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In software engineering, complexity is often seen as a sign of professionalism.

A simple system looks suspicious.
A complex system looks serious.

Yet my experience has repeatedly shown the opposite.

A decade of success is not enough to convince

In my final year of engineering school, I built a CTF platform. At the time, no tool like CTFd existed. Everything had to be built from scratch.

I made simple choices: serve static files to reduce the attack surface, generated on demand; classic Unix services glued the pieces together, low-level containers isolated services from one another.

Today, generative AIs meet many uses, and it would be a shame not to take advantage of them. However, in the age of the GDPR, it’s legitimate to question the exposure of customer or partner data when relying solely on AI providers whose data processing remains opaque.

Having myself participated in the construction of one of these new virtual assistant services, I offer here a simple guide to starting up a machine and evaluating the performance of your AI application, or to offering your employees access to sovereign AI, with the aim of easily comparing the different models available.