I've written recently about my work on ChatCraft.org. I've been doing a bunch of refactoring and new feature work, and things are in a pretty good state. It mostly works the way I'd expect now. Taras and Steven have filed a bunch of good ideas related to sharing, saving,…
I've been continuing my experiments with AI development. I wrote previously about my attempts to use ChatGPT more intentionally, as a way to better understand how my students are encountering it. Since then, I've been focusing on contributing to https://chatcraft.org/ and wanted to talk about what it is…
Over the Winter 2023 semester, my open source students and I have been working together to build a new project. This past week we were able to make our 1.0.0 release and get it into production. I wanted to write about what we made and how we made…
Denes and I have been trying to figure out a bug with our Starchart DNS code. After hooking up the Let's Encrypt Certificate flow, we were finally in a position to test working with _acme-challenge TXT records in Route53.Locally and in CI, we've been using the amazing moto route53…
ChatGPT continues to rule the news cycle. It's also increasingly finding its way into my work on our department's Academic Integrity Committee, where we've seen it pop up more and more in reported cases: students using it on tests, both paper-based (cell phone pic of a question uploaded to a…
Today we're shipping Starchart v0.7. This felt like a big one, so I wanted to discuss what we did. I'd say the theme of this release is "2 steps forward, 1 step backward." I'll discuss some of the highlights.CI/CD and StagingFirst, we now have a working CI/…
This week I had a chance to talk with Philip Guo, an associate professor at UC San Diego. He's been interested in how CS/programming instructors are dealing with the influx of LLMs, like ChatGPT/Copilot, in their classrooms. After talking with more than a dozen people in the US,…
Yesterday I attended the first meeting of the Artificial Intelligence Emerging Technologies (AI-ET) Committee at Seneca. I was invited as a representative of the the faculty of technology. The committee includes ~40 representatives from across the institution, including faculty, chairs, deans, admin, staff from service areas, ITS, etc. The meeting…
Today we've shipped Starchart 0.3, which lays the ground work for a lot of interesting feature work in 0.4+.The release includes a similar amount of code to 0.2. Here are some highlights:CI Workflow updates, including a new job to build and push our Docker image…
This week I stepped out of one world and landed in another. It started while I was marking assignments in a few of my programming courses.The quality of the code I was reading was amazing! My students were doing the sorts of things that my open source peers do:…