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Tracy Bannon's QCon AI NY 2025 talk revealed how the rise of AI agents risks amplifying common architectural failures. She emphasized the distinctions between bots, assistants, and agents, highlighting the need for governance, clear identity controls, and disciplined decision-making to address “agentic debt.” Bannon called for architects to apply foundational principles amid rapid AI adoption.
By Andrew Hoblitzell
In software development, success means going beyond meeting requirements. We must create products that surprise and delight users and are innovative, create impactful solutions, Ken Hughes said in the keynote “Connection is Everything”. AI can help us connect with customers and create better user experiences.
By Ben Linders
In a surprising move, AWS and Google Cloud have recently partnered to simplify multicloud networking, introducing a common standard and leveraging "AWS Interconnect - Multicloud" and "Google Cloud's Cross-Cloud Interconnect". The new option makes it easier for organizations to manage and secure workloads across both clouds, with Azure expected to join in 2026.
By Renato Losio
Kagi has released Orion 1.0, a web browser that features privacy by default, zero telemetry, and no integrated ad-tracking technology. Orion supports both Chrome and Firefox extensions and intentionally excludes AI from its core to prioritize security, privacy, and performance. Orion targets macOS and iOS, with upcoming Linux and Windows versions. Orion is based on WebKit.
By Bruno Couriol
Cactus, a Y Combinator-backed startup, enables local AI inference to mobile phones, wearables, and other low-power devices through cross-platform, energy-efficient kernels and a native runtime. It delivers sub-50ms time-to-first-token for on-device inference, eliminates network latency, and defaults to complete privacy.
By Sergio De Simone
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Hi VB,
Here's the link to the OJUG group for you to join: http://www.codetown.com/group/orlandojug
Hi VB and welcome to Codetown. You may want to join the OrlandoJUG group here to get email about upcoming meetings, etc. and meet some of the other members.