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Systems Programming and AI
Thinking about how SALAMI like CoPilot is supposed to make systems programming cheap and easy, in light of my challenge this week… The general problem statement: as a security analyst I want to know as much about an IP address as possible so I can make an informed decision, write rules, &c. The specific feature…
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How to Make Useful Charts and Reports
There are many charting and reporting tools to use, but in my experience there is also a struggle to build charts that effectively communicate. Since you typically need to put some reports into products and certainly need to use them internally, it’s important to build competence here. Building a general purpose reporting tool is very…
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Heisenberg’s World of Uncertainty
Security analysts can’t ever be certain of what they’re seeing and not seeing. See something, do something My entire career has been in some form of “see what’s important, then do something about it.” It’s Heisenberg’s world though. Collecting and moving data has impact and cost, which can be hard to continue justifying. That often…
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VMBlog Post on Decentralization
linking to this piece I wrote for VMblog Why Decentralized Work Calls for Decentralized Data
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Does ChatGPT have a product in it?
I think not. I discussed why there’s low value to be captured by modeling data in Where’s the Product in AI?. Using a Large Language Model approach to ask questions or frame answers does not alter that analysis. There’s been a dream of talking with computers since the first movie director to consider one realized…
