I just posted a new app to GitHub called TestFairy. It’s at https://github.com/krypted/TestFairy. It automatically generates unit tests for either a file or a highlighted piece of swift code. It does this using the OpenAI API, so leverages a LLM to write test code. It’s pretty straight forward. Simply highlight the code and in the Editor Menu, click TestFairy, then Generate Tests. I had hoped to post it for free to the App Store, but I didn’t want to distribute my OpenAI API key, or write an intermediary microservice that housed my key that an app uses. The use of an API key is considered an end-around to the In-App…
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Detecting AI-Generated (LLM) Content In Articles
We hear more and more about the pros and cons of AI. There is a movement to regulate the use, movies about dangers of sentient robots, and those who think AI will free humanity from any boring work, or work that involves a lot of repetitive tasks. Going back to the 1950s and 1960s, what they called AI (or what we might call small shell scripts these days) were supposed to “Augment Human Intellect” as the great Doug Englebart wrote about in his 1962 article https://www.dougengelbart.org/content/view/138 or Vannevar Bush’s “As We May Think” from 1945, available at https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/. What is an LLM? A large language model (LLM) is a type…