Writing by Matt Collins in AI, collected in chronological order.
Cloudflare’s ‘Code Mode’ got some attention in the AI developer community recently, thanks to a popular blog post about it. It’s based on the ‘CodeACT‘ pattern for AI agents which is something I’ve been interested in for a while now. These are my initial first-hand impressions of using it. What is CodeACT? Most LLM-based AI […]
I’ve heard a few people say that, since generative AI systems can hallucinate, we’re alway going to have to double-check their work in great detail if we want to be confident it’s correct. I disagree. Why? Because AI systems can do much of this checking themselves. And, when the cost/benefit tradeoff is right, I believe […]
Journalists sometimes get things wrong. Wouldn’t it be nice if AI could help us spot when they do? I recently prototyped an LLM-powered fact checker (using web search APIs) to see if it could do just that. It looked promising! In case you’re interested in learning more, I gave a talk to the MLOps London […]
It is now clear: AI is transforming how software is developed. Anyone leading software development teams needs to be keeping a close eye on this to understand the tools’ rapidly evolving capabilities as well as their limitations and risks. Here’s a snapshot (as of January 2025) of how I think AI tools currently fit into […]
What if AI could help you generate ideas for products and build them? That’s what happened when I used AI tools to create Flowdrafter—a writing app that solves a common problem for writers. (It even became Product Hunt’s #1 productivity tool of the week!) Can AI Coding Agents Help with Marketing? My wife is a […]
As of 27th September 2023, the Writers’ Guild of America (WGA) has ended its strike with the big studios, having reached a tentative agreement with the big studios that will now be voted on by the WGA’s members. The deal has some key terms about AI and could be a sign of what will be […]