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Your AI Models Have an Expiry Date — A Practical Guide to Model Lifecycle Management

Introduction — The Promise I Made In my previous article [1], I explored the maintenance trap in IT — how software systems are more like plants than stones, requiring constant care. I ended with a cli


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The Coding Agent That Doesn't Code

The Friday That Wrote Itself Last Friday, I used a coding agent for eight hours straight. I didn’t write a single line of code. I prepared a customer meeting by pulling context from Slack threads, cal


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On the Loop, Not In It — But Code Quality Still Matters

On the Loop, Not In It — But Code Quality Still Matters Yesterday one of my AI agents wasted 15 minutes chasing a bug that didn’t exist. The function was called transformPayload(), but it didn’t trans


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Technology Evolution Doesn't Move in a Straight Line—It Spirals

Technology Evolution Doesn’t Move in a Straight Line. It Spirals The Proud Ops Colleague Years ago, an Ops colleague proudly showed me something new. ClusterSSH, cssh [1]. A tool that opens multiple t


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💰 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝗱𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗎 𝗚𝗌𝗲𝘀 𝗗𝗲𝗲𝗜𝗲𝗿 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝗬𝗌𝘂 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗞—𝗙𝗿𝗌𝗺 𝗚𝗜 𝗕𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝘁𝗌 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗎 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮

💰 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝗱𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗎 𝗚𝗌𝗲𝘀 𝗗𝗲𝗲𝗜𝗲𝗿 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝗬𝗌𝘂 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗞—𝗙𝗿𝗌𝗺 𝗚𝗜 𝗕𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝘁𝗌 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗎 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 Just before heading out for my lunch run, I read the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism’s article “Advertisin


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𝗙𝗿𝗌𝗺 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗌 𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝗎𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗛𝘂𝗯: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗌𝗳 𝗖𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗌𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝗊𝘂𝗜𝗜𝗌𝗿𝘁 𝗜𝘀 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲

𝗙𝗿𝗌𝗺 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗌 𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝗎𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗛𝘂𝗯: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗌𝗳 𝗖𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗌𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝗊𝘂𝗜𝗜𝗌𝗿𝘁 𝗜𝘀 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲 Just returning from an internal Amazon Connect deep[1] dive. I haven’t touched this particular product since maybe 5 years?! Di


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Most comprehensive overview on RAG I have seen. We came a long way from vanilla RAG. Still remember

Most comprehensive overview on RAG I have seen. We came a long way from vanilla RAG. Still remember the time of arguments that RAG is just a “hot fix” to be obsolete soon. Reality is it is not a fix b


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What Anthropic is describing is the weaker version of this technique: applied externally, without pe

What Anthropic is describing is the weaker version of this technique: applied externally, without permission, at an adversarial scale. Yet 16 million exchanges suggest MiniMax found the weaker version


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IT System Maintenance in the age of AI

IT System Maintenance in the age of AI Introduction - The Maintenance Trap in IT You don’t need to be in the IT industry for long to have witnessed this firsthand. Even non-IT users do. Those systems 


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🔧 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗜: 𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗬𝗌𝘂𝗿 𝗜𝗧 𝗊𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀 𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝗠𝗌𝗿𝗲 𝗟𝗶𝗞𝗲 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝗊𝘁𝗌𝗻𝗲𝘀

🔧 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗜: 𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗬𝗌𝘂𝗿 𝗜𝗧 𝗊𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀 𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝗠𝗌𝗿𝗲 𝗟𝗶𝗞𝗲 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝗊𝘁𝗌𝗻𝗲𝘀 After years of watching organizations struggle with outdated systems, I’ve written about a pattern we all know too well—the


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