Category: AI
-
Emperor the algorithm says No
The life of a social media influencer looks to my children as the pinnacle of doing as less as possible. Having creative freedom, direct audience and unlimited money. They haven’t yet truly understood perception vs reality. But helping them peeling back the curtain, I try to point out a different reality. Many creators are locked…
-
The Law of Contextual Decay
I was on PTO in lovely Luxemburg (nature sure needs a lot of rain to look so good) and the campsite where we stayed had a folder for enticing people to come see this German Dino park (Teufelsschlucht). This made me reminiscent of times in the south of France were our family indeed visited those…
-
Our systems are only stable on weekends. And we call that innovation?
Ever notice the silence of a Saturday? No urgent Slack pings. No panicked emails about a failed deployment. Dependency doom? The monitoring dashboards are all…
-
A Curmudgeons Lament
I’ve seen the digital age unfold, from the monolithic hum of mainframes to the incessant notifications of the device in your pocket. And I’m here to tell you, we’ve taken a wrong turn. We, the architects of this new world, have created a hellscape of digital tinnitus! A constant avalanche of notifications and updates from…
-
Beyond the Policy pdf
An Architect’s Guide to Governing Agentic AI Your company is rushing to deploy autonomous AI. A traditional governance playbook won’t work. The only real solution is to architect for control from day one. You can feel the pressure on CTOs and Chief Architects from every direction. The board wants to know your AI strategy. Your…
-
Are we trading long term wisdom for Fool’s Gold?
Tailbone evolution Are we trading long term wisdom for Fool’s Gold? Martijn Veldkamp "Strategic Technology Leader | Customer’s Virtual CTO | Salesforce Expert |…
-
The Illusion of “Fire and Forget”
Dishwashers, Robot Vacuums, and AI As our dishwasher broke down with very interesting but totally unhelpful error messages, I had to do the dishes by hand. Normally when out camping I don’t mind, but at home it felt old-school. As my hands were busy (and wrinkling) my mind started thinking. Switching from washing dishes by…
-
Stop spinning your wheels: The AI Game Plan
My previous articles explored the “AI Battle Royale” – the explosive proliferation of AI models by all these different companies that want to end up on top. And the subsequent “Countless Wheels, Where Are the Cars?”. I think we all see the countless variations on language models, but relative few of truly transformative ideas. I…
-
Countless Wheels, Where Are the Cars?
As I posted last week, I made the analogy that we are witnessing an AI Cambrian explosion. It’s a sudden and rapid diversification of artificial intelligence models. Unprecedented burst of AI offerings. Cambrian? Brittanica.com It speaks to the imagination but you have to see it at a relative scale. The Cambrian explosion happened over a…
-
AI Battle Royale
The AI landscape seemed relatively simple. ChatGPT and later Claude, and Gemini were dominating conversations. Now? It’s seems a full-blown AI Battle Royale. The news is full with self proclaimed contenders. Everybody wants a slice of this pie. Deepseek, Kimi, Meta, Perplexity, and even Elon Musk’s Grok are new contenders. And let’s be honest, that…