Also: Mirantis acquisition logic, and tech jobs at a 3-year high, so why the layoffs?

Here’s the latest Tanzu Catsup:

AI lets us find more vulnerabilities, faster than ever. That’s good news. You want to know what’s broken, and you want to patch it. The hard part is the volume. How do you handle it without drowning?

We stream these every Friday at 10am US Eastern/4pm Amsterdam time. Since David is way into security, I ask him neophyte questions about that each episode, plus we talk about our latest AI harness tinkering.

Check out the current episode, and there’s plenty in the archives.

Related to your interests

• Tanzu Platform’s 15-year head start meets the AI moment - No need to build your own AI platform to do security, governance, and self-service model and MCP access you need, a rock-solid, enterprise proven one already exists. And it’s not Kubernetes.
• 🤖 Platform engineering drives Red Hat’s enterprise AI push - The strategy is a single Kubernetes-based foundation for traditional apps, VMs, containers, and AI workloads - what Red Hat calls a “metal-to-agents” stack. The argument is that fragmented tools and inference-unfriendly infrastructure, not lack of ambition, are what stall enterprise AI.
• From 38% to 81%: Why Doctor AI Adoption Just Doubled and What It Means for Healthcare - “The American Medical Association just released its 2026 Physician Survey on Augmented Intelligence… 81% of physicians now use AI professionally, more than double the 38% figure from 2023.” 🤖: “Adoption concentrated where the problem was acute and the use case was contained: medical research summarization and clinical documentation. AI scribes addressed note-writing without touching diagnosis or judgment, kept physicians in the review loop, and embedded inside the EHR rather than running parallel to it.”
• 🤖 Can IREN Build a Full-Stack AI Cloud? The Mirantis Acquisition Makes the Case - Explanation of that Mirantis acquisition: IREN is acquiring Mirantis for ~$625M in stock to add Kubernetes orchestration, the k0rdent AI platform, and 1,500 enterprise accounts to its GPU cloud. The vertical integration logic is clear, but execution risk and the standalone-subsidiary structure are the open questions
• RIP caused by boredom - The technology is not “dead,” it’s “done.” It’s only dead to investors that no longer make money off its growth.
• Tech job postings hit 3-year high - File under “what the fuck is going on with layoffs then?": “Tech occupation employment rose by 260,000 roles, driving the unemployment rate among technology professionals down from 3.9% in March to 3.5% in April, according to CompTIA. The U.S. unemployment rate remained steady at 4.3%.”
• Inside the cutthroat community of ‘clippers’

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• “What have you tried?” Here.
• dissimulation: Hiding or disguising your true feelings, intentions, or character - putting on a false front. From Latin dissimulare, “to conceal.” It’s the active sibling of simulation (pretending something is so) - dissimulation is pretending something isn’t so. A poker face is dissimulation; a fake smile is closer to simulation.
• Whatever the new technology is, every vendor will tell you that the one thing holding you back from success is the lack of the product or service they sell.

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