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Mindstone AI London 2025-Feb-18

Mindstone AI London 2025-Feb-18

Demoing techniques for AI-assisted programming live with Cursor in London on Tuesday evening (18th Feb 2025).

Making Tea While AI Codes: A Practical Guide to AI-assisted programming (with Cursor Composer Agent in YOLO mode)

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Making Tea While AI Codes: A Practical Guide to AI-assisted programming (with Cursor Composer Agent in YOLO mode)

A practical guide to AI-assisted development, where coding becomes a true partnership with AI. Drawing from hundreds of hours of experience, learn concrete patterns and practices for achieving 2-5x productivity gains while keeping AI's power safely contained.

Why we're bad at estimating (and what to do about it)

Why we're bad at estimating (and what to do about it)

With practice people can learn to estimate much better.

Software Engineering

A little functional programming goes a long way

Object-oriented and functional programming styles have both been around for a while, and have their own committed adherents. It’s almost certainly possible to be effective with either. But on balance, you should prefer functional programming.

What makes a great data scientist and data science team? (Podcast)

I was recently honoured to be a guest on The Data Pubcast [https://anchor.fm/data-pubcast/episodes/The-Data-Pubcast--Pint-3-ek3l21/a-a3b42vj] - a podcast about making data accessible to everyone, hosted by the incredibly talented Nick Latocha and Andy Crossley. In the episode [https://anchor.fm/data-pubcast/episodes/The-Data-Pubcast--Pint-3-ek3l21/a-a3b42vj] we discuss:

How to write good software faster (we spend 90% of our time debugging)

How to write good software faster (we spend 90% of our time debugging)

If we spend the majority of our programming time and effort on debugging, we should focus our efforts on speeding up our debugging (rather than trying to write code faster).