AI - No Longer Set

twinBASIC and AI: DevCon 2025

Links and resources from my presentation today on twinBASIC and AI at Access DevCon Vienna 2025.

Whisper Desktop: Free Speech-to-Text in Under 5 Minutes

A 5-minute quick start guide for Whisper Desktop, an easy-to-install Windows application for running the open-source Whisper transcription model from OpenAI.

Prompt School

Understanding Context Length: 5 Techniques for Maximizing AI Chat Effectiveness

Context length affects every AI chat session, but few developers know how to manage it effectively. Learn these essential strategies to improve your AI-assisted development work.

SQL Server

Creating a Header Row in Excel from an ADO Recordset

In this followup to my ADO .NextRecordset article, we explore how to create Excel column headers from recordset field names.

Commentary

Premature Declaration Redux

Let's revisit the argument about whether to declare variables at the top of a procedure or closest to first use. We'll ask ChatGPT to make the best case for each position.

AI

The AI Ecosystem Evolves: Foundational Models Give Way to Specialized Implementations in 2024

The rise of specialized AI in 2024 will bring about a new era of intelligent, industry-specific solutions that will redefine the way businesses operate.

AI

The One Policy That Proves Microsoft is All In on AI

Spanish Conquistador Hernán Cortés would be proud.

ChatGPT

ChatGPT: Code-Writing Intern, Code-Reading Mentor

An exploration of ChatGPT's relative strengths and weaknesses when it comes to writing vs. reading code.

Tools

Poe: My Tool of Choice for Exploring the World of LLMs

With so many new and exciting LLMs and AI image generators, how do you pick just one? What if you didn't have to?

AI

"AI Will Take My Job": A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

Whether you think AI is coming to *take* your job... Or you think AI will help you *be more productive* at your job... You're probably right.

Prompt School

Build Better Prompts with AI

Who better to help you improve your AI prompts than AI itself? This meta prompt will help you get better results from your most used prompts.

Prompt School

Reformat an INSERT INTO...VALUES Statement with ChatGPT

Let's use ChatGPT to help us debug an SQL INSERT INTO ... VALUES statement by lining up the fields with the values.

AI

ChatGPT: Genius or Fraud?

There's an ongoing debate over whether developers can trust the current crop of LLMs. The problem is people are asking the wrong question.

AI

How to Use the CLEAR Framework to Get Better Results from ChatGPT

Five concepts to help you improve your "prompt engineering" skills.

AI

How ChatGPT Helped Me Write a Complex Stored Procedure in SQL Server

Stop treating ChatGPT like an all-knowing oracle and start treating it like the hard-working, enthusiastic, but not-quite-fully-formed intern that it currently is.

Commentary

AI is the Future...And the Future is Now

Used properly, AI is the greatest force-multiplying technology the world has ever seen.

ChatGPT

The personal computer. Google search. The smart phone. Lifelike chat bots. Another generation-defining technology has arrived.

ChatGPT

Copyright Implications of ChatGPT Content

ChatGPT from OpenAI is taking the world by storm. Who owns the ChatGPT output? Can you pass it off as your own? Do you need to acknowledge OpenAI?