Last week I was in Istanbul for the local Community Day, where I talked about Generative AI assistants (e.g. Amazon Q Developer). One of the concepts I talked about is a framework for how to think about adopting these assistants. This framework tries to address common questions people have around the topic: are these …

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I have long been saying that generative AI english-to-code capabilities (that is, the ability for an assistant to produce code based on a prompt) are overrated - but very useful - while the code-to-english generative AI capabilities (that is, the ability to explain a piece of code) are underrated (and likely even more …

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If you have been deep into generative AI, you probably heard about the notion of "prompt engineering". In a nutshell, it's the science that masters how to interact with Large Language Models (LLMs), how to "ask for things". I found this to be a good learning and reference resource. In this post I …

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Last week Darren Shepherd, CTO at Acorn, announced on Twitter his last crazy OSS project: GPTscript. I paid attention because I always say that, if you want to know what people will be doing 3 years from now, you have to watch what Darren, Shannon and Sheng are building today. They have an industry track record for …

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The original title of this blog post was "Building a Generative AI application to fight WhatsApp vocal messages". I hate WhatsApp vocal messages, and I am not hiding it: As I try to experiment more with what the good Gen AI can do for this world, I thought I'd start by solving a use case that have been …

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I have worked in IT for almost 30 years and I have experienced first-hand tectonic shifts in this industry. Some of them have been more profound and impacting than others. Given my recent re-focus on Generative AI, I am going to go through my experience trying to imagine the implications of Gen AI and its potential …

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In the last few months, the "generative AI" discussions have been dominated by LLMs (or Large Language Models). We ended up short-cutting the (magical) experience you can get and the models that make it possible... as if there was nothing in between. I am going to argue that there is a ton in between (that is …

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I spent the last 30-ish years of my professional life working on what I generally refer to as "compute systems abstractions". I started in 1994 at IBM working on "the PC" (Personal Computer) almost by chance and I specialized, over the years, on physical servers, operating systems, hardware …

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In the last few months, I have talked to a couple of Beanstalk customers that wanted to explore ways to modernize their deployments. They like Beanstalk but they see the value of moving to a more container-native deployment to intercept more modern development tool-chains. This did not surprise me. Beanstalk customers …

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I know, I am boring. Some people relax doing Sudoku. I relax writing Step Functions state machines. Not that I am any good, I just enjoy doing it (I am that weird). As I was searching for my next Sudoku state machine challenge, I bumped into this Amazon ECS roadmap request to introduce support for tasks timeouts. The …

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