In this episode we return after a couple of years in hiatus to talk about what we’ve been up to since we last recorded, including: LLMs; the differences between platform, DevOps, and sysadmin; and red tape.
Show Notes: https://www.adminadminpodcast.co.uk/ep102sn/
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In this episode:
The team shared career updates, including Jon’s new SRE role, Jerry’s transition to freelance work, Stu’s move to a principal software engineer position, and Al’s lead role in a DevOps team.
Key discussions revolved around AI, with Jerry sharing his positive experience using Light LM and AI for design documents, while Stu expressed ethical concerns about AI’s energy consumption. Al raised concerns about AI hindering learning for new developers, and Jon highlighted the issue of “AI slop” affecting projects like curl
John mentioned:
– Defensive Security Podcast
– TinyOIDC: https://tinyoidc.authenti-kate.org/ and https://github.com/authenti-kate/tiny-oidc
– Open Source Security Podcast; LLM Finding bugs in Curl
– Human Resources book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DZWKGZGN and https://torpublishinggroup.com/human-resources/?isbn=9781250375933&format=ebook
Jerry mentioned:
– A YouTube video about AI Sloop