Category: Software

  • GenAI Patterns: Guardrails and RAG overview

    Gen AI systems are gullible, and can easily be tricked into responding in ways that are contrary to an enterprise’s policies or leak confidential information. Bharani Subramaniam and I describe how we can counter this by adding guardrails at the boundaries of the request/response flow. We also conclude our discussion of RAG with an overview…

  • What role does LLM reasoning play for software tasks?

    Generative AI and particularly LLMs (Large Language Models) have exploded into the public consciousness. Like many software developers I am intrigued by the possibilities, but unsure what exactly it will mean for our profession in the long run. I have now taken on a role in Thoughtworks to coordinate our work on how this technology…