Tag: AI
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When AI Becomes Your Advocate
A grieving family in the US faced a $195,000 hospital bill. Unable to make sense of it, they turned to an AI chatbot called Claude (built by Anthropic) for help. The AI highlighted duplicate charges, inconsistent medical codes, and services that shouldn’t have been billed together. With those findings, the family negotiated the bill down…
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Working with AI: A Human-Centered Approach to Code Collaboration
My coding pace slowed down; AI’s never does, and is getting faster. The trick is keeping it from “helping” too much – with good docs, clear prompts, and lots of patience. Lately, I’ve been experimenting with agentic coding AI—tools like GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT that can read my code, suggest changes, and edit multiple files…
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AI as Your Pair Programmer: Sometimes Junior, Sometimes Peer, Sometimes Mentor
Or: Convincing Myself Our AI Overlords Aren’t Replacing Us (Yet) Introduction After 20 years in software development, I’ve seen the landscape shift – from debugging with print statements to navigating version control debates, and leaning on Stack Overflow like a trusted colleague. Now, a new kind of collaborator has joined the team: AI. What I’ve…