Abstract Heresies

This is an anecdote, not a data point, yet. I'm a firm believer in functional programming and I consider myself a `mostly functional...

A year ago, you couldn't vibe code in Lisp. Even the SOTA models had trouble balancing parentheses, and they'd hallucinate package...

Lately I've been playing with writing a chatbot library in Common Lisp. My previous gemini bindings were getting unweildy. I wanted ...

Our compay proides us with GitHub copilot, which is yet another example of an “AI” engine. I’ve reviewed it before and I wasn’t particu...

I recently tried out GitHub CoPilot. It is a system that uses generative AI to help you write code. The tool interfaces to your IDE — I...