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  • Keri Olson (@ksolson20, VP AI for Code at @IBM) talks about coding assistants across the software development lifecycle, the future of agents, and domain-specific assistants.

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    IBM Watsonx Code Assistant (homepage)IBM Watsonx Code Assistant for Ansible Lightspeed (homepage)IBM Watsonx Code Assistant for Z (homepage)


    Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background, and then give us a little bit of background on where you focus your time at IBM these days?

    Topic 2 - Developer code assistants have become one of the most popular areas of GenAI usage. At a high level, how mature are the technologies that augment developers today?

    Topic 3 - Software development has an entire lifecycle (Generate, Complete, Explain, Test, Transform, Document). It’s easy for developers to just plug in a service, but is that often the most effective way to start using GenAI in the software development lifecycle?

    Topic 4 - Software developers are notoriously picky about what tools they use and how they use them. GenAI doesn’t “guarantee” outputs. Are there concerns that if different developers or groups use different coding assistants, that it could create more challenges than it helps?

    Topic 5 - What is a holistic way to think about code assistants? How much should be actively engaged with developers, how much should be behind the scenes, how much will be automated or agentic in the future?

    Topic 6 - In the past, we essentially had “real developers” (people who wrote code) and things like Low-Code for “citizen developers” on process tasks. Do you expect to see code assistants bringing more powerful skills to people that previously hadn’t identified as a real developer? (e.g. the great idea on a napkin that turns into a mobile app)

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  • When you’re asking VCs for $6B+, you probably need to promise more than normal returns. So let’s just change all of humankind over the next 5-10 years. Seems simple enough.

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    “Machines of Loving Grace” (Dario Amodei - Anthropic)Why AI companies are dropping the doomerism (Decoder from The Verge)“The Intelligence Age” (Sam Altman - OpenAI)

    THINGS THAT AI COULD IMPROVE (according to Dario Amodei)

    Biology and HealthNeuroscience and MindEconomic Development and PovertyPeace and GovernanceWork and meaning

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  • Edward Hieatt (@edwardhieatt, Chief Customer Officer @mech_orchard) talks about the challenges of app modernization, leveraging AI, and the process to succeed from legacy to modern.

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    Mechanical Orchard (homepage)Startup led by ex-Pivotal CEO lands $50M to modernize apps (TechCrunch)

    Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background, and then give us a little bit of background on Mechanical Orchard.

    Topic 2 - Many of the MO team come from Pivotal (especially Pivotal Labs), as well as being involved with the Agile Manifesto, Extreme Programming, etc. How did the mission of the company get focus on modernizing existing applications?

    Topic 3 - Modernization projects have traditionally been really costly, with a low success rate. Why is now the right time to focus on this area?

    Topic 4 - I’m really interested in how MO technology works. It seems like a variation of a digital twin, mixed with some AI capabilities. Give us the big picture of how this is a different approach to modernization.

    Topic 5 - How much culture/process change is needed with MO to be successful?

    Topic 6 - What do the stages of success look like with your approach to application modernization?

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  • After several months of travel and giving keynote at multiple events, Brian gives some new tips for building keynotes, capturing audience attention, managing regional differences and avoiding mistakes.

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    Building a Keynote Presentation (Cloudcast Eps. 798)

    THE CHALLENGES OF KEYNOTES ACROSS DIFFERENT LOCATIONS

    Different types of keynotes - Entertainment (celebrity), Vision (CEO), Informative (multiple)Different types of keynote audiences - Technical, Business, MixedDifferent types of keynote context - New, Updates, Different styles of keynote - Storytelling, Demonstrations, Multiple Speakers/PanelsOther considerations - Audience language, Slides vs. Words, Size of the room, Length of presentation slot, Before/After sessions.

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  • Alex Merced (@AMdatalakehouse, Senior Tech Evangelist, @dremio) talks about everything data and we dig deep into Apache Iceberg and DataLakehouses.

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    Dremio (homepage)Hands-on with Apache Iceberg TutorialApache Iceberg Crash CourseData Lakehouses and Apache Hudi (Cloudcast Eps. 694)Apache Iceberg, the Definitive Guide (eBook)Apache Iceberg (homepage)Iceberg + Nessie Catalog (homepage)Iceberg + Polaris Catalog (homepage)AlexMerced.comDataLakehouseHub.com

    Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background.

    Topic 2 - It’s been a little while since we talked about Data Lakehouses, can you give us a little bit of background on this space, and what the most recent dynamics are around these technologies.

    Topic 3 - What are the typical integrations with a Data Lakehouse? How are users/developers typically interacting with Data Lakehouse technologies? [The marketplace for Iceberg catalogs like Nessie and Polaris]

    Topic 4 - How does an open data format like Apache Iceberg fit into the bigger picture of data lakehouses, or large scale stores of data?

    Topic 5 - How does Dremio enable Iceberg? How does Dremio sit in the intersection of Data Lakehouse, Data Mesh and Data Virtualization trends all of which come from the same fundamental problem, the growing scale of data use cases.

    Topic 6 - We’ve seen companies start to rethink their data in the cloud strategies. Are you seeing on-premises making a comeback for large data applications

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  • Are we sure that the next big thing in AI is going to come from OpenAI, or even one of the big cloud providers with $Billions to spend? History tells us that it might come from someone smaller.

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    WHERE DID THE CRITICAL “NEXT” INNOVATIONS COME FROM?

    Internet infrastructure (router) came from CiscoWeb Browser / Web Server came from NetscapeMainstream Linux came from Red HatSocial Media came from Twitter, FacebookCloud came from AmazonSmart Phone came from AppleAI came from ?? (OpenAI, NVIDIA) What’s Similar? What’s Different?Funding, Founders, Market Competitors


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  • Emily Freeman (@editingemily) and Forrest Brazeal (@forrestbrazeal), co-founders of Freeman and Forrest talk about the intersection of technical products and marketing and the evolution of marketing to reach an increasingly technical audience including the rise of influence marketing.

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    Freeman and Forrest (homepage)DevOps for Dummies (book)97 Things every Cloud Engineer should know (book)Forrest Brazeal (homepage)Developing Multi-Cloud Skills (Eps.602 Cloudcast)

    Topic 1 - Welcome to the show.

    Topic 2 - Where does the line between technical and marketing stop and start

    Topic 3 - Is there a new blueprint being created for how to have conversations about new technologies, or helping people find useful information? [new media | influencers]

    Topic 4 - Give us a sense of how crowded the markets are today, and why it’s so important to be able to communicate about the value/impact of the technologies.

    Topic 5 - Let’s talk about how projects get paid for - priorities, awareness, etc.

    Topic 6 - What does good and bad look like these days?

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  • The AI landscape is moving quickly. Here are 5 recent trends to keep an eye on for the last quarter of 2024.

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    Western North Carolina Red Cross (DONATIONS)Eastern Tennessee Red Cross (DONATIONS)



    5 (+1) AI ITEMS TO KEEP AN EYE ON

    Do business leaders understand what LLMs do?Small models vs. Large models vs. One-size fits all modelsDoes OpenAI funding unlock a new round of hype funding?Does anything (company, technology) reduce the dependency on NVIDIA GPUs?What are the Top 10 revenue generating AI apps, after ChatGPT and GitHub CoPilot? What is the framework or “middleware” that unlocks the next breakthroughs in AI?

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  • Brian Gracely, Aaron Delp, and Brandon Whichard discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from September 2024.

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    Link to September 2024 news and articles

    SEGMENTS COVERED IN THE SHOW:

    Good Old Fashioned Cloud NewsThe AI Innovation Continues Trend 1 - AI Regulation is having mixed results (multiple products not released in EU now, California’s AI Act gets a veto)Trend 2 - OpenAI is making and burning through money at historic levels, only 3 of the original 13 are left. Anyone wanting AI for good has moved on Trend 3 - Google finally releasing some AI tools and chips with potential (NotebookLM, AlphaChip). Also, Aaron no longer uses Google to search, feels last generation now and maybe these new tools are a way back for them?

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  • Do we put too much emphasis on the leaders of the tech industry and not enough on the millions that support it?

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    Western North Carolina Red Cross (DONATIONS)Eastern Tennessee Red Cross (DONATIONS)OpenAI to remove non-profit control and give Sam Altman equityLinkedIn Profile RoasterBrian’s “roasted” LinkedIn profile

    THE BIG NAMES GET A LOT OF ATTENTION

    We talk a lot about how much CEOs makeWe talk a lot about the CEOs creating/executing strategy (good or bad)We talk a lot about “rockstars” (see: Workday “rockstars” commercials)

    BUT DO THE REST OF US ACTUALLY DO ANYTHING OF ANY VALUE?

    Do the rest of us live the Ricky Bobby life, “if you’re not first, you’re last!”Should we feel bad when we advocate for ourselves, since that’s how the merit/raise system works? Should we be embarrassed

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  • Rick Song (@rickcsong, CEO @Persona_IDV) talks about the evolution of identity verification and threat detection.

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    Persona webpageTech Crunch Article on Persona


    Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Give everyone a little bit about your background with a quick introduction please.

    Topic 2 - You cut your teeth at Square prior to Persona, what lessons did you learn there, and how did your experience there impact what you are doing at Persona?

    Topic 3 - We are, of course, seeing an uptick in personal fraud in both our personal and professional lives through identity theft and personal information leaking into the world. If someone has all the proper information, how do you identify this as a false identity?

    Topic 4 - How has AI impacted all of this? I would think with the power of GenAI tools, this industry has accelerated dramatically?

    Topic 5 - Do we have another arms race on our hands to identify and protect both our personal and professional lives from fraud?

    Topic 6 - Is Persona a 3rd party API similar in architecture to Stripe? If I’m an architect in an organization today and I want to get started, how would I do that?

    Topic 7 - If there was one thing you wanted people to understand about this, what would it be?

    Topic 8 - You have access to a lot of personal data, how is this data handled and secured?

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  • This past week, Amazon announced a new RTO policy that required 5 days a week in the office. What types of impacts could this have on tech workers and the tech industry?

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    SHOW NOTES:

    Amazon announces new Manager/Employee Ratio and RTO policy for 2025

    IT’S BEEN 4.5 YEARS SINCE PEOPLE WERE IN THE OFFICE - FULL TIME

    People have adapted their life to working from homePeople have adapted their families to working from homeDaily commutes seem like a poor use of resources

    IT’S BEEN 4.5 YEARS SINCE PEOPLE WERE IN THE OFFICE - FULL TIME

    Being around co-workers does tend to increase collaboration and idea sharingRTO is more difficult on certain employee (especially care-giving women)RTO is an effective way to reduce headcount without defined “layoffs”RTO may feel more impactful to mobility-able tech workers

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  • Jay Madheswaran (Founder & CEO @ Eve) talks about bringing AI to the legal vertical and the intersection of AI/ML of increased efficiency for legal firms.

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    Eve Homepage

    Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we jump into the legal industry and AI, let’s talk a little bit about your background. Give everyone a brief introduction.

    Topic 2 - What made you focus on the legal industry? When I think of forward leaning industries that quickly adopt new technologies, I don’t think of legal. What are the most common use cases?

    Topic 3 - Tell us a little bit about the tech behind the scenes. Do you use foundational models and then fine-tune them? Do you have your own custom models? What are your thoughts on the current state and future of models for specific industries or verticals?

    Topic 4 - Legal is a highly regulated space; how do your customers (law firms) think about data security and compliance? Tell everyone a bit about how all of this works.

    Topic 5 - Do your clients use RAG for custom information that needs to be brought into the models? How does all of that work for customer data?

    Topic 6 - When I think about legal, I think about two big areas. We covered compliance and the financial side of this, but what about the billing and financial side? How is ROI on legal AI calculated? Where and how does a legal AI help? Is this measured in hours saved, which translates into dollars saved?

    Topic 7 - Let’s close by discussing the people aspect. We keep hearing AI is going to take everyone’s jobs away. What are your thoughts on how this supplements vs. replace staff?

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  • Back from some recent travel, we look at why it’s important to listen to people from around the world to understand the differences between how global regions adopt technology.

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    LARGER FACTORS PLAY A SIGNIFICANT ROLE IN TECHNOLOGY OUTSIDE THE US

    Diffusion of informationCurrency exchangeGovernment laws, embargoes, tariffsLanguage and timezone differencesLocal culture, norms, expectations

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  • Brian Gracely (@bgracely)and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from August 2024.

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    Link to August 2024 news and articlesSubscribe to Cote's newsletter.

    SEGMENTS COVERED IN THE SHOW:

    Good Old Fashioned Cloud NewsThe AI Innovation Continues Trend 1 - What will be the ripple effects of Intel’s struggles?Trend 2 - Is this a bump or a bubble for NVIDIA?Trend 3 - Why do companies have such a hard time with a 2nd act?Trend 4 - Why you should always take the big job if it’s offered to you.

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  • The future of search advertising, the future of chips, the future of open source, AI monetization and government regulation of tech are all uncertain. What does that mean for the future?

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    ARE CORE PILLARS OF THE TECH INDUSTRY UNCERTAIN FOR THE FUTURE?

    Google and antitrustIntel and chipsOpen source and licensingAI and monetizationGovernments and regulation

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  • Paul Delory (@pacdelory, Research VP @Gartner_Inc for Technical Professionals) shares insights about cloud computing, cloud costs, VMware, Platform engineering and IaC.

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    On The CUBE discussing VMware in April: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wIClYI6bDQSoftware Development Times discussion Platform Engineering: https://sdtimes.com/softwaredev/analyst-view-whats-new-whats-now-and-whats-next-in-platform-engineering/

    Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we jump into a broad set of topics today, give us a little bit about your background and what you focus on today.

    Topic 2 - The hyperscalers have grown quite large over the last decade, but as we came out of COVID, many of their customers were concerned about the cost of cloud. Are we seeing a new rationalization coming around cloud costs and accountability of costs?

    Topic 3 - We’ve all read the headlines regarding changes to VMware by Broadcom. Alternatives to VMware would be big decisions for many companies. As a neutral independent, how are you framing your thinking about the VMware ecosystem and the decisions being made about the future of virtualization?

    Topic 4 - Over the last decade, we’ve seen so many new technologies. To get value from them, they require more cross-functional collaboration. These days we tend to call that Platform Engineering. How well do you see the evolution of people and processes being adopted, and how much more needs to happen?

    Topic 5 - Behind the scenes of every transition over the past decade (Cloud, AI, Cloud-native) is the adoption of automation. This seems like a no-brainer, but actual adoption is lumpy across companies. What are some of the hard parts of automation that aren’t discussed enough?

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  • With so much rapid change happening around AI models, is there a framework for when to build models, train models, fine-tune models, use RAG or something else? Let’s explore


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    What is Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)?Fine-Tuning vs. RAGPredictive AI vs. Generative AIAndrew Ng (always worth a watch IMO) https://youtu.be/sal78ACtGTc?si=dCoKXb5o4KB2XSerHarrison Chase (LangChain) https://youtu.be/pBBe1pk8hf4?si=lAit69_pDeRKcBGqhttps://blog.langchain.dev/what-is-a-cognitive-architecture/https://thenewstack.io/lets-get-agentic-langchain-and-llamaindex-talk-ai-agents/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-IYzyi86yYhttps://blog.langchain.dev/what-is-an-agent/https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/autogen/https://www.crewai.com/

    HOW SHOULD WE DECIDE WHICH AI MODEL TO USE FOR OUR APPLICATION?

    Build, buy, use open source, augment with your own data - so many decisionsHow often do you update models with new data?

    HOW DO WE BRING OUR COMPANY DATA / KNOWLEDGE TO OUR AI MODELS?

    Large Static Models - Predictive AILLMs + Slow-Changing Data - Align the ModelLLMs + Fast-Changing Data - RAGLLMs + Agent-Learned Data - Agentic AI

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  • Emrul Islam (Head of Platform Innovation @TwingateHQ) talks about the evolution of remote access, application security, and enabling DevOps teams to drive security transformation.

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    How Twingate WorksTwingate vs. VPNsArchitecting Network Connectivity for a Zero Trust FutureSolving the usability problem to unlock Zero Trust adoptionReddit link: https://www.reddit.com/r/twingate/ Signup for Twingate for free

    Topic 1 - Welcome to the show.

    Topic 2 - To properly solve cloud access & security pain points, companies need a tool that works for IT, DevOps, & Security teams

    What are the challenges when trying to secure cloud access today?What role do each of the stakeholders play in addressing these?How much can technology really help address these challenges?

    Topic 3 - How is Twingate architected differently to address these new challenges?

    How do existing systems work?What sort of architecture is required?

    Topic 4 - Why is it a struggle to get these teams aligned on the right solution

    Is there a disconnect between competing requirements and security?

    Topic 5 - What is the opportunity for Devops teams to influence remote access and security architecture?

    Why automate security?How much can be automated?

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  • Is the market shifting from evaluating software as an economic driver to re-evaluating the cost of software in the context of how AI can improve, augment or replace developers?

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    AWS CEO says developers might stop coding soon (Business Insider)Amazon CEO highlights the impacts of co-pilots on code (Andy Jassy)I’m tired of fixing customer’s AI-generated codeThe New Kingmakers (Stephen O’Grady)Exploring Generative AI (Martin Fowler)The Death of the Junior DeveloperSalary Pressures, Not AI, Vex Developers (The New Stack)

    THE CLOUD WAS BUILT UPON ENABLING DEVELOPERS (“BUILDERS”)

    The value of the developer exploded over the last decadeSoftware has reshaped most industries over the last decade

    WE’RE MOVING FROM THE ECONOMICS OF SOFTWARE TO THE ECONOMICS OF DEVELOPERS

    Code assistants for AI are the early leader in driving AI revenueDo we have developer “productivity” or “creativity”?Does AI have more impact on legacy code or new code?How does the role of Junior vs. Senior developer change?What happens to System Integrators?

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