https://akingscote.co.uk/Personal blog showcasing some things i find interesting 2026-02-10T19:06:06+00:00 Ashley Kingscote https://akingscote.co.uk/ Jekyll © 2026 Ashley Kingscote /assets/img/favicons/favicon.ico /assets/img/favicons/favicon-96x96.png 2026-02-10T00:00:00+00:00 2026-02-10T15:58:08+00:00 https://akingscote.co.uk/posts/me-vs-llms-designing-a-temp-email-service/ Ashley Kingscote

Don’t worry! This isn’t actually a 75 minute read! It includes a bunch of LLM output. The other week, I posted the article Where’s the moat?. The intention was to capture my feelings around the use of LLMs in the industry at the moment. Since that post, I feel very vindicated. Many others are sharing similar sentiments, and HackerRank shared something eerily similar to my own observations ...

2026-02-07T00:00:00+00:00 2026-02-09T17:03:48+00:00 https://akingscote.co.uk/posts/wheres-the-moat/ Ashley Kingscote

This post documents my observations and experiences regarding the current state of the tech industry, specifically the quality of LLMs and their adoption. I know a few of my peers feel the same, and I’d like to try to articulate why so many of us are feeling hyper-aware of the world changing beneath our feet. These are tangible observations that have made me (and others) realise this is somethi...

2026-01-30T00:00:00+00:00 2026-02-01T17:07:34+00:00 https://akingscote.co.uk/posts/pii-anonymizer-service/ Ashley Kingscote

I had an idea for a PII anonymization service, with the intention of maintaining integrity with the data it’s anonymized. The original context was for anonymizing Microsoft Sentinel database dumps, so that I can re-use the data for threat hunting training, without exposing real-users PII. But to maintain integrity and realism, the concept grows in complexity. I can’t substitute a private IP a...

2025-10-04T00:00:00+01:00 2025-10-04T11:16:00+01:00 https://akingscote.co.uk/posts/aws-strands-agents-guardrail-integration/ Ashley Kingscote

Summary This blog post explores three AI guardrail products, and how to integrate them with the Strands Agents SDK. I opened a pull request into the Strands Agents Samples repo two months ago, and havent seen any updates on it, so have decided to just share the writeup anyway. System-Level Safety Meta’s responsible use guide (for AI) essentially categorises inputs and outputs into an LLM model...

2025-08-04T00:00:00+01:00 2025-08-04T18:16:49+01:00 https://akingscote.co.uk/posts/azure-nested-virtualization-on-prem/ Ashley Kingscote

Summary Modern Microsoft Azure hypervisors support nested virtualization; meaning you can run virtual machines within virtual machines. With a bit of magic, you can create an effective “Virtual ESXi” server and run a few virtual machines from ISO files, which is much closer to an on-premise environment. However, instead of ISOs, if I have a few existing Virtual Hard Disks (VHDs) that are confi...