Matisyahu's Blog

Woke up this morning, had a tuna meal bowl for brunch along with a coffee then jumped into the queue answering emails and telephone calls. Unfortunately things went a bit pear shaped at work because of Salesforce issues but they were eventually fixed. I’m not in the technology area where they do all the system integration but given how you can integrate everything into everything else the problem could be anywhere – Amazon Connect or many other systems that integrate into Salesforce with Salesforce kind of being the system that brings everything together into a single source of truth. When the issue arose I originally thought it may have been Cloudflare because apparently they had an outage today for around 1/2 an hour which was caused by a misconfigured firewall (link).

I’ve got a couple of weeks off this year so I’m drawing up a plan on what I’m going to do. The two gardens at the side of the house has pebbles and weed matting underneath it but the problem is that the weeds are coming through. The big job will require me to pick up the weed mat with the pebbles inside it with help from a family member then work on dealing with the weeds before relaying it. I’m also having a look at sorting out the weeds in between the concrete around the back – find a more permanent way of dealing with it rather than having to waste time tediously weeding. I’m also tempted to have a look at the fence on either side of the property – they’re looking a little bit worse for wear but that is a much bigger project that I need to think about long term because it involves more than just replacing a few planks of wood.

From the ‘and this why people don’t want an agentic OS’ (link) but I’m sure the wizkids over at Microsoft are once again convincing themselves that the problem isn’t the fact that what they’re offering no one wants but apparently we, the little people, are big brained enough to understand how awesome this technology is. This is what happens when you have a company stuck in an echo chamber where everything is thinking the same thing and then you convince yourself that what you think is the mainstream position because everyone else is thinking the same way. The best thing that can be done would be for Silicon Valley companies to leave Silicon Valley – set up offices where the unwashed masses live so that they have an easy way to ‘touch grass’ and ask themselves whether what they’re proposing is actually what people want or need. Always remember, when you may think is a great feature isn’t always a reflection of what your customer base wants – reminds me when I worked in hospo, a food item that you may love may not be the sort of product your customer base likes so even if you have the best intention it has to ultimately meet the needs of the customer.

Just on a side note, I’m not anti-AI but I do think we need to stop conflating LLMs with AI as if they were interchangeable given that AI includes many pieces of technology that are actually useful such as frame generation used in games as one example. Like a lot of things in technology there will be a lot of hype and promises but ultimately when the darling of the industry fails to deliver the industry will move onto the next big thing. I’ve been following the technology for many years and have seen trends come and go, this too shall pass.