Category: AI
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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…
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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 |…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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From Blueprint to CTO
Stolen from https://static.vecteezy.com/ From Blueprint to CTO Martijn Veldkamp "Strategic Technology Leader | Customer’s Virtual CTO | Salesforce Expert |…
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Think Outside the Inbox: You need More than Just To-Do Lists
Many Salesforce developers want to have more time for innovative thinking. But in the rush of deadlines, maintenance tasks, looming tech debt, and constant notifications, innovation often falls to the wayside. What is holding us back? One major factor is the unspoken culture within many organizations. Even experienced developers may feel pressured to put in…
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The Evolution of Data Integration
In today’s interconnected applications landscape, we rely on data shared across multiple systems and services. Throughout my career as an architect, integration strategies have evolved from basic ETL database copies to monolithic middleware, operational databases, API-driven microservices, and now ZeroCopy patterns. As I’m almost a year older again I look back at all the stuff…
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Moving Beyond the Honeymoon Phase
Lucidworks, in its 2024 Generative AI Global Benchmark Study released last Tuesday, declared that “The honeymoon phase of generative AI is over.” source/A While business leaders remain optimistic about AI’s transformative potential, the initial excitement has evolved into a more cautious and much needed measured approach. It is great that we start to see more…