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Peter O'Hanlon

@peteohanlon

Dad, software developer, guitarist, did I mention dad? Mastodon account: @peteohanlon@techhub.social

 Chester le Street, UK
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Joined March 2009
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Something I've been wondering for a while now - given the capabilities of AI development, how are software component businesses such as ComponentOne and Syncfusion going to survive?
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Marlon is a great guy, very very clever, and always willing to share his knowledge. I've known him for 18 years now and I am happy to say that he is the real deal. Worth checking this out: aiwithmarlon.com/?r=1v0a3q&u…
AI with Marlon | Substack

AI with Marlon | Substack

Practical AI for everyday life and work, hands-on notes for builders, and honest takes on products that create customer value. Click to read AI with Marlon, by Marlon Grech, a Substack publication....

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I'm normally not a fan of people saying they one-shotted something with AI, but I am seriously impressed with @FreebuffHQ - This really is one-shot (Deepseek 4.1 Flash running in balanced mode):
Image of an irradiated landscape built with Freebuff and Deepseek 4.1 Flash running in balanced mode.

ALT Image of an irradiated landscape built with Freebuff and Deepseek 4.1 Flash running in balanced mode.

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The prompt:
AI Prompt: You are going to create a browser based AAA 3D landscape based in "The Blasted Lands". These are barren landscapes that have been decimated by a nuclear war. Start by designing the landscape. The lands are bounded by mountain ranges which provide the physical edges of the world; but the landscape itself will cover 64K by 64K. The atmosphere will have an orangish glow denoting that the air is bad - and mist will curl across the landscape. There will be trenches as well as natural objects such as rocky outcrops, river beds (some dried out, others containing contaminated running water). Keep iterating until you have completed the landscape as AAA. Use mesas as the basis of the mountain regions.

ALT AI Prompt: You are going to create a browser based AAA 3D landscape based in "The Blasted Lands". These are barren landscapes that have been decimated by a nuclear war. Start by designing the landscape. The lands are bounded by mountain ranges which provide the physical edges of the world; but the landscape itself will cover 64K by 64K. The atmosphere will have an orangish glow denoting that the air is bad - and mist will curl across the landscape. There will be trenches as well as natural objects such as rocky outcrops, river beds (some dried out, others containing contaminated running water). Keep iterating until you have completed the landscape as AAA. Use mesas as the basis of the mountain regions.

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So, I've been rapidly prototyping an app in Electron. Decided to port it to C# (builds a lot quicker than Rust). Like for like screens: Electron version runs at 138MB. C# version runs at 13MB.
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Watching Mortal Kombat II. There’s no film that Karl Urban can’t make better.
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Had one of those amusing misheard moments this morning. It was a noisy room and I asked a woman if she was Coeliac. Her reply was gold. “I’m Tiffany”.
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Seems legit. Honestly, if you can't trust an Indonesian government official emailing you on behalf of Elon Muk, who can you trust?
Spam email claiming to represent Elon Musk - comes from an Indonesian Government account.

ALT Spam email claiming to represent Elon Musk - comes from an Indonesian Government account.

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I've been looking at adding "in-app" help for an app I'm writing and it came to me that it must be 20 years ago that I last looked at tooling for writing help files. Help files on Windows were a dark art.
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Time to revisit an oldie.
Mugshot of Barry Larry Terry. Charged with unlawful posession of a wild racoon and no headlamp on bicycle.

ALT Mugshot of Barry Larry Terry. Charged with unlawful posession of a wild racoon and no headlamp on bicycle.

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So, an emergency government alert triggered on our phones about the heat. I feel sorry for anyone who is sitting somewhere where absolute silence was expected.
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Well, I have been running freebuff.com/ all day now. So far, I've been suitably impressed. I threw a complex product at it, and it has churned away building it for me. This is good stuff.
Freebuff: The free coding agent

Freebuff: The free coding agent

Code, build and deploy apps, and chat with AI for free. Work in your browser, desktop or terminal with Freebuff.

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I use a lot of AI tooling. I have to admit, I completely missed @CodebuffAI but now I have signed up. The idea here is completely free AI tooling, with the only "catch" being that they show ads - this is where they get their revenue. So far, it's been plain sailing...
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I've given it the brief based on a product I built years ago and it's churning away building using DeepSeek. I'm impressed with the speed of responses. As this is a big brief, it will be churning through what would have taken a lot of Claude credits.
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Gordon’s Alive.
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Given AI's incessant ego-tickling of "what a great idea", are we going to see future generations move from impostor syndrome to Dunning Kruger?
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This is a valid easter egg question. I hadn't noticed that they had stopped but now that Millie has said this, I can't remember the last time I saw it.
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I love it when experts hit back hard.
Nicole Grajewski (@NicoleGrajewski) profile pictureNicole Grajewski
@NicoleGrajewskiMar 1
Thanks I wrote a book on Russia and Iran as well as a PHD on the topic, plus multiple publications about the strategic partnership agreement. When I said defense I was speaking about a mutual defense pact but go ahead and share the Wikipedia page with me.
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You know you have fully switched from engineering to management when you talk about things in terms of Return on Investment instead of how cool it is to build. Heaven help me.
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We've spent a lot of time building out a way to manage AI capabilities on the project I've been working on. The results have been very satisfying. builder.aws.com/content/36tq…
Accelerating Development at Scale: DXC London Market's Journey with Amazon Q Developer and Kiro |...

Accelerating Development at Scale: DXC London Market's Journey with Amazon Q Developer and Kiro |...

DXC London Market's transformation with Amazon Q Developer and Kiro demonstrates AI-assisted development at enterprise scale. Across hundreds of developers, architects, and testers in insurance's...

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