Wednesday 03/19/2025
Joanne headed out today for a two-week trip to Sicily. Exchanged fond emails with her before she left. Then took the standard walk. I meant to try working with an AI today, but first I spent some time completing the clean up of the old iMac. Later I moved it to the gift shop’s 3rd floor furniture showroom where it will be part of a silent auction for the next week.
Then I spent time recovering my software development environment. It’s been years since I did any serious coding so the first thing was to get the latest version of my preferred code editor. Then, as I wanted to try its AI coding assistant, and it only works with GPT-4 from openai, I had to establish an actual paid account with openai.com. I already had a paid account with Anthropic (Claude), but the code editor doesn’t work with Claude, only GPT-4. Then I had to create a “project” and a “virtual environment” and whatever. With all that set up, just before supper time I was able to select a block of source code and have the AI “refactor” it. It did something that was pointless and inexplicable, so not a good first impression.
After supper I am attending a lecture from my room, being one of the lazy ones who don’t go down to the auditorium.
Codgerville 