Just fun finds and links today.

Wastebook

• “FWD: RE: radioactive fungus email from grandma” Here.

• “I don’t know about you, but I think a campaign setting ruled by evil angels and their witch-wives, populated by giants (perhaps not 3,500 metres tall) who eat one another and human beings, and who have sex with animals to produce many weird varieties of beastman, is one that somebody could do a lot with.” Here.

• ”AI enables action without thinking.” Here.

• “Agent Double-O Soul, baby.” Edwin Starr.

Relevant to your interests

• How We Migrated onto K8s in Less Than 12 months - Always hide the yaml: “Having users define services directly in YAML can be confusing. Instead, we worked to define a golden path for users and allow customization for special cases. By being explicit about what users can and should customize—and otherwise enforcing consistency by default—you’ll save users time and energy while also simplifying maintenance and future changes.”

• 5 Lessons For Building a Platform as a Product - They’re doing a good job trying to evolve the Pivotal Cloud Foundry philosophy of platforms. // “I talked to a CTO at one of the world’s top banks, who explained that he loved what Cloud Foundry could do but wondered what would work for the other 99% of workloads he had responsibility for.”

• Who uses LLM prompt injection attacks? Job seekers, trolls - ‘“At present,” Kaspersky concludes, “this threat is largely theoretical due to the limited capabilities of existing LLM systems.”’

• AI or bust? Only one part of US tech economy growing - “Assuming the bubble does not burst, S&P forecasts global AI spending to grow by more than 20 percent through 2028, when it is estimated to account for 14 percent of total global IT spending, up from 6 percent in 2023.”

• How to go-to-market: Measuring Marketing Value - “The key areas that your marketing team can drive impact for the business are in Awareness, Engagement, and Pipeline.”

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