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Writings, Musings, Ponderings, and Other (th)ings ... looking up at the world around us.
The SEC Wants to Know What AI You Run
Looking ahead at regulation and compliance, SEC examiners will check whether firms have policies to monitor and supervise their AI use, not just whether their AI marketing is accurate.
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The Environmental Impact of AI
Claims about AI's environmental cost run from trivial to alarming. Here is how a single AI prompt actually compares to a web search, an hour of streaming, and the data center buildout behind it.
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AI Is an Amplifier
AI amplifies whatever you point it at. Successful AI deployment requires knowing what you're amplifying before you commit, with three durable questions that make that assessment concrete and actionable.
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AI Skills: Teach AI to Work Your Way
Stop re-explaining your standards every AI session. Skills encode your workflows into something reusable, consistent, and yours. Memory helps, but it is not a substitute for deliberate workflow design.
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AI Harnesses: Making AI Agents Safer
Harnesses are the security monitors of the AI world. Understanding how they enforce permissions, sandbox execution, gate tool access, and control what is returned is the key to safe AI deployment.
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RAG Is Fixing AI's Trust Problem
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) connects AI models to trusted data sources at query time, reducing hallucinations by up to 71% and driving a market projected to reach $9.86 billion by 2030.
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