Also: AI vendor lock-in, half of GenAI projects fail, tinkers vs. endpoints, and a blogroll worth keeping
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- Beware Software Brain - 🤖: “The failure mode is exporting that logic to human life. The ask is no longer that computers adapt to people but that people make themselves legible to the machine: open your files, email, calendar, and messages so the AI becomes more valuable. A decade of smart-home flops already showed regular people don’t want this; AI is not going to reverse that.”
- Use Claude Cowork with third-party platforms - Swap in your own LLM for the Cowork harness.
- Put Your Coding Agents in Your Pocket - How one person accesses their rig remotely.
- Indian med student rakes in thousands with AI-generated MAGA hottie - A study in revealed preferences of all types, not least of which “slop.”
- Why Half of GenAI Projects Fail: Avoid These 5 Common Mistakes - Well, you know…this is sort like the essence of every enterprise AI presentation you’re going to see for the next 24 months. Keep the EBC fires warm, my deck-driving homies.
- Execs fear job loss over AI adoption failures
- The Space Between Humans, AI, and the Work We’ve Been Avoiding - “The gap between what AI can do and what organizations are actually able to absorb isn’t a technical gap. It’s a human one - the communication that didn’t happen, the missing information, the assumptions, and the trust that was skipped in service of speed.”
- Agentic AI makes old worries about lock-in look quaint - “However, that means that once enterprise buyers select a platform to manage their agents they’re likely to be stuck there for quite some time. And they’re being forced to make that decision at a time when no one knows exactly where these tools and platforms will be in a year, and when Anthropic and OpenAI are making a big push to convince companies to work directly with them.”
- I Just Wanted Endpoints - Here we go again: “Their CTO said something that hit home: he doesn’t want his AI engineers understanding Kubernetes. He wants managed infrastructure that works. He wants to focus on product and customers, not container runtimes.” // The tinkers will drag us through another round of platform rebuilding.
- Intel shutters open-source evangelism program and archives key community projects - closures point to significant shift in open-source leadership - “Intel has quietly wound down its Open Ecosystem Community and Evangelism initiative, archiving the project alongside a fresh wave of open-source repositories on GitHub.”
- Recency bias (non-derogatory)
- Bluetooth tracker hidden in a postcard and mailed to a warship exposed its location - $5 gadget put a $585 million Dutch ship at risk for 24 hours - Send a postcard to a sailor with an AirTag like tracking device, then track where the battleship goes.
- What the death of Direct File tells us about state capacity - 🤖 Don Moynihan argues Direct File’s cancellation reveals the erosion of US public interest capacity, not just a lost tax tool. Private lobbying plus an administration hostile to public goods killed a working in-house product, and the replacement - a revived Free File partnership - repeats a failure Intuit already exploited.
- Pro-level travel tips
- Beeswacks - SimpleBits® - Very nice!
- The Art of Dystopia / Part 6: Cyberpunk - So many great pictures.
- Blogroll Keepers #11 - Good list.
Wastebook
- “[P]rofound geopolitical implications” - Cal Newport
ICYMI
- Tanzu Platform 10.4 Source Coverage - a round up of our platform’s recent release, 10.4. This is the one that adds the foundation for AI use in large organizations, centered around enterprise control and security, and for private cloud.
- Still life in Amsterdam suburbs
- Agent Assimilation - Software Defined Talk #569 - “This week, we discuss agents taking over at Google Cloud Next, Apple’s new CEO, and Cursor getting acquired (sort of). Plus, Coté’s e-waste has no exit strategy.”
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