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Book Review: Cracked It! — Problem-Solving and Solution Selling Reviewed from the Perspective of IT, Agile, and AI Bernard Garrette, Corey Phelps Olivier Sibony Einstein reportedly said that if he were given one hour to solve a problem, he would spend 55 minutes defining it and only five minutes finding the solution. That [ ]
or Technical Debt and the Tech Radar: Staying Ahead of Obsolescence Ward Cunningham originally coined the term technical debt in 1992 to describe the nature of software development—specifically, the need to constantly refactor and improve inefficiencies in your code. Constant improvement. However, the technology itself becomes technical debt over time. Consider the shift from handmade [ ]
Trust, But Verify: Testing AI Agents When Ronald Reagan said trust, but verify, he was referring to a Russian proverb doveryai, no proveryai, which he learned from his adviser Suzanne Massie and used during nuclear arms control negotiations with the former Soviet Union. In the same way, these powerful AI agents are useful but we [ ]
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. — Alvin Toffler In this new year, you cannot ignore the paradigm shifts happening in our world, and the paradigm shift right now is AI. A couple years ago, AI was just [ ]
You can t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. – Steve Jobs, Stanford University Commencement Address, 2005 This quote perfectly captures the challenge of workflow automation. You know the outcome you want, but building the path to get there? That s where the real work begins. n8n (pronounced n-eight-n ) is an [ ]
Have you ever played telephone? A message passes from person to person until it reaches the last player, who compares what they heard to the original. The results are often hilarious, but in a company or organization where coworkers relay messages this way, the results could be costly and disastrous. When you do conversational programming [ ]
In the movie I, Robot, Will Smith s character Detective Spooner was talking to Dr. Lanning s pre-recorded holographic message. It would say I m sorry! My responses are limited. You must ask the right questions, and later, when Spooner asks about revolution, Lanning says, That, Detective, is the right question. Using AI tools with the right question [ ]
Retrospect a review of or meditation on past events A few things come to mind when I reflect on 2024 and think about the past year s lessons. 1 Don t be the smartest man in the room. The phrase the smartest man in the room came from Richard Holbrooke, from a 1975 article, meaning [ ]
I look at every day as an opportunity to improve myself not just on new years. If you’re into improving systems (Such as using DevOps) then why not improve the most important system you have…Yourself. James Clear has written in my opinion a clear and practical way of changing your habits by working on a system [ ]
Using Ansible to provision VMs on AWS I have been asked on several occasions to show how to use Ansible to provision VMs on Amazon Web Services (AWS). This is “commoditization virtualization” on demand just by running a single playbook, which is pretty cool. Why automation in the first place? If your reading this article [ ]