Relative to your interests, Thursday

Also: sovereign agentic AI on Tanzu, TrueSource trusted artifacts, reverse engineering ChatGPT Work, agents that took over a wiki, accidental platforms, and a meeting that could have been an email.

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• He’s the Heel – Software Defined Talk #589 – “This week, we discuss the VS Code documentary, Ed Zitron’s rise to fame, and a 10% AI extinction forecast. Plus, the NFL’s Australia travel gamble”

Related to your interests

• Broadcom Builds Sovereign Agentic AI Foundations Around VMware Tanzu – “What Broadcom is doing with these announcements is to apply proven Cloud Foundry platform mechanics to autonomous AI by establishing a strict deny-by-default architecture. Under this runtime model, agents operate inside isolated, ephemeral sandboxes stripped of baseline networking, external API routing, and internet access until administrators explicitly configure service bindings.”
• Broadcom pledges to lock down open source Python, Java libraries – Padmanabhan said that promise means VMware will also provide “TrueSource trusted artifacts” for code that is not part of Spring, including the wider Java ecosystem, Python, and Node.js.
• Understanding ChatGPT Work – Reverse engineering OpenAI’s sprawling agentic AI PaaS.
• OpenAI to set misalignment disclosure rules after agents took over a wiki
• OpenAI’s website-hijacking swarm reached far further than we thought – “The swarm wrote 54,250 ‘posts’ to the page in a single day. Some of these posts contained stolen API keys from the FBI and other criminal justice agencies, which the agents used to retrieve a bunch of (non-confidential) information.”
• Inside OpenAI’s agentic software factory – “We’re talking about roughly a 10x increase in load on some systems. At most companies, that kind of growth might happen over two or three years. At OpenAI, we see it in about six months.”
• Global AI spend will nearly double in 2026 due to infrastructure demand – “Global AI spend is forecasted to total $2.7 trillion this year, representing a 49.5% increase year over year… The amount of money that is going into AI infrastructure – the chips that are being made, the servers that are being bought, the data centers that are being built, the power, utilities, cooling that are going along with it – represent the largest infrastructure project humanity has ever undertaken.”
• AI and its main promoters are not enterprise-ready, says Gartner – “Trust in these vendors is not warranted yet. They are not enterprise grade. They don’t understand enterprise terms and conditions. They don’t understand enterprise liability. They don’t understand enterprise you know consistency and continuity… If you decide to stay with the first version of a model, they’re not going to be paying attention to you very much. That alone says they’re not enterprise ready.” Daryl Plummer, Gartner, September, 2026z
• How people around the world use AI at work – Meanwhile, people are using AI to help their small businesses.
• Slop Is Really Good Now. Slop Is Where We Start Now – “When the baseline is good enough, being intentional about which aspects need to be great is the whole job. The floor is rising; our job is to spot how to raise it further. Design here is knowing how to articulate and leverage craft. That’s a real opportunity for designers to be articulate, and to work together with AI to change the outcome.”
• Confessions of an Unrepentant Slop Snob – Good things are good, and bad things are bad.
• Only 7% of Organizations Using Kubernetes for AI Do So Daily – “The problem appears when AI workloads enter that mature infrastructure. According to the figures Katie presented, 66% of organizations are already deploying AI workloads on Kubernetes. But only 7% are doing it daily, while 47% deploy them occasionally. Of the organizations using Kubernetes for AI, 23% have fully adopted the Kubernetes stack and 43% have partially adopted it… 98% of organizations trust Kubernetes with their infrastructure, two thirds have tried running AI on it, and almost nobody operates it continuously.”
• Introducing SKE Lift: Discover the Platform Hidden in Your Existing Infrastructure – Find your accidental platforms. You always have a platform, and if you don’t have it on purpose, you have a bunch of garbage platforms.
• Tech sector continues to shed workers amid AI shift
• One-third of AI-replaced workers will be rehired by 2029: Gartner – “The consulting firm predicts that by 2029, 30% of employees laid off due to replacement by AI will need to be rehired, likely at a significantly higher cost.”
• Woman in tech – “Now I was the one talking over people in meetings, saying no without explanation, and writing short emails without exclamation points, often while wearing the same Patagonia vest… It’s hard to question a strategy while it’s working.”
• Do you even need a presentation? – This meeting could have been an email.
• Borges Labyrinth in Venice reopens to the public
• Kids Trends – When was peak Baby Yoda?

Upcoming Talks

• Cloud Foundry Summit 2026 – Heidelberg, Germany, September 21st, 2026. “Making and Maintaining the Case to Stay on Cloud Foundry”
• DevOpsDays Prague 2026 – Prague, Czechia, October 5th, 2026. “Here comes the normies – how DevOps can handle the flood of AI slop-apps”
• DevOpsDays Istanbul 2026 – Istanbul, Turkey, October 24th, 2026. Keynote, title to come.
• Cloud Native Denmark 2026 – Copenhagen, Denmark, November 19th, 2026. “What goblins and druids can teach us about enterprise AI”
• Build Stuff 2026 – Vilnius, Lithuania, December 2nd-4th, 2026. “What goblins and druids can teach us about enterprise AI”

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