The Hallucination Budget
8bitconcepts Research
Quantifying the cost of AI hallucinations and mitigation strategies for production systems.
reliability
The crash that wasn’t: debugging Kinjo’s CI with AI
Ivan Ryabov
A CI smoke test told me Kinjo had crashed. Kinjo had actually exited successfully. That distinction took a few hours, several AI sessions, a handful of discarded hypotheses, and a small crash-capture toolkit to uncover. I was updating dependencies in Kinjo, my side project for browsing local...
Taxonomy of applications
Ivan Ryabov
Over the course of a software engineering career, we find ourselves working on applications solving a massive variety of business needs. Yet, when looking for a way to categorize these systems, most existing literature focuses on the business domain or high-level architecture. What we actually...
No time for testing (in a start-up)?
Ivan Ryabov
Recently I have joined a Sydney start-up program, Antler, and have been hanging out with pretty unique and interesting people. As part of the program, I participated in the CTO forum, where all things tech in start-ups were discussed. One of the topics was about our approaches to testing. In any...
This is why distributed systems are useful (and I am building one)
Ivan Ryabov
In this post I’d like to discuss the concept of distributed systems (DS) starting with the question of what makes a bunch of computers a system. What can be achieved by designing such systems, and what are the unintended benefits? When is it required to build one? I will touch briefly on some of...
libsolace: library philosophy
Ivan Ryabov
It is no secret that software is all around as this days. It runs traffic lights, washing machines, cars, businesses etc. Every type you plan a trip - your booking is processed online by a data centre. The plain you travel on is control by the software. As is the airport you travel to and from....
How to think about errors in your code
Ivan Ryabov
Let us talk a bit about what is an error in a software engineering context. And more importantly, what can we do when one happens. Have you ever discussed with your colleague if this particular case should be handled as an exception or if-else condition? Or have you heard someone saying - “this...