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Gary A. Stafford

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Area Principal Solutions Architect @AWSCloud | AWS Analytics Technical Field Community | 10x AWS Certified Pro | Former @ThoughtWorks & @Accenture

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Blown away by GenAI video capabilities of Stability AI's latest Stable Video Diffusion 1.1 Image-to-Video latent diffusion model (SVD 1.1), available on Hugging Face. I created this video on Amazon Web Services from a single image using the SVD 1.1 model and ComfyUI.

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Leadership: “Focus on business outcomes, don't constantly chase the latest and greatest Generative AI model.” Llama 3.1 has been released… Leadership: “We have the newest, largest, best model (at least until next week) - GO SELL!”

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405 billion posts on social media about the release of Meta’s Llama 3.1 LLMs, including the 405B parameter model version. 99.99% of the posts didn't mention practical business value. But then we wonder why GenAI workloads aren't moving into Production quickly enough…

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How will we know that AI-generated videos have gone mainstream? When a majority of the social media posts on the subject are not by middle-aged white dudes creating videos of doe-eyed young girls.

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“Local Inference with Meta’s Latest Llama 3.2 LLMs Using Ollama, LangChain, and Streamlit” by Gary A. Stafford garystafford.medium.com/interacting-wi…

“Local Inference with Meta’s Latest Llama 3.2 LLMs Using Ollama, LangChain, and Streamlit” by Gary A. Stafford garystafford.medium.com/interacting-wi…
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Why do large, well-established companies with a dozen levels of management & government-level bureaucracy feel ashamed to admit they aren't start-ups anymore? It's like witnessing your middle-aged dad parading around in tight biking shorts and a Sabrina Carpenter concert t-shirt.

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Turn up your Christmas Spirit with The Merry Mixmaster, MC Kringle 🎧 Created with Amazon Web Services Amazon Nova Canvas creative generational foundation model.

Turn up your Christmas Spirit with The Merry Mixmaster, MC Kringle 🎧 Created with <a href="/awscloud/">Amazon Web Services</a> Amazon Nova Canvas creative generational foundation model.
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“Prompt engineers” is BS. I can have an LLM generate complex prompts 10x better than humans with minimal context. “Prompt engineers” is a feel-good ruse designed to provide false hope to people who will soon be displaced by AI.

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I'm frequently asked to review architectures for customers’ proof-of-concepts. Most are agentic, most use agents, and…most don't require them. They are deterministic workflows that access an LLM but have been “agent-washed” due to a misunderstanding of the technology or FOMO.

I'm frequently asked to review architectures for customers’ proof-of-concepts. Most are agentic, most use agents, and…most don't require them. They are deterministic workflows that access an LLM but have been “agent-washed” due to a misunderstanding of the technology or FOMO.