4 Lessons We Learned from Bringing AI to Our Company - “Next, you’ll face potential roadblocks, as privacy and security teams will be looking into where the models you use are hosted and where the data is stored. Chat.com, Gemini.com, or anything free of charge and a privacy nightmare is out of the question."

Are better models better? - “Part of the concept of ‘Disruption’ is that important new technologies tend to be bad at the things that matter to the previous generation of technology, but they do something else important instead."

Observability: the present and future, with Charity Majors - “The main trend across the industry: consolidation. Companies try to control their bills."

OpenAI releases Operator agent as rivals enhance their AI services - ”When users ask Operator to perform a task in a website, the agent navigates to the relevant URL using a built-in browser. It can type, click and scroll to carry out the requested action. Operator regularly takes screenshots of the website to check that everything is working as expected. ”

Intuit CTO keeps 8,000 engineers on track with a base platform of common services - Centralizing, standardizing.

The 2024 State of Platform Engineering? Fledgling at Best - The New Stack - “The majority of the organizations surveyed – 56% – have had platform teams for less than two years. A mere 13% of respondents reported working in “platform engineering” for more than five years."

Why run AI on-premise? - Big ol' list of why you’d chose private cloud. // “While cloud-based AI services offer scalability and cost-effectiveness, especially for testing and early use cases, enterprises are increasingly considering on-premise AI solutions. Factors such as data sovereignty, security, performance, and cost are driving this shift, particularly as AI projects grow and require more data and processing power. Enterprises are also exploring less resource-intensive models and open-source options to reduce costs and improve efficiency."

Alternatives to “sorry” - American English meanings for “sorry."

Deepseek: The Quiet Giant Leading China’s AI Race - ”Open source, publishing papers, in fact, do not cost us anything. For technical talent, having others follow your innovation gives a great sense of accomplishment. In fact, open source is more of a cultural behavior than a commercial one, and contributing to it earns us respect. There is also a cultural attraction for a company to do this.”

The return of skinny jeans? Men’s catwalks suggest wide-legged trousers are out and calf-huggers back in - Looks like a dodged a bullet on this one by wearing my old Gen-X pants despite the trends.