The problems over the last couple of days with restoring the messages that were missing weren't as simple as I imagined they would have been to solve. Getting the messages was straightforward enough (thanks to everyone who helped!), but getting them into the database was more involved than I imagined. The difficulty was the result of one post by a certain member who shall remain nameless (hint: his initials are RK!). Fortunately I got the solution by consulting with Perplexity AI, and it inspired me to write a blog post:
https://blog.leafe.com/working-with-ai/
-- Ed Leafe
Excellent summary. I don't think I'll ever trust AI in the coding sphere as anything other than enhanced autocomplete\search\example engine.
I see nVidia are by some reports heading for a $5 trillion market valuation, I hope you have stock :)
Interesting remark about NVidia.
Two summers ago I was at my SIGGraph conference in LA. There are a bunch of big Keynotes at the conference - as it's really a big conference. And, Jensen the NVidia CEO unveiled their new hardware in a Keynote speech. It was VERY Exciting - and AI was really the Core as the main usage of that specialized HW.
It was at THAT Time that I should have bought up some NVidia stock - but, sadly - I did NOT! Ugh...
But, Alan - I bet you $100 that Ed here DOES Indeed have some NVidia stock - at least it's My Guess! As I know he worked there for several years(at NVidia) - as he just retired - I believe it was last November that he retired.
Sorry to hear you have no trust in AI, even my BFF - Mr. Claude - is very sad to hear this! And yes indeed - that was a very interesting reply from Mr. Roberts! I still need to reply back to him here...
Lastly - I hope everyone has a Happy 4th - and try NOT to Blow Off any Fingers!!!
-K
________________________________________ From: ProFox profox-bounces@leafe.com on behalf of Alan Bourke alanpbourke@fastmail.fm Sent: Thursday, July 3, 2025 10:44 AM To: profox@leafe.com profox@leafe.com Subject: Re: [NF] Thoughts on AI
Excellent summary. I don't think I'll ever trust AI in the coding sphere as anything other than enhanced autocomplete\search\example engine.
I see nVidia are by some reports heading for a $5 trillion market valuation, I hope you have stock :)
-- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm
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I did a session on AI and FoxPro at the SWFox 2019 conference. I mentioned how gaming has moved AI ahead, because AI uses the same hardware. I specifically mentioned nVidia as the company that was leading that market. Didn’t thought of buying shares at that time.
— Christof
On 3. Jul 2025, at 16:53, Kurt Wendt kwendt@pakoinc.com wrote:
Interesting remark about NVidia.
Two summers ago I was at my SIGGraph conference in LA. There are a bunch of big Keynotes at the conference - as it's really a big conference. And, Jensen the NVidia CEO unveiled their new hardware in a Keynote speech. It was VERY Exciting - and AI was really the Core as the main usage of that specialized HW.
It was at THAT Time that I should have bought up some NVidia stock - but, sadly - I did NOT! Ugh...
Interesting. Yeah - I did remember reading about you doing an AI talk at SWFox.
Have you, since that time - done much more in the way of using AI?? Or, maybe you're using it even more?
-K
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I did a session on AI and FoxPro at the SWFox 2019 conference. I mentioned how gaming has moved AI ahead, because AI uses the same hardware. I specifically mentioned nVidia as the company that was leading that market. Didn’t thought of buying shares at that time. — Christof
I've had two articles on AI pop into my feeds lately and thought y'all might enjoy them:
"Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity" "We conduct a randomized controlled trial (RCT) to understand how early-2025 AI tools affect the productivity of experienced open-source developers working on their own repositories. Surprisingly, we find that when developers use AI tools, they take 19% longer than without—AI makes them slower. We view this result as a snapshot of early-2025 AI capabilities in one relevant setting; as these systems continue to rapidly evolve, we plan on continuing to use this methodology to help estimate AI acceleration from AI R&D automation"
https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/
"Why Understanding AI Doesn’t Necessarily Lead People to Embrace It"
"SummarY: New research has uncovered a paradoxical relationship between AI literacy and receptivity: Individuals with lower AI literacy are more likely to embrace AI, despite perceiving it as less capable and more ethically concerning. This enthusiasm stems from a sense of “magic” associated with AI’s capabilities. Conversely, those with higher AI literacy, who understand the mechanics behind AI, tend to lose interest as the mystique fades..."
https://hbr.org/2025/07/why-understanding-ai-doesnt-necessarily-lead-people-... -- It seems like the more you understand AI, the less likely you are to use it.
On Mon, Jul 7, 2025 at 8:47 AM Kurt Wendt kwendt@pakoinc.com wrote:
Interesting. Yeah - I did remember reading about you doing an AI talk at SWFox.
Have you, since that time - done much more in the way of using AI?? Or, maybe you're using it even more?
-K
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I did a session on AI and FoxPro at the SWFox 2019 conference. I mentioned how gaming has moved AI ahead, because AI uses the same hardware. I specifically mentioned nVidia as the company that was leading that market. Didn’t thought of buying shares at that time. — Christof
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On Jul 12, 2025, at 14:57, Ted Roche tedroche@gmail.com wrote:
-- It seems like the more you understand AI, the less likely you are to use it.
Or rather: the less likely you are to use it indiscriminately. IOW, you understand its limits. Most people still think it has magical powers.
-- Ed Leafe
I want to present the same "request" to an AI for a new page that is requested. I'll include a mock-up of what it should look like, a schema for the data, and an expectation, or "why are we doing this".
I want to run that return set 10-20 times, starting faster, easier user action, etc., etc, etc., and see what the final return is. For me, I'd do that in multiple languages/frameworks as well, C#/Blazor, Python, framework of choice next.
I want it to do the gross text work for me. Grabbing choices made, that lead to N other forms.
On Thu, Jul 3, 2025 at 9:45 AM Alan Bourke alanpbourke@fastmail.fm wrote:
Excellent summary. I don't think I'll ever trust AI in the coding sphere as anything other than enhanced autocomplete\search\example engine.
I see nVidia are by some reports heading for a $5 trillion market valuation, I hope you have stock :)
-- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm
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Ouch...
I can't be the only one who has sent a base64 blob here...
--
rk
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com On Behalf Of Ed Leafe Sent: Thursday, July 3, 2025 10:36 AM To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: [NF] Thoughts on AI
The problems over the last couple of days with restoring the messages that were missing weren't as simple as I imagined they would have been to solve. Getting the messages was straightforward enough (thanks to everyone who helped!), but getting them into the database was more involved than I imagined. The difficulty was the result of one post by a certain member who shall remain nameless (hint: his initials are RK!). Fortunately I got the solution by consulting with Perplexity AI, and it inspired me to write a blog post:
https://blog.leafe.com/working-with-ai/
-- Ed Leafe
Yeah RK - it happened with me when I started working here at Pako - and I began to make replies back to the forum. I believe I even started a thread specifically about that. So, you're not alone. But, I think my Blob was back in March...
-K
________________________________________ From: ProFox profox-bounces@leafe.com on behalf of Richard Kaye rkaye@invaluable.com Sent: Thursday, July 3, 2025 11:08 AM To: profox@leafe.com profox@leafe.com Subject: RE: [NF] Thoughts on AI
Ouch...
I can't be the only one who has sent a base64 blob here...
-- rk
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com On Behalf Of Ed Leafe Sent: Thursday, July 3, 2025 10:36 AM To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: [NF] Thoughts on AI
The problems over the last couple of days with restoring the messages that were missing weren't as simple as I imagined they would have been to solve. Getting the messages was straightforward enough (thanks to everyone who helped!), but getting them into the database was more involved than I imagined. The difficulty was the result of one post by a certain member who shall remain nameless (hint: his initials are RK!). Fortunately I got the solution by consulting with Perplexity AI, and it inspired me to write a blog post:
https://blog.leafe.com/working-with-ai/
-- Ed Leafe [excessive quoting removed by server]
On Jul 3, 2025, at 10:08, Richard Kaye rkaye@invaluable.com wrote:
I can't be the only one who has sent a base64 blob here...
Nah, but base64 encoding is plain ASCII, so that's not a problem. It's the smiley... 😝
(Let's hope that posts OK!)
-- Ed Leafe
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On Jul 3, 2025, at 11:00, Kurt Wendt kwendt@pakoinc.com wrote:
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...
Translated:
What? I just saw the Smiley imoji you included in your response. But, I thought all posts were Purely Text based.
But, now that you mentioned it - I Found that posting by RK with the Smiley face. I'm surprised I let that slip by without even this same thought - about all these postings being Pure Text.
Interesting!
-K ;-)
It *is* text, not an image. Unicode text is what lets people write in Chinese or Sanskrit, as well as emojis.
This is Chinese text: 這是中文文字。
This is Sanskrit text: इति संस्कृतग्रन्थः ।
This is an emoji: 😂
-- Ed Leafe
Yeah, I sent that before I read your blog on the actual root cause.
Lookout is doing this conversion automagically even when one (remembers to) set plain text mode. I shall endeavor to use <smile> or perhaps <slight smile> as Slack likes to call it instead. I cannot have it upon my conscience that I was the root cause for the Great Profox Message Debacle of '25.
--
rk
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com On Behalf Of Ed Leafe Sent: Thursday, July 3, 2025 11:35 AM To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: [NF] Thoughts on AI
On Jul 3, 2025, at 10:08, Richard Kaye rkaye@invaluable.com wrote:
I can't be the only one who has sent a base64 blob here...
Nah, but base64 encoding is plain ASCII, so that's not a problem. It's the smiley... 😝
(Let's hope that posts OK!)
-- Ed Leafe
On Jul 3, 2025, at 13:44, Richard Kaye rkaye@invaluable.com wrote:
I cannot have it upon my conscience that I was the root cause for the Great Profox Message Debacle of '25.
You weren't the root cause of the debacle; you were the inspiration for the blog post!
-- Ed Leafe
Great post! Most of my experience has been similar. It seems the bigger and/or more complicated the problem you throw at it at one time, the more likely it is to head off the rails. I would like to say don't delegate anything to it that you wouldn't delegate to a junior developer or contractor, but I think that is giving it too much credit. If you can delegate little pieces to it and manage the big picture on your side, it works well most of the time. But from time to time, it spits out gibberish for no good reason at all. At the very least, it has gotten my curiosity up and motivated me to work on more pet projects.
On Thu, Jul 3, 2025 at 1:54 PM Ed Leafe ed@leafe.com wrote:
On Jul 3, 2025, at 13:44, Richard Kaye rkaye@invaluable.com wrote:
I cannot have it upon my conscience that I was the root cause for the
Great Profox Message Debacle of '25.
You weren't the root cause of the debacle; you were the inspiration for the blog post!
-- Ed Leafe
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Jeff - I totally agree. I've had times where I got GREAT success with Claude. And, other times - it makes a ton of errors. One day - I went back and forth about 17 times before finally some success - and, it was getting me SO Frustrated - I wanted to just give up!
But, other times - I get some great results.
We are now using this QuestPDF as a 3D party library for building reports in C#. Today, I wanted to try something new, and I was not sure if Quest PDF could make it happen - basically - doing a kind of Watermark on certain reports. So - it would be big Red text that goes directly on top of part of the report. I asked Claude about doing Watermarks in using QuestPDF - he said yes - and gave me a bunch of code. But, one line of the C# code was doing the Opaque option - which was simply Not valid. I pushed back, he gave me updated code - and that I Zipped right along to continue the implementation (like positioning of that watermark text and stuff like that). So, yeah - that worked out well!
-K ________________________________ From: ProFox profox-bounces@leafe.com on behalf of Jeff Roberts jefflroberts@gmail.com Sent: Thursday, July 3, 2025 3:14 PM To: ProFox Email List profox@leafe.com Subject: Re: [NF] Thoughts on AI
Great post! Most of my experience has been similar. It seems the bigger and/or more complicated the problem you throw at it at one time, the more likely it is to head off the rails. I would like to say don't delegate anything to it that you wouldn't delegate to a junior developer or contractor, but I think that is giving it too much credit. If you can delegate little pieces to it and manage the big picture on your side, it works well most of the time. But from time to time, it spits out gibberish for no good reason at all. At the very least, it has gotten my curiosity up and motivated me to work on more pet projects.
On Thu, Jul 3, 2025 at 1:54 PM Ed Leafe ed@leafe.com wrote:
On Jul 3, 2025, at 13:44, Richard Kaye rkaye@invaluable.com wrote:
I cannot have it upon my conscience that I was the root cause for the
Great Profox Message Debacle of '25.
You weren't the root cause of the debacle; you were the inspiration for the blog post!
-- Ed Leafe
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So - Ed is trying to look at the Bright Side of your Debacle Mr. RK - and I guess that's a Good thing!
I passed the link to your Blog onto my IT folks here - and a couple Engineers. And, One of those Engineers got back to me, thanked me - and it now gave that person some serious Food for Thought...
-K
________________________________________ From: ProFox profox-bounces@leafe.com on behalf of Ed Leafe ed@leafe.com Sent: Thursday, July 3, 2025 2:54 PM To: ProFox Mailing List profox@leafe.com Subject: Re: [NF] Thoughts on AI
On Jul 3, 2025, at 13:44, Richard Kaye rkaye@invaluable.com wrote:
I cannot have it upon my conscience that I was the root cause for the Great Profox Message Debacle of '25.
You weren't the root cause of the debacle; you were the inspiration for the blog post!
-- Ed Leafe
I salute you, spin master! <GIANT GRIN>
--
rk
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com On Behalf Of Ed Leafe Sent: Thursday, July 3, 2025 2:54 PM To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: [NF] Thoughts on AI
On Jul 3, 2025, at 13:44, Richard Kaye rkaye@invaluable.com wrote:
I cannot have it upon my conscience that I was the root cause for the Great Profox Message Debacle of '25.
You weren't the root cause of the debacle; you were the inspiration for the blog post!
-- Ed Leafe
And no more smiles for you, pal. (Thanks, Outlook!)
--
rk
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com On Behalf Of Ed Leafe Sent: Thursday, July 3, 2025 10:36 AM To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: [NF] Thoughts on AI
The problems over the last couple of days with restoring the messages that were missing weren't as simple as I imagined they would have been to solve. Getting the messages was straightforward enough (thanks to everyone who helped!), but getting them into the database was more involved than I imagined. The difficulty was the result of one post by a certain member who shall remain nameless (hint: his initials are RK!). Fortunately I got the solution by consulting with Perplexity AI, and it inspired me to write a blog post:
https://blog.leafe.com/working-with-ai/
-- Ed Leafe
WOW ED - that was a VERY INTERESTING Blog post! NICE!!!
I'm curious. The image at the top, with all the tubes - based upon the imperfections at the tops of the tubes, and the little wisps of plastic - it HAS to be a pic of a bunch of tubes that were all 3D Printed! Am I right??
But - back on topic...
I agree with you on ALL you stated - as a LOT of that is EXACTLY what I have been experiencing. Having AI find a fix to problems - at times - is Great - and a BIG Time saver. Your reference to “vibe coding” - a term I had Never heard of before - is a VERY Interesting term and VERY Relatable for me. Since, yeah - lately I've been producing C# - with literally really no C# background. And, at times Claude has done a TRULY Bang up job of it!!!
As I began to write this reply, I stopped and had a convo with my coworker about this call from a user. But, then we went on a tangent - and I told him about your Blog posting - and we then had another AI chat. I warned him that I would be sending your Blog posting to the whole IT Team here.
Heck - when I see something Well Written - and interesting - I do indeed like to spread the word!!!
Now, last comment - and it's Off-topic, of this thread about AI - but, on topic about writing. For those of you who are avid readers and like to read Ficition - a buddy of mine from Essentium (which was my Dream Job at a 3D Printing co. - a co. That No Longer Exists) - he wrote a fiction story - and it's a rather entertaining read. So - in case anyone is interested - this is it: https://www.amazon.com/Show-Yourself-Shane-Pollard/dp/B0F9SDW17T/ref=cm_cr_a...
-K
________________________________________ From: ProFox profox-bounces@leafe.com on behalf of Ed Leafe ed@leafe.com Sent: Thursday, July 3, 2025 10:35 AM To: ProFox Mailing List profox@leafe.com Subject: [NF] Thoughts on AI
The problems over the last couple of days with restoring the messages that were missing weren't as simple as I imagined they would have been to solve. Getting the messages was straightforward enough (thanks to everyone who helped!), but getting them into the database was more involved than I imagined. The difficulty was the result of one post by a certain member who shall remain nameless (hint: his initials are RK!). Fortunately I got the solution by consulting with Perplexity AI, and it inspired me to write a blog post:
https://blog.leafe.com/working-with-ai/
-- Ed Leafe
On Jul 3, 2025, at 10:44, Kurt Wendt kwendt@pakoinc.com wrote:
I'm curious. The image at the top, with all the tubes - based upon the imperfections at the tops of the tubes, and the little wisps of plastic - it HAS to be a pic of a bunch of tubes that were all 3D Printed! Am I right??
The image is one of several long horizontal images that rotate randomly when the page is shown. Refresh the page to see.
The one to which you refer were actually plastic straws that I saw at a street vendor in Barcelona. They helped me understand why straws are typically wrapped before being used!
-- Ed Leafe
Great blog post! I was fortunate enough a couple of years ago when my broker suggested that we get into some nVidia stock well before the 10 for 1 split. While I'm not yet willing to depend on AI, I am willing to ride the stock bubble a while longer!
Just for the record, I've found a couple of places where AI has been useful: 1) generating graphic images to promote my weekly radio show and 2) having AI rewrite paragraphs that I've written, but don't feel like I've really captured the essence of what I was trying to say. Still looking for a programming need to give AI a try. Glad it helped you find and fix the problem with the archive!
Thanks for all you do for the group!
Paul H. Tarver Tarver Program Consultants, Inc.
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Ed Leafe Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2025 9:36 AM To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: [NF] Thoughts on AI
The problems over the last couple of days with restoring the messages that were missing weren't as simple as I imagined they would have been to solve. Getting the messages was straightforward enough (thanks to everyone who helped!), but getting them into the database was more involved than I imagined. The difficulty was the result of one post by a certain member who shall remain nameless (hint: his initials are RK!). Fortunately I got the solution by consulting with Perplexity AI, and it inspired me to write a blog post:
https://blog.leafe.com/working-with-ai/
-- Ed Leafe
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On Jul 3, 2025, at 11:13, Paul H. Tarver paul@tpcqpc.com wrote:
Great blog post! I was fortunate enough a couple of years ago when my broker suggested that we get into some nVidia stock well before the 10 for 1 split. While I'm not yet willing to depend on AI, I am willing to ride the stock bubble a while longer!
The best analysis I read of the AI phenomenon is that there are many companies that are part of the "Gold Rush" to cash in on AI. Most of them will fail, but a few may do well.
Meanwhile, NVIDIA is happily selling the pickaxes and shovels to all these eager gold miners.
-- Ed Leafe
(and yes, I do have a few shares!)