Rob Thomas
@robdthomas

Senior Vice President @IBM | Board: @domuskids | Volunteer: @filling_blanks | The Mentor: robdthomas.substack.com | Vandy and UF Alum

 Greater New York City
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Joined February 2008
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Trust Infrastructure for the AI Era

Every enterprise today is built on open source software. That is the miracle of modern technology and it has forever increased the pace of innovation. Open source makes up the vast majority of

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Attention

This time of year, we see commencement speeches from around the country. Some are funny. Some are profound. Some go viral for about 36 hours and are never mentioned again. I often wonder how many

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Open Source, After Mythos

There is a pattern we keep seeing in technology. When software moves from product to platform and then from platform to infrastructure, the rules change. At the product stage, control can feel like an

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Your Agents Are Making Decisions. Your Data Is Still Catching Up.

We are moving from AI that advises to AI that acts. This is driven by the soon to be proliferation of agents, but there is a catch: agents have to work with each other and that only happens if they
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Lost in Translation: What the AI code debate keeps getting wrong

AI has sparked a new round of conversation about COBOL, with tools emerging that claim to translate legacy code and, with it, solve the modernization challenge. It is worth being precise about what

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