Goodbye, CursorRegular readers of this blog know that I’ve been quite a happy user of Cursor for the past year, but the recent news of its mother company being purchased by SpaceX has made me reconsider my decision, and cancel my current subscription altogether.
Conway in HaskellAt this point it’s becoming increasingly clear that I can ask Cursor to read any of the implementations of my Conway and translate that into any other programming language that I want; this is what I’ve done last year with NASM, Scala, and Bash, and this year with Haskell.
Vibe Coding with CursorI work at a company that is truly invested into AI and LLMs, to the point that we can internally use (following some guidelines) quite a few tools in our day-to-day work: in particular, we have Gemini, Google NotebookLM, and Cursor available to all employees.
Conway in NASMAnd here we go again with vibe coding: this time with Claude, I translated the Turbo Pascal version of Conway into Netwide Assembler or NASM for Linux 64-bit.
Exploring Hugo TagsA few months ago I vibe coded with ChatGPT to create, in about 15 minutes, a small Rust application that reads all the tags of a Hugo site, and prints the list thereof.
Conway in ScalaAnother week, another version of my Polyglot Conway project, this time in Scala, a version bootstrapped with the help of ChatGPT.
On Writing and Grading Papers in 2025I’ve recently read two articles about the subject of how AI is quickly destroying higher education and what can be done about that; one on The New Yorker and another on The Chronicle of Higher Education, and they are quite similar in spirit: both quote similar sources, both deplore the current state of things, and both fail to provide any actionable idea at the end.
Translating the Formula for Primes to Rust With AIAfter creating the C++ version of C. P. Willans’ formula for primes last week, I asked myself what other language is usually pitted as the fastest ever? And the answer, of course, is Rust.
Translating the Formula for Primes to C++ with AISome of you might remember an article I published more or less a year ago, called “Mathematical Curiosities”. In that article I showed an indeed curious formula: the 1964 “Formula for Primes” by C. P. Willans.
Conway in BashI’ve added a new version to my venerable Polyglot Conway project, this time as a good old Bash script, a version bootstrapped with the help of ChatGPT.
Conway in C89Another year, another version of my Polyglot Conway project, this time for C89, also known as “ANSI C”, targeting quite a few compilers of the early 1990s, and some others from our more recent times.
Notes About "All-in on AI" by Thomas Davenport and Nitin MittalI’ve finished reading the 2023 book “All-In on AI: How Smart Companies Win Big with Artificial Intelligence” by Thomas Davenport and Nitin Mittal, and here go some notes I took.
LanguageToolAround two years ago I switched my writing AI helper of choice, going from Grammarly to LanguageTool, for many reasons.1
Notes About "Welcome to AI" by David ShrierI recently read the 2024 book “Welcome to AI: A Human Guide to Artificial Intelligence” by David L. Shrier and here’s a quick summary of quotes and important points.
Notes About "HBR Guide to AI Basics for Managers"I recently finished reading the 2023 book “HBR Guide to AI Basics for Managers” by Harvard Business Review, and this post summarizes some of the most important ideas therein.
Notes About "The Coming Wave" by Mustafa SuleymanI finished reading the 2023 book “The Coming Wave” by Mustafa Suleyman and it’s been a revelation, and by far, one of the most interesting books I’ve read in a while.
How to Speak, by Patrick WinstonI’ve been recommending this talk a lot lately to people new to the art of speaking, who find themselves all of a sudden boosted to the front stage of an event and in dire need of help.
The Chewing Gum Conspiracy: A Psychedelic Odyssey Beyond the Printed PageThis blog post is the result of me mixing my newfound fascination with AI and LLMs to my unbounded love for psychedelic rock from the 1960s. You’ve been warned.
Fading Into IrrelevanceAs technology waves come and go, the names of iconic companies follow the movements, first reaching the pinnacle of their glories, and later fading into irrelevance.
The Time of Augmented ImaginationLast year I made a remark about the crazy world we were living in, with “GenAI” this and “AI” that, including some weird experiences. But I have recently decided to bite the bullet and learn more about all this.
First Half of 2023 full of AI and ChatGPTWe can all agree that the first half of the year has been co-opted by the rise of generative AI, in particular ChatGPT, being used for anything and anyone in any context, disrupting any kind of market or industry just for the sake of it.