There’s something both thrilling and a little eerie about watching a machine try to be you. I don’t mean just copying your vocabulary—I mean echoing your rhythm, your quirks, even those weird little sentence habits you didn’t know you had until an algorithm served them back to you. That’s the promise of modern AI writing

I wasn’t planning to spend part of my week being psychoanalyzed by a robot. Yet here we are. Phrasly.ai found its way into my life via a Slack message: “Hey, try this one — supposed to be pretty accurate.” I’ve been testing AI detection tools for a while now, half out of curiosity, half out

Ever tumbled down the rabbit hole wondering if an AI could be less of a chatbot and more of a mischievous sidekick—or maybe a romantic co-conspirator? If you’ve been craving a place to roleplay without all the stiff rules, here’s a tour through some of the most unapologetically uncensored AI chat apps out there. We’ll

Ever found yourself staring at your screen, wondering if it’s weird or awesome to generate your own digital twin—or something even wilder? Well, you’re in the right place. Let’s take a dive into a wacky, freeing, sometimes spicy realm of AI: tools that let you create image clones without any filter holding you back. We’ll

The latest preview of Microsoft’s planned .NET 10 application development platform is now available, featuring a source generator for XAML and improved translation for parameterized collections in Entity Framework Core. This preview was unveiled August 12 and can be downloaded from dotnet.microsoft.com. The production release of .NET 10 is expected in November. For XAML, .NET

In previous articles I introduced connascence—the idea that code coupling can be described and quantified—and discussed five kinds of static connascence. In this article, we’ll wrap up our tour of connascence with a discussion of the deeper kind of connascence, dynamic connascence. Dynamic connascence is visible only at runtime. Because it’s discovered late and it’s often

One way to measure the scope of the generative AI boom is financially, and another is in terms of public awareness. Both are nearly unprecedented, even in the realm of high tech. Data center buildouts in support of AI expansion are expected to be in the region of $364 Billion in 2025—an amount that makes

Every developer knows how hard it is to redistribute a Python program as a self-contained, click-and-run package. There are third-party solutions, but they all have drawbacks. PyInstaller, the oldest and best-known tool for this job, is crotchety to work with and requires a fair amount of trial-and-error to get a working redistributable. Nuitka, a more

AWS has blamed a bug for all usage and pricing-related issues that developers have been facing on Kiro, its new agentic AI-driven integrated development environment (IDE), since it introduced a revised pricing structure last week. “As we have dug into this, we have discovered that we introduced a bug when we rolled out pricing in

For a variety of reasons — hardware incompatibilities, legacy software, the feeling that Windows 10 works just fine, thanks — both consumers and businesses have for years resisted Microsoft’s not-so-subtle nudges to upgrade from Windows 10 to its successor, Windows 11. But with the older operating system reaching end of support in October, many are