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Your Intellyx Cortex for April 22, 2025: | |
Jason explores the nightmare world of Shadow AI usage and reports back from KubeCon EU, JE discusses the impact of AI on observability, client content for BMC, Conviva, Mezmo, and Tines, plus events & news. Share with your peers and friends, they can subscribe to Cortex/BrainCandy newsletters for free. | |
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by Jason Bloomberg, in Cortex Newsletter | |
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Cortex Newsletter by Jason Bloomberg, Intellyx If you’re ancient like me, you probably remember Lotus Notes. The leading groupware platform of the last millennium, it not only provided corporate email and pre-Slack communications, it also empowered anyone in the organization to build and publish mini-web sites for anyone to use.
It didn’t take long for this whole employee empowerment train to go off the rails. Suddenly, Madge in accounting could slap up a site that exposed private corporate data – with the IT organization none the wiser. No testing, no compliance, no oversight at all.
Shadow IT had reared its ugly head. IT had heretofore controlled all technology deployments across the organization, holding the tech reins for any department or individual looking to deploy any software-based asset.
Now, anyone could do so, essentially mounting their own IT effort in the shadows. Today, AI is facing a similar challenge. Not too long ago, all corporate AI efforts required deep technology expertise, and thus they resided under the control of IT (or some other technology department) that presumably knew what it was doing.
Machine learning, deep learning (like computer vision), AIOps, and the rest of the AI pantheon were comfortably ensconced in the cubicles of the technologists.
Then along came generative AI (genAI). Suddenly, anyone can work directly with AI. Even Madge can type whatever prompt she wanted into ChatGPT or some other tool – including corporate AI tools that can access internal data.
Welcome to your shadow AI nightmare.
The Seven PitfallsGenAI opens up new dimensions of shadowness well beyond the shadow IT of old. Here are seven examples. Pitfall #1: Shadow access to corporate dataOne of the most popular uses of genAI in businesses today is exposing corporate data for official use, including searching, summarization, and analysis. Clearly, genAI is a powerful tool for such purposes ... [Read the whole Cortex on Intellyx.com.] | |
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As humans developing software, we never expected to be as fully engaged as we are now. Thanks to the evolution of automation and agile DevOps practices, per-developer productivity is at an all time high. So where else can we go from here with AI assistance?
Let’s look for better data than some fanboy on X saying he developed a whole app in five minutes.
The recent 2024 DORA Report, with a massive survey audience underwritten by Google, does highlight significant improvements in documentation quality, code quality, and code review speed. Then, the report says:
“However, despite AI’s potential benefits, our research revealed a critical finding: AI adoption may negatively impact software delivery performance. As AI adoption increased [for each 25% increment], it was accompanied by an estimated decrease in delivery throughput by 1.5%, and an estimated reduction in delivery stability by 7.2%.”
As it turns out, AI-generated code within applications, when infused with complex probabilistic weighting and nondeterministic thinking, are less observable than conventional applications that contain rules-based logic … [Read this killer new article here.] | |
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“Bubble bubble, toil and trouble” describes the mysterious process of mixing together log data and metrics from multiple sources as they enter an observability data pipeline.
Customers demand high performance, functionality-rich digital experiences with near-instantaneous response times. This drives enterprise development teams to build services that integrate to external APIs and modernize their applications, using ephemeral containers and clusters atop highly distributed cloud architectures and data lakes ... [Read the BrainBlog here.] | |
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When you have a conversation with a chatbot, you want it to remember previous interactions within that conversation. That’s what it means to have a conversation, after all.
When you use generative AI (genAI) to perform some analysis task beyond a single response to a prompt, you want it to retain the context of earlier prompts within that task.
When a company wants AI to automate a workflow — a sequence of steps over time, with human input along the way — you want the AI to keep track of where each user is along their instance of the workflow.
These examples are all situations where we expect our AI to maintain state information — some persisted data that keeps track of interactions or automated tasks over time ... [Read the full article here.] | |
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The Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s flagship KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 event in London was the biggest KubeCon ever, exceeding the largest U.S.-based shows for the first time.
The excitement over all things cloud native in Europe, however, extended beyond the technology to the geopolitical landscape and how it’s affecting the European software industry – open source in particular.
Global politics drives the conversationThe political turmoil in the United States was an undercurrent in many conversations at the conference.
Though European software vendors continue to see the U.S. as a primary market, many software executives reported rumblings from their American customers about moving their cloud-based infrastructure to Europe to mitigate the new risk landscape of doing business in the U.S. ... [Read the whole article here.] | |
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As my colleague Eric Newcomer mentioned in the previous chapter of this series, GenAI changes the security automation game, with multi-system discovery, documentation, and task execution capabilities that can reduce cognitive load and toil for security analysts.
To get started, all the analyst has to do is ask an AI-powered solution like Tines Workbench to pull in data and investigate their authorized systems using a natural language chat interface, with intuitive summaries to keep up awareness of an ever-changing application tech stack.
But conversational interfaces like chatbots are only the first step on the road toward the productivity that AI can help deliver ... [Read the whole column here.] | |
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Meanwhile, Jason Bloomberg, an analyst at Intellyx, takes a stronger stance. “Security is but one of many issues with vibe coding. Using AI to generate code is an invitation for hallucinations, bugs, vulnerabilities, and all manner of other pitfalls,” he told The New Stack.
Bloomberg added that many experienced developers “are finding that vibe coding isn’t worth the trouble — and some actually think it’s a joke. Less seasoned developers (and their bosses) may see it as a shortcut, at their peril.” ... [Read the article here.] | |
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“That vision of a coordinated AI workforce isn’t just theoretical—it’s already being explored in the industry. On a recent episode of The Modern Mainframe podcast, Jason English, an analyst at Intellyx, described it this way:
“It’s like a team of mainframe specialists who can meet, collaborate, and decide amongst themselves how to solve a problem—without needing constant supervision. That’s the power of agentic AI: coordinated intelligence that turns complexity into clear, actionable insight. It’s not one agent that will be suitable for all aspects of AIOps, for instance, when dealing with system management and operations. We will see a collection of AI agents that will work in collaboration to proactively solve system issues.” ... [Read the article here.] | |
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“Account takeovers are among the most serious threats facing mobile businesses today,” said Jason Bloomberg, Managing Director of analyst firm Intellyx. “Bad actors continue to up their game, and by the time an account is taken over, the damage is done. With Appdome’s Mobile Account Protection, mobile brands can prevent account takeovers by securing how user identities and account data flow in and out of mobile applications across the entire customer journey.” ... [Read the article here.] | |
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AI-driven code generation is now a central feature in low-code development. By the end of 2025, AI is expected to produce 20% of all software code globally, revolutionizing how applications are built.
“Code generation will continue to improve, impacting all tiers of modern applications. Expect to be able to build a full-stack containerized app from a single prompt.” — Jason Bloomberg, President, Intellyx ... [Read the article here.] | |
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