Category: Technology
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Are we approaching AI’s trough of disillusionment?
The internet has criticised – jestfully – the capability of AI for several years now. It started with computer vision capabilities in their youth, where cats were often identified and inferred as dogs, when blockchain was still the hype for Y Combinator candidates and investors with more money than technical prowess. A flow chart that…
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How do you trust artificial intelligence? (draft)
(This is a blog I am drafting for Nexor, and seeking wider thoughts and comments on before publication) Recent events in the news have us pondering a fundamental trust issue with AI models, whether that’s trusting the data with which we train them, or the result of which they infer. Large Language Model (LLM) poisoning…
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Zero Trust is not just an architecture
Zero trust is not a magic black box product either. Those that know me are aware that I’m very much a “let’s go back to first principles” kind of person, and often that has saved me from going down rabbit holes, or has found overlooked flaws in previous enterprise architectures and highlighted a clearer path…
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Lessons from containerising monolithic apps
Sometimes removing the little sanity you have to culture a bigger organisational change and engineering paradigm is worth it When I joined $COMPANY as a principal DevOps architect, I was shown around a couple of server cabinets. My boss pointed to these physical things called servers. “That’s an AMQP server. That’s a Zabbix server. That’s…