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Why I'm Not Losing Sleep Over AI Stealing My Job or My Soul

After six months of building WitFoo's analytics platform with Claude Code, I'm more convinced than ever that AI coding tools make experienced practitioners more valuable, not less. Claude is an extraordinary Warrior, but the Wizard's strategic vision, the Poet's search for meaning, and the hard-won knowledge of the WitFoo Way remain stubbornly, irreducibly human. The Foo has been upgraded. The Wit remains ours.

Teaching Claude the Old Tricks: Lessons from Migrating Legacy Code to an AI-Assisted Workflow

A companion to "Coding with Claude," this post covers the four-phase approach we used to prepare legacy code for AI-assisted development: documenting what exists, establishing standards, cleaning up the worst of the mess, and letting Claude build the bridge to next-generation code.

Cricket Baptism

I spent 5 days watching cricket in Christchurch. I learned a good bit about the game but I learned a good bit more about myself and the general endeavor of being a human on this globe.

Empathetic Processing and Temporal Link Analysis: Research Pathways for AI in Cyber Defense

Empathetic Processing models analytics as a human‑centric dialogue: systems listen to diverse signals, resolve dissonance among conflicting narratives, and speak findings in role‑appropriate language for analysts, auditors, and executives. This approach reduces reliance on brittle parsers through NLP‑based intent comprehension and anticipates compliance requirements from the moment of ingestion—predestination of data—ensuring forensic completeness before incidents occur.

The Wizard, The Warrior and The Poet

In the labyrinth of our professional lives, the roles we assume can often feel overwhelming. Balancing strategy, execution, and inspiration requires a delicate dance of various skills and mindsets. To navigate this complexity, I have compartmentalized my work into three distinct personas: The Wizard, The Warrior, and The Poet. Each persona plays a vital role in the tapestry of my professional endeavors, allowing me to approach challenges with clarity, purpose, and creativity.

The Wizard: Master of Strategy and Vision

The journey begins with The Wizard, a figure of wisdom and foresight. When I don the robe of The Wizard, I immerse myself in the realm of strategy and planning. The Wizard's primary concern is to devise the best possible strategy, envisioning the grand scheme in its entirety. This persona thrives on considering every facet of a plan, ensuring that all systems and stakeholders are accounted for.

GrrCON 2024 - Birthing Perjury-free AI

Abstract

Cybersecurity analysis leading to deterrence of cybercrime requires processing thousands to billions of digital signals per second. Those signals must be accurately comprehended, forensically preserved then used to detect and investigate potential cybercrime. The work products must not only assist the investigators but must be translated into language that non-technical lay audiences including judges, lawyers and jurors can understand.

This presentation explores how generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), natural language processing (NLP), graph-theory and artificial narrow intelligence (ANI) can play a role in delivering these outcomes.

The session includes demonstrations of opensource toolkits, datasets and models designed to assist in this work.

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