Let go of ‘move fast and break things’ — I’ve heard ‘move fast and break things’ for over a decade. This phrase is a pseudo-rallying call in the tech community. Creating digital processes, systems, products and platforms quickly and figuring out that they don’t work has become a badge of honor. The prevailing standard operating theory is that if…

Why I’ve left my faculty position and full professor rank behind — U.S. higher education is broken and broke. Now, I have a lot to say about academia so before I share my observations let me share my academic appointments, overlapping roles included: 6 years as a graduate teaching assistant, 1 semester as an adjunct lecturer, 18 months as a postdoctoral associate…

3 human-driven decision-making competencies that every industry needs — With months of intense ‘what can AI do for you’ face-to-face discussions, op-ed think pieces and podcasts, I want to ask the opposite question: what can’t AI do? Some people will enthusiastically say “Nothing. It’s the most disruptive and transformative advancement in technology. …

The ‘move fast and break things’ standard operating practices are in hyperdrive. Each industry across all sectors are trying their best to implement large language model (LLM) in some areas within their business operations. There’s a frenzy and serious FOMO (fear-of-missing-out) on maintaining a competitive advantage. People are already overwhelmed…

The past few weeks has been full of hubbub about the future of AI, GPT-4 and longtermism. If you haven’t read the Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter for yourself, I suggest you give it a read. Dr. Emily Bender, Dr. Timnit Gebru, Dr. Meg Mitchell and so many…

The AI takeover has arrived and it’s backfiring — Many of the conversations I’ve have about AI falls mainly in one of two sentiments: (1) if you can’t beat them, then join them. or (2) tech is able to self-correct its own errors, if we give the industry more time. In case 1, there’s a proliferation of group think…

Single sign-on (SSO) vulnerability — The interwebs serves as our auxiliary resource repository. Social media scrolling is our guilty pleasure. And AI-generated tools are being hyped as the critical-thinking decision making appendages we didn’t ask for, but somehow we can’t live without. …

Another technical point-of-view against AI-generated coding — The coding community loves one thing overwhelmingly, but begrudgingly admits: a shortcut. The shortcuts show up as object, function and variable naming schemes and conventions. The shortcuts show up as time complexity optimization hacks. Or the shortcut shows up as a beta software product or platform release so that users…

No matter your expertise, there’s an accessible good read for you — The surge in ‘shortcuts by AI’ technologies, e,g., AI art, AI writing, AI coding, etc., has helped bolster responsible AI activities and inclusive tech efforts. Responsible AI and inclusive tech, in my opinion, is the centering of humanity through transparency, accountability and governance of our data and AI systems. Some…