For my third attempt at vibe coding, I again used Bolt which has proven a very good tool and is still letting me create these apps, on a free account. This time, I decided to try and create something useful in my testing & QA [...]
Some further AI training completed, this time Gemini, for which I completed the Master of Gemini course, also via Coursiv. This covered the following areas and is mostly highly recommended to find out what Gemini is best used for and how it differs to the [...]
Some further AI training completed, this time Claude, for which I completed the Master of Claude course, also via Coursiv. This covered the following areas and is mostly highly recommended to find out what Claude is best used for and how it differs to the [...]
Ahead of the forthcoming AI Apocalypse or perhaps AI Slop-alypse, I thought I'd get some training in AI done and I'm using Coursiv to do this. First up was their Master of ChatGPT training, which I completed on 4 March 2026. This covered the following [...]
Following on from my first try at vibe coding, I decided to try it again and create a share calc tool, handy for when looking at investments, share prices etc. I used Bolt again, as my first attempt was such a success. This time, I planned out [...]
There's now (February 2026) a selection of AI Browsers and options you can choose from, so I've listed them here with their current status. My main criteria are that they're free to download and use and are actually a browser, I've listed some that miss [...]
As we're now into 2026 - Happy New Year! - I thought I'd provide an overview of some of the testing projects I worked on in 2025 - its quite varied as you can see below, covering a fairly decent range of projects and sectors. [...]
Having done some research on vibe coding and how it's powered by AI coding tools, I thought I'd give it a go. First, I searched on Perplexity AI for 'what are the free vibe coding platforms for Javascript'. The top answer was Bolt, so I [...]
Since early 2025, there has been a lot of talk about vibe coding, as popularised by Andrej Karpathy, a co-founder of OpenAI and former AI leader at Tesla. His engaging blog post told how he had created his MenuGen app by vibe coding. He started [...]
This epic fail by ChatGPT happened only the other day, Saturday 19 July 2025. I had the ChatGPT.com website open and for a laugh typed in something along the lines on what I'd seen on a rewatch of The Fast Show recently. The clip where [...]
We're not far into 2025 and already there's been some big news in the AI world - mainly that China's DeepSeek AI has caused a bit of a stir by claiming that its LLM has similar levels of performance to ChatGPT - but has been [...]
It's like the 90s again, when we had lots of different search engines to choose from - such as Altavista, Yahoo, Jeeves etc - before Google came along and ate their lunch. Now, in mid-2020s we have something similar - but different - with a [...]
As we're now into 2025 - Happy New Year! - I thought I'd provide an overview of some of the testing projects I worked on in 2024 - its quite varied as you can see below, covering a fairly decent range of projects and sectors. [...]
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There's been a lot of buzz about a Google AI tool lately - Google NotebookLM - and how you can use it to create an audio overview/podcast of your content, information, files etc. I'm always eager to try these new AI tools out and started [...]
Sometimes, Apple adds features to iOS and doesn't really make much of a fuss about them - usually because there's something else which is a more razzamatazz-y feature in the particular iOS release. Here are some of them, that you might (or might not) already know [...]
At Apple's WWDC 2024, Apple announced iOS 18 and macOS 15 Sequoia. iOS 18 Apple Intelligence is the main feature of iOS 18 even though it doesn't appear until iOS 18.1 is released, likely in October 2024. It adds artificial intelligence capabilities and large language [...]
We're into Summer 2024 and there's been some more AI news, coming from the usual players in the AI field. At WWDC 2024, Apple announced their own AI - Apple Intelligence - which will bring lots of AI features to the Apple ecosystem, including devices and [...]
There's been a lot happening recently in the AI world - Google’s IO 2024 event was mostly about AI, OpenAI introduced their latest ChatGPT and Apple are said to be close to announcing deal with OpenAI to add ChatGPT to iOS 18. Google's IO 2024 event [...]
I recently added an AI Chatbot Testing service and page to the site - and to my set of testing services. This service will come in handy if you're adding a chatbot to your site or app - and it needs deep testing. I'll be looking [...]
The detailed results per AI Chatbot test are on each test page and here we have an overview. Results Overview In 1st Place... Perplexity AI - Overall Score = 9.5 Very good all round, only negative points are a couple of errors in the answer [...]
I tested the AI Chatbots with a wide range of questions and these included: simple questions with factual answers that can be determined as correct or incorrect An example question was: When was the Battle of Hastings? And a follow up question was: Who died at [...]
Google Gemini Tested gemini.google.com/app via Chrome browser - checked version and it says 'Gemini family of models, including 1.0 Pro' - March 2024 Answer to Question 1 Screenshot of Google Gemini answer to Question 1 – When was the Battle of Hastings? – showing the [...]
Microsoft Copilot Tested iOS App version 20240206.2.180000000 - Chose option to 'Use GPT-4' - March 2024 Answer to Question 1 Screenshot of Microsoft Copilot answer to Question 1 - When was the Battle of Hastings? – showing that it provides useful information, sources and an [...]
Perplexity AI Tested iOS App version 2.13.0 in February 2024 Answer to Question 1 Screenshot of Perplexity AI answer to Question 1 - When was the Battle of Hastings? - showing the way Perplexity AI displays its results, with sources, images gallery etc Accuracy Issues [...]
OpenAI ChatGPT Tested iOS App version 1.2024.052 (22222) - Says ChatGPT 3.5 in header - March 2024 Answer to Question 1 Screenshot of OpenAI ChatGPT answer to Question 1 – When was the Battle of Hastings? – showing the sparse way it answers questions, with [...]
With a range of AI Chatbots to choose from now, I decided to do my own test of them, to get an idea of the differences between them, also to test their accuracy and other features. This set of tests will also enable me to [...]
I recently added The QA Chatbot to the site, to try it out. It seems to work very well, with a couple of quirks such as repeating answers - but nothing's perfect! The chatbot is provided by Chatzap and you provide the name and the 'knowledge' [...]
My iPhone 13 screen froze recently and wasn't accepting any touch inputs at all. The screen displays fine, but no input recognised. I tried the usual combo of buttons but that ends up with screen of options where you have to be able to touch/select the [...]
I've been using iOS 17 and macOS Sonoma for a while now and these are my first thoughts on them: - the upgrades for both were seamless, which makes a nice change from upgrade shenanigans used to have several years ago... - the best features are [...]
