, Machine Learning |
“An interesting trend I’m seeing is that some of the most elite teams are abandoning AI coding altogether.” I hear this is happening in some companies and figure it is because:(a) They either started too soon (before LLMs were smart enough;(b) They...
by Scott Howard Swain | Nov 9, 2025 | AI, All Articles, Coding Assistants, LLM, Machine Learning |
Want a free customizable AI coding team? Use it to create new apps or make changes/additions to existing ones. This set of instructions (markdown files) enhances and extends the modes/agents that come with many coding agent/asisstants (or make your own). The...
by Scott Howard Swain | Oct 9, 2025 | AI, All Articles, Coding Assistants, LLM, Machine Learning |
Yay there are many to choose from! If you work in VS Code, the one that stands out for me is Roo Code. Some things I love about it: (1) Free – you just plug the API keys in for whatever models you wan to use. The only limits come from the models through API. (2)...
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