Software and business articles by Ovid

After training many development teams on writing production quality code with AI, the primary blocker for legacy systems was the lack of a test suite.

Many people are upset about AI and copyright violations.

Most systems to write code with AI use "AI-driven engineering."

We are finally getting to the point where we can write excellent software with AI, but only if you put engineering first.

Code production was never the bottleneck in software development.

I set out on a year-long quest to find out if we can really use AI to write production-quality code.

The arXiv Explorer uses a novel recursive language model technique to allow you to use a normal AI-chat to query megabytes of arXiv documents at a time.

Despite claims to the contrary, AI is generating strong real-world value and it is easy to demonstrate.

AI has entered an era similar to the internet near the end of 1996.

Perplexity.ai has unveiled their own version of Deep Research.

There's been a lot of talk about AGI coming soon, but there are some strong reasons to think this isn't true.

OpenAI has released the new ChatGPT o1, removing the previous o1-preview model.

Many prompt engineering tricks are becoming a thing of the past, but there are still some areas where they shine.

Vector databases are amazing, but there are few options with Perl.

I have updated my previous work with Claude to dramatically improve a Javascript game.

Tired of people sending you pseudo-science articles, or 'opinion' pieces by biased journalists?

Many people don't write alt tags for images, or they write bad ones.

Wardley Maps are an amazing business tool for planning, but you can suffer information overload when you read about them online.

Many people are upset that AI is 'learning' from their work and producing derivative content.

Agile is getting a bad rap.

I've often noted that many objections to object-oriented programming go away if the objects are immutable.

The OpenAPI::Client::OpenAI module is very low-level.

I played with the new Claude Sonnet 3.5 AI and build a Javascript game.

Given the current worries about AI, people are worried about losing their jobs to it.

I'm still regularly amazed at how many developers dismiss Copilot and ChatGPT as 'stochastic parrots.'

There are many mistakes people make with microservices.

Advocates and adversaries of microservices pitch their points of view.

I hate discussing type systems with people, so let this be a lesson for you.

Corinna is finally going into the Perl core.

Using Perl and OpenSky Network data to track Elon Musk's plane

I've started using Github Copilot.

All Around the World started ten years ago as a Perl consultancy.

With the new Corinna object system coming to Perl, many people are wondering what the future looks like for the language.

I was recently humbled when I converted some code to Corinna and Corinna's constraints showed the design flaws in my code.

One of the best things to come out of the DevOps movement is the promotion of feature switches.

Demonstrating the current state of the Perl Corinna OOP project by implementing a simple cache

I recently had an issue in a code review where developers disagreed about naming, but it was a subtle trap.

Inheritance has been problematic in object-oriented programming for over five decades.

MooseX::Extended provides safe defaults, best practices, and useful features for Moose.

At https://allaroundtheworld.fr/, we are often fixing common issues in object-oriented code.

You can find many articles explaining with OOP is bad.

Modern object-oriented programming is a far cry from what Dr.

Perl developers tend to think in terms of classical logic, but Perl fits constructive logic better.

People keep asking why the Perl language doesn't just drag the Moose module into the core for object-oriented programming.

Consistency can be a hallmark of great language design.

Slot/attribute builders in OO languages can be dangerous if you can inherit them.

It's easy to get test databases wrong.

I’m building a new object-oriented system to ship with the Perl language.

This is the dead-easy git workflow used by All Around the World.

In the Tau Station MMORPG, we have hideously complex software requirements that are very easy to manage.