Anything under an 8
I read the news about the National Vulnerability Database over a coffee that went cold while I sat there muttering at my phone. The short version: the NVD, the free public catalogue that quietly props up half the …
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Building a CLI with go-tool-base, part 4: an AI dungeon master
I run a Dungeons & Dragons game on the odd weekend, so when I sat down to put an AI feature inside a CLI, my first instinct wasn’t a chatbot. It was: could the tool run a little adventure, with an AI as the dungeon …
Building a CLI with go-tool-base, part 3: expose your CLI to AI agents
“Make it work with AI” is the request that lands on your desk with a thud and no further detail. The first time it landed on mine I braced for a treadmill of integration work: an adapter for this assistant, a wrapper for …
Technical CV writing is still hard, and now a robot reads it first
Seven years ago I wrote a post called Technical CV writing is hard, pulled my own CV apart, and explained every choice in it. I even bragged that it converted to a first interview about eighty per cent of the time, then …
A configurable AI endpoint is an attack surface
“Let users point at their own AI endpoint” is one of those config options that looks completely harmless on the way in. People want it, for perfectly good reasons. Then you sit with it for a minute and realise you’ve …
Testing code that calls an LLM: yes, you actually can
“You can’t test code that calls an AI.” I’ve heard it said with great confidence, and it’s half right, which is the most dangerous kind of right. You genuinely can’t assert on what a non-deterministic model says. But the …
Nobody reads the manual
Let me describe the actual lifecycle of a user meeting your CLI tool, because it’s a bit humbling. They run it. It doesn’t quite do what they expected. They run it again with --help. They get a wall of monospaced flag …
