Tag: APIs
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Docling: An open-source tool kit for advanced document processing – Looks useful for getting precious text out of the PDF silo, from IBM.
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Agents are models using tools in a loop – “Agents are models using tools in a loop,” Anthropic’s Hannah Moran.
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It’s Not About “Nice” – ”So next time you read about organizations moving away from ‘nice,’ what they’re really doing is voluntarily choosing to lower their own performance and demotivate their talent.”
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After months of coding with LLMs, I’m going back to using my brain – “I’m leveraging them to learn Go, to upskill myself. And then I apply this new knowledge when I code.” And: “But I’m not asking it to write new things from scratch, to come up with ideas or to write a whole…
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A2A Protocol: The Universal Language for AI Agents –
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Docker introduces MCP Catalog and Toolkit as vendors scramble to support the protocol despite security concerns – Local LLMs and MCP everywhere.
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Heroku’s Strategic Refresh Signals Renewed Investment from Salesforce – Overview of “the new” Heroku, plus risks.
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Model Context Protocol has prompt injection security problems – There’s a lot of security work TBD with MCP. // “The curse of prompt injection continues to be that we’ve known about the issue for more than two and a half years and we still don’t have convincing mitigations for handling it.”
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Has VMware Finally Caught Up With Kubernetes? – ‘“Previously, there were multiple disparate APIs spread across different areas for VMs, containers and networking services,” Carr said. “The advantage of the new approach is the integration of Kubernetes and VMs APIs with a single operating model. This enables streamlined processes for both workloads.”’
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Most Externalities are Solved with Technology, Not Coordination – ”Economics should emphasize the importance of technology as a solution to externality problems and focus less on social coordination.” // Does this apply to IT where we often say “technology is easy, culture is hard.”
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The big idea: what do we really mean by free speech? – What “freedom of speech” means to the asshats: “what they actually want is freedom from the consequences of broadcasting their views.”
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Top EDI Processes You Should Automate With API – Tech never dies. Helpful consequence: take care of it before it takes care of you.
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Do Marketers Need To Be Writing for AI? – SEO for AI model training. Yup, better start doing that. The good news is, all those SEO-trap pages that you generated (those long one you never actually show to users/customers) would probably work here…are working here. But, it’s likely a good idea to start doing more…
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Context-switching is the main productivity killer for developers – #1 way to improve developer productivity, 30+ years running: stop interrupting them while they’re coding. // ”Research from UC Irvine shows that developers need an average of 23 minutes to rebuild their focus after an interruption fully.”
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How I get ChatGPT and Claude to help me write and write like me
Writing with ChatGPT and Claude I’ve been using ChatGPT and Claude a lot for writing recently. I had a long conversation in the car ride between Ghent and Amsterdam with one of my old DevOps pals and they described their AI writing process. It’s best describe it as “layering.” Well, actually, it’s just how writing…
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Clouded Judgement 1.30.25 – The Year of AI Applications – Finance-nerd explanation of the “this is actually great!” case for last week: “What’s happened over the last 12 months is the cost per API call (ie the cost for inference) for these models has plummeted. Open source models like Llama, R1 from DeepSeek, etc have…
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Spring Cloud Services for Tanzu Platform – Spring Cloud Services for Cloud Foundry v3.3 introduces an enhanced dashboard UI, improved configuration validation, and simplified secret management.
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[Deepseek: The Quiet Giant Leading China’s AI Race](https://www.chinatalk.media/p/deepseek-ceo-interview-with-chinas) – ”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.…
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How to use NotebookLM Plus for your business – The fact that most AIs can’t generate PowerPoint might be great: people will stop using decks for operations and go to the more helpful document. Slides for daily operations is terrible way to run the railroad. You could start doing PRFAQs and 6 pagers.
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What CIOs should know as DORA regulations kick in – All the great -ility’s. // “The business continuity standards laid out in the EU’s DORA require banks, insurers, securities exchanges, trading venues and other financial services providers to maintain backup systems for swift incident recovery. The EU expects impacted parties to be able to restore…
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