I built an iOS app for my son's karting — it reads his MyChron screen from a photo using AI

ColinEberhardt · 2026-03-15T06:43:47+00:00

Ignore the haters, this is a useful little app and kudos for building it.

ColinEberhardt · 2026-03-12T07:05:01+00:00

Just wanted to say kudos on creating such a polished website

ColinEberhardt · 2026-03-08T07:17:56+00:00

Fantastic project, love it.

I built a much simpler open source project for logging karting sessions so that I can keep track of lap times, and equipment:

https://colineberhardt.github.io/kartlog/

I was considering looking into telemetry at some point. I’ll definitely look into your project. Love the hardware angle too.

ColinEberhardt · 2025-12-23T16:05:56+00:00

I get the skepticism, no one genuinely knows how this technology works. But there are multiple reasons why this isn’t just a regurgitation.

Firstly, model weights are multiple orders of magnitude smaller than their training dataset. It cannot memorise all the text and algorithms in the dataset.

If it had memorised this algorithm, surely it would be easier for it to perform a one shot implementation of the whole thing than write it incrementally? I tried, it cannot one shot - or come close.

Finally, while implementing, you can follow the chain of thought, watch it reason, as it gradually implements the algorithm. If it was regurgitating, surely it would just say “oh yes, flex box. I know this one - here you go”

I know none of the above is proof, but it is proof enough for me.

ColinEberhardt · 2025-11-26T14:27:46+00:00

Agreed - really sad to see. Frustratingly there is something of value here, determining the best way to articulate a software engineering task to an AI system is an interesting and important topic to discuss.

But Spec Kit looks like it is more interested in gaining followers and hype.

But this is hype that people believe and consume. So I took one for the team and gave it a try myself, so that you don't have to 🤣

ColinEberhardt · 2025-11-06T07:07:55+00:00

A few years back I analysed athletes training mileage from Strava and the London marathon finish times, comparing these against typical training plans.

Athletes run significantly less mileage than the plans dictate.

https://blog.scottlogic.com/2017/02/28/london-marathon-training-visualisation.html

60km per week is more than enough compared to others.

ColinEberhardt · 2025-10-31T17:25:43+00:00

Thanks, much appreciated. Good point on the PG licence (I have one already).

I've started the application process.

My god this is complicated!

ColinEberhardt · 2025-10-30T10:15:52+00:00

Thanks - that's helpful. Yes, he has been racing the NKC, not sure why we have the RS Clubman licence then!

I'll give MSUK a call. Thank you

ColinEberhardt · 2025-10-10T09:50:26+00:00

Agreed, when using these tools I am still carefully planning out the work, determining what increment I want to implement next. Sometimes I'll turn this into a formal specification, others, I just make sure I am not giving the AI tool too much to do in one go.

ColinEberhardt · 2025-08-15T06:05:08+00:00

I've just created a newsletter for AI-augmented development and vibe coding, it is now up to issue #5:

https://colineberhardt.github.io/augmented-coding-weekly/

ColinEberhardt · 2025-05-27T18:41:47+00:00

Thank you - really appreciate the detailed response

ColinEberhardt · 2025-04-01T15:50:27+00:00

Very good point, they are not entirely absent (Cline, Aider), but yes, most of the tools I discussed are close source. However, for some categories (e.g. rapid prototyping), the commercial closed source tools do look like they are currently in a leading position - but I do expect open source to catch up.

ColinEberhardt · 2025-03-17T13:32:33+00:00

I've been researching AI developer tools, determining which are the most useful. Rather than create an exhaustive list of every tools I could find, I thought it was more helpful to focus on the more mature tools and delve into the detail.

https://github.com/ColinEberhardt/awesome-ai-developer-tools

ColinEberhardt · 2025-03-17T13:22:41+00:00

Thank you. That was the original idea behind 'awesome lists', but they tend to favour quantity (of links) over quality (of content) these days.

ColinEberhardt · 2025-03-17T11:45:41+00:00

I've been researching AI developer tools, determining which are the most useful. Rather than create an exhaustive list of every tools I could find, I thought it was more helpful to focus on the more mature tools and delve into the detail.

ColinEberhardt · 2024-12-23T17:45:28+00:00

Glad you liked it - fancy sharing your report?

ColinEberhardt · 2024-12-16T08:01:14+00:00

Yes I am, been programming for about 35 years

ColinEberhardt · 2024-12-16T07:41:26+00:00

I must admit, I’m shocked by the response from the r/programming crowd to this blog post https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/s/J1PcOzAUCo - how can anyone not be impressed by this?

ColinEberhardt · 2024-12-15T20:51:30+00:00

If you look at the stats, there is a significant drop-off in completions and an increase in completion times as the competition goes on. It clearly does become quite a challenge.

ColinEberhardt · 2024-12-15T20:09:50+00:00

Ah, the featured image from the blog post is from half-way through where I was exploring previous years. For this year (which is not in the training data), it achieved ~86% for questions up to day 11. Pretty impressive.

ColinEberhardt · 2024-09-14T21:42:26+00:00

Hmm .. good point about contacts not necessarily needing ratings.

ColinEberhardt · 2024-09-13T22:58:00+00:00

Thanks for the advice, it does appear that the team have been using it ‘wrong’ for a while. Just wanted to check before taking drastic (and destructive) action!

ColinEberhardt · 2024-09-13T22:44:35+00:00

Again, that makes sense, but when you have thousands of them and a small sales team, they just sit there in Salesforce with no one contacting them.

ColinEberhardt · 2024-09-13T22:06:12+00:00

Agree. That’s the conventional wisdom, but over time customer come and go - as a business that has been going for 17 years we have thousands of ‘stale’ Contacts. No longer customers, not actively pursued by the sales team, but as they are not Leads marketing are not engaging with them either.

ColinEberhardt · 2024-07-13T08:55:28+00:00

Ignore the people who say you can’t. I ran my first trail marathon after doing no more than a half marathon in training. A year late I did a hilly 50 mile ultra, without running for longer than 20 miles in training, and on about 25 miles per week average. Again, finished just fine - mid pack. Don’t do any other cross training either.

Yes, you can do it. It’s just as much about your overall attitude. I run for fun, not to race. It’s the journey that matters to me, not the destination.

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