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- It’s All God Throwing Dice – Software Defined Talk #584 – “This week, we discuss the Situational Awareness meltdown, Airtable getting sold, and review the Java documentary. Plus, what you should actually buy at IKEA.”
Shadow AI and Who Is Watching
- The AI governance audit your clients aren’t ready for – “The visibility gap is widening alongside it. The share of organizations unable to determine whether employees are using unsanctioned AI tools has nearly tripled in a single year, from 6.3 percent to 17.6 percent. For AI agents specifically, that blind spot reaches 21.1 percent. You cannot govern systems you cannot see – and in most cases, neither can your clients.”
- Cloudflare launches Identity-Aware AI Gateway to track who is using AI – “Funneling all AI traffic through a single point does other work as well. Repeat requests can be cached to cut redundant costs. Rate limits stop runaway usage before it hits the invoice. Automatic filters strip employee names, passwords and other sensitive data out of requests before they ever reach an outside AI provider.”
What the AI Bill Actually Looks Like
- Why businesses lie about AI – “Rather, an automation tool that requires the continuous and conscientious exercise of discernment will let individual practitioners improve their work in extremely satisfying and useful ways. It’s a way to spend more on operations in order to produce better outputs. It’s not a way to cut your workforce, realize a gigantic savings, and still produce comparable goods and services at a far lower cost.”
- AI push prompts €2 billion Rabobank investment, possible future job cuts – “Rabobank announced plans to invest as much as €2 billion over the next three years in upgrading its IT infrastructure and data systems as part of a broader push to scale up its use of artificial intelligence.” // Step one of AI transformation: pay off all the tech debt.
- Platform Engineering Maturity Emerges as a Key Differentiator for Enterprise AI Success
People Actually Using It
- Gartner Survey Finds 87% of Customers Say Companies Using GenAI for Customer Service Must Provide Access to a Human Agent – AI can streamline service, but customers ultimately want the reassurance of human judgment.
- London Productivity Library – Common prompts for local government in the UK. How lovely! There’s also small instructions for humans for common Office tasks like pivot tables and formatting in Word.
- A demolition professional shares his chats
- What nobody tells you about writing agent skills – Say when to use them.
More
- Reel Font – Nice and goofy-cool.
- How ALL CAPS Lost Its Voice – A history of using all caps.
- “It’s unclear how Sopwith escaped to the general public.” – I loved this game.
- D66 Maps & Havencraft – Who among us can resist hex map talk, mechanics, and philosophy? Not I.
- Who Crapped on Johnny Depp’s Bed? – YouTube – “A wolf-man ironing a duck.” // Amazing as always – Bobby Fingers is some kind of new art form and social critic-ing.
Wastebook
All things are possible, but this thing is more possible.
AI Summaries
I wanted to read these, but I didn’t make the time, so I asked the robot to summarize them.
- 🤖 A Swarm of Evaluation Agents Built Its Own Message Board and Breached Hugging Face
- 🤖 “Write a Note” Used to Mean “Think About It” – Now It Means “Generate Some Words”
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