Category: AI

Hands-on with Augment Code(3 min read)

Augment Code, one of the new AI-powered coding assistants, promises to make software development faster and more intuitive. But does it hold up in real-world scenarios, beyond demo apps and sample code?

Open source software provides a great opportunity to learn these tools with real code, solving real problems. Plus you get to contribute back to the community.

I decided to put Augment Code through its paces by solving a practical improvement I wanted to make to the pysunspec2 project, involving home IoT devices and solar energy controllers.

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AI and copyright: Addressing an incongruity(4 min read)

In our rapidly evolving digital age, traditional concepts such as copyright are being rigorously tested. The advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI), in particular, has initiated a crucial debate on the validity and efficacy of existing copyright laws. This debate becomes particularly intense when we consider the striking difference in the treatment of photographs and AI-generated art under current copyright laws. This discrepancy calls into question our collective understanding of creativity, ownership, and the essence of copyright itself. Is it time for us to reevaluate the concept of copyright in the digital era?

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