Vendredi matin, 9 h 15. Françoise est dans son cockpit — trois écrans, à gauche l'Excel-pointeuse qu'elle tient à jour depuis quinze ans, à droite Sage, et au milieu Rembrandt depuis trois semaines. Sa tasse à la main, celle avec sa tête imprimée dessus que quelqu'un lui a offerte à Noël. Elle pivote sur sa chaise et me lance depuis son bureau : « Michel, combien on a d'inscrits pour la rentrée, d
« Hold on, we need to talk, this doesn't add up » Friday morning, 9:15 AM. Françoise is in her cockpit — three screens: on the left the Excel attendance sheet she's kept up to date for fifteen years, on the right Sage, and in the middle Rembrandt for three weeks now. Cup in hand, the one with her face printed on it that someone gave her at Christmas. She swivels in her chair and calls over from
Lee Powell · Architect of Scrivener and Scapple · Lumen & Lever Most AI document pipelines fail before the model is ever called. Tables become paragraphs. Lists collapse into prose. Annotations are detached from context. Page references disappear. Source traceability is replaced by a confidence score. The structure that gave the document its meaning is gone before retrieval runs, and no retrieval
A hands-on technical breakdown of the WannaCry ransomware, the EternalBlue exploit, and why system patching is still critical today. Imagine it’s a typical Monday morning at a mid-size hospital. An older Windows computer in the Radiology department hasn't been updated in months. The hospital's network is completely "flat," meaning every computer can seamlessly talk to every other device on the n
What is MVC? M → Model It is a design pattern used to organize your code by separating concerns. => In Spring Boot, MVC helps structure web applications cleanly. MVC in Spring Boot is a design pattern that separates an application into Model, View, and Controller. The Model handles data and business logic, while the View is responsible for displaying the user interface. The Controller acts as a b
Building a Translation Pipeline for International Contract Bidding If your company bids on international contracts, you've probably dealt with the translation bottleneck. Technical proposals need precise translation, certified documents have strict formatting requirements, and procurement deadlines don't wait for anyone. After seeing how UK public procurement translation requirements can make or
Practical post for engineers who've hit the wall where an AI proof-of-concept works on clean data but can't connect to the legacy systems that hold actual production data. Disclosure: I work at Ailoitte, which builds AI integration layers connecting legacy infrastructure to production AI. Sharing what the engineering actually looks like. AI models expect structured, consistently formatted data. Le
The first stage of AI work is prompting. The last stage is removing the model from most of the workflow. That sounds backwards. It is not. When a workflow is new, the LLM is useful because the work is still ambiguous. You are discovering what good looks like. You try a prompt, read the output, adjust the examples, change the tone, add constraints, and run it again. That is a good use of AI. But if