Ironman, private pilot, long distance hiker, ultramarathon runner, skydiver, paraglider, scuba diver, mountaineer. And IT consultant.
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There are two kinds of systems that work well in an AI world: those that participate and those that don’t. The problem is that most systems fall somewhere in between.
If you want AI to access your systems on behalf of users, for example, if you are selling something, make sure you offer an MCP server, a well-documented API or structured product data. The new open-source tool Scope from Microsoft is one way to check.
What does the After Action Report after last week's PHP incidents show? I like the term “After Action Report” (AAR) better than “postmortem.” Many organizations only do postmortems when something went down.
The format is: 1. What was supposed to happen 2. What actually happened 3. If there is a gap, why? 4. What should be sustained or changed?
Maybe the hackers did us a favor. They just made off with the personal identifiers of everyone who has ever lived in Denmark, about 8 million records. For close to sixty years, all residents have been assigned a unique identifier, and we’ve benefited in many different ways.
Denmark is a high-trust society, which is nice, but that does not mean IT professionals can abdicate their responsibility to build secure systems.
I receive an engineering tabloid. It sounds like a contradiction in terms: engineering is fact-based and tabloids are anything but. Yet that’s what the Danish Society of Engineers sends its members.
To be fair, they do cover many great engineering achievements. But their main thrust is to find one disgruntled expert and let him expound at length on how he thinks someone made a bad decision.
I once led a team that made abysmally slow progress. Being the latest addition to the organization, we had to squeeze in extra desks wherever we could, and ended up distributed across three offices. I had top talent, but we got nowhere.
The chat before and after a meeting is often the most productive part. Humans have 50,000 years of experience working together face-to-face. We’ve been using online chat for a decade or two, and online meetings since COVID.