In about ten days last month: Two critical PHP flaws, found with AI tools, forced governments and companies to take sites offline. LiteLLM, an AI gateway used by millions, was poisoned by a credential stealer. API keys for ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini leaked from several platforms. One attacker reportedly used AI agents to breach 100+ …
Remember the dizzying madness of the digital art NFT (Non-Fungible Token) era, when unremarkable cartoon images were selling for eye-watering prices because they were entangled with a newfangled crypto whatnot called ‘NFTs? 95% of the digital collectibles are now probably worthless. Matt Levine (he writes the Money Stuff column at Bloomberg News) spent time …
Digital transformation isn’t just a trendy phrase tossed around in boardrooms — it’s a continuous learning, adaptation, and improvement journey. Over the past few years, I’ve been able to dive deep into projects where technology, people, and process changes collide. More than just digitizing existing workflows, true Digital Transformation rethinks how a business operates …
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Shortly approaching Halloween, what scares the hell out the whole Foodservice Equipment and Supplies industry? More than Freddy Krueger, IT, Sandman and Grim Reaper combined? Easy-peasy.. Revealing prices to the market! Wait.. What??? We can’t put pricing on the website or on quoting software, competitors will see it, and we want real customers to …
“Software is dead!” “Programming is dead!” “SaaS is dead!” For over three decades, I’ve watched every “this will kill programming” doom cycle come and go. And even now, AI won’t replace developers. But a developer with AI will replace a developer without AI. What happens when anyone can build software, and where …
Track and field is a sport that includes many different kinds of athletic contests that are based on running, jumping, and throwing. The United States Olympic trials for the sport of track and field is the quadrennial meet to select the United States representatives at the Olympic Games. Like for athletics, the digital world …
Track and field sport is not the only ground where “trials” matter Read More »
It’s clear that the world is moving toward a general distaste for wisdom. More and more ignorant people occupy key positions. Even humility is lacking among the new winners: they respond with arrogance to those who point out their poor judgment. The mechanism of idiocracy is increasingly difficult to fight, because it seems that …
Twenty years ago, an idea cropped up that overreliance on technology might cause some kind of digital dementia resulting in the deterioration of short-term memory and other cognitive processes. Three years ago, I forced myself to start learning LLMs first and using AI later, as often as possible. If I was going to be writing about …
A few years ago, my friend Bob started showing me the real meaning of the “Work hard, play hard” motto while we were traveling all over the world for work, and since then I couldn’t agree more on how this reflects on my current work-life balance. In the absence of a truly positive, productive …
The picture below, taken from one of Kubrick’s masterpieces, is a clear representation of where we stand in the Foodservice Equipment and Supplies Industry when we are talking about a BIM file (RFA extension format name) of a single piece of equipment: a giant immutable monolith where all the professionals stare at like the Holy …
Mind the Gap (between your BIM files and any platform) Read More »
