Author: Coté
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No need to hire, or no people to hire?
Yes: [A]fter decades of slowing productivity growth, AI is likely to be a game changer. The question is not so much whether it will show up in the statistics, but when. In 1987, Robert Solow quipped that you could see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics. It took about a decade to…
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MCP as a governance control point, an anti-shadow AI tool
An enterprise cannot secure, govern, or operate at scale a hundred bespoke agent integrations. It can govern one consistent standard that every vendor builds to in the same way. Buying leverage now sits upon the standardized connector layer, and then governs what agents reach and can do through that layer. 🔗 The CIO’s New Leverage:…
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Metrics can’t seem to measure “business value”
Developer metric frameworks rarely measure the “business outcome” of the developers: did the app result in the organization running better? Making more money? Achieving whatever goal the organization has? That is an almost impossible metric to measure and connect up to a developer’s efforts, let alone the ops person who made it all happen. So,…
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The AI CMO’s annual performance review is going to be brutal this year
“When I am governor I will issue a moratorium — a ban — on all data center approvals until laws can be passed by the Legislature to protect Texans.” The governor-elect during her campaign outlined a slate of priorities for lawmakers that included requiring data center operators to hire union workers, protecting communities’ water supplies…
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A security fix with no backport is a new security problem
The cause isn’t secrecy or ignorance but maintenance maturity: backporting is manual, small teams spend their time on features, and many maintainers judge cutting a patch release to cost more than leaving users exposed. Josh Bressers draws the bigger conclusion: AI has made finding vulnerabilities nearly free while fixing them is as expensive as ever,…
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How to email, and why
All official things come through email — documents, confirmations, receipts, that thing you need to prove you actually paid for something three years ago. And there’s another thing nobody tells you about email: it’s how you talk to people who matter. Any time I read a book I love, and if the author is still…
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Enterprise IoT not always covered by the security department
Grocery fridges went out in Europe again: The cyberattacks on commercial refrigerators and freezers in Europe continue, as a slew of grocery stores in Belgium, Ireland, Luxembourg, and Sweden report widespread food wastage as a result of miscreants raising the temperatures to highs of 50ºC (122°F). Those devices are not always under the security group’s…
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Bike Politics in Amsterdam
Amsterdam doesn’t like fat bikes: “The evaluation of the ban shows that the number of fat bikes in Vondelpark has dropped sharply. Before the ban, 85 to 101 fat bikes were counted in 2.5 hours. More than 3 months later there were 6 to 14.” And, fat bikes are problems in the US too. Meanwhile,…
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Avoid a JavaScript Monoculture
Here’s what I’m worried about: the monoculture that took over browsers is now consolidating the server. Every major server runtime borrows its engine from a browser. Node, Deno and Cloudflare’s runtime all run on Google’s V8, the engine inside Chrome. Bun runs on Apple’s JavaScriptCore, the engine inside Safari. This is bad. 🔗 The Web…
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PE price hikes playbook, consumer edition
Earlier this year, Evernote, a note-taking app, changed its subscription tiers, forcing some users to go from paying $130 per year to $250. The highest tier now costs more than 3.3 times as much as the most advanced tier did in 2023 and 10 times more than what Evernote charged for annual subscriptions from its…
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Most enterprise tech acquisitions don’t work out well
At Salesforce, Stewart was baffled by the breadth and depth of operational inefficiency. He witnessed executives green-lighting high-priced celebrity appearances while making cuts to things like inter-office employee travel. He saw VPs overhiring by thousands of people, then laying off thousands in subsequent quarters. An annual event for tenured and executive staff named Laulima (Hawaiian…
