ai-assisted-development
Posts tagged "ai-assisted-development".
- You Don't Need the Whole Map — Usually
I keep jumping into things I don't fully understand and figuring them out on the way. It works more often than it should — and fails in a specific way that AI is now making both easier and more dangerous to walk into.
- The Pipeline Behind Sequencing My Family
The companion to the personal essay: the how. On-demand pipeline assembly with an AI, what FASTQ/BAM/VCF actually are, why data quality is the whole game, the free tools a parent can reach, the South Asian reference-data gap, and why we anchored to the data instead of the phenotype.
- You Can Check a Cookie
We baked a batch that refused to set no matter how long it stayed in the oven. The recipes came from two places — bakers with a track record, and an AI. Guess which ones failed. A cookie, it turns out, is a set of ratios you can eat.
- The AI Wrote the Graphics Code. I Still Had to Know Graphics.
I vibe-coded a browser 3D-text generator in a weekend. It ran on the first try and rendered garbage in three specific, invisible-until-you-look ways — flipped holes, striped shading, opaque 'transparent' PNGs. Each fix needed exactly the graphics knowledge the AI didn't apply.
- AI Is Good at the Work You Can Check
The same coding assistant that flies through one of my projects crawls through another. It isn't about difficulty. The dividing line is whether a machine can tell when the output is wrong.