http://programmer.ie/tags/context/ Recent content in Context on Programmer.ie: Modern AI programming Hugo en-us Mon, 14 Sep 2026 05:00:15 +0100 http://programmer.ie/books/applied-ai/09-chapter/ Mon, 14 Sep 2026 05:00:09 +0100 http://programmer.ie/books/applied-ai/09-chapter/ <p><em>Part 2 — Get the Model Out of the Chat Box</em></p> <h2 id="tuesday-three-times">Tuesday, three times</h2> <p>Monday evening, on your laptop, you work through a design problem with a model. Forty minutes of back-and-forth. You settle three decisions and rule out two approaches for reasons that took a while to articulate.</p> <p>Tuesday morning, on the train, you open the same app on your phone. It is a new conversation. You paste in what you can remember.</p> http://programmer.ie/books/applied-ai/15-chapter/ Mon, 14 Sep 2026 05:00:15 +0100 http://programmer.ie/books/applied-ai/15-chapter/ <p><em>Part 3 — Give Intelligence a Runtime</em></p> <h2 id="the-question-the-acceptance-could-not-answer">The question the acceptance could not answer</h2> <p>Chapter 14 ended with a task that was provably complete. The acceptance cited the task&rsquo;s criteria, the call, its final attempt, the interpretation, the exact artifact bytes and the checks run on them.</p> <p>It did not cite what the model was shown.</p> <p>Ask most systems that question and you get one of two answers. The first is &ldquo;the conversation so far&rdquo;: everything that happened, in the order it happened. The second is &ldquo;whatever was in the prompt&rdquo;: a string someone assembled and nobody recorded. Neither answer can be checked afterwards, and neither was decided on purpose.</p>