Tag Archives: AI
Who Am I? (Job Descriptions in the Age of AI)
There’s a moment I’ve hit a hundred times without thinking: a form with a little box labeled “Occupation.” Or the small-talk version at a barbecue — “So, what do you do?” For most of my career the answer came out automatically: I’m a programmer. But I haven’t written any serious code myself in something like […]
Agent Architecture Wars
Model Context Protocol (MCP) is all through my LinkedIn feed these days. Many SaaS vendors with public APIs are providing a MCP interface to their services as well, allowing AI systems to more easily interface with them. MCP standardizes both authentication (OAuth based) and the format of remote procedure calls (JSON RPC based). But how […]
Managing Large Catalogs (with Machine Learning)
Interested in the challenges of managing large catalogs? Then this Elasticon talk “Surfacing the Products You love on Spring” by Julie Qiu from Spring (@jqiu25) might interest you. Spring is a marketplace (lots of diverse data sources) focussing on fashion. The following is my quick summary of the presentation – for details, please watch the […]
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