We Will Remember It For You At Wholesale Token Prices
You make an appointment to meet with a specialist who will help you recreate lost memories. Are you in a sci-fi movie...or is this happening in real life?
Curtis Collicutt
The Purpose of the Hypersurface Is to Keep Expanding: The Non-Human Identity Explosion
Dropbox was recently hacked and non-human identities were involved. How cyberpunk! Identity in the cloud is extremely complex and can only be managed by modelling with tools. This complexity has contributed to the continued growth of the attack hypersurface.
Anthropic Pokes at the “Brain” of AI and It Smells Burnt Golden Gate Bridge
Large Language Models have largely been a black box, in that we don't understand what's going on inside them. This makes them difficult and sometimes unsafe to use. But new research is shedding light on their inner workings, paving the way for greater security in their application.
Welcome to the TCA: The Total Cloud Abstraction
Computers should be more secure and easier to use. While the public cloud has many benefits, it also adds complexity. What if we used a cloud account differently... what if we entered the TOTAL CLOUD ABSTRACTION zone!
Is Software Regulation Coming?
We know that software is full of security holes. That's the way it works: it costs more to write secure software. But we also know that some key industries, like finance, are heavily regulated, and it is effective. Regulation seems to make finance healthier. Could software be next?
Is AI a Generational Movement for Developers?
Over the last few weeks I've been lucky enough to attend AI related events in Toronto. From those events I've developed some views on what is going on with AI and new developers.
Can Large Language Models Hack? Part 1
There is a wide range of ideas about what GenAI might be capable of. There are many questions we have about what it can do. One that has come up recently is whether GenAI is capable of malicious attacks on software. In short, can it "hack?"
Infrastructure as Code. Infrastructure is Code. Infrastructure from Code. Infrastructure will Code.
What we call IaC is not a single thing. There are a variety of different models and strategies. In this post I explore some ways to categorise these models and try to understand how IaC is evolving, including how recent advances in artificial intelligence can be a catalyst for change.
Realists, Pioneers, Skeptics and Futurists: The AI Hot Take Matrix
I had four pieces of AI content decaying in browser tabs, and they were each starkly different in terms of their feel for where AI is headed. I realised that in order to understand what these articles meant for the future of AI, I needed to map these positions out.
More on the Attack Hypersurface. Cloud Estates Can Only Be Understood With Modelling. And Just Look at All the SKUs.
In a previous article I started to discuss the idea of how infrastructure technology has evolved into having an "attack hypersurface," not just a normal sized, regular old attack surface, but something more than that...something almost unknowable.