Mike Loukides    Back in August, I cavalierly said that AI couldn’t design a car if it hadn’t seen one first, and I alluded to Henry Ford’s apocryphal statement If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses. I’m not backing down on any of that, but the history of technology is always...

Mike Loukides    In August , we asked our customers to tell us about security: their role in security, their certifications, their concerns, and what their companies are doing to address those concerns. We had, complete responses, of which roughly one third are members of a security team. ...

Mike Loukides    The model release train continues, with Mistral’s multimodal Pixtral B, OpenAI’s o models, and Roblox’s model for building D scenes. We also have another important AI enabled programming tool: Cursor is an alternative to GitHub Copilot that’s getting rave reviews. Security will never cease to...

Mike Loukides    AI is everywhere we’re in a middle of a technology shift that’s as big as and possibly bigger than the arrival of the web in the s. Even though ChatGPT appeared almost two years ago, we still feel unprepared: we read that AI will change every job, but we don’t know what that means or how

Mike Loukides    A recent article in Computerworld argued that the output from generative AI systems, like GPT and Gemini, isn’t as good as it used to be. It isn’t the first time I’ve heard this complaint, though I don’t know how widely held that opinion is. But I wonder: Is it correct And if so, why I

Mike Loukides    This month, we’ll give AI a rest. Alex Russell has finished an excellent series of posts titled Reckoning. It’s a must read for web developers. If you want to understand why our networks and laptops are much faster than they were or years ago, but the web is slower, it comes down to one

Mike Loukides    Platform engineering is the latest buzzword in IT operations. And like all other buzzwords, it’s in danger of becoming meaningless in danger of meaning whatever some company with a platform engineering product wants to sell. We’ve seen that happen to too many useful concepts: Edge computing...

Mike Loukides    Over the years, many of us have become accustomed to letting computers do our thinking for us. That’s what the computer says is a refrain in many bad customer service interactions. That’s what the data says is a variation the data doesn’t say much if you don’t know how it was collected and...

Mike Loukides    July was a big month for model releases: There are new large models from Mistral and Meta, smaller multilingual models from Mistral and DeepL, another Mistral model that specializes in code generation, and a small version of GPT o. The security world saw another software supply chain disaster when...

Mike Loukides    Like almost any question about AI, How does AI impact software architecture has two sides to it: how AI changes the practice of software architecture and how AI changes the things we architect. These questions are coupled; one can’t really be discussed without the other. But to jump to the...

Mike Taylor    The first AI image generation model I got to play around with was Midjourney v in summer . A month earlier, OpenAI had launched DALL E in beta, and the results looked unbelievably magical. You could generate images in any art style simply by prompting an AI with the name of an artist. I didn...

Mike Loukides    It’s clear that generative AI is already being used by a majority a large majority of programmers. That’s good. Even if the productivity gains are smaller than many think, to is significant. Making it easier to learn programming and begin a productive career is nothing to complain about...

Mike Loukides    Can anything that is programmable have an embedded LLM Apparently so. llama.ttf is a plain old font that looks like Open Sans you can download it and install it. We don’t know whether this is a massive vulnerability or a way to embed AI in almost any text based application. Probably both. It may...

Eric Elliott    As AI continues to advance at a rapid pace, developers are increasingly turning to AI driven development AIDD to build more intelligent and adaptive applications. However, using natural language prompts to describe complex behaviors to AI can be a real challenge. While natural language is...

Tim O’Reilly    Last month, The New York Times claimed that tech giants OpenAI and Google have waded into a copyright gray area by transcribing the vast volume of YouTube videos and using that text as additional training data for their AI models despite terms of service that prohibit such efforts and copyright law...