Author: Coté
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Elusive Enterprise AI ROI: bring in the FDEs
Enterprise AI needs a lot of custom fitting and one off integration, so you need a lot of post-sales engineering. On the one hand, this is lock-in in the making, but lock-in to your own, stack. You build a stack that is unique to you. On the other hand, it means you get exactly what…
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From the school of culture eats technology for breakfast
Yes: The environments capable of creating meaningful change are almost always the ones that shorten the distance between assumption and evidence – ensuring that learning happens before institutions become too committed to decisions that are difficult to reverse. But: The question has never really been whether governments need experimentation. It is whether they are willing…
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AI Coding Costs Overtake Salaries, Broadcom’s Intelligence Processor, and sovereign cloud – Related to your interests, Thursday
Defeat AI-Powered Threats with VMware Tanzu Spring Here’s the panel I hosted on how the Spring project is adapting to AI-powered threats. We covered the volume spike in Spring security reports, the kinds of vulnerabilities the models are good at finding, chained “narrative” attacks, the three-bucket fix/fork/ditch triage for open source deps, the clean-room rebuild…
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the actual cost of AI coding is going up, and will likely increase
Research by Gartner Peer Insights has found that 23% of tech leaders are spending $200 to $500 per developer per month on tokens for artificial intelligence (AI) coding agents, such as Claude Code, Cursor and OpenAI Codex. And: The IT analyst firm has forecast that by 2028, AI coding costs will overtake the average developer’s salary…
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people work better with HTML, not markdown
I like the idea of having your AI thingies creating one off HTML pages as output. For example, monitoring and management agents. Most services now have an MCP server that will give API access to observability, logs, etc. What if instead of emitting JSON, they (also) emitted an HTML page? 🔗 Using Claude Code: The…
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Conference talks in an AI driven world are likely to get boring, or need to dramatically change
If “I will never write code again, and instead use AI to code” becomes the norm, what will programming conference talks look like. Most of those talks hinge on seeing someone stunt demo coding. But now you’ll just see them write prompts? Like, seeing Josh Long tell Claude to help get demented pets adopted would…
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keep domestic wages low + sell to rich countries = profit!
If you do not buy your domestic products and instead export them to richer countries, you can underpay your workers and generate a surplus. This means you don’t need to optimize employee pay and production. Your employees stay poorer, and are thus more desperate and less feisty, and have little buying power, but they are…
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Ranch Dressing Crisis at the Border, the Legibility of Effort, and iPad Sadness – Related to your interests, Wednesday
Also: AI lessons from SMB banks, build vs buy redux, and the return-to-office secret. Generated by ChatGPT on June 23rd, 2026. I’ve got two speaking things this week: Today at noon, Austin time: I’m hosting a three person panel on how the Spring Framework team has been dealing with all these AI-driven problems. It has…
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Talk: VCF + Tanzu Platform = The Private Cloud Enterprises Actually Needs – June 25th, 2026
I’m doing a Global VMUG session with Oren Penso this Thursday, June 25th, 5:40pm CEST. Virtual, free. Title: “VCF + Tanzu Platform = The Private Cloud Enterprises Actually Needs.” The abstract: VMware Cloud Foundation 9 brings modern infrastructure to your private cloud. Tanzu Platform layers on as the application platform layer – giving developers PaaS…
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The Millennial Aesthetic, 2020
Millennial pink, sage, ocher, beveled edges — a palette and a reading of the aesthetic that turned “good design” into the product itself. Built from Molly Fischer’s 2020 essay for The Cut.
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What people use sovereign cloud for, and why
IDC survey data on sovereign cloud: more than half of organizations already use it, 72% say their interest has risen in the past six months, and 42% are now running AI workloads on sovereign infrastructure. Here’s what they’re using it for, what’s driving adoption, and where current offerings still fall short.
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the cost of fitful night of sleep
One night of sleep loss [costs] close to €200 [£173],” she said. .. Imagine a street where there are 100 people living, everybody sleeps terribly for three nights because of a heatwave and the next day they’re unproductive. That’s your investment in trees for the whole year. 🔗 From mobile jungles to shadow art: how…
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Implicit Rules, Paste Special, and Grand Theft Carp – Related to your interests, Sunday
Also: the perfect length for a list, post-Christian kitsch, and the forth R. ICYMI Original content published since last time. Related to your interests AI Summaries I wanted to read these, but I didn’t make the time, so I asked the robot to summarize them.
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