Posts Tagged ‘LLM’

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 […]


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 […]


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 […]


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 […]


March 2024

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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 […]