Sat.Jul 27, 2024

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Worth Reading 072624

Rule 11

Recent events involving CrowdStrikes Falcon security software have underscored a critical lesson across the industry: the importance of having a robust, secure release process. My analysis of the event has a lot of similarities with my reflections on the Optus outage last year, the incident underscores the critical issue of resilience in IT infrastructure, particularly in systems that lack diversity.

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Generative AI doesn’t copy art, it ‘clones’ the artisans — cheaply

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The early machines at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution produced 'cheap' (in both meanings) products and it was the introduction of that 'cheap' category that was actually disruptive. In the same way, where 'cheap' is acceptable (and no: that isn't coding), GenAI may disrupt today. But there is a difference. Early machines were separate inventions creating a comparable product.