This past Thursday I finally broke through my AI skepticism, and spent the day trying to answer the question “Can ChatGPT write software?” to my own satisfaction. I don’t want to bury the lead here, so the short answer is “yes, ChatGPT can write software”. The long answer is, of... [Read More]

All things come to an end.  In some ways, it is reassuring to know that there are a few constants in the world, even if the constants tend not to look like the kinds of things that we might expect.  I’ve come to the realization over the last couple of... [Read More]

Today I want to write about some of the learning I have been doing during our trip this year. Since we have been predominantly traveling in Spanish speaking countries, one of the main things I have been learning is how to communicate in a foreign language. This is a large... [Read More]

Two weeks ago as Farrah and I were returning to San Marcos, we came over the hill from San Pablo headed down into town and Farrah said to me, “I think I see a ferris wheel”. To which I promptly replied, “there is definitely not a ferris wheel in San... [Read More]

Let’s dispense with the obvious first. We are not actually in Valladolid, or even Mexico, at the moment. It has just taken me a couple weeks to sit my ass down and write about our time there. If you’ve been reading this blog, or following Farrah and I on the... [Read More]