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

Indeed, a simple system looks suspicious, while a complex system looks serious.

What is the value of a decade of success?

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

It took me a lot of thinking to arrive at an architecture that looks simple in hindsight: serve static files, generated on demand, to reduce the attack surface. Standard Unix services glued the components 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.