Tag: AI

  • IncrementalOps

    IncrementalOps

    Beware of High Expectations in Enterprise Tech Here are three charts. First, while everyone is freaking out about AI, it’s had little impact thus far: Shared by Mark Hinkle. Second, since 2020, usage of cloud seems to have leveled off at a 50/50 split between on-premises and public cloud: Source:  IDC, The Evolution of Cloud…

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  • “Shift Left (and leave)” versus “Shift Left (and stay)”

    “Shift Left (and leave)” versus “Shift Left (and stay)”

    Only 22% of software developers say they have a clear understanding of what they need to do to comply with security policy, to make sure the applications they’re writing for their organization, are good in a security sense. Now, it’d be easy to say the developers are just dopes and they don’t know what they’re…

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  • 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…

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  • Summarizing Articles with ChatGPT Works Again

    Summarizing Articles with ChatGPT Works Again

    Our final talk in our software stuff for financial organizations is coming up tomorrow. Above is a little anecdote that Darran made to me as we were working on it. If you’re into security, compliance, that kind of thing, check out the third part of our series: “How Cloud Native Improves & Ensures Security, Governance,…

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  • 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…

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  • If Books Could Kill – The Podcast Review #01

    If Books Could Kill – The Podcast Review #01

    I listen to a lot of podcasts, and have for, I don’t know, over 20 years. I’ve made and make a lot of podcasts. You might call me both a podcast listening and podcast creating expert. In the classic sense: a critic. I should review podcasts more frequently! If Books Could Kill – Worth the…

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  • 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.

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  • How can my kids use ChatGPT to be better students?

    How can my kids use ChatGPT to be better students?

    When a good teacher seems like cheating All of the worrying about cheating with ChatGPT is hiding its biggest potential: being a teacher. As an “expert” (or, at least, well read) in digital transformation, DevOps, cloud native, blah blah, when I ask ChatGPT to do things for me, it’s mostly smell-free garbage, kindergarten stuff. But,…

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  • Five Nos – “‘yeses’ matter more than ‘nos,’ and taking more chances generates more of each. While there’s a near equal chance of getting told ‘no’ in our endeavors, in virtually all cases, there is no penalty for that rejection beyond some brief discomfort or embarrassment. On the other hand, when you get a ‘yes,’…

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  • The Homework Apocalypse substack.com/inbox/pos… How to incorporate ChatGPT (etc.) in school and lessons…in a good way.

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  • [Midjourney and Adobe Stock](https://redmonk.com/rstephens/2023/06/27/midjourney-adobe-stock/) – Using AI to make stock photography, etc.

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  • Midjourney and Adobe Stock – Using AI to make stock photography, etc.

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  • All those naked Greeks… – I think the conclusion is status, power, beauty, and sex.

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  • Bluesky Has Problems – Me: there aren’t enough people and, thus, communities yet. Also: federation isn’t really anything people care about, and, thus, not a feature worth spending time on.

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  • Catching up on the HOT links

    Catching up on the HOT links

    Do you like words like: security – governance – PCI – regulation – SBOMs?! Then you should attend our talk series on cloud native app development in banks, insurance companies, and financial services. It’s online and, of course, free. Relevant to your interests The Quest for Better, Faster Deals – The highest quality deals are…

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  • Celebrity photographer Chris Floyd shares six pieces of career advice everyone can learn from – “I think that anything generic is fucked now. Anything where a client thinks: ‘We need a picture of a woman who is eating a salad’, say, or ‘laughing with a laptop’. If it’s not a specific person, it’s just a…

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  • Citi to cut 5K jobs citing tech initiatives – Not good for the pro-AI crowd. // ‘Citi’s technology transformation plans, which Mason said are in the execution stage, are driving efforts to reduce headcount…. Over time, “we will no longer need the same level of people that we have at this particular phase,” Mason said.…

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  • Change Management In Digital Transformation: There’s No Tunnel, There’s No Light – “21% of global services decision-makers supporting their organization’s digital transformation cited implementation of new processes and capabilities as one of their greatest challenges.” // …79% have more important problems, maybe even culture change totes chill.

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  • AI And B2B Marketing — Three Opportunities And Challenges To Ponder – “Half my advertising spend is wasted; the trouble is, I don’t know which half; the trouble is I don’t know which half” is still the case after all these years: “most B2B organizations struggle to deliver basic content measurement and intelligence today —…

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  • 2023-06-13 day note

    What is the deal with Disney live action kid shows? Do they have a team that makes sure they all have the same…vibe? It’s so weird. (This Jessie show is ok. Not sure about the handsy ten year old: Jessie: “Do you have an off switch?” Handy ten year old: “yup. Do you wanna try…

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