David E. Ellis

This is not about writing a book about programming but how I recently realized just how similar the two skillsets are.

The Good… I knocked up (as in created!)

Several years ago, I tried making an iPhone app.

Don’t get too excited, it’s not about computing although I have just started work on one on that is computing related but it’s going to be a while before that one comes out (if ever LOL).

So, a small update on my recent post that said I thought my job was safe. from being taken over by AI… One of the guys I work with has also been experimenting with AI to generate assembler code and had quite a lot more success with it than I did.

If AI is doing all the ‘easy’ stuff and allowing people to churn out apps and web sites and backend code like a machine gun firing bullets, then how is anyone learning coding basics.

There is a feature in Claude Code (let’s call it CC from now on to save me some typing) called Plan mode that makes CC a) Do a lot more research before deciding what to do and b) Generate a plan of what it is going to do before it actually does it.

I was really excited when I discovered that Claude Code understood IBM z/OS Assembler, even more so when I asked it if it understood EXEC CICS commands and it replied that it knew ‘some’ at least although I have not explored that any further yet, so for n…

Claude code has amnesia, at least when you close the terminal window it does.

It seems to me that a new AI platform comes out every five minutes and from time to time I have a little play with different ones suh as ChatGPT, CoPilot and NotebookLM to see how well they do with IBM High Level Assembler.