Overhauling Legacy Software with AI

There are opportunities and challenges with modernizing legacy software with AI.

How AI helps break the cost barrier to COBOL modernization | Claude

What are "Distillation Attacks"?

"Distillation attacks" are a form of intellectual property theft whereby an attacker repeatedly queries a proprietary AI model and uses input-output pairs to mimic it. 

This removes the need to access or acquire the relevant training data or weights (the production process of which can be extremely expensive).

Anthropic, for example, has accused a number of developers in China of large-scale distillation "campaigns", namely DeepSeek, MiniMax Group and Moonshot AI.

Public APIs and Democratized Data

A directory can be found here.

Techie Startup Stories

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Amazon Bedrock

Amazon Bedrock is the AWS fully managed platform for building generative AI services. It is basically (like LangChain) a unified API to call into various models and provides managed capabilities like retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), vector embeddings, guardrails and agents/agent orchestration.

Vercel

Vercel is a deployment technology that also exists as a GitHub app.

It's good for product teams that want to ship quickly without managing infrastructure.

Windows Baseline Security

Windows Baseline Security is something new for the Age of AI Agents.