Relative to your interests, Friday

Fewer than a quarter of enterprises have scaled AI. Also: adoption that’s broad but shallow, agent sprawl vs. a runtime, second brains, and MCP as SOAP for Zoomers.

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• Eight Tanzu Sessions from VMware Explore 2026
• What Broadcom said about using Mythos at Explore 2026
• The Thrilling Life of a CVE – Tanzu Catsup
• Check Your Bank Accounts – Software Defined Talk #588 – “This week, we discuss rogue AI agent civilizations, why AI can’t fix your tax forms, and Chainguard vs. IBM’s Lightwell. Plus, refrigerator magnet marketing.”
• DevOpsDays, Technical Storytelling, and Loading the Dishwasher, with Jason Yee – Software Defined Interviews #126 – “Jason Yee is a Staff Technical Advocate at Datadog and one of three global co-chairs of DevOpsDays, and both jobs turn out to be mostly about getting other people to talk.”
• Left without comment – recent quotes that stand on their own.

Related to your interests

• Fewer than 25% of enterprises have scaled AI successfully – “[F]ewer than one-quarter of enterprises have successfully scaled AI across multiple business units, according to Gartner data released Tuesday. The IT advisory firm surveyed more than 1,300 leaders from organizations with more than $50 million in revenue between January and April of this year.”
• AI adoption at work is broad but shallow – “Overall, as of May 2026, 55 percent of US adults between the ages of 18 and 64 used generative AI for non-work reasons and 45 percent of US adults used GenAI for work, according to the paper. The overall adoption rate (work or otherwise) is 62 percent.”
• Enterprise Architects Must Choose: Agentic Runtime Architecture Or Agent Sprawl – “Governance buried in agent code doesn’t scale. When guardrails live inside individual agents or a single vendor’s platform, every policy change becomes a refactoring project. Autonomous software demands governance that is centralized and enforced at runtime.”

Wastebook

• “I don’t know why you’d want a second brain, I can barely manage having one.” Here
• “MCP is SOAP for Zoomers.” XML->JSON.

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• Cloud Foundry Summit 2026 – Heidelberg, Germany, September 21st, 2026. “Making and Maintaining the Case to Stay on Cloud Foundry”
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