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Ron Itelman

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O'Reilly Author, "Unifying Business, Data, and Code" (2024), and Apress author, "The Language of Innovation" (2025)

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Ron Itelman @ronitelman.bsky.social · 28d

This is not going to end well, and if your company's employees are putting valuable IP into their systems, what happens to the data if one of your competitors (or their IT suppliers/partners) buys a bankrupt OpenAI and gets a treasure trove of data?

Ron Itelman @ronitelman.bsky.social · Aug 22

"You're absolutely right!" is fast becoming painful to read (if you use Claude Code, you know what I mean)

Ron Itelman @ronitelman.bsky.social · Aug 20

If your business depends on A) an unprofitable business that B) needs to spend trillions of dollars, I have a question for you:

What happens to your business if your AI provider suddenly collapses?

Ron Itelman @ronitelman.bsky.social · Aug 20

I have never sworn as much in my life as in the last 5 minutes when my super AGI literally can't comprehend the most basic instruction and build crazy complexity making mistakes no child would make.

Ron Itelman @ronitelman.bsky.social · Jul 22

Saw this excellent talk on OpenAI's intent modeling approach. Glad to see Intent Engineering and ambiguity detection and correction part of the AI conversation. This is exactly what TrustLoop is working on: aligning intent across business, data, and UX layers for natural-language-query to sql.

Ron Itelman @ronitelman.bsky.social · Jul 21

This is gold, thanks for explaining the concept blocks. Definitely have things I want to experiment with now. Thanks for sharing Aaron.

Ron Itelman @ronitelman.bsky.social · Jul 17

Don't know what the rest of this thread was but thank you for sharing about SPLADE

Ron Itelman @ronitelman.bsky.social · Jun 25

I've launched a new company, TrustLoop.AI, to eliminate the main source of hallucinations in AI, and my client said this phrase and it's only better than any marketing I could have come up with.

I'm not sure how much I'll owe him for it 😂

Ron Itelman @ronitelman.bsky.social · May 29

A heuristic perhaps, I can't expend the time and energy to collect, understand, and integrate new information to update my beliefs, so it is more efficient to believe what others I align with believe. So parsimony in one direction but risk in another. Perhaps...

Ron Itelman @ronitelman.bsky.social · May 28

Because typically you assume Bayesian belief updates on rational thinking, versus motivated reasoning, and yet what you are pointing out is normal human behavior

Ron Itelman @ronitelman.bsky.social · May 28

I'm trying to imagine what a Bayesian model analogy would be to this...

Ron Itelman @ronitelman.bsky.social · May 28

I'm afraid I'm going to go into some deep meta spiral of philosophical pondering on this ;)

Ron Itelman @ronitelman.bsky.social · May 28

The updating of beliefs not on perception, but updating beliefs on what is desired to be perceived?

Ron Itelman @ronitelman.bsky.social · May 28

How would you define motivated cognition?

Ron Itelman @ronitelman.bsky.social · May 28

Your AI is only as good as its understanding of your business context.

Smart leaders looking for quick wins: What's the smallest app tweak your team could make today to automatically capture more context about your workflows and business goals?

Ron Itelman @ronitelman.bsky.social · May 27

Working on private MCP Registries for companies working on AI & MCP, please reach out if you are available to chat, I'd love to hear about your core challenges.

Ron Itelman @ronitelman.bsky.social · May 22

Thanks Tom for sharing!

Ron Itelman @ronitelman.bsky.social · May 18

"Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect."

- Teller

Ron Itelman @ronitelman.bsky.social · May 14

The biggest problem with "Vibe Coding" - identifying hacks so that you aren't leaving your systems vulnerable.

Reposted by Ron Itelman

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · Apr 28

A bad sign, not just because of what it recalls historically, but for what it promises about the future.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving

More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.

Ron Itelman @ronitelman.bsky.social · Apr 29

I'm interested in a complexity model where a system loses internal and external hubs at once — dismantling science and civic institutions while destabilizing alliances. How long until emergent unknowns overwhelm a network with no resilience left to absorb them?

Ron Itelman @ronitelman.bsky.social · Apr 18

@prchovanec.bsky.social - who do you recommend to follow from legal and security community on this story?

Ron Itelman @ronitelman.bsky.social · Apr 18

Ei incumbit probatio qui dicit, non qui negat

Translates to: "Proof lies on him who asserts, not on him who denies".

- Roman Lawyer Julius Paulus Prudentissimus 2nd century

Recently read about him on the topic of the history of due process.

Ron Itelman @ronitelman.bsky.social · Apr 18

Wow, beautiful and relevant. Thanks for sharing.

Ron Itelman @ronitelman.bsky.social · Apr 11

Initial results:
→ 7.2 out of 25 cells contain errors (28.8%)
→ Average error magnitude in wrong cells: 8.4%

After just 5 interactions, nearly 1/3 of your critical financial data could be corrupted.