Toby Hodges
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Toby Hodges
@tobyhodges.carpentries.org
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Director of Curriculum at The Carpentries. Views my own. Sorry I haven't replied to your email.
"I only know that hearts made of stone will rarely sail far and may never reach home" - Chuck Ragan
Day 13: Summer #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025

Everyone else here is too much of a grown-up to post the Disney song, huh?

Winter's a good time to stay in and cuddle /
But put me in summer and I'll be a... HAPPY SNOWMAN

Olaf's "In Summer" song from Frozen.

music.youtube.com/watch?v=UFat...
FROZEN | "In Summer" Song - Olaf | Official Disney UK
YouTube video by Disney Channel België-Nederland
music.youtube.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Looking forward to reading BBC Verify's assessment of the veracity of claims made by the BBC in response to the BBC's questions.
November 13, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Reposted by Toby Hodges
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November 7, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Reposted by Toby Hodges
"Crucially, students will need to develop sufficient expertise to identify when AI systems produce plausible but incorrect outputs — which poses a dilemma because this requires the very skills that AI is starting to replace."

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
PhD training needs a reboot in an AI world
As machines get better at data analysis and writing tasks, doctoral training must evolve to make the most of artificial-intelligence outputs.
www.nature.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Day 5: Maybe #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025

The Gaslight Anthem: High Lonesome
www.youtube.com/watch?v=__ki...

"And at night I wake up with the sheets soaking wet" /
It's a pretty good song /
Maybe you know the rest?
www.youtube.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Reposted by Toby Hodges
I'd also like to shout out @carpentries.carpentries.org for leading the way on this, having made a similar decision earlier this year.
October 27, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Thank you, Joelle 🙌
October 29, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Put another way: in my experience it is still rare to find people sharing stories that are not (roughly) either "I tried this and it worked!" or "I tried this and it was useless!"
September 30, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Interesting read, thanks. It chimes with my own experience and with other examples that I have seen people share. I was particularly interested in your case because you described a situation where the result of your first attempt was messy and needed a lot of manual work to fix.
September 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
That's my interest as well. Currently supporting Carpentries community members in the creation of a workshop teaching careful and effective use of genAI for (research) software development, and how to think about the risks/implications of that use. Case studies like yours are very informative.
September 30, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Super interesting, thanks.
September 30, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Right. Thanks for the detailed response. Since you mention that the model "guessed" what the input data would look like, could more context also have been helpful? E.g. what input will be and what output should be expected?
September 30, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Reflecting on this experience, what will you do next time? Take the same approach, on the grounds that you have improved your debugging skills now & you estimate that this still saved you time? Or is there something you would adjust about the way you prompted Claude? Would you avoid altogether?
September 30, 2025 at 10:28 AM