Joe Fay

6 days ago | thestack.technology | Joe Fay

We’ve all seen the footage of lunar landings. The Earth’s original satellite looms larger and larger, the craters getting closer, the surface eventually filling the screen, then…touch down. But that’s not what the mission control teams necessarily sees. And it’s certainly not what they’re focused on. Their eyes will be fixed on the stream of data from every onboard system that tells them what is happening, and whether the mission is on track.

1 week ago | thestack.technology | Joe Fay

Grafana tied its future to APIs and and AIs this week at its customer get together in Seattle. The observability specialist unwrapped the latest release of its core platform, Grafana 12, delivering what it dubbed “observability as code” and threading agentic AI into the platform.

1 week ago | thestack.technology | Joe Fay

Large language models are largely commoditized with the main players now offering little differentiation in terms of performance or accuracy, Appian’s CTO claimed this week. The process automation and low code vendor put AI, particularly Agentic AI, at the heart of its user conference in Denver this week. But it centred the conversation on what AI can do within the context of business processes, dialling back on some of the wilder promises rivals have made for the technology.

2 weeks ago | thestack.technology | Joe Fay

Appian’s CSO has highlighted the need for AI bill of materials, or AI-BOMs, as concern grows about companies and service providers rushing AI-based services into production without taking full account of the security implications. Andrew Cunje was speaking in the wake of JP Morgan CISO Patrick Opet’s open letter about the security shortcuts cloud companies were taking which were causing a “dangerous concentration risk”. He said there were two ways to think about Opet’s comments.

2 weeks ago | thestack.technology | Joe Fay

Appian’s CEO predicted an “agent meltdown” later this year, as the wheels come off earlier iterations of the technology that had been launched without the proper guardrails. Appian cofounder Matt Calkins made the prediction as he unwrapped the firm’s own approach to agentic AI at its annual customer event in Denver. Agentic AI is certainly riding the hype wave at present. NVIDIA's Jensen Huang recently predicted billions of "digital workers" labouring away alongside humans before too long.