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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.

The Day the Computers Turned Blue. (This Issue Is Not the Result of or Related to a Cyberattack. We Did It to Ourselves.)

As the only thing in the universe that writes software, we are the best at it. But is what we write any good? Do we make poor software? And is it just because it's cheaper?

Software Crisis, Software Glut, and Software Plop

Discussion of the increasing complexity facing humanity is unavoidable. We've been in a "software crisis" since at least 1968. Will AI programming, which we might call "plop," make things better...or worse? Are we doomed to 500+ generations of unsafe computers?

It’s a Race to the Top. Claude 3.5 Sonnet Claims the Crown. For Now...

I believe that competition makes most things better, and my goodness, do we have competition in the LLM/GenAI space right now! And, most importantly, users are the big winner!

Programming for People Who Don't Program Good

Most software companies need to solve problems of a certain size in order to find the right return on investment. But what about all the other smaller problems we deal with? The thousands of paper cuts we endure daily? Can GenAI help MORE people solve SMALLER problems with software?