Programming | Ben Piper — Cloud & Networking Expert, Author, Instructor

Prompts Are Not Rules

Nov 12, 2025 ai 2025 llm mlops programming

AI/ML is only half of the future. The other half is, well, old fashioned programming. What everyone is going to eventually figure out is that for many problems, AI can provide only half-baked solutions that are better solved by explicit rules—in other words, loops and conditionals. If you're serious about using AI …
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How To Save Associated HABTM Models in CakePHP

Mar 13, 2011 cakephp database development php programming scripting 2011

A common problem programmers have with CakePHP is saving related models with a many-to-many relationship, something Cake calls “hasAndBelongsToMany” or HABTM. One of the things that makes saving HABTM models so challenging is that when you go to save your models, Cake will act like everything saved fine when in fact …
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