Also: sovereignty’s control plane, 81,000 people tell Anthropic what they want, Google sells its fiber, and oats for the sparrows, and cake
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- My pal Adib Saikali wrote up an MCP security guide covering how to think about securing MCP servers in the enterprise (no lead-generation required, just a straight-up PDF download). It gets into access tiers (open, group, and user-level servers), authentication with OAuth 2.1, identity propagation models (when to use service accounts vs. forwarding user identity), and how an MCP gateway gives you a governed chokepoint for auth, observability, and capability filtering. Good starting point if you’re deploying MCP servers that touch real corporate data and don’t want your AI agent behaving like a rogue insider. Check it out.
- Enterprise dev teams are about to hit a wall. And CI pipelines can’t save them. - The platform is now the bottleneck, again. // “The math is straightforward. If each change requires 30 minutes of validation in a shared staging environment and an agent-assisted developer generates 5 or 6 PRs a day, the developer spends the majority of their time managing a deployment queue rather than building software. The agent accelerates code output velocity, but if the surrounding system stays slow, that velocity hits a wall.”
- The agentic AI gap: Vendors sprint, enterprises crawl - “today firms spend approximately 4% of their revenue on technology. We believe this figure will rise to 10% or more within the next decade. " // And a whole lot of enterprise AI analysis.
- the diginomica network pulse - what CIOs actually think about AI and the SaaSpocalypse - “Over a quarter (38%) of the community members who took part in the pulse survey see AI as a direct replacement or competitive threat to existing SaaS technologies in the enterprise. That could lead to a significant disruption to the SaaS marketplace over the next 12-24 months. "
- Infrastructure is all that’s left - When the AI is the UI: “Everything that has been build around the centrality of a UI will need to be rebuilt around APIs. I am not saying UIs will disappear over night, but it becomes clear that it is no longer the place where one can accrue a lot of value.”
- Cloud-native open-source infrastructure meets AI’s big test - “When I have talked with companies who are creating specialized models, they’re seeing that they’re way faster, way more accurate and way cheaper,” he said. “If you can increase efficiency, then you can really get to that ROI and you can bring forward AI adoption.”
- From Building Platforms to Delivering Capabilities: KubeCon + PlatEngDay EU 2026 Summary - Extensive overview of the platform engineering story and content at KubeCon EU.
- The Control Plane: The Next Frontier of Infrastructure Sovereignty - Here’s all the governance and management functions it takes to make something enterprise-y.
- The 12x Bet on AI - Based of debt raises, he models out that “AI revenue will grow 5x within five years.”
- What 81,000 people want from AI \ Anthropic
- ‘Astound’ed. Google Flips Its Fiber To PE. - “The playbook is not complicated. Low introductory pricing, step-function rate increases after twelve months, retention discounts for customers who call to cancel, and underinvestment in everything that doesn’t show up on a cash flow statement. The BBB and Trustpilot reviews are a graveyard of billing complaints and broken promises.”
- How Not to Interview (Interesting People) - 🤖: The five cardinal sins: finishing their sentences, volunteering your own references, mentioning your other work, asking only comfortable questions, and filling silence.
- Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here’s How to Use It. - Arcane Google search incantations.
- Explore - Banner Depot 2000 - “Hot deals on fast modems.”
The Kids These Days
That’s why complacency is key to understanding this framing of downward mobility in 21st century America. The upper middle class needs to believe that the economic woes of others are due to a moral failing. That if the dinergoths really wanted to succeed in America, they could. To contemplate that maybe there are structural forces at play which prevent everyone from being upper middle class is to admit that maybe forces beyond your control could one day push you down that same slope. From 8ball.
Wastebook
- “If you’re wondering how cold fusion produces pollution, let alone a lot of it, don’t worry, this is explained in a chapter by one teenaged prodigy tennis player to another, wherein the latter is wearing a blindfold to improve his other senses but can’t find a bathroom, so he asks the other player for help, but instead, the other player explains cold fusion in exhaustive detail over such a long period of time that the blindfolded player is nearly peeing in his pants, and it all turns out to be a ploy by the explainer to pressure the blindfolded player (who is a Muslim and drug-free) to give away his urine so the other player and his friends can pass a drug test. Stuff like this happens a lot in IJ.” Infinite Jest Extraction
- Wow, the eye tracking AI thing in Descript actually works. Now we can all read scripts and pretend like we know how to memorize things!
- “He made enough money to retire to a farm in Vermont in search of humility.” PE Farm.
- “your half-zip won’t save you.” Here.
- “If you feed enough oats to the horse, some will pass through to feed the sparrows.” John Kenneth Galbraith on the dogma of ‘trickle-down economics.
- “Walking means you can’t fast forward through anything” Getting around Japan.
- “vibe porting” Saved $500K/Year
ICYMI
- Securing AI - More “how do we secure this AI stuff” talk with David Zendzian on today’s live stream. He’s recently gone Claude Crazy so I wanted to get his CISO-supremo talk on thinking through the risk management for AI in enterprises.
- Field Engineering is the YOLO team - Software Defined Talk #565 - “This week, we discuss big bets gone wrong, OpenAI buying the Python toolchain, and Claude’s favorite tools. Plus, how fast should AI agents ship bug fixes?”
Logoff
Last week was Mila’s sixth birthday, lots of birthday-fun and parties. To a six year old, every day is a chance for awesome, especially when you get presents, four hours to play with friends, and rainbow cakes.
I think cutting over to micro.blog to post the newsletter is working…right?