Dominique Ronde

Dominique Ronde is a Staff Solution Engineer, PhD candidate in Applied Artificial Intelligence, and author focused on AI, data streaming, Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, and real-time system architecture. With more than 20 years of experience in IT, data platforms, and digital transformation, he helps organizations design reliable, scalable, and practical data systems. On Big Data Pilot, he writes about AI, machine learning, event streaming, software engineering, and the realities of building technology that actually works in production.

Understanding Randomness in LLMs: Why ChatGPT Often Picks 73, 42, or 79

Over the last few days, a small AI experiment has been circulating across LinkedIn and Reddit: open a completely fresh ChatGPT session, ask for a random number between 1 and 100, and observe what happens. Surprisingly often, the answer is 73. Sometimes it is 42. In English sessions, 79 also appears more often than true […]

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Why AI Compliance Fails Without Data Lineage, Auditability, and Reproducible Decisions

There is a pattern you start to recognize after a few AI projects. The demos work and the models look promising. The internal presentations create momentum., but somewhere between pilot and production, everything slows down or disappears somehow. Most people explain that gap with vague statements about „organizational readiness“ or „change management“. But in reality,

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AI in Quantitative Investing: Limits of Autonomous Stock Picking Systems

AI-driven stock picking agents are often presented as the next step in quantitative investing. The narrative is compelling: autonomous systems ingest market data, reason over it, and continuously improve decisions through feedback loops. In theory, this aligns well with modern machine learning paradigms and agent-based architectures. In practice, the situation is more constrained. These systems

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Hallucinations Are Not a Bug. They Are an Engineering Constraint.

If you believe hallucinations in AI will disappear with the next model release, this blog post might be uncomfortable to read. Because they won’t. And this is not because the technology is broken or because engineers haven’t tried hard enough. It’s because this is not a product problem in the first place. And for everyone

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Cloud Is Not a Disaster Strategy

What recent regional disruptions remind us about resilience, locality, and architecture Recent geopolitical tensions in the Middle East coincided with service disruptions across parts of a major hyperscale cloud platform. Public reporting indicated that more than one region and several availability zones experienced degradation during the same period. Situations like this are complicated and affect

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Everyone Talks About Agents. Nobody Talks About State.

Over the past year, the discussion in AI has gradually shifted away from models as isolated reasoning engines and toward agents as autonomous operational systems. Large language models are no longer framed merely as tools for generating text or answering questions. They are presented as components capable of planning, acting, coordinating across APIs, and making

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