Posted in ai, Still-coding, tagged ai, artificial-intelligence, Chatbase, Chatbot, ChatGPT, llm, Technology on January 1, 2026| Leave a Comment »
When we planned fintechbenchmark.com (currently in beta), we realized that AI wasn’t optional—it was essential. We could either embrace this revolution or watch competitors leave us behind.
We faced a classic startup dilemma: build a custom AI solution (expensive and slow) or use an off-the-shelf product to launch quickly and learn what our visitors actually need. We chose the pragmatic route.
(more…)Posted in ai, tagged ai, artificial-intelligence, Claude, machine-learning, SWOT, Technology on December 29, 2025| Leave a Comment »
I am thinking about putting together a presentation on AI for the uninitiated. I thought a good starting point would be a SWAT analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats). It is a technique that is very useful in analysing new projects. A number of people have done this but why not have another go.
So I asked an AI (Claude).
(more…)Posted in History, Still-coding, tagged ai, devops, GIT, GITHUB, Source control, Subversion, SVN, Technology on December 23, 2025| Leave a Comment »
After retiring 15 years ago from professional software development, I had a clear picture of what source control should provide for a commercial development team:
When a business opportunity pulled me out of retirement and back into managing a development team, I naturally asked about source control. The universal response? “We use Git.”
(more…)Posted in Database Management Systems, Still-coding, tagged ai, artificial-intelligence, CouchDB, MongoDB, node.js, NOSQL, programming, SQL, Technology, typescript on August 28, 2025| Leave a Comment »
When I began the project I am currently working on (more details will be provided next month – probably), it was initially intended as a small test to determine the capabilities of AI. Over the last six months it has turned into something that we might take further.
But I hit a problem. As a little hobby project I chose the database I really really like – CouchBD. CouchDB is elegant, simple yet very functional and efficient. Close to the perfect database management system (DBMS). But to take it further I need to involve other developers and it turs out that CouchDB skills are few and far between. Truly it is the Betamax of DBMSs.
(more…)Posted in ai, Still-coding, tagged ai, Coding, javascript, programming, Technology, typescript on January 20, 2025| Leave a Comment »
My previous blog post outlines my success in converting a data structure definition from one format to another. Both ChatGTP and Gemini had a really good stab at it. The result was mainly accurate and extra information had been added for me. ChatGTP managed to make a mistake on the second attempt at the task, and when I asked it why, it used a completely made-up (and incorrect) rule about SQL Databases as an excuse. So Turing Test passed!
I gave it another task. Convert a routine from using the SQLite3 data base management system, to the higher performance MySQL. This is a straightforward, if tedious task. How did it do?
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