2026
October 7, 2026
October 6, 2026
- Platform Building Strategy for Platform Engineers
- From the big swings department
- The comming Full Disk Access apocalypse, for agentic AI.
- Jevon’s Paradox, 70s Hollywood Edition
October 5, 2026
- Relative to your interests, Sunday
- Fulldisk access woes to come
- Scrambled Eggs ‘James Bond’
- AI is driving CVE discover up, but exploits not exactly exploding
- Europe problems: not enough bike mechanics
- A platform for normie AI developers
- Those rascally AIs: maybe there just weren’t any security controls.
October 4, 2026
- Design systems are much more valuable now
- Blanket Bans on AI Writing Prematurely Stifle Necessary Experimentation
October 3, 2026
October 2, 2026
October 1, 2026
- People like fresh food, perceptions study
- People are drinking less wine
- “glance media” – slides for keynotes, slides for corporate pipelines
- Management wants to fire you so, so bad
- Gartner is not a fan of FDEs
- I don’t want your UI, just give me an API
- Siri actually works now…?
- funky lifestyle demos
September 29, 2026
- Vulcan always limps
- If you don’t know how to use AI at work, it doesn’t work well
- Facebook AI gearing up for enterprise sales
- What a Claude Code Max plan pays for shifts around a lot
September 28, 2026
- Cloudflare says the agents will outnumber us a thousand to one
- Wiley AI works around UN statistics portal API denials
September 27, 2026
- you have to go all in on agile, or you’ll hit the accountability paradox buzzsaw
- FDEs help one customer solve problems, then kick that back into the platform for all customers
September 26, 2026
September 25, 2026
- “Learn from their mistakes” is a bad strategy
- No more specs
- In the office, 1988
- 🤖 Building Influence in Enterprises
- 🤖 AI Agents Still Need Frameworks to Prevent Unmaintainable Code
- Governance should be more than checking policy
- 🤖 Google Cloud’s Andi Gutmans: Existing Knowledge Graphs Won’t Give AI Agents Enterprise Context; Agents Must Build and Correct It Themselves
- Rotate keys more frequently
- 🤖 The social media martyr
- Enterprise AI ROI at Bank of America: developers, optimizing normie workflows, double spending
- 🤖 Platform Teams and Developers Clash Over Kubernetes Self-Service Boundaries
- When to use voice mode in Claude Code
September 24, 2026
- “Servant Leadership” in the AI era
- “Sovereign cloud” means “not US owned cloud”
- AI is a tool, not a weapon
- 🤖 Sun Microsystems Failed Because It Became Bored with the Mechanics of Running a Business
- (untitled)
- Release your software all at once to defend against hacks
- Remember to sell customers what they ask for
- Agile private cloud
- Pork is not the best BBQ
- Enterprise architect as context engineer
September 23, 2026
- Tune fonts and text, see the CSS settings
- More AI, more human managers
- Enterprise AI usage slowly rolling out, jobs are not chaning much
- Pee Wee on Broadway, 2011
September 22, 2026
- Dutch sentiment on AI generated content
- MCP in the front, CLI in the back
- People in LinkedIn might be annoying, but they’re not cruel
- programmers are managers now
September 21, 2026
- Relative to your interests, Monday
- Left without comment
- LinkedIn is the new social network
- All the AI found bugs, Microsoft land.
- Casper mattresses and podcast history
- Bags
September 18, 2026
- Globally, More People Expect AI to Cause Job Loss Than Growth
- Can Claude for Financial Advisors Meet Practice-Specific Needs?
September 17, 2026
- Left without comment
- Relative to your interests, Thursday
- These AI companies aren’t serious people w/r/t “Enterprise”
- How much AI runs on Kubernetes?
- Luke Kanies on Puppet history
- One-third of AI-replaced workers will be rehired by 2029: Gartner
- Enterprise AI spending
September 16, 2026
September 15, 2026
September 14, 2026
- How people around the world use AI at work
- OpenAI’s website-hijacking swarm reached far further than we thought
September 13, 2026
September 12, 2026
September 10, 2026
September 9, 2026
- Left without comment
- New open source support plan from Broadcom VMware Tanzu
- The jobs apocalypse is postponed. An AI jobs boom is here
- Introducing SKE Lift: Discover the Platform Hidden in Your Existing Infrastructure
- Broadcom’s AI Trajectory: De-Risking Silicon Growth and Managing Credit Exposure
- Tech sector continues to shed workers amid AI shift
- Do you even need a presentation?
- Working less: decoupling self worth from paid labor
September 8, 2026
September 7, 2026
- OpenAI and the Wiki Incident
- Procrastinating by being productive.
- OpenAI to set misalignment disclosure rules after agents took over a wiki
- Eugene Tssui (R)Evolutionary Imagination
- Borges Labyrinth in Venice reopens to the public
- GitHub – lamzhonghang/nevermind
September 4, 2026
- Relative to your interests, Friday
- Left without comment
- Eight Tanzu Sessions from VMware Explore 2026
- Perverse, Grotesque, Sensuous, Inimitable: A Selection of Works by Aubrey Beardsley
September 3, 2026
September 1, 2026
- What Broadcom said about using Mythos at Explore 2026
- AI adoption at work is broad but shallow
- Understanding ChatGPT Work
- Enterprise Architects Must Choose: Agentic Runtime Architecture Or Agent Sprawl
August 31, 2026
- Relative to your interests, Monday
- Ollee Watch
- Afterglow — classic After Dark screen savers on modern macOS
- Before You Build An AI-Powered Enterprise, Build Its Human Foundation
- Claudeforce: The AI Interface Salesforce Never Built
August 29, 2026
August 28, 2026
- One CEO in eight got what AI was sold as, survey
- Making Your Data Ready for Agentic AI
- I think the data center backlash is mostly about data centers
August 27, 2026
- 7 SaaS fonts worth trying
- Using AI to play Role Playing Games – Building tools to play Dungeons and Dragons is playing D&D…?
- Effective Patterns for Advanced MCP Usage
- You’re Not Behind, You’re Being Sold a Vocabulary
- CIOs are still waiting for AI’s cost savings
August 25, 2026
- Relative to your interests, Tuesday
- Platform as a Product, 9 years later
- Top Platform Orchestration Tools for 2026
- Looming wave of inheritances will further increase inequality in Dutch housing market
- What’s the Difference between Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) & Agent Experience (AX)?
- Reframing the AI-native SDLC in terms of stewardship boundaries
- AI Bottlenecks
- Text Watermarking
- Bridging the IT Chasm: A Strategic Blueprint for Platform Engineering 2.0
August 24, 2026
August 22, 2026
August 21, 2026
- or: I think that’s ugly.
- Americans don’t like AI
- when thought leaders get their voice wrong
- the programmer’s boss is not competition
- lawyers prompt engineering
- they were always trying to fina India
- Relative to your interests, Friday
August 20, 2026
August 19, 2026
- IDC White Paper: Self-Service Private Cloud as the Engine for In-House AI and Application Innovation
August 18, 2026
August 17, 2026
August 14, 2026
August 13, 2026
- Got your PPE?
- AI remove’s labor’s toil, capital doesn’t know what to do with AI – Elusive Enterprise ROI
August 12, 2026
- Relative to your interests, Wednesday
- Make it easy to use AI with your apps to retain customers
- Once you realize AI is a great tool, you have a new great tool to use to get your work done better
- People want to content from real people
- Gemini has a billion users now
August 11, 2026
August 7, 2026
- Relative to your interests, Friday
- Who Crapped on Johnny Depp’s Bed?
- The ‘Breaking’ News: The OpenAI-Hugging Face Incident
- How People Work, Live! … with Russell Davies
- Who Crapped on Johnny Depp’s Bed?
- The AI governance audit your clients aren’t ready for | perspective
- A demolition professional shares his chats
- How ALL CAPS Lost Its Voice
- Reel Font
- What nobody tells you about writing agent skills
August 6, 2026
- Relative to your interests, Thursday
- AI agents can’t yet do open-ended AI research
- The AI productivity gap
- We need more than a metaphor: here are testable diagnostics for comprehension debt
- “It’s unclear how Sopwith escaped to the general public.”
- Cloudflare launches Identity-Aware AI Gateway to track who is using AI
August 5, 2026
- Six to eight weeks, down to two days – How Tanzu Product Management Uses AI
- A totally custom, one-off D&D battle map, made by ChatGPT and prompted by Claude
- AI ends up like spreadsheets – Software Defined Talk #124 with Bryan Ross
- What’s up with these AI jailbreaks and security breaches?
- D66 Maps & Havencraft
- MCP vs. REST: What’s the right way to connect AI agents to your API?
- Platform Engineering Maturity Emerges as a Key Differentiator for Enterprise AI Success
- AI makes people more productive, not organizations – Elusive Enterprise AI ROI
- AI push prompts €2 billion Rabobank investment, possible future job cuts
- sell on story, or sell on revenue
- when exporting your data is difficult
- Gartner Survey Finds 87% of Customers Say Companies Using GenAI for Customer Service Must Provide Access to a Human Agent
- London Productivity Library
- How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing
- Larry Ellison Bet It All on the A.I. Boom. Will He Be the Face of the A.I. Bubble?
- Big Tech’s PR Playbook for Overcoming Data Center Opponents
August 4, 2026
- Visa used Mythos to hunt for bugs in its own payment network, then open-sourced the harness that made it possible
- The Real Reason that Substack is Collapsing
- Research: How AI Agents Broaden the Scope of Knowledge Work
- Inside Nadella’s hardest year: Is Microsoft’s North Star also a noose?
August 3, 2026
July 31, 2026
- Relative to your interests, Friday
- Navigating regulated scale: How Fiserv hones golden paths for 7,500 developers
- Platform Engineering 2.0: The Evolution of the AI Era
- Enabling Platform Engineers to Overcome Kubernetes Complexity with a Modern Private Cloud Platform
- The Evolution to Platform Engineering 2.0
- mainframes still run money
July 30, 2026
- Hacker Laws
- Reorganizing the dev teams at Visa to take advantage of AI
- Using frontier models to find security problems in Spring Framework – a trickle turned into a tidal wave
- more marketing context, more better AI for marketing
- How to make better enterprise AI ROI metrics and dashboards
- AI moral panic
July 29, 2026
- New spec maks MCP more enterprise-y, scalable, and otherwise performant
- How I tell AI to write in my style, other people’s styles – and how to strip out shitty AI talk and LinkedIn language
- How people use AI in 2026: TV, homework, the DMV
- Why Java May Finally Get a Standard JSON API
July 28, 2026
July 27, 2026
- Tokenomics – how AT&T burns through a trillion+ tokens a month (and rising), but still manages to drive down enterprise costs through ‘moneyballing’
- In 5 years, nobody will give a damn about AI-detectors.
- Prompt to rank paintings, but explain how
- UX is dead, what’s next?
- Which AI actually reads your site? Two months of LLM traffic, measured
- A system prompt to get AI to stop pretending to be human
- MacPaw releases CleanMyMac CLI for cleaning developer and AI environments on macOS
- Make the Cheapest Game You Can
July 24, 2026
July 23, 2026
July 22, 2026
- Relative to your interests, Wednesday
- AI won’t fix your broken culture, but you can fix your broken culture
- Young people are cheaper and complain less
- AI is good at bullshit work, find ROI there
July 21, 2026
July 20, 2026
- private AI in banking
- short feedback loops always works
- Employee avoiding AI, doing manual work instead
- AI won’t fix your broken culture
July 8, 2026
- Normie AI Usage: Figures & Findings
- Enterprise Java apps are much more than just code, AI benchmarks don’t measure the Java SDLC enough
- Writing for LinkedIn, Ford’s Gray Beards, and Nvidia the Lottery Winner – Related to your interests, Wednesday
- How people are using Claude Cowork
July 7, 2026
- Ben Brown – 2026-06-28
- Prince – You Must Die
- find your customer
- Why AI Coding Costs Are Spiraling: Context, Not Usage, Is the Real Culprit
- Did a lottery winner become “the company of the future”?
- why big companies build their own software, and hire consultants to do it
- A Successful AI Application
- here come the normies
- Taste Is in the Spec (Cooking Is Not the Recipe)
- Harness engineering is the new DevOps
- training your replacement
July 6, 2026
- potential fatigue
- The Mills Review: AI and the future of retail financial services
- AI Fiction in the Wild
July 3, 2026
July 2, 2026
- 🤖 Ten do’s and don’ts for LinkedIn posts, according to actual research, based on pre-slop posts
- What Users Post and Engage With on LinkedIn: A Mixed Methods Study – Daniel Usera, Samuel Cox, Laramie Walker, 2026
- 6 use cases for agentic AI in major IT incident management
- get rid of that crap blocking your YouTube shorts
- don’t keep PII
- Reducing token usage
- “this is the voice of American business that is being channeled through me”
- executives don’t really know how their companies work, AI layoff edition
- Networking Is the Hydra of Kubernetes
- Signals for 2026
- The Convenience Equation
- How Autocracies Recruit “Loyal Losers” to Do Their Dirty Work
- AI in SRE Practice: Engineering Reliable Operations
- The Intellectual and Moral Failing of Anti-AI Alarmism
- Question of sovereignty – debating what it means to keep control in the AI age
- 🤖 Findings and CIO Retention Guide: Gender, Priorities, and Exit Triggers in High Tech
- GenAI.mil records almost 1.7M users, plans new model additions
- Most AI Work Can Wait
July 1, 2026
- DIY Platform – don’t do it
- Enterprise AI Gets Uber-ed, Smaller Models Cut Energy 90%, and Stop Building Innovation Labs – Related to your interests, Wednesday
- Elusive Enterprise AI ROI: bring in the FDEs
- What Song is on Repeat in Your Head?
- Cloud CISO Perspectives: How Google Cloud Security uses AI internally
June 30, 2026
- A Theory of Prompt Injection (and why you should study roles)
- The Shift to Agentic AI: Evidence from Codex
- Developer Productivity in the Age of Generative AI: A Psychological Perspective
June 29, 2026
- From the school of culture eats technology for breakfast
- Stop Building Innovation Labs
- 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
June 27, 2026
June 26, 2026
- Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam
- Can Agentic AI Fix IT Incident Management, or Will Complexity Outpace Automation?
June 25, 2026
- Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam
- AI Coding Costs Overtake Salaries, Broadcom’s Intelligence Processor, and sovereign cloud – Related to your interests, Thursday
- the actual cost of AI coding is going up, and will likely increase
- mood
- people work better with HTML, not markdown
- Chainguard targets Java’s unpatched vulnerability backlog with drop-in remediated libraries
- Conference talks in an AI driven world are likely to get boring, or need to dramatically change
- keep domestic wages low + sell to rich countries = profit!
- Europe’s Cloud Sovereignty Push Risks Driving Fragmentation, Not Security
June 24, 2026
- Gartner Magic Quadrant for AI Governance Platforms 2026
- Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam
- Ranch Dressing Crisis at the Border, the Legibility of Effort, and iPad Sadness – Related to your interests, Wednesday
June 23, 2026
- Talk: VCF + Tanzu Platform = The Private Cloud Enterprises Actually Needs – June 25th, 2026
- Don’t expect results from TikTok
- The Millennial Aesthetic, 2020
- What people use sovereign cloud for, and why
June 22, 2026
- Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam
- the cost of fitful night of sleep
- Implicit Rules, Paste Special, and Grand Theft Carp – Related to your interests, Sunday
June 21, 2026
- Apparently The Real Reason Anthropic’s Models Are Offline: A Six-Year-Old Trump Grudge
- Weighty
- The Post-Christian Condition
- Grand Theft Carp
- making money, taking care of people
June 20, 2026
- gilest.org: An opinion about lists
- How to Design Agentic Systems Around the Implicit Rules that Govern Your Company
- Paste And Match Style is not the answer
June 19, 2026
- Platform as a Product, 2017 to 2026 – not much changed, which is the point
- Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam
- How AI change your software development organization
- Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam
- Elusive AI ROI, 3,611 Government Use Cases, and Storied Colors – Related to your interests, Friday
- find out what actually mattered, scrap the rest of of governance
- Broadcom Mainframe Software Analyst Summit: Meeting Enterprise AI At The Customer’s Pace
- iOS 27 Adds Four New Features to Notes App, Including Markdown Copy-and-Paste
- Enterprise AI on private cloud
- ‘Fix this code.’ The three words that led the U.S. government to ban Anthropic’s Fable and Mythos
- Where’s the holistic AI productivity data?
- The reason AI coding isn’t working on your team
- What the Top 1% of Engineering Teams Do Differently with AI
- The Death and Rebirth of Programming – The Phoenix Architecture
- Kubernetes in the Age of AI
- Big Tech And The Trump Admin Want To Make AI Data Center Opposition A Chinese Criminal Conspiracy
- “PE 2.0”
- Gartner: 70% of Mainframe Exit Projects Will Fail Due to Overestimation of GenAI
June 18, 2026
- Alternate histories – Ace Doubles
- The silent revolutionaries
- What DOGE taught us about AI and federal workers
- LLMs and performative productivity
- Things that don’t work are disliked
- If AGENTS.md smells ripe, your code won’t live up to the hype
- “a staggering 3,611 active or planned use cases for AI across the federal government”
- The Case Against Building Your Own Agent Platform
- The backstory of named colors
- Using AI to organize the blizzard of paperwork, etc., needed for building permits.
June 17, 2026
- Rots your brain
- The last test
- Guests from Texas
- Moved back to WordPress
- It’s crunch time for Java modernization
June 16, 2026
June 15, 2026
- 🤖 Europe 2031: How AI Dependency Becomes Geopolitical Irrelevance Without Radical Political Will
- (untitled)
- (untitled)
June 13, 2026
June 12, 2026
- Why drugs are here to stay (from my email)
- How Avocados Stopped Being Seasonal
- Enterprise Harness Smack-Talk, Forms Don’t Love You Back, and Doing Nothing on Purpose – Related to your interests, Friday
- Claude market penetration in enterprises still low
- When management is the bottleneck preventing enterprise AI ROI.
- Enterprise harness smack-talk
- What people have to say about AI in YouTube and TikTok
June 11, 2026
- 🤖 Forrester: Capping AI Spend Won’t Fix Your Token Bill – Your Real Problem Is Context Debt, and It Needs a New Discipline Called ContextOps
- What I think about when I edit
- game over
- ‘Running out of money’: Kraft, McDonald’s, Whirlpool CEOs all issue same dire warning about US consumers
June 10, 2026
- The iPhone’s Last Stand
- 🤖 Forms don’t love you back
- Anthropic says 80% of its new production code is now authored by Claude – how your enterprise can keep up
June 8, 2026
- GSA and Broadcom OneGov Agreement Saves Taxpayer Dollars on Innovative AI Platforms and Software Security Tools
- Making long-term projects more agile, less waterfall
- Why ABN AMRO’s CEO wishes the bank was going further and faster with the AI rollout set to take out a quarter of its headcount
- AI Scribes in the Clinic: What Patients Should Know
- Doing nothing at work
- State AI Rollouts Are Outrunning Their Own Governance
June 7, 2026
June 6, 2026
June 5, 2026
- How People Are Really Using AI in 2026
- (untitled)
- Flood of security patches: Spring Framework ed.
- rcanzlovar.com
- The London Dead: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie; Highgate East Cemetery
- Companies are using Reddit to manipulate ChatGPT and Google AI search
- The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech
- Stochastic Smart Talk, the DIY Platform Trap, and Strategic AI Not Spending – Related to your interests, Friday
- Anthropic’s Proposed IPO Will Change The Economics Of Enterprise AI
- Will Anthropic’s Draft S-1 Ignite a New Phase in the AI Platform Race?
- ‘Fake’ Christian? Or Faithful?
- taste
- Reliability Engineering for Air-Gapped Systems
- (untitled)
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June 4, 2026
- EU Unveils Sweeping Tech Sovereignty Push, Balancing Autonomy with Openness
- The hardest fork
- 6 Enterprise MCP Adoption Best Practices
- AI’s brave new world of technical debt
- AI enthusiasts are in a race against time, AI skeptics are in a race against entropy
- No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious
- (untitled)
June 3, 2026
- Dell’s Developer line turns 10 — Looking back at a Project Sputnik’s first decade
- A Backstory from My Backrooms
- 🤖 AI Collapses Build Costs but Expands Alignment Burdens for Senior Engineers
- AI Doesn’t Have ROI
- Ed Zitron on X: “we’re in the early innings of AI, and will be every single year apparently https://t.co/CJLO9TFfil” / X
- remote work reduces on-the-job training
- Defeating Conway’s Law
- you can’t measure productivity
- security over features
- 🤖 “descended into madness” – Backrooms
- 🤖 Valiantys-Glean Partnership Bets That Cross-Platform Knowledge Graphs and Behavioral KPIs Are What Move Enterprise AI Past Pilots
- 🤖 AI Collapses Build Costs but Expands Alignment Burdens for Senior Engineers
June 2, 2026
- Enterprise self-harm: cleaning the data is the hard part
- Claude Mythos exposed a hard truth: Your enterprise patching process is way too slow
- Retailers turn to AI for productivity, personalized shopping
- 🤖 How People Are Really Using AI in 2026: Thinkslop, Therapy, and Shadow Work
- Why aren’t all images super-secure, or hardned?
June 1, 2026
- Three reasons why a “batteries included” platform is urgently needed right now
- 🤖 AI Productivity Gains Stall at Firm Level: The Three Stages of ROI
- Enterprise AI ROI strategy: do both individual productivity and new revenue sources
May 30, 2026
May 29, 2026
- How Google SRE is using agentic AI to improve operations
- Most generative AI and custom model projects will be a bust: Gartner
- Amazon Web Services – Four Years and Out
- Sucking Air Through Their Teeth, 50/50 success/failure, and Dell’s $43B AI Server Quarter – Related to your interests, Friday
- 50%+ failure is normal
- The AI Race Is Not a Race: It Is a Game and We Are Playing It Wrong
- AI server demand drives staggering revenue growth for Dell and its stock soars
- The AI productivity debate
- If speeding up coding was never the problem…then why are we spending money on speeding it up?
May 28, 2026
- vibesec
- The AI efficiency plateau
- Designing AI Platforms for Reliability: Tools for Certainty, Agents for Discovery
- Claude Code’s creator on the end of the software engineer
- Your Most Improbable Life
- Trisha Gee: AI Amplifies What’s Already Broken
- AI Agents Forecast to Boost Tech Cash Flow as Usage Soars
- (untitled)
- Good O-Rings and Bad O-Rings, the AI Efficiency Plateau, and Anti-Labor by Design – Related to your interests, Thursday
- The task is not the job
- Halide Mark III
- Appearing Productive in The Workplace
- Get a Good Return on Your AI Investments
- NatWest inks AI deal for trade finance
- Elusive Enterprise AI ROI: No scaling, it’s not legible, lack of skills/need for training
- CEO Said a Thing: jobs apocalypse
- Enterprise AI Slop
May 27, 2026
- Magnifica Humanitas
- Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam
- U.S. companies have an AI problem. Indian IT wants to be the solution
- The pressure
- Why are you reading fewer books?
- Zoom’s most recent quarter highlights its transition to a system-of-action company
- CEO AI Psychosis, Information Cleaners, and Mid-century Architecture Cartoons – Related to your interests, Wednesday
- Who Authorized That? The Delegation Problem in Multi-Agent AI
- Executives have a narrow view of AI gians
- The Copy and the Guru
- Muskism as Fordism
- Usually life hacks and productivity tips are the same old things, these are fresher
- The coming AI backlash: capital is not here to make friends
- Has the United States Bent the Health Care Cost Curve?
May 26, 2026
- The Cartoonist Who Mocked the Madness of Modernism
- How do AI Layoffs Work? Some Speculation.
- Patching CVEs at AI speed is a platform engineering problem
- The AI Conversation Is Moving Too Fast to Be Comprehensible
- Information Cleaner
- The Ask
- Something for the weekend – did AI kill off HR’s empathy along with the “lower-value human capital”?
- What Anthropic and OpenAI launched in 72 hours has Wall Street paying attention
- The Behavior-First Paradigm: Moving Mainframe Modernization Past LLM Wishful Thinking
- Google I/O: Did Google Just Ship the Full AI Stack?
May 25, 2026
- Someone I Know is Taking Wegovy
- Four years in the maelstrom
- Two Weeks in Cybersecurity… Still Cynical, Still Broken, Still Surprised
- On Google declaring war on the Web
- Tyler Cowen: Wokeness Has Peaked. What Followed Is Worse.
- The Old Guard
- AI Pees in the Pool, Permanent Indenture, and the Metric Fuck-Ton – Related to your interests, Monday
- trying your best properly rated
- The users have plenty of feature ideas
May 23, 2026
May 22, 2026
May 21, 2026
- Platform Engineering in the Age of AI: Why Operational Complexity Is the New Bottleneck
- Google Cloud Next 2026: The Agent Era and the Full AI Stack
- Prompts are technical debt too
- Laying it on thick
- Dell Bulks Up Hardware As AI Infrastructure Shifts To On-Premises
- Enterprises Need To Be Careful Before They Go All-In On Anthropic
- Gartner Survey Finds Sales Organizations That Provide AI-Enabled Next Best Actions Are 2.6x More Likely to Achieve Commercial Growth
- The Identity Crisis AI Didn’t Warn You About
- Liberty Mutual, Travelers discuss when not to modernize
- Gartner Forecasts Worldwide AI Spending to Grow 47% in 2026
- Five takeaways from Michael Dell’s keynote at Dell Technologies World 2026
- The third wave of American philanthropy
- 1Password extends OpenAI collaboration with Codex MCP server for just-in-time credential access
- AI backlash, from the read the room/Picard face-palm files.
- Do less
May 20, 2026
- Now you can react faster than ever to security problems
- The True Cost of Influencing: Part Two
- Shadow AI Surge, The Coming AI Backlash, and Apollonian Tyranny – Related to your interests, Wednesday
- Observations on Writing with AI
- Dithering, May 19th, 2026 – Data Center Unpopularity
- Repugnant Economics
- Innovations from Google I/O 26 on Google Cloud
- Agent Skills Work but the Research Shows Most Teams Are Building Them Wrong
- Against the tyranny of the Apollonian
- Your Slop, My Sludge
- The VW ID Buzz: six months and eight thousand miles later
- Introducing Antigravity SDK: Transforming Development with AI
- Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us
- Announcing Claude Managed Agents on Cloudflare
- What the OSS Summit Says About OSS in 2026
- AI’s impact on software engineers in 2026: key trends, Part 2
- The coming AI backlash
- Rampant shadow AI
May 19, 2026
- Eval engineering: The missing piece of agentic AI governance
- Vinton Cerf: ‘I refuse to take responsibility for those who abuse my beautiful internet’
- The Internet has no benches
- The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born
- From Open Source Software to Open Source Strategy
- Use AI to write more shorter pieces
May 18, 2026
- Stack the Week 486 – carousel of justifications
- Patrick Collison on Detroit
- LinkedIn fanfiction
- d12 Potion mixing & maxing + can i pee in armour?
- Amazon employees admit to using AI unnecessarily to pump up internal usage scores – workers complain of intense pressure to use AI tools
- Tokenmaxxing at Amazon, Potato Stamp Fonts, and Tax Code Hacking – Related to your interests, Monday
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- School Cellphone Ban Study Finds Mixed Results
- Tatermaxxing
- Buy your platform, AI edition
- 5G versus _The Grapes or Wrath_
May 17, 2026
May 16, 2026
- Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam
- Capital Must Seek Delight
- Got your deck ready?
- Bedazzled by slides and data
May 15, 2026
May 14, 2026
- Why AI is forcing enterprises to rethink observability
- ‘The digital colonization of flyover states’: how datacenters are tearing small-town America apart
- Datacenter NIMBYism: What Did You Think Was Going to Happen?
- Luis Garicano on EU vs. US economics
May 13, 2026
- Gyms for Them, Mirrors for Us
- Bin4ry/yarbo-nat-in-my-back-yard
- Your Backpack Got Worse On Purpose
- GitLab layoffs
- Redis and the Cost of Ambition
- Inside the Geofence: Faster Pickups Start Here
- McDonald’s Geofence, Power Tools Got Worse on Purpose, and Big Things Are Trusted Less – Related to your interests, Wednesday
- Governed enterprise AI drives IBM’s strategy
- Execs admit AI makes them value human workers less
- A Library of Distractions
- Burnout and Cognitive Debt
- How corporate politics actually work
- AI Makes Advertising Less Transparent and Harder to Justify
May 12, 2026
- RPG Evolution: The reverse chase
- Your Power Tools Got Worse On Purpose – Who Really Owns DeWalt, Craftsman, and Milwaukee?
- Why Most App Modernization Efforts Fail, and How a Capabilities-Driven Strategy Can Stop the Billion-Dollar Bleed
- Quit VMware and you’ll emerge with more complex and less capable infrastructure
- Gartner Predicts 40% of Organizations Deploying AI Will Use AI Observability to Monitor Model Performance by 2028
- Why Dunkin’ failed in India
- I knew my writing students were using AI. Their confessions led to a powerful teaching moment
May 11, 2026
- What have you tried?
- Tanzu Platform’s 15-year head start meets the AI moment
- Can IREN Build a Full-Stack AI Cloud? The Mirantis Acquisition Makes the Case
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- Tanzu’s 15-Year Head Start, Max Headroom in Every Terminal, and Doctors Catch the AI Bug – Related to your interests, Monday
- Inside the cutthroat community of ‘clippers’
- RIP caused by boredom
- Platform engineering drives Red Hat’s enterprise AI push
- Tech job postings hit 3-year high
- From 38% to 81%: Why Doctor AI Adoption Just Doubled and What It Means for Healthcare
May 9, 2026
- No Updates – abstain from install
- Why do Oregon farms plant red clover every spring?
- Poetry: I Too, Dislike It
- The AI Job Apocalypse Is a Complete Fantasy
- The stuff nobody tells you about startup marketing
- It’s an opinion show
- Pushing Local Models With Focus And Polish
- Mythos Firefox, the AI Job Fantasy, and Oregon Red Clover – Related to your interests, Saturday
May 8, 2026
- Tinkerslop, Class Wartime, and Jobs Not AI Enough – Related to your interests, Friday
- MTV
- Would it matter if I told you I’m
- Bag Watch
- My Adventures Setting Up an OpenClaw Agent
- Behind the Scenes Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview
- Do Americans really hate AI?
- You Wanted to Become AI-Native, and All You Got Was a Lousy Foundation
- Alan Moore – the comics industry is poisonous
- Datadog’s stock jumps 31% on crushing earnings beat
- Cloudflare to fire 1,100 staff whose jobs just aren’t AI enough
- Always taste the digital transformation while you’re making it
- History is not a story
May 7, 2026
- Laws, anecdotes, and other shit people say
- Long ago, a Houston company’s art graced the walls of America’s stoners
- The McGroc Trap: Why Most Analyst Briefings Get Stuck Talking About Product
- The 1960s Art School Experiment That Redefined Creativity
- We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.
- The ‘age of electricity’ is here. No one knows what comes next.
- The Organization Is the Bottleneck
May 6, 2026
- VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 – private cloud, private AI, enterprise-grade kubernetes
- Treat AI as a stoner
- Parasocial Media, the War on Adobe, and Garbage Chairs – Related to your interests, Wednesday
- don’t call it “social media,” call it “parasocial media”
May 5, 2026
May 2, 2026
April 30, 2026
April 29, 2026
- Pre-Idea Funding, the Stolen-Valor Chore Coat, and Doom-Scrolling Pre-GitHub – Related to your interests, Wednesday
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- Software Defined Talk #122: Emily Long, VCs, startups, Edera, etc.
- Hard pass with a 20% registration discount
April 28, 2026
- The Jevons Audit Dividend, Spring AI in Seat 3A, and the Pelican-Astronaut-Horse – Related to your interests, Tuesday Afternoon
- Software Brain, the $5 Postcard Warship Hack, and Cyberpunk Dystopia – Related to your interests, Tuesday Morning
April 25, 2026
April 22, 2026
- Tanzu Platform 10.4 Source Coverage
- Spaghetti DBMS, MCP for Knowledge Workers, The Harness Is the Harness – Related to your interests, Wednesday
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- Macro-economic headwinds vs “The Terrace-in-April”
April 21, 2026
April 20, 2026
- Headless AI, Evals as Levers, and Spaghetti Topped With Spaghetti – Related to your interests, Monday
- Using a custom CLAUDE_CODE_DIR does not work
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- Google Cloud Revenue Estimates, 2026
April 18, 2026
- Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam
- Mainframe to remain undefeated by AI, vaguebooking, and the problem with seldom-used PCs – Related to your interests, Saturday morning
- AI is dumber than you think
April 16, 2026
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- Tanzu Platform 10.4: a private cloud platform for AI harnesses (or, “agentic AI”)
April 14, 2026
- 🤖 Bernie Sanders Presses Claude on AI, Privacy, and a Data-Center Moratorium
- 🤖 Tyler Cowen and Jonathan Zittrain on Agents, Consciousness, and Why America Can’t Pause
- Mythos PR, French Linux, and the Claudomate – Related to your interests, Tuesday
- Never start deep work if you know you’ll be interrupted soon.
April 13, 2026
- Pruning the AI Garden, Backrooms Gothic, and a Saxophone Deficit – Related to your interests, Monday
- What cf push actually does
- Don’t forget what I told you yesterday – AI memory and the mind palace – Tanzu Catsup
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April 11, 2026
April 10, 2026
- Claude on the Couch, Poop Bombs, and Agile Seating – Related to your interests, Friday evening
- Zero-Token Architecture, Robot Wikis, and Battery Kids – Related to your interests, Friday
April 8, 2026
April 7, 2026
- Conjure Fey 2024 versus 2014 – less flavor, easier to use
- Fridge Cigarettes, Replication Crisis, and Bottleneck Wine – Related to your interests, Tuesday
April 5, 2026
April 4, 2026
April 2, 2026
- The New Bottleneck That Will Chill Your AI Vibes
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- Histoires Prodigieuses, Forward Deployed Vibes, and Skyrgamur – Related to your interests, Wednesday
April 1, 2026
March 31, 2026
March 30, 2026
- VMware Kubernetes Service (VKS) architectural diagram
- This cake is bananas
- Hot modems, dinergoths, the platform bottleneck, and the SaaSpocalypse – Related to your interests, Monday
March 27, 2026
March 26, 2026
- Rainbow Cake
- MCP Security Guide
- KubeCon EU 2026, bottlenecks, Corporate Bullshit Receptivity, and the End of the Meat-Mouse – Related to your interests, Wednesday
- Kubernetes is the bottleneck, and you can get through it with a platform
- VMware/Broadcom at KubeCon EU 2026
March 24, 2026
- The end of the meat-mouse
- The Mythical Agent-Month, Retirement Cartoons, and Coffee Brains – Related to your interests, Monday
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- Enterprise ROI: Banking edition
March 21, 2026
March 20, 2026
- Opinionated Platforms, Private Models, & Essential Dev Tooling
- It’s real, enterprises just need to do the CISO work and SRE work
March 19, 2026
March 18, 2026
March 17, 2026
March 12, 2026
March 11, 2026
March 10, 2026
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March 7, 2026
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March 4, 2026
March 3, 2026
March 2, 2026
- Related to your interests, Monday
- DIY Stacks, Agent Memory, and the Great Migration – Related to your interests, Monday
- Kubernetes alone does not a platform make
February 28, 2026
February 22, 2026
- Does Platform Product Management & Design Really Happen? Or is it all just platform engineering? – Tanzu Catsup
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February 21, 2026
February 20, 2026
- Automating everything but changing how people work – Relative to your interests, Friday
- You Can Feel It Coming – Software Defined Talk
- Progressive Delivery, with Heidi Waterhouse – Software Defined Interviews
- Why it’s great to be a Spring developer now, and how to make it even better – State of Spring, 2026
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- Management is always eager to “reduce costs.”
- Say you love business logic without saying “business logic.”
- AI still not good at basic knowledge worker workflows, which is likely an apps problem
February 18, 2026
February 17, 2026
- Attention, Autonomy, and AI in the Critical Path – Related to your interests – February 17th, 2026
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February 16, 2026
February 14, 2026
February 13, 2026
- AI Is Normal Now – The Enterprise Is Not
- Tanzu Catsup: The Risk of Relying on AI for Platform Engineering
- Relative to your interests, Friday afternoon
- HA HA! BUSINESS
February 12, 2026
February 11, 2026
February 8, 2026
February 7, 2026
February 6, 2026
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- Two theories of the AI investor spook-out
- Relative to your interests, Friday
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February 5, 2026
February 3, 2026
February 2, 2026
- Relevant to your interests, Monday
- Enterprise ROI continues to be elusive, but 48% of surveys say they’ve been cutting humans
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January 31, 2026
January 30, 2026
January 28, 2026
- How much does it cost to build an internal developer platform? – Tanzu Catsup
- Enterprise ROI is elusive – maybe ROI is just headcount chopping, not revenue growth and “transformation”
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- Relevant to your interests, Wednesday
January 27, 2026
January 26, 2026
- Kubernetes use rising, large organizations slowest to adapt, not many people train their own AI model or deploy new AI models frequently
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- Optimizing marketing web pages for AI
January 25, 2026
January 23, 2026
- Enterprise ROI continues to be elusive
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- Another go at LowCode
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- Enterprise AI ROI is still elusive. What IT can do to fix it. It’s not “culture.”
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January 21, 2026
January 20, 2026
January 19, 2026
January 18, 2026
January 17, 2026
January 16, 2026
- Amazon Should Buy Anthropic, AI Doctors, Metaverse RIP
- After the Dream – Software Defined Talk #555
- Relevant to your interests, Friday
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January 15, 2026
January 14, 2026
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- Relevant to your interests, Wednesday
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- Winning in AI, story mode
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January 13, 2026
January 12, 2026
- Recursive Loops, Enterprise Nanny-states, Garbage Chairs, and Improv
- 🤖 Summary of “Economist Tyler Cowen on the positive side of AI negativity” podcast
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- Relative to your interests, Monday
- Industry analyst value after AI – how could Gartner use AI
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January 11, 2026
January 9, 2026
January 8, 2026
January 7, 2026
- I used to be from here, 2025 edition
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- Virtual machines still run the world
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- Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam, Austin edition.
- Recently, in America
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- Labor vs. AI
- Containers running in VMs 4ever
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