IBM takes on AWS, Google, and Microsoft with Watsonx - If it works, it lets enterprises build up huge, custom trained models, and it has enough governance controls, it’d be a big deal for IBM. They key things learned from ChatGPT is that it has to be super easy, frictionless to get started with. That’s difficult for enterprises software makers, and it’s also hindered by governance, access control, and pricing per seat and data access. To be valuable to individuals, a company will need to put as much of their data into their models as possible. If you’re just querying your own email and files, it won’t be impressive enough to show long-term value to individuals. And if you restrict the model to just a handful of people (as is done with most corporate data), then it also will be hard to show long-term value. This will freak out security people and lawyers. Back in the 2000’s when file sharing in enterprises (like SharePoint and intranet search) became popular, there was a wave of people freaking out that previously hidden in plain sight documents were now findable.
Beware the Digital Whiteboard - The assertion: writing with whiteboarding/Sticky notes is not good, and can lead to leaky abstractions. Seem more like a “right tool for the job” thing, plus the usual garbage in, garbage out, regardless of the tool used to process the garbage.
Steve McQueen by, John Dominis - That guy made being cool look easy.
Steve McQueen by, John Dominis - That guy made being cool look easy.
Island Series: 6 Pack - These look like more amazing notebooks from a boutique shop.
Adopt Platform Engineering to Scale Application Security Practices - “Gartner Survey Data Reveals a Missed Opportunity - Platform teams focus on improving developer experience, developer productivity, software quality and delivery speed. According to Gartner’s 2022 Software Engineering Leaders Role Survey, only 25% of respondents cited “reduced security risks’’ as one of the top three goals for platform engineering and only 6% ranked it as the topmost goal.” // Here we are, about to finally have a moment that’s just focused on making appdev better, and of course security has to come in and try to grab all the attention. This already happened with Kubernetes in the past few years. And: maybe it was a good idea to keep all this stuff separated in its own team so that each team can focus.
ChatGPT web traffic falls 10%, analytics show - Indeed. I think I’ve found the limitations. The main one is the limit in the text you can feed it. If I could build up my own training data, that’d be something! The Link Reader plugin solves the summarizing web pages problem that I was having. What needs to happen now is just to get it integrated into enterprise software, and all the data ownership privacy stuff that goes with that. That’ll take at least six month, if not a year, to get through the security, legal, etc. people. So, check back in in 2025?
Scratch Pad: Fireworks, Bootlegs, Spock - “I remain convinced that most categories of online services are akin either to hair salons, to grocery stores, or to movie theaters.”
Also, the Spock picture.
Porter’s Five Forces and the social web - There’s something interesting to do here in applying Porter to contemporary tech.
Unleash developer productivity with generative AI, McKinsey survey - Their survey says it’s good in four areas: Expediting manual and repetitive work, Jump-starting the first draft of new code, Accelerating updates to existing code, Increasing developers' ability to tackle new challenges.