Tidal Series by Curtis Collicutt

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Latest — Nov 6, 2024

Oh Great, Now We Have to Deal With Synthetic Identities Too?

Identity is like a mercurial droplet flowing downhill, absorbing new elements while shedding others along its path. Except it's a digital stream of personal data that's constantly being stolen and manipulated to create things like synthetic identities for credit fraud.

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Where Is the Machine Usefulness? The Faster Horse

Whatever you think of AI, it certainly has the potential to replace jobs. Recent advances have allowed LLMs, strange programs, to use a GUI based computer. Isn't that just a faster horse?

AI & the Business of Enterprise Sales, Software, & Services

Despite some backlash, AI is moving forward. We are building new capabilities on top of existing advances, moving toward the ability to implement services as software, and disrupting a $10 trillion market. How is that changing things? A lot of it is counter-intuitive.

Reframing Risk as Trust

Is it risks we're looking for? Finding a million little pieces of risk isn't that useful, what we are actually doing is building trust in our systems. Maybe we should admit that?

AI Platform Risk is Real

Commercial AI companies are leapfrogging each other in terms of LLM capabilities. These companies are also risky businesses that could fail. Other startups are building tools on top of these new platforms the end user could come to rely on, such as the Cursor IDE, so there are layers of exposure.

"Mechanical Sympathy" for Large Language Models

LLMs that can code are a new thing, and we'll have to adapt to using different strategies to get them to write the code we want, such as prompting, prodding, providing notes and status, and using specific technologies that are easier for them.

The Heartbreaking Reality that is Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity is a very different beast from software engineering. If you just write some code to solve a problem, it's almost guaranteed to be insecure. Adding security always costs time and money. Where does that leave us? Heartbroken, that's where.

If Generative AI Speeds up Programming, Will We Have More Time to Spend on Cybersecurity? Magic 8 Ball Says...

If we can use GenAI to speed up and drastically change the way we deal with code and get days, if not weeks, of time back in the process, would we...could we...use that time to implement more cybersecurity?

Is There a New Internet Brewing? The Internet Used to Be Fun, What Is It Now? Goop Piled on Other Goop?

Internet 2.0 was probably as good as the Internet will ever be. What will it become now? A smaller, more personalized Internet? Just a bunch of algorithmic junk we try to filter out?

We Are Software Masters of the Universe...Aren’t We?

In science fiction books and movies, humanity's greatest weapon is often the computer virus. In these works, our greatest gift is the ability to program. And yet, in the real world, we are riddled with software bugs and massive insecurity.