Agents need a platform, $29 of Claude, bizarre film posters – Relative to your interests, Sunday

Also: Berkshire Hathaway puts more money into Bending Spoons, name a human accountable for every AI workflow, and Iosevka.

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• The Bottom Fell Out Of The Software Industry – Software Defined Talk #594 – “This week, we discuss AI yes/no deciders, the SaaS apocalypse, Bending Spoons, and Oxide’s funding.”

Related to your interests

• Six Principles, Five Patterns and a Named Human Accountable for Every AI Workflow – The same models and vendors produce radically different results from one organization to the next, so the differentiator is the operating system the technology lands in…so the CEO has to rebuild decision rights, accountability, skills and goals around them, starting with naming who is accountable for every AI-enabled workflow.
• Your agents need a platform – “Agents need a platform to keep them healthy and on-track.”
• Accenture Tells Employees They Can Now Spend Only $29 on Claude Per Month – There’s so much (more) shadow IT in the future of Accenture and other companies.
• Berkshire Hathaway invests further $330 million in Bending Spoons following $600 million IPO investment – Probably the most interesting tech PE firm there is.
• Ten of the most bizarre films and their posters
• Iosevka – A typeface for all your code needs. If you push the weight up enough, it looks OK for regular text too.
• MS Clipart Search – Find 90s era clipart.
• Soviet-Era Illustrations of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit (1976)
• Dutch meat consumption continues to decline, with pork seeing biggest drop – “[A]verage person in the Netherlands ate around 33.7 kilograms of meat in 2025, compared with 34.4 kilograms a year earlier.”
• Postgres 19 delayed after AI reviewers find more bugs than humans can fix

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• DevOpsDays Istanbul 2026 – Istanbul, Turkey, October 24th, 2026. Keynote, title to come.
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• 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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