Week 12 , GenAI posts, ChatGPT threads and other interesting links

Here is my second LinkedIn newsletter where I consolidate the main posts and articles that I collected over the past week.

I'm also adding links to some of my recent slide decks, which are currently hard to find in my LinkedIn history. Since the main audience for these newsletters is actually me, or more specifically, 'my future self' :)

What I find really frustrating is having to solve the same problem twice or having to search for a link that I know I've found before.

That’s why I write my LinkedIn posts.

I'm making it easy for 'my future self' to rediscover that knowledge in the future. The fact that others find it interesting is a pleasant bonus.

This is why I always give the advice to share and post your knowledge and not to worry too much about the number of views or who actually reads it.

By the way, you might notice that most of my posts have a “[ {metadata} ]” at the beginning. I'm doing that to help me categorize the posts and identify what area I had in mind when writing them. Eventually, I will add some automation to this process, but for now, that metadata is working quite well.

Articles and presentations:

• Creating an SQL Injection vuln and ChatGPT's blind spots: Here is an article I wrote this week which presents a detailed analysis of an SQL Injection vulnerability that I wrote, along with an extended thread I had with ChatGPT about it.
• "It's 2024 and, with GenAI, we can finally make AppSec work" (slides and video) is the presentation I delivered recently at OWASP London (Feb 2024) were I outline my vision of the opportunities and threats for the AppSec industry
• "GenAI bots that make security teams 10x more productive" (slides and video) is a presentation I delivered late last year (Nov 2013) which focuses on the opportunity to use GenAI dramatically increase the productivity of Cyber Security teams
• This week I rewatched the amazing "Bret Victor - The Future of Programming (presented in 2013 as if in 1973)" which I HIGHLY recommend you to want too . This presentation really shows the "future that never was" where Bret brilliantly presents in 2013 ideas and technologies as if they were envisioned in 1975, discussing their potential as though they were paths the industry could have taken but didn't. The core ideas of this presentation are more relevant than ever, and the coolest thing is that with GenAI we can now make this happen.

GenAI:

• Nice interview with OpenAI Llya's where he presents the idea that the LLMs create a world model of the text/prompt when calculating their answer
• Using bots for recruitment interviews In this post I expand on what I think is an excellent solution to ensure that every candidate who submits a CV for an open vacancy: a) receives an interview, b) learns from it, and c) receives actionable feedback

ChatGTP

• One of the reasons is important to understand how GPT actually works can be seen in my question to ChatGPT in this post
• Here is me having a thread with ChatGPT about a variable name. See how I primed the conversation and pushed it the direction I wanted:
• This is a nice example of using ChatGPT to zoom in on a particular topic and learn exactly what is happening. Note how the answers where all in context and the examples provided where 100% relevant to the use case provided
• GenAi is not just for text, here is an impressive use of similar techniques for music Inside Suno AI, the Start-up Creating a ChatGPT for Music

Questions I asked:

• "What are good Crowdfunding Platforms for UK startup?"
• "Are all the models available in these "Google Model Garden" available on a consumption based model?"?

To read or watch:

• Nice intro to K8s , btw I really found that the best way to learn how Kubernetes actually works was to use the Lens desktop app?
• Ultimate AWS Penetration Testing Guide:? looks like a great guide on AWS security, and in fact, even ignoring the security angle (which you shouldn't) this kind of "how to attack xyz tech" documents are always a great way to really understand how things actually work

Technologies or services:

• HuggingChat ?looks very interesting. It allows the creating and sharing of GenAI assistants that can chat with any online content. I need to give it a test drive
• new release of Stability AI which has some impressive, near realtime, image editing features

Misc:

• Great quote/concept in this video: "Companies don't build products, they build movements"?
• I took at look at my YouTube channel www.youtube.com/@diniscruz which I haven't updated for 11 years in there you can see 60+ videos that show the crazy stuff I was doing back then with the O2 Platform :)