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You can try out our AI platform with a 90 day trial. It’ll host models in private cloud, act as a proxy to public models (OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropic, whatever), and has tight integration with Java apps. Python works fine too, of course: you can host LangChain in it to get management over all the AI goop. It’s all in the current version of the Tanzu Platform.

Wastebook

• “Create chaos to preach order,” used by Dickerson on Political Gabfest, August 21st, 2025.

• Overheard on the street: One dude: “The airwaves are everywhere…when you think about it.” Other dude, after a pause: “Even when you don’t.” Ponderous, man.

• “it’s funny, refreshing even, how the rollercoaster of emotions this week was mostly driven by me creating things, not by a c-level executive’s decisions. my mistakes empowering me to level up and try again to make something people love, versus making me feel like i’m in trouble over something i don’t really even find joy in…this week had its challenges but it was necessary to remind me i’m on a very good path.” jenn schiffer

• “shaped by the logic of viral web series like Skibidi Toilet”

• And: “the issue with AI isn’t really about what it’s good for - it’s what are humans good for?”

• He’s like the British Cory Doctrow, only much more chill.

• “What is the point of that? Well, if we started asking for a point, the entire tech industry would collapse, wouldn’t it? Pretty much every bit of software (looking at you, ‘AI’) created in the last decade is the digital equivalent of a leaf blower; an expensive, noisy, anti-social, environmentally disastrous answer to a problem no one had.” Cartoon Gravity 37 // Really finding the tech-doubters this episode.

• “As for that midlife crisis, I think it already happened last year internally. I picked up a few quotes from Carl Jung on the second part of life as the Awakening: the sudden realization past all that career and success gunning that suddenly you are standing in the future you once imagined, feeling that things you once thought would make you happy won’t matter as much. According to Jung, a midlife crisis isn’t a crisis, it’s an initiation” A rare Jung reference.

• Tyler Cowen never (very rarely?) posts photos. Does he not take them? Does he not care? Does he not want to share them? What would they be like?

Conferences

SpringOne, Las Vegas, August 25th to 28th. VMUG London, speaking, September 18th, speaking. SREDay London, speaking, September 18th and 19th. Civo Navigate London, September 30th, London, speaking. Cloud Foundry Day EU, Frankfurt, October 7th, 2025, speaking. AI for the Rest of Us, London, October 15th to 16th, London, speaking. SREDay Amsterdam, November 7th, speaking.

I’ve got a 20% off discount for AI for the Rest of Us: SDI20. You should go the conference if you can, it’ll be good!

Logoff

No links at the moment. Lots of conferences coming up in September, then more. See above. Maybe I’ll see you! We have some good Software Defined Interview episodes coming out over the next month too, and more were recoding. Catch-up with the back catalog and subscribe.