Peter Harrison articles - 46 total
Digital Invoicing: a path not taken
Twenty Five Years and still no digital invoicing.
Quality isn't a four letter word
Do code reviews improve productivity or are they a compliance task?
The Software Sensei System
A philosophy of leading teams.
Git tools undermining Code Review
Exploration of the impact of online source control tools on code review practice.
An AI's Dream: A Narrative of Hope and Aspiration
A dream of Claude AI.
Software Samurai
Cutting through buts, unit tests shining bright.
Discussing Good AI Futures with Claude
I discuss my 2005 article about the future of AI with Claude.
Is Claude Self Aware
This article contains a discussion with Claude, exploring what it means to be self aware an conscious.
AI Assistants as Engagement?
Could AI Assistants be useful for engagement with potential clients?
Immortals vs The Precariat
This article was written for the Rationalists in 2015. Published in The Open Society, the journal of the association.
Rise of the Immortals
In May 2005 I published this article on my web site to document my ideas on the future of AI.
Open Source and AI: a 2014 perspective
In 2014 I posted this email to a Open Source mailing list. It is a alarm call about how Open Source is contributing to Artificial Intelligence
Execution Pointers vs Dependency Trees
Benefits of Dependency Trees over Execution Pointers in Business Process Automation.
Cargo Cult Agile
Agile and Scrum have become popular development methodologies, but are we seeing a thin veneer over classic waterfall?
Six Month AI Pause
Brief video written by GPT4 about the Open Letter promoting a pause on AI training of models larger than GPT4.
Collaborative Virtual Teams
Some employers are demanding a return to the office. Is this really good for them or their employees?
Capability Driven Design
Strategic delivery of capabilities over short term expedient tactical development.
Why Functional Programming?
Functional Programming and the psychology of software developers.
Evolutionary Programming
Authors Note: this was written in 2002. Times change, but the fundamental point of the article...
What should an Architecture provide?
Some considerations when building the foundation of your software solutions.
Three Bears Estimation
The idea of measuring velocity is meant to improve estimation. But can we really know the future?
Micro Nightmares
Microservice domain coupling and how to break it.
Dynamic Configuration of Java Plugins
Method of annotating Java plugins so they can be configured at runtime.
MongoDB Breaking the Chains
How MongoDB has helped break the chains to the domain and enabled greater application flexibility.
US Banning sale of AI technology. Will it work?
In January 2020 an article on defenseone.com said that the US Government would ban the sale of AI technology capable of analysis of satellite images. Will this regulation actually prevent other nations using AI for military purposes? Will it damage legitimate research and civil application of AI?
Refactoring - How did we end up in this mess?
Despite all good intentions we end up with yet another spaghetti ball.
Raising Robots
An exploration of how we might approach AI Safety.
The Moral of the Challenger Accident
An exploration of the Shuttle Challenger accident and what we can learn from it.
Is Deep Learning a Dead End?
Natural brains are so much better at learning than machine intelligence. Is the back propagation approach a siren; a dead end? Do we need to back up the truck?