Posts Tagged ‘AI’
Don’t huff the fumes
TL;DR Agentic systems are the latest thing being used to solve IT integration issues, becoming the glue squirted into the gaps between systems. But the use of natural language means that the distinction between ‘data’ and ‘code’ is almost impossible to make, which causes a whole raft of security concerns. This new glue may be […]
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Tags: agentic, agents, AI, CHERI, glue, integration, middleware, security
TL;DR Supply-chain Levels for Software Artifacts (SLSA) attestations are a great way to show that you care about security, and they’re fairly trivial to add to delivery pipelines that produce a single binary or container image. But things get tricky with matrix jobs that build lots of things in parallel, as you then need to […]
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Tags: AI, ARM, artifact, attestation, CD, container, Cosign, Dart, DevOps, Docker, Gemini, GitHub Actions, image, json, matrix, security, signing, slsa
Last week my former colleague Doug Todd asked a question about recording decisions on BlueSky: Of course I replied suggesting Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), with a pointer to the at_protocol GitHub repo where we use them. A few days back Doug demoed how he’s using ADRs with his coding assistant (Claude and Claude Code), and […]
Filed under: architecture, code, software, technology | 1 Comment
Tags: ADR, ADRs, AI, architecture, Claude, coding assistant, decision, LLM
Using a Model to Model
TL;DR Once we get past ‘bullshit work‘, the primary enterprise use cases for Large Language Models (LLMs) appear to converge on various ways to make it easier to work with unstructured data. That’s because an LLM can generate an ‘understanding’ of the data, saving the painstaking process of getting humans to provide context. Of course […]
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Tags: AI, data, GenAI, language, LLM, model, modeled, structured, unmodeled, unstructured
GL.iNet MT-6000 Flint2 Review
TL;DR The Flint 2 seems to be a pretty awesome router. It was a little fiddly to set up my (quite complex) existing VLANs and wireless networks onto it, but it’s been working without a hitch since then :) Why? I’ve had a Draytek 2866ax router paired with an AP960C access point for about 18m[1]. […]
Filed under: networking, review, technology, Uncategorized | 1 Comment
Tags: Access Point, AI, Flint 2, Flint2, GL.iNet, MT-6000, OpenWRT, review, SSID, VLAN, wifi
HelixML have announced their Helix platform for Generative AI is production ready at version 1.0. Described as a ‘Private GenAI Stack’ the platform provides an interface layer and applications that can be connected to a variety of large language models (LLMs). It can be used to prototype applications, starting with just a laptop; with all components version controlled to […]
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Tags: AI, GenAI, Helix, HelixML, InfoQ, LLM
Bullshit Baffles Brains
It’s right there in the title. If the word offends you, just stop, now. TL;DR Generative AI is a bullshit machine, but that’s fine because we need machines to do the bullshit jobs. Military Grade Bullshit I first heard the phrase ‘Bullshit Baffles Brains’ in my early days in the Navy, and I would hear […]
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Tags: AI, bullshit, ChatGPT, generative, LLM, Navy
March 2024
Pupdate March continued the succession of Atlantic weather front based wet and wind that’s been going on since mid October; but… it’s been warm enough for the coats stay off, at least some days. Damian Lewis I’ve loved just about everything I’ve seen Damian Lewis in, particularly Billions; so (despite his crooning of the National […]
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Tags: AI, Corgi, dachshund, Damian Lewis, Duet, Gemma, heating, leak, LLM, Monkigras, plumbing, podcast, prompt, pump, pupdate, Rick Wakeman, solar, turbo, Volvo
February 2024
Pupdate It’s been something like the wettest February on record, which has somewhat curtailed long walks :( But the boys have still enjoyed getting out and about even if it’s meant washing their fleece coats every few days to clear off all the mud. State of Open Conference I’ve noticed a bunch of friends getting […]
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Tags: AI, Beat Saber, Bennetts, bubble, dachshund, dentist, home lab, insurance, Linux, motorbike, motorcycle, open source, OpenSSF, pupdate, root canal, security, solar, SOOCon24, Yocto
AI MacGuffin
I’m increasingly hearing AI talked about as a MacGuffin… It could magically solve this thorny and expensive problem that’s been intractable for years. We all just need to geek a bit harder, buy (or rent) more GPUs and scrape together some better training data… In this context AI cannot fail, it can only be failed, […]
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Tags: AI, hype, MacGuffin
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