Also: Zoom system-of-action, the curl deluge, the unreasonable effectiveness of HTML, behavior-first mainframes, fewer books, the meeting Ask, and the multi-agent delegation problem.

Related to your interests

• Executives have a narrow view of AI gains – “CEOs are uniquely prone to AI psychosis because they’re sufficiently distant from the last mile of work that still has to happen to generate most value with AI.” Aaron Levie Box CEO.
• The users have plenty of feature ideas – in contrast, in favor of doing the whole “citizen developer” thing.
• The Copy and the Guru – Use AI to improve how you think and work, not replace and multiply you.
• Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML – Why and when you should use use HTML over markdown as the way of working with AI.
• Google I/O: Did Google Just Ship the Full AI Stack? – “The governance layer is the part of the stack that the keynote narrative left unclear…. It is split across the Antigravity IDE and Agent Platform, and the announcement narrative did not unify the picture.”
• Who Authorized That? The Delegation Problem in Multi-Agent AI – People are obsessed with responsibility in agentic AI. Part of this is driven by regulations, where we want to know who to blame when things go wrong. Also, attribution of good results would be cool too.
• The pressure – “The rate of incoming security reports [for curl] is 4-5 times higher than it was in 2024 and double the speed of 2025 – meaning that on average we now get more than one report per day.”
• The Behavior-First Paradigm: Moving Mainframe Modernization Past LLM Wishful Thinking – No one remembers how these things work, or what they were supposed to do. Maybe the AIs can figure it out by observing what they do.
• The Ask – Figuring out what the point of a meeting is when the Americans won’t just tell you directly.
• Zoom’s most recent quarter highlights its transition to a system-of-action company – “Zoom outlined its vision to become a ‘system of action.’” // They’re great at video conferencing, so I hope they keep doing that well.
• Information Cleaner – Removing ads and paywalls as a social good: “An Information Cleaner is a person who takes in all the material being published in our information atmosphere and cleanses it: they make it transformable, searchable, modifiable, accessible, free of ads and trackers, auditable, connected to other information where relevant, and so on.”
• The Cartoonist Who Mocked the Madness of Modernism – Who knew you could have architecture cartoons?
• Usually life hacks and productivity tips are the same old things, these are fresher
• Why are you reading fewer books? – “New books are appearing all of the time. Older books are still around. But if you are spending less time with books and more time with other media, that does not mean that you are becoming illiterate. Chances are, you are becoming more discerning about how you use your time.”

ICYMI

• How do AI Layoffs Work? Some Speculation. – when you hear that thousands have been fired and replaced with AI, what exactly is the AI doing?
• The AI Security freak-out: now is the time for platform engineering to shine – if you have a good platform in place, you’re in luck!
• trying your best properly rated

Conferences

Conferences I’ll be at and some that I’m interested in.

• J-Spring, June 4th, 2026 in Utrecht – Coté speaking.
• WeAreDevelopers Europe, July 8-10, 2026 in Berlin, Coté speaking.
• WeAreDevelopers NA, Sept 23-25, 2026, Discount Code: DEVPOD26.
• DevOpsDays Istanbul, October 24th, 2026 – Coté keynoting.
• VMware User Groups (VMUGs) – Dallas (June 9-11, 2026), Orlando (October 20-22, 2026).

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