links, etc Introducing the Anthropic Economic Index \ Anthropic this is one of the more interesting and thoughtfully structured considerations of the impacts of the AI on actual work that i’ve seen. well worth the read. Deep dive into LLMs like ChatGPT by Andrej Karpathy (TL;DR) | Anfal Mushtaq a good summary, (and recommended reading) but it makes me want to go watch the video now. (via HN) cisco is the bellwether of enterprise AI adoption...
links, etc The Pursuit of Shareholder Value: Cisco’s Transformation from Innovation to Financialization quite possibly the best discussion i’ve seen of how (and really why) cisco eschewed technical innovation in favor of financial engineering. outlines all the notable disinvestments in differentiating technologies and acquisitions with the financial elements. if america wants to look at why it’s not a leader in many domains, perhaps a cold look at what the impacts of the financialization of nearly everything yields....
scenario you have a switch facing a firewall port and you’re seeing some spurious DHCPv6 hits against the native VLAN despite having no switchport native vlan being set on the trunk interface facing the firewall. a quick look at the link local addresses points at the switches themselves in the network. then you remember that you have cisco switches and that you need to check the most holy VLAN 1. mercifully, the following fixes this broke ass behavior....
nevermind, i suppose i get it. (thanks nxos) ...