“For some reason they’re willing to read a 20-page essay from a chatbot when they would never imagine doing it from a colleague.”
For episode 50 Cody, Craig, and Nick are joined by special guests Mark Burgess, progenitor and original creator of CFEngine, Ted Zlatanov, configuration management expert and CFEngine Champion and Igor Aleksandrychev, CFEngine Enterprise developer to talk about AI.
The guests touched on the rapidly evolving landscape of AI code generation, with Ted sharing insights on Glean and Claude, noting impressive speed but requiring substantial rework for production. Mark offered a historical perspective, highlighting his work with AI within his Semantic Space Storytime project SSTorytime. Igor demonstrated a natural language query demo for CFEngine Enterprise. Craig recounted his experience with LLM summarization, admitting to being occasionally overwhelmed by the sheer volume of output. Nick raised concerns about the computational cost and the challenge of balancing efficiency with quality.
Post-show discussion explored applying data to dynamic host groups and successful integration of CFEngine with interactive user acceptance on GUI workstations.
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