Adventures in AI Programming: Daily Experiments with GPT-4

A GPT-4 Program a Day Keeps the Bugs Away Iā€™ve been exploring what GPT-4 and other AI tools are capable of over the past few months when it comes to software development. Iā€™ve mostly been using ChatGPT+, Bing Chat ā€“ I had tried to use some of the other hyped up models for programming purposes, but nothing Iā€™ve found lets me build software from scratch (while writing minimal code myself) as well, and so these days I mostly stick to those....

July 2, 2023 Ā· 11 min Ā· 2152 words Ā· P.W.

Making Games With Bing Chat and GPT4

Oh Good, Youā€™re Awakeā€¦ Today, weā€™ll see if we can get Bing to make a game for us. Weā€™ll try to write no code ourselves (though weā€™ll probably have do some cleaning up/troubleshooting). Bing isnā€™t very good at creating assets in my experience, so for those weā€™ll grab free stuff online. Iā€™ve had some success with this in the past. I wonā€™t say the games are good or even all the way functional, but Iā€™ve still been massively impressed by Bingā€™s ability to deliver on what I ask for....

April 21, 2023 Ā· P.W.

Bing GPT Hashtag Commands - #document, #optimize, & More

If you just want to skip straight to the hashtag commands, click here Using Bing GPT If you havenā€™t looked at Bingā€™s integration of GPT4 yet, you really should. Itā€™s free and incredibly powerful. If you donā€™t want to use Microsoft Edge, which it tries to force you to, you can either change your User Agent or use the Github Repo BingGPT. The jump from GPT 3 and Chat GPT is immense, both objectively and subjectively....

April 17, 2023 Ā· 8 min Ā· 1595 words Ā· P.W.

Taking Back Control: Finding Focus and Choice on the Internet in 2023

Iā€™ve had enough. Over the last year, I have finally decided that all the attention manipulation, the never ending ā€˜signalsā€™, and the 3500 interrupters that my phone and other devices create each day is too much to bear. I find I no longer casually or carefully read articles ā€“ let alone books! My days have become filled with a blend or oscillations between some variant of ā€˜doom scrollingā€™ on pop-news sites and trying to do 100 things at once while 1000 other things beg me to give them my attention for just a moment....

February 9, 2023 Ā· 9 min Ā· 1851 words Ā· P.W.

How to Record Better IRacing Replays

Weā€™ve all been there. You had an incredible race and want to share it. You record your incredible pass or save on a single cam, watch it, and imagine what it could be. You look at the keyboard shortcuts and envision yourself as a live-event-director, smashing buttons to switch cameras at the perfect time while the recording runs. Perhaps you even tried to record like this, and realized doing that well would require a time investment on par with your sim racing addiction....

December 20, 2022 Ā· 4 min Ā· 664 words Ā· P.W.