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Artificial Intelligence

A collection of 16 issues

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.

"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.

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?

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?

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?

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!