Show Notes
This week Mike McGrath Vice President, Core Platforms for Red Hat joins us to give us the deep dive on Lightwell!
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00:50 Intro
Iron sharpens Iron
Feedback
01:50 Show Feedback - Joshua
Talking fast at the end of the show
Inserting tutorial style content
04:05 Lightwell Interview
Mike McGrath - Vice President, Core Platforms
What is Red Hat Lightwell
Where Lightwell came from
Illustration scenario
Using AI but interfacing "Human to Human"
Two tiers of Lightwell
Lightwell "Network" repo
Lightwell "Remediated" repo
Lightwell "Undisclosed" repo
How it works
Does Lightwell address compliance requirements?
Remediation
What does using Lightwell look like?
Software Bill of Materials
Clearing house with SLA
Details really matter
Package versioning
Scanner false positives based on versioning
OSV.dev, Vulnerability Exploitability eXchange (VEX) data
Open Source packages, scanning and remediation
How often does upstream reject patches?
Has Lightwell opened doors?
Any notable success stories?
What does Lightwell's roadmap look like?
Where is Lightwell appropriate?
What metrics and KPIs should IT leaders look for?
Walk me through a typical developer workflow
Cost benefit analysis
How does Lightwell integrate with existing Red Hat products?
Previously on ANS 343, ANS 416, ANS 443, ANS 494
43:55 News Wire
GNU Core Utils 9.12 - phoronix.com
Calibre 9.15 - https://calibre-ebook.com/whats-new
Thunderbird 156 - thunderbird.net
Firefox 156 - firefox.com
Gnome 51 - gnome.org
Q4OS 6.9 - q4os.org
Garuda Nix - garudalinux.org
MXLinus 25.3 - mxlinux.org
Ovirt-engine on Oracle Linux - oracle.com
Qwen Image 2.1 - qwen.ai
US District Court AI Ruling - devops.com
45:10 Microsoft Ports Co-pilot with Ai
$120,000 in AI tokens spent to port
800,000 lines of code
5,300 human hours to review
16x faster based on benchmarks
Reaction of an actual developer
Can't put toothpaste back in the tube
Effect of Microsoft doing this
The Register
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