[ Ai and llms ] Part 3 of 6 3 min read
Prompting ClaudeEver been to a really long meeting? A model forgets the middle of a long prompt the same way. The fix is a layout: documents on top, quotes first, the question last, all on one chart. Part three of six.
My AI agent team's investigator was skimming, and I only caught it by testing it, so I added a tenth agent whose whole job is reading. Part two of two.
Training is one enormous bill, paid once. Inference is the meter that never stops running, and an old network saying about bandwidth and latency explains why a chatbot's words arrive one at a time. Part four of six.
[ Ai and llms ] Part 2 of 6 3 min read
Prompting ClaudeI'd like to claim I've never taught a model a bad habit by accident. A model learns from every part of an example, including the parts you didn't mean to teach, so here's how to pick them, on one chart. Part two of six.
[ Tech field day ] [ Security ] 5 min read
I'm headed to Tech Field Day Extra at AWS re:Invent to hear what AWS has to say about security, how it compares with Azure, and where the rest of the industry is going.
Architecture and design for AI, ML, LLM, and agentic systems that solve a specific business problem, scoped to what your data, budget, and people can actually support.
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Getting ready for SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST, and other security and compliance audits, with the policies, documentation, and daily processes in place well before the audit begins.
Independent assessment and design for enterprise networks and infrastructure, backed by hands-on experience designing, building, and fixing networks from mid-market to Fortune 100.
Landscape assessments, vendor evaluations, and market briefings, written for practitioners rather than procurement committees and without the analyst-firm retainer.
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[ Networking ] 6 min read
As a lot of readers already know, from comments and discussions on other forums, I recently made the switch from PC to Mac for my main personal computer. This wasn’t some sort of Microsoft-hating frenzy, but rather a …
[ Tech field day ] [ Infrastructure ] 3 min read
I’m sitting here watching an episode of Top Gear as I write this, and waxing contemplative on my recent invitation to both a Tech Field Day one-day event and Virtual Field Day 6 . Both are being held in the same week, …
[ Networking ] 1 min read
I recently wrote an article for searchSDN at TechTarget on the subject of choice in the SDN markets. The gist of the article was that from a marketing perspective one of the most effective strategies in a cluttered …
[ Leadership and career ] 4 min read
The Burnout “You don’t burn out from going too fast. You burn out from going too slow and getting bored.” — Cliff Burton I used to wonder how a person can “burn out,” get bored, or otherwise grow tired of doing something …