AI Coding Assistants Don't Just Create Code. They Create Risk at Scale
AI coding assistants can read data, acquire dependencies, execute commands and act with a …
melodiouscode
I’m a software developing, westie owning, lego building engineering director from Bristol in the UK. My posts can be frequent, infrequent, or just a stream of consciousness (and I make no promises).
I hope you find something here to help you, or make you think. Many of the posts are from years gone by, some deserve to stay in the mists of time; the newer posts are hopefully more viable.
Building ChefCollect: The side project that AI helped me actually finish
ChefCollect started as a Christmas break experiment with extracting recipes from cookbook …
CopilotOnToast: Making GitHub Copilot CLI a Little More Noticeable
A small PowerShell utility that adds Windows toast notifications to GitHub Copilot CLI hook …
AI and the Return of True Engineering
One of the stranger side effects of AI-assisted software development is that it may finally …
The Bottleneck Is No Longer Writing Code
The future of software engineering may not belong to the people who can generate the most code, …
Location Independent Engineering
Train WiFi is still terrible, and mobile signal drops in and out. A few years ago that would …
AI Coding Assistants Aren't the Risk. Your Engineering Practices Might Be
A year ago, if you had asked me what my most common conversation at work was, it wouldn’t …
Coding While Sick: An Unexpected AI Experiment
Most conversations about AI coding assistants focus on productivity.Tools like GitHub Copilot …