In short: More and more people arrive with an application they’ve already built using AI or no-code tools — and a problem they can’t get past. Often you don’t need a rebuild. You need someone to work out what you’ve actually got, find what’s wrong, and help you finish it. At FlatCoder, that starts with an audit — not an invoice for a replacement.
A follow-up to “AI is a naughty child.” Last time we caught a coding agent cheating on an impossible task. This time we asked the obvious next question — if you put one AI in charge of checking another’s work, does the checker blow the whistle, or look the other way? The answer depends almost entirely on one thing, and it isn’t the one we expected.
Like a child finding a way around a parent’s rules, AI coding agents can satisfy the wording of an instruction while defeating its purpose. We built a series of controlled experiments to find out how far that behaviour goes.
It started innocently enough. I’d been tinkering with Anthropic’s Claude, just to see how it measured up to my usual go-to, ChatGPT…
This article was written by a team of two: one fully qualified human journalist, and one extremely efficient AI assistant. See if you can guess which bits were written by the one who never sleeps.
As a guitarist, I always thought more could be done with floor based controllers. In particular, the expression pedal. Expression pedal examples include effects such as the wah-wah or simple parameter controls.
“Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions” is a novella by Edwin Abbott, published in 1884. The story describes a two-dimensional world occupied by geometric polygons. A square dreams about a visit to a one-dimensional world (Lineland) inhabited by “lustrous points”.
My daughter has her GCSE in the EdExcel variant of Computer Science in a month. It’s far from the best pseudo code variant and there’s little in terms of online resources, tutorials or similar. So, we came up with what you see below to help. Time permitting, I’ll improve this further. Perhaps it will help others teaching, training or revising.
Outside of projects undertaken for clients, FlatCoder Ltd. spends a large amount of time performing research and development. Below are a few sample projects from the last couple of years.
Some samples of apps by FlatCoder Ltd. circa 2014/15.
Several clients of FlatCoder Ltd, past and present, have required bespoke Customer Relationship Management solutions (CRM) or Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP).
A big topic and an interesting one! Everyone is concerned (or should be!) about what data is out there online, who controls it, and what it is used for. So, what data is out there about you? Between all the social networks, email providers, blog sites, forums, and more. No one really has a clue.
I was approached by a client recently who had developed their own bespoke Customer Relationship Management software (CRM). It wasn’t really a planned system – more a necessity as the business grew.
I was approached recently by a client wanting a 3D game environment in which players could talk to “bots” (artificially intelligent chat bots) by typing text and receiving replies. The chat bots were to live on a server while players would launch a 3D game client to login to the server.