Martin Heller
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Jules performs better than Gemini CLI despite using the same model, and more like Claude Code and OpenAI Codex. www.infoworld.com/article/4086...
Agentic coding with Google Jules
Jules performs better than Gemini CLI despite using the same model, and more like Claude Code and OpenAI Codex.
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November 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Jules performs better than Gemini CLI despite using the same model, and more like Claude Code and OpenAI Codex. www.infoworld.com/article/4086...
Codex gives software developers a first-rate coding agent in their terminal and their IDE, along with the ability to delegate background tasks to agents in the cloud. www.infoworld.com/article/4071...
OpenAI Codex rivals Claude Code
Codex gives software developers a first-rate coding agent in their terminal and their IDE, along with the ability to delegate background tasks to agents in the cloud.
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October 14, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Codex gives software developers a first-rate coding agent in their terminal and their IDE, along with the ability to delegate background tasks to agents in the cloud. www.infoworld.com/article/4071...
Artificial intelligence has taken many forms over the years and is still evolving. Will machines soon surpass human knowledge and understanding? www.infoworld.com/article/4061...
A brief history of AI
Artificial intelligence has taken many forms over the years and is still evolving. Will machines soon surpass human knowledge and understanding?
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September 29, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Artificial intelligence has taken many forms over the years and is still evolving. Will machines soon surpass human knowledge and understanding? www.infoworld.com/article/4061...
Qwen Code’s Qwen3-Coder model doesn’t seem as good as its benchmark scores imply, but the tools are free and the usage limits are generous. www.infoworld.com/article/4054...
Qwen Code is good but not great
Qwen Code’s Qwen3-Coder model doesn’t seem as good as its benchmark scores imply, but the tools are free and the usage limits are generous.
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September 16, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Qwen Code’s Qwen3-Coder model doesn’t seem as good as its benchmark scores imply, but the tools are free and the usage limits are generous. www.infoworld.com/article/4054...
Nvidia’s NeMo Retriever models and retrieval-augmented generation pipeline make quick work of ingesting PDFs and generating reports based on them. Chalk one up for the plan-reflect-refine architecture. www.infoworld.com/article/4040...
Hands-on with Nvidia NeMo Retriever
Nvidia’s NeMo Retriever models and retrieval-augmented generation pipeline make quick work of ingesting PDFs and generating reports based on them. Chalk one up for the plan-reflect-refine architecture...
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August 19, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Nvidia’s NeMo Retriever models and retrieval-augmented generation pipeline make quick work of ingesting PDFs and generating reports based on them. Chalk one up for the plan-reflect-refine architecture. www.infoworld.com/article/4040...
AI-powered coding agents are now real and usable, if not without their foibles. Here’s a brief look at the top prospects. www.infoworld.com/article/4024...
12 coding agents at the cutting edge
AI-powered coding agents are now real and usable, if not without their foibles. Here’s a brief look at the top prospects.
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July 30, 2025 at 3:23 PM
AI-powered coding agents are now real and usable, if not without their foibles. Here’s a brief look at the top prospects. www.infoworld.com/article/4024...
Gemini CLI and its gemini-2.5-pro model don’t quite match Claude Code or Solver, but they can get you pretty far without paying for a subscription or for usage. www.infoworld.com/article/4025...
AI coding at the command line with Gemini CLI
Gemini CLI and its gemini-2.5-pro model don’t quite match Claude Code or Solver, but they can get you pretty far without paying for a subscription or for usage.
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July 22, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Gemini CLI and its gemini-2.5-pro model don’t quite match Claude Code or Solver, but they can get you pretty far without paying for a subscription or for usage. www.infoworld.com/article/4025...
Open-source distributed OLAP database and powerful SaaS counterpart shine with plug-in indexes, signature tunable star-tree index, and ability to combine batch data with streaming data. www.infoworld.com/article/3998...
Real-time analytics with StarTree Cloud and Apache Pinot
Open-source distributed OLAP database and powerful SaaS counterpart shine with plug-in indexes, signature tunable star-tree index, and ability to combine batch data with streaming data.
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June 3, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Open-source distributed OLAP database and powerful SaaS counterpart shine with plug-in indexes, signature tunable star-tree index, and ability to combine batch data with streaming data. www.infoworld.com/article/3998...
Llama has evolved beyond a simple language model into a multi-modal AI framework with safety features, code generation, and multi-lingual support. www.infoworld.com/article/3843...
What is Llama? Meta AI’s family of large language models explained
Llama has evolved beyond a simple language model into a multi-modal AI framework with safety features, code generation, and multi-lingual support.
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March 14, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Llama has evolved beyond a simple language model into a multi-modal AI framework with safety features, code generation, and multi-lingual support. www.infoworld.com/article/3843...
Retrieval-augmented generation, or RAG, integrates external data sources to reduce hallucinations and improve the response accuracy of large language models. www.infoworld.com/article/2335...
What is retrieval-augmented generation? More accurate and reliable LLMs
Retrieval-augmented generation, or RAG, integrates external data sources to reduce hallucinations and improve the response accuracy of large language models.
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February 28, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Retrieval-augmented generation, or RAG, integrates external data sources to reduce hallucinations and improve the response accuracy of large language models. www.infoworld.com/article/2335...
Google’s AI coding assistant can help you write, test, debug, and document your code, but currently lacks whole-repo code generation and agents for long-running coding tasks. www.infoworld.com/article/3829...
Review: Gemini Code Assist is good at coding
Google’s AI coding assistant can help you write, test, debug, and document your code, but currently lacks whole-repo code generation and agents for long-running coding tasks.
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February 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Google’s AI coding assistant can help you write, test, debug, and document your code, but currently lacks whole-repo code generation and agents for long-running coding tasks. www.infoworld.com/article/3829...
Do you want to delegate a software engineering task to an AI agent and leave it to work on the problem by itself? Solver may be able to help you. www.infoworld.com/article/3617...
Solver can code that for you
Do you want to delegate a software engineering task to an AI agent and leave it to work on the problem by itself? Solver may be able to help you.
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February 3, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Do you want to delegate a software engineering task to an AI agent and leave it to work on the problem by itself? Solver may be able to help you. www.infoworld.com/article/3617...
I have some (currently 3) free 1-month subscriptions to The Contrarian to give away. If you want one, send me your preferred e-mail address.
January 26, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I have some (currently 3) free 1-month subscriptions to The Contrarian to give away. If you want one, send me your preferred e-mail address.
LangChain, LlamaIndex, Semantic Kernel, and Haystack all help you to construct retrieval-augmented generation and other AI-enabled apps using your favorite large language models. www.infoworld.com/article/3617...
Surveying the LLM application framework landscape
LangChain, LlamaIndex, Semantic Kernel, and Haystack all help you to construct retrieval-augmented generation and other AI-enabled apps using your favorite large language models.
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December 9, 2024 at 6:51 PM
LangChain, LlamaIndex, Semantic Kernel, and Haystack all help you to construct retrieval-augmented generation and other AI-enabled apps using your favorite large language models. www.infoworld.com/article/3617...
GitHub Copilot has pushed AI-assisted programming well beyond code generation and code chat, with new capabilities continuing to arrive at a rapid pace. www.infoworld.com/article/3609...
GitHub Copilot: Everything you need to know
GitHub Copilot has pushed AI-assisted programming well beyond code generation and code chat, with new capabilities continuing to arrive at a rapid pace.
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November 25, 2024 at 7:29 PM
GitHub Copilot has pushed AI-assisted programming well beyond code generation and code chat, with new capabilities continuing to arrive at a rapid pace. www.infoworld.com/article/3609...
Cat version:
I’m a working on hairball
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For my lord for my lord
It’s a holy ghost hairball
It’s a holy ghost hairball
It’s a holy ghost hairball
For my lord for my lord
I’m a working on hairball
I’m a working on hairball
I’m a working on hairball
For my lord for my lord
It’s a holy ghost hairball
It’s a holy ghost hairball
It’s a holy ghost hairball
For my lord for my lord
November 24, 2024 at 3:08 PM
Cat version:
I’m a working on hairball
I’m a working on hairball
I’m a working on hairball
For my lord for my lord
It’s a holy ghost hairball
It’s a holy ghost hairball
It’s a holy ghost hairball
For my lord for my lord
I’m a working on hairball
I’m a working on hairball
I’m a working on hairball
For my lord for my lord
It’s a holy ghost hairball
It’s a holy ghost hairball
It’s a holy ghost hairball
For my lord for my lord
Obligatory cat picture
November 18, 2024 at 4:52 PM
Obligatory cat picture
Reposted by Martin Heller
Louisiana tried to require the 10 Commandments
in schools.
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that it’s unconstitutional, but that’s already been appealed—and God knows how many copycat laws we'll see in the end.
Maybe it's time for a scholarly (justice-centered) review of the contents of the Big Ten?
in schools.
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that it’s unconstitutional, but that’s already been appealed—and God knows how many copycat laws we'll see in the end.
Maybe it's time for a scholarly (justice-centered) review of the contents of the Big Ten?
Ten, Again
Tellin' 'Em What They've Been Told
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
November 18, 2024 at 3:47 PM
Louisiana tried to require the 10 Commandments
in schools.
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that it’s unconstitutional, but that’s already been appealed—and God knows how many copycat laws we'll see in the end.
Maybe it's time for a scholarly (justice-centered) review of the contents of the Big Ten?
in schools.
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that it’s unconstitutional, but that’s already been appealed—and God knows how many copycat laws we'll see in the end.
Maybe it's time for a scholarly (justice-centered) review of the contents of the Big Ten?
FYI for people who now have "Invalid handle" instead of the one they chose.
If you see your handle now says “Invalid handle,” reverify it by navigating to Settings > Change my handle > Type in your current handle > Verify DNS Record > Update. (Basically, update to the same handle.)
If you see your handle now says “Invalid handle,” reverify it by navigating to Settings > Change my handle > Type in your current handle > Verify DNS Record > Update. (Basically, update to the same handle.)
November 14, 2024 at 7:51 PM
FYI for people who now have "Invalid handle" instead of the one they chose.
If you see your handle now says “Invalid handle,” reverify it by navigating to Settings > Change my handle > Type in your current handle > Verify DNS Record > Update. (Basically, update to the same handle.)
If you see your handle now says “Invalid handle,” reverify it by navigating to Settings > Change my handle > Type in your current handle > Verify DNS Record > Update. (Basically, update to the same handle.)
Do you want a maximum-flexible editor with just the right IDE features, or the fastest and most efficient editor you can find? You can have both. www.infoworld.com/article/2263...
Visual Studio Code vs. Sublime Text: Which code editor should you use?
Do you want a maximum-flexible editor with just the right IDE features, or the fastest and most efficient editor you can find? You can have both.
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October 28, 2024 at 12:56 PM
Do you want a maximum-flexible editor with just the right IDE features, or the fastest and most efficient editor you can find? You can have both. www.infoworld.com/article/2263...
Reposted by Martin Heller
New: I wrote about how the country's most prominent Jewish organization against antisemitism hasn't said a word about Trump alleging "Hitler did some good things," and the media failure to give this terrifying declaration the attention it deserves.
Trump praises Hitler. ADL remains silent.
In a terrifying moment for American Jews, the org is nowhere to be found.
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October 24, 2024 at 9:02 PM
OpenAI’s latest generative AI model is much better at code generation than previous models, but slower and more expensive — and not quite ready for production. www.infoworld.com/article/3543...
ChatGPT o1-preview excels at code generation
OpenAI’s latest generative AI model is much better at code generation than previous models, but slower and more expensive — and not quite ready for production.
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October 7, 2024 at 5:32 PM
OpenAI’s latest generative AI model is much better at code generation than previous models, but slower and more expensive — and not quite ready for production. www.infoworld.com/article/3543...
Zed editor, Eclipse Theia IDE, Lite XL, and Cursor all offer some advantages over VS Code, at least for now. Zed and Cursor stand apart. www.infoworld.com/article/3540...
Two good Visual Studio Code alternatives
Zed editor, Eclipse Theia IDE, Lite XL, and Cursor all offer some advantages over VS Code, at least for now. Zed and Cursor stand apart.
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October 1, 2024 at 2:14 PM
Zed editor, Eclipse Theia IDE, Lite XL, and Cursor all offer some advantages over VS Code, at least for now. Zed and Cursor stand apart. www.infoworld.com/article/3540...
Haystack is an easy open-source framework for building RAG pipelines and LLM-powered applications, and the foundation for a handy SaaS platform for managing their life cycle. www.infoworld.com/article/3506...
Haystack review: A flexible LLM app builder
Haystack is an easy open-source framework for building RAG pipelines and LLM-powered applications, and the foundation for a handy SaaS platform for managing their life cycle.
www.infoworld.com
September 9, 2024 at 1:21 PM
Haystack is an easy open-source framework for building RAG pipelines and LLM-powered applications, and the foundation for a handy SaaS platform for managing their life cycle. www.infoworld.com/article/3506...
Tabnine aces AI-powered coding with multiple levels of context, private and protected proprietary models, and multiple selectable models for chat. www.infoworld.com/article/3484...
Tabnine AI coding assistant flexes its models
Tabnine aces AI-powered coding with multiple levels of context, private and protected proprietary models, and multiple selectable models for chat.
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August 12, 2024 at 3:00 PM
Tabnine aces AI-powered coding with multiple levels of context, private and protected proprietary models, and multiple selectable models for chat. www.infoworld.com/article/3484...