Python

Recently I’ve wanted to understand more about using AI/LLM technologies to assist with code creation. I have in the past played with using chatbot style vibe coding. This is where one describes what is desired and the LLM produces an entire program. However I have found that subsequent iterations with further features hard to keep copy and pasting the entire source file, assuming a single source file is required, to be difficult. I have not really tried with in editor coding. However for the most part the “help me write this one function” to be smaller picture that I desired. So when I found out about Codex from ChatGPT I was really excited to understand how this works. For me it’s the integration with GitHub that make’s it really useful. In stead of having to write an ever larger perfect prompt that covers the entire aspect of the functionality, one builds up functionality one GitHub pull request at a time. I liked this concept because it’s also how I develop things, eg I start small with basic functionality and then iterate. Given that each unit of work is a pull request I can inspect each change to the code base’s multiple files to see if it’s making the desired changes.

Intro # This is far from exhaustive, but I needed to perform some light benchmarks in CRC, MD5 and SHA hashing. The idea was to compare crc, md5 and sha as well as compare Naive Python hashing to Linux based tools.

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I love going to the cinema. I usually go once a week to my local Cineworld multiplex. Their website has changed a few times over the years. Generally the changes have all been improvements and my local cinema listing is good. However all cinema websites I have found lack an important view on the listings data. That is a chronological order rather than a film title order. Why is this useful you ask? Well if I want to go to the cinema on a particular evening I really don’t care what other films are showing outside my allocated timeslot. I want to be able to easily see which films are going to start say between 7 and 8 that I have not already seen.