Author: Coté
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“PE 2.0”
We are seeing a distinct movement where infrastructure is being reclaimed as a first-class platform concern. In the early days, platform engineering focused heavily on developer experience, often treating the underlying infrastructure as a utility that was managed separately. That is no longer sufficient. To succeed in the AI era, platform teams must have deep…
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Things that don’t work are disliked
Per the report, 60% of consumers in the U.S. say that brands that use “AI” in their messaging are a turnoff, and 86% don’t fully trust AI and still want to explore original sources. Notably, 42% of consumers said that AI-generated answers without clear attribution are trusted less than airline fees, confusing privacy policies, and…
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“a staggering 3,611 active or planned use cases for AI across the federal government”
The office of management and budget (OMB) disclosed a staggering 3,611 active or planned use cases for AI across the federal government. The list has balloonedby 70% from the one published in the final year of the Biden administration, and includes many disturbing-seeming plans to hand over sensitive governmental functions to AI. Yes, but: While…
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The backstory of named colors
One color a day, told as it ought to be told: with its provenance, its chemistry, and the people who paid for it in poison. 🔗 Storied Colors Related, I collect color palettes I like over on cote.pizza.
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Using AI to organize the blizzard of paperwork, etc., needed for building permits.
Our planning system remains heavily reliant on cumbersome paper-based processes that consume the time of expert planning officers. We are dragging the system into the 21st Century. And: It triages applications, summarises key information and provides planning officers with an initial assessment they can consider when making their decision. The government says the technology aims…
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Rots your brain
Asked what evidence exists on the impact of digital devices on infants and young children, Professor Denis Mareschal, director of the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development at Birkbeck, replied: “There is very little, if any, causal research in the early years. Almost everything is correlational.” Yes, but: For Dr Dusana Dorjee, a senior lecturer…
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The last test
Previously, I had a setting that emailed every post. So, you saw some tortillas. Hopefully there is off now.
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Moved back to WordPress
I’ve moved the blog and home page back to WordPress. Everything should be fine? The newsletter should go out as usual, the feeds, the pages. There are more wing-dings. Just don’t look at the HTML and CSS it makes. It is horrific.
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🤖 Europe 2031: How AI Dependency Becomes Geopolitical Irrelevance Without Radical Political Will
Original: Summary — Europe 2031 – Europe 2031 Project. Summarized by Claude AI on Jun 15, 2026. The Take Europe is sleepwalking into a structural position where it owns almost none of the AI stack, accesses frontier models only on American terms, and can be economically hollowed out and geopolitically cornered by 2031 — not…
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The worst thing about being 80 is that you still want to say yes to everything, but the world moves without asking. The old fire in your heart still tells you to do this and that, but your body says we already did it. Also, nothing surprises you. It sounds like a luxury but it’s…
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“Untitled No. 23” from “The Yosemite Suite,” 2010, iPad drawing printed on paper, David Hockney.
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Enterprise Harness Smack-Talk, Forms Don’t Love You Back, and Doing Nothing on Purpose – Related to your interests, Friday
Also: Anthropic’s 80% code claim, and Claude’s quiet enterprise share. From: Broadcom’s Investment in Spring to Combat AI-Fueled Security Challenges in the Enterprise As the chart shows, there’s been a huge jump in CVEs for Spring – this is what’s happening everywhere, you know. My work, Tanzu, has been focusing on this and has changed…
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Claude market penetration in enterprises still low
Enterprises, IDC says, remain largely unsold on Anthropic’s Claude models, with only 19 percent using them extensively and 25 percent actively evaluating them. OpenAI and Google are better represented in enterprises, with about 42 percent and 38 percent of organizations” This means there’s lots of “headspace” to grow revenue, or disappointing and incomprehensible ROI, i.e.,…
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When management is the bottleneck preventing enterprise AI ROI.
Right now, many companies already have the technology they need to go much faster. The blocker is company systems that are mostly designed to prevent things from happening. The power is centralized and all the team members are treated like a risk vector. Exhausting approval cycles, super tight boundaries on roles, unbreakable title-based hierarchies, and…
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Enterprise harness smack-talk
One enterprise harness maker says the competing enterprises harness makers either suck or are non-existent. When you go to San Francisco and talk to them, their basic vibe is ‘we don’t have to solve your problem today because tomorrow you’re going to go away and all your problems are going to be solved,’” Karp charged.…
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What people have to say about AI in YouTube and TikTok
A census of 25,000 YouTube and TikTok videos finds pro-AI content outnumbers anti-AI 3:1, dominated by memes and productivity hacks rather than abundance or doom. Resisters care most about creative theft, not the x-risk or data center concerns driving elite debate. From Memes > Doom: How TikTokers and YouTubers See AI – Free Systems (Substack),…
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🤖 Forrester: Capping AI Spend Won’t Fix Your Token Bill – Your Real Problem Is Context Debt, and It Needs a New Discipline Called ContextOps
Original: Your AI Bill Is A Context Problem by Forrester. Summarized by AI on Jun 11, 2026. The AI bill shock hitting enterprises isn’t a pricing problem you can cap your way out of – it’s the metered cost of your own knowledge not being machine-readable, forcing agents to rebuild missing business context on every…
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Making long-term projects more agile, less waterfall
Replace multi-year forecasts with real-time discovery of operational friction. Instead of a five-year requirement for a “targeting system,” identify the bottleneck–like a three-hour targeting approval process. Set a goal–like reducing the approval process to 30 minutes. And empower a team to solve it. In this Kessel Run example, the requirement was an outcome, not a…
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Shitting in the field, but plated in the dining room
[The Normans] gave English its double vision, which is the source of both the beauty and the mess. After 1066 you’ve got the Saxon peasantry keeping the Germanic words for the muddy daily grind and the Norman lords laying French over the top for everything refined, so English ends up with two words for everything…
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