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Building Trust in AI: Security and Risks in Highly Regulated Industries
Explore the transformative power of responsible AI across industries, emphasizing security, MLOps, and compliance. As AI drives innovation—from predicting hurricanes to enhancing legal workflows—organizations must prioritize ethical practices, transparency, and robust governance to safeguard sensitive data while navigating an evolving regulatory landscape.
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Launching GenAI Productivity Tools: Insights and Lessons
In this article, based on a talk at QCon San Francisco 2024, author Mandy Gu shares some of the ways her company uses GenAI to enhance productivity and the lessons they learned along the way, including failed bets and features that were rolled back because of low user adoption. Most important, they learned to focus on building tools that were aligned with business goals.
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Prompt Injection for Large Language Models
This article will cover two common attack vectors against large language models and tools based on them, prompt injection and prompt stealing. We will additionally introduce three approaches to make your LLM-based systems and tools less vulnerable to this kind of attacks and review their benefits and limitations, including fine-tuning, adversarial detectors, and system prompt hardening.
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Elevate Developer Experience with Generative AI Capabilities on AWS
This is a summary of a talk I gave at InfoQ Dev Summit Munich 2024. I discussed the transformative potential of generative AI in enhancing developer experiences, particularly through AWS. I’ll introduce key tools like Amazon Bedrock, Code Review Assistant, Agentic Code Generation, and Code Summarization in this article.
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A Framework for Building Micro Metrics for LLM System Evaluation
LLM accuracy is a challenging topic to address and is much more multi-dimensional than a simple accuracy score. Denys Linkov introduces a framework for creating micro metrics to evaluate LLM systems, focusing on goal-aligned metrics that improve performance and reliability. By adopting an iterative "crawl, walk, run" methodology, teams can incrementally develop observability.
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Virtual Panel: How to Become a Principal Engineer
As a software engineer or individual contributor, the next step in your career can be to become a principal engineer. The path to becoming a principal engineer at companies can feel unclear, which can inhibit individual engineering careers. But that also provides opportunities for engineers to invent and shape the role of principal engineers.
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Navigating Responsible AI in the FinTech Landscape
Explore the dynamic intersection of responsible AI, regulation, and ethics in the FinTech sector. This article highlights key challenges and innovative practices as organizations navigate compliance with evolving guidelines like the EU AI Act. Discover how to balance transparency, efficiency, and risk management for sustainable AI growth in your business.
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Transforming Legacy Healthcare Systems: a Journey to Cloud-Native Architecture
Discover how Livi navigated the complexities of transitioning MJog, a legacy healthcare system, to a cloud-native architecture, sharing valuable insights for successful tech modernization. Our experience illustrates that transitioning from legacy systems to cloud-based microservices is not a one-time project, but an ongoing journey.
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Being a Responsible Developer in the Age of AI Hype
Justin Sheehy emphasizes that AI is code, not magic, and warns against inflated claims about AI capabilities. He urges developers to approach AI with healthy skepticism, seeking verifiable evidence and focusing on ethical practices, including addressing bias, privacy, and data integrity. Clear communication about AI’s limitations and accountable use are essential to prevent hype and misuse.
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Adaptive Responses to Resiliently Handle Hard Problems in Software Operations
As engineers move into more senior positions such as Staff Engineer, Architect, or Sr Tech Lead roles, their knowledge and experience is often applied across the system. This expertise is increasingly needed for handling novel problems or designing innovative solutions to complex problems. This article discusses strategies for approaching your role as a senior member of your organization.
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Building Better Platforms with Empathy: Case Studies and Counter-Examples
Scaling platform development often means absorbing cognitive burdens, but empathy is key. Understanding users beyond their immediate issues leads to better solutions. Platforms help manage growth's complexity, but a product mindset with user-centricity is vital. In his talk at QCon San Francisco 2023, David Stenglein expanded on cultivating empathy through open communication.
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Curating Developer Experience: Practical Insights from Building a Platform Team
As a platform engineer, how do you help your customers go quicker, which aspects of developer experience should you care about and what do you actually do to curate an experience for them? This article is about curating a developer experience, it shares experiences and learnings from implementing DevEx and ideas on what platform engineers can do for development teams that use platforms.