dipped my toe into AI today; more particularly AI in coding and I will finish this page shortly with findings and some good links.

great that you can often now produce database stuff apps etc within hours rather than days

will be interested in how Filemaker integrates and to what extent they are providing AI interface, assistance, quick deployment

found a groovy count app that can can count items in a picture, fairly costly for regular use but then again a remarkable stock assistant (eg large numbers of pipes or items on pallets in a photo)

there are also restricted demo downloads available on these

will finish this page in the near future, once the cloudy days return

with more on agentic coding!

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Faceless bureaucracy is bad enough already. AI will bring a whole new dimension to the phrase ’computer says no’

stephen nelson(Facebook)

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For

1/ it can now write code faster for us (up to a point — using yet more servers apps energy and nonsense)

2/ can review mundane repetitive important tasks like medical image and sample screening
so much faster

Against

1/ it can provide money saving techniques for laying off staff to make the rich richer and opens up a whole new tranche of apps to buy or use which can make more apps ad infinitum

and 2/ it has certainly added yet another layer of time money distraction and earth resources while also often separating us even further from our tasks at hand as humans to safeguard, apply stewardship to that we have inherited for those who come after; our soils, our seas, our food security, houses to live in, work and kindness and the need to protect the fauna and flora beasts and bees and the who eco bio-sphere

Gaia continues with or without us, as we reinvent the wheel for lucre

“Hats off to the Hay Festival for a range of sessions tackling the multiple and interlinked crises we face – everything from toxic masculinity to misinformation, inequality, extremist ideologies and the big daddy of them all, the climate emergency. No shortage of crises for the authors to diagnose. However, when it comes to a prescription, the choices seemed curiously limited’

one of the last paragraphs was particularly chilling

“At the bookshop, a massive queue forms, as excited punters wait in line. Yottam Ottolenghi is signing his latest cookbook, dispensing signatures, selfies and winning smiles. To the left, a couple of authors wait patiently, no queue for them. Tim Lang, Professor Emeritus of Food Policy at the University of London and David Omond, former head of GCHQ are promoting their latest crisis themed works. Food resilience, or rather the lack of it, due to our concentrated and brittle food supply chains are no match for Ottolenghi’s spiced delights and promise of plenty. It seems there is no market for being well informed and prepared for the crisis that is bearing down on us.

I spoke to Tim. What did he think of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries report? Yes, he agreed, billions of people will die. Is anyone in the government making preparations for a food crisis given his findings on the state of UK civil food resilience? No.

Never mind. At least the Hay Festival is offering reusable coffee cups.

Never waste a good crisis – a realist’s view of the Hay Festival