Introduction Sharing some insights today on how to improve your productivity with LLMs beyond the initial steps! Most of you have started out in a simple , yet mind blowing at that time, manner being Chat (with an AI assistant). Pretty much comparable to how you would use Copilot (or a ChatGPT, or a Claude, or a Continue reading Simplistic AI Maturity Model What your AI journey on personal…
Introduction Already heard about Loop Engineering ? If not Loop engineering is the practice of designing autonomous systems that prompt AI agents, observe outcomes, verify results, and iterate until a goal is achieved, replacing manual prompting with automated workflows. The foundation of this is having the agent iterate over a plan which has context in its Continue reading Scout Advanced Usage…
Introduction The elements of the Trifecta A bit less than a year ago Simon Willison coined the Lethal Trifecta for AI agents. It is something I keep close to heart on my own agentic journeys, and which I wanted to share with you today! In Simon s post, he highlights three dimensions ; Access to Continue reading The Lethal Trifecta of AI Agents
Introduction The entire AI space is moving at lightning speed! Aside from all the evolutions in the Azure space around this, there are also a lot of cool projects (like n8n, OpenClaw, ) that benefit from / rely on using LLM models. If you have been following the Azure space, then you are for sure Continue reading How to use any model in Azure AI Foundry with community projects like n8n
Introduction Today s post will be about a common term you ll hear in the context of project management quite a bit, namely The Critical Path . In essence ; A critical path is determined by identifying the longest stretch of dependent activities and measuring the time required to complete them from start to finish. Though why care? By Continue reading Critical Path
Introduction Many lives ago, I posted a blog post on the business sweeper . For those who are familiar with sports, it was basically a very basic comparison from myself back-in-the-day about how the concept of a libero could be seen in business. Reflecting back at that one, I have come to learn that the libero Continue reading Organizational Fluidity Rigid or Flexible systems / roles?
Introduction Earlier this week on Cloudbrew, I did a session on Security Essentials for PaaS Loves . The last demo it included was one where I had two VamPI deployments running ; one vulnerable one not vulnerable. These deployments were then addressed with some raw API calls. One of those, showed that there was a Continue reading Will a WAF save us from a programming error?
Introduction Today s post is about a story many people have probably heard me telling in real life Where with this I took the opportunity to finally publish it on this blog. 😉 In our DevOps literature we have often used the concept of Pets versus Cattle to indicate why go for DevOps. Though in my Continue reading Real Life Based My personal story on Cattle vs Pets and how it relates to DevOps /…
Introduction When managing any IT infrastructure, you want to rely on as much automation as possible. As you probably know, you can integrate Azure DevOps with Azure Active Directory. The next step would be to ensure that you do not need to do any manual tasks in terms of adding/removing users from Azure DevOps. Which Continue reading Azure DevOps Automatic user provisioning via Azure Active…
Introduction Earlier this week Laure showed me an awesome SDK that provides context aware, pluggable and customizable data protection and anonymization for text and images. Which is called ; Presidio! Where this has proven to be very useful for a use case we were working on. In today s post, we ll take a look how you Continue reading Anonymizing data with Presidio on Azure