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johndcook.com > blog > 08/28/2026 > making-the-unnecessary-easier

Making the unnecessary easier

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (353+ words) I watched a few videos this morning, looking for ideas of what I could use AI to do. In one video, someone had an agent monitor tech news sites every 30 minutes to notify him of a variety of developments. No…...

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johndcook.com > blog > 08/26/2026 > what-is-the-quality-of-software-that-ai-writes

What is the quality of software that AI writes?

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (276+ words) AI-powered coding agents increase productivity for many developers. But do these agents produce good-quality code? Some say this doesn’t matter, we are heading toward dark software factories with source code never inspected, and maybe we should eliminate source code altogether…...

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johndcook.com > blog > 08/23/2026 > arcane-terminology

Why special function terminology is arcane

3+ week, 14+ hour ago   (261+ words) Special functions are special because they’re useful. They can also be shrouded in arcane terminology. These two facts are related. The more widely useful a function is, the more likely it is that the function will be discovered independently multiple…...

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johndcook.com > blog > 08/20/2026 > ai-generated-ascii-diagrams

AI-generated ASCII diagrams

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (238+ words) I like AI-generated ASCII diagrams. Because nobody would ask AI to generate ASCII diagrams, and so, it’s congruous. I like incongruity [1]. Aside from the incongruity of using a gazillion-parameter neural network to make 1970’s style ASCII art, ASCII diagrams have…...

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johndcook.com > blog > 08/15/2026 > probability-of-correcting-errors

Probability of correcting errors

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (287+ words) Error correcting codes are most simply described in terms of the errors they can certainly correct. For example, the Hadamard code used for the Mariner 9 probe to Mars encoded each 6-bit pixel to a 32-bit codeword in such a way…...