My Artificial Intelligence Thoughts and Nothing Else
A few weeks ago, I was sitting in a team meeting when someone mentioned that Texas Parks and Wildlife had suffered a data breach. My first reaction was honest: surprise.…
If you’re thinking about getting into AI, you’ve probably heard the same advice everywhere: learn math and computer science. That’s true, but it’s also incomplete. I’ve been working in software…
I’ve spent enough years building software to know when something sounds too good to be true. Open-weight AI models—these massive neural networks that anyone can download and run locally—felt that…
I’m a skeptic by nature. Comes with the territory of being a software engineer, I guess. When something sounds too good to be true, I want to see the code,…
I’ve spent enough time in software engineering trenches to know when something isn’t working. And after reading about the current state of US aviation cybersecurity oversight, I can tell you:…
I’ve spent enough years shipping software to know that undefeated runs don’t happen by accident. Whether you’re talking about a sports team winning their first championship in nearly a decade…
I’ve watched a lot of AI projects crash and burn. Not because the models were bad, or the algorithms were wrong, but because nobody paid attention to the data going…
When you’re building data centers at scale, power infrastructure isn’t some afterthought you handle with a contractor. It’s the foundation everything else sits on. I’ve spent enough time working on…
I’ve spent enough years building software systems to know that architecture matters. The way you structure things early on determines what you can build later. Teams work the same way,…
A $480 million Powerball jackpot hitting the news cycle got me thinking about something I don’t usually consider: the tech stack behind lottery systems. Most people see “Quick Pick” and…
James Holloway