From dcab388256966f9d99c42d6b93e437dfb34f7c43 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Conan Scott Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2026 11:35:44 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Fix: use plain text content --- SCRATCHPAD.md | 99 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 98 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/SCRATCHPAD.md b/SCRATCHPAD.md index 1ef479c..cde7c77 100644 --- a/SCRATCHPAD.md +++ b/SCRATCHPAD.md @@ -1 +1,98 @@ 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\ No newline at end of file +# Presentation Ideas Scratchpad + +Raw ideas and scenarios for future AI presentations. Capture now, refine later. + +--- + +## Presentation #1: MCP in Practice (OpenShift/GitOps) + +**Audience:** Internal Axway team (small, reports to Conan) +**Tone:** Serious content, Simpsons humor, relatable frustration → payoff arc + +### Core Thesis +The value of MCP isn't "AI can run kubectl" — it's **flipping the discovery loop**. + +- **Without MCP:** Human works *for* the AI (copy-paste errors, run commands, provide context, be the middleware) +- **With MCP:** AI works *for and with* the human + +### Narrative Arc + +1. **What is MCP?** — Open standard, Anthropic 2024, gives tools to AI +2. **Why MCP? (Without)** — Grandpa Simpson walks in, sees GPT, walks out + - *Pitch:* Complex problems without tool-bearing AI = frustrating, time-consuming, upside-down. People "bounce off" AI for real work. +3. **Why MCP? (With)** — Setup for the payoff +4. **Tools for the demo** — openshift-mcp, gitea-mcp, argocd-mcp +5. **Prompt Engineering** — "Intent vs. Instruction" / "Ambiguity is the enemy of automation. If you don't define 'safe'… the AI will." +6. **DEMO** — Three scenarios, progressively impressive: + - **Scenario 1:** "Run a healthcheck of my cluster" + - AI examines multiple resources + - Key: produces **INSIGHT**, not just dry information + - **Scenario 2:** "Is my NAS slower than it should be?" + - AI launches ephemeral test pod (permitted via system prompt) + - Reasons against hardware expectations (2-bay 5400RPM, 1Gb network) + - **Scenario 3:** "Lock down security in this namespace" + - AI investigates current posture + - Plans path to privileged-v2 +7. **Summary** — *(to be drafted)* + - Land the loop-flip insight + - "What you didn't see" — all the commands, errors, iterations handled silently +8. **Closer** — Homer spinning in chair (callback) + - "Taking us out of the discovery loop leaves us free to be productive elsewhere" + +### Demo Technique +During demo: **actually do other work** while AI runs. Makes the "frees you up" point concrete — audience watches AI work, watches presenter work, realizes neither needed the other. + +### Key Moments +- "Holy shit, it just figured it out" — if presenter had these moments building the demo, audience will too +- Transition from "tech demo" to "I want this" + +--- + +## Presentation #2: Ideas (TBD) + +**Context:** Axway heritage — Sopra Group → Sopra Steria. Enterprise software, API management, governance. Audience cares about security, compliance, "don't let the AI rm -rf." + +### Option A: Security / AI Gateway +- Take the security line further than system prompts +- Show how an **AI Gateway** solves remaining concerns: + - Rate limiting + - Action allowlists + - Audit trails + - Policy enforcement +- Narrative: "Your enthusiastic AI colleague needs guardrails in enterprise" + +### Option B: Hyper-Agentic First, Then Governance +- Go full agentic — show the power (browser control, cross-platform nodes, compound tool use) +- *Then* pivot: "And this is how you keep your enthusiastic colleague from doing something you didn't want" +- AI Gateway as the answer to the "wait, but what if..." concerns the demo just raised + +### Potential Beats +- Show the Apple Notes/Reminders cross-platform demo (container → Mac node → AppleScript) +- Browser automation +- Multi-step reasoning with real consequences +- Then: governance layer, audit, policy, enterprise controls + +--- + +## Loose Ideas (Capture as they come) + +### Cross-Platform Automation Demo (Apple Notes/Reminders) +**Already documented above — usable for Presentation #2 "hyper-agentic" section** + +- AI in secure container reaches out to Mac node +- Original tool (memo CLI) too interactive +- AI adapts: discovers AppleScript as native alternative +- Creates notes/reminders via osascript +- "Figures it out on its own" moment + +### Meta-Demo: The Session Itself +The conversation that led to this scratchpad is itself demo-worthy: +- Casual experiment → discovery +- Presenter mentions "might use this for a demo" +- AI offers to capture it (not requested) +- Writes structured doc to the right repo +- That's working *with* someone, not commanding a tool + +--- + +*Add ideas below as they emerge* \ No newline at end of file