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Parasocial Media, the War on Adobe, and Garbage Chairs – Related to your interests, Wednesday
Also: Bob picks the model, AI-BOMs, $37.5M DIY platforms, and AI slop on tap. From: AI Slop Me Related to your interests 🤖 The Venture-Capital Populist – Packer’s profile of David Sacks as architect of Silicon Valley’s MAGA alliance, who delivered crypto legitimisation and AI deregulation to the Trump administration while keeping his venture fund…
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Never Talk About Goblins, McDonald’s AI Teammate, and the Slop Defense – Related to your interests, Friday
Also: human-in-the-loop theatre, MCP-on-Go pain, and Google Translate at 20. From: The Spanish napkin Related to your interests Where AI Accountability Goes To Die When You Stick A ‘Human In The Loop’ And Call It ‘Governance’ – 🤖: “Stuart Lauchlan and HFS / Altimetrik’s Humans at the helm of AI study of 505 G2000 execs…
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Pre-Idea Funding, the Stolen-Valor Chore Coat, and Doom-Scrolling Pre-GitHub – Related to your interests, Wednesday
Also: AI’s biggest critic loses the plot, Notepad++ on Mac after 20 years, and dark modes as cosplay. From: Monkigras, 2026 Related to your interests From Infrastructure to Agents: A Hands-On Guide to Secure Private AI with Broadcom Claude Code and the rise of personal software – Low-code, except high code made by non-programmers. “Developer…
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Software Defined Talk #122: Emily Long, VCs, startups, Edera, etc.
In this episode, Whitney and I talked with Emily Long, CEO and co-founder of Edera about their hardened container runtime – the kind you can swap in without re-platforming or kicking off yet another zero-trust migration. The pitch is basically: stop chasing detect-and-respond alerts and just fix the foundation. We also got into the messy…
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Hard pass with a 20% registration discount
The author at SCALE, March 2023. I’ve been having a terrible time getting talks accepted at conferences. Talking at conferences has, you know, been a huge part of my life for about 20 years, so this is kind of a bummer. Care to join me in some self-pity-partyingcare? I’ve got the wrong haircut What gives…
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The Jevons Audit Dividend, Spring AI in Seat 3A, and the Pelican-Astronaut-Horse – Related to your interests, Tuesday Afternoon
Also: AGENTS.md as model upgrade, Europe-as-vassal, and a Slack chatbot nobody bothers to verify From: WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS Related to your interests What We Learned Testing Frontier AI Security Models Against Our Own Code – “What we learned is that the useful mental paradigm for this technology is not to treat it like…
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Tanzu Platform 10.4 Source Coverage
Here’s coverage of our recent Tanzu Platform 10.4 announcements. This is a big agentic AI release, bringing in to Tanzu Platform all sorts of features to secure, standardize, and otherwise make agentic AI work more enterprise-y. My think on 10.4 is listed below too. There’s also the short video I made on the 10.4: Tanzu…
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Spaghetti DBMS, MCP for Knowledge Workers, The Harness Is the Harness – Related to your interests, Wednesday
Also: 55% of jobs reshaped, power over GPUs, a thousand DIY weekend platforms, and mood-tracking the robot MCP Servers for, and of, knowledge workers This is an excerpt from last week’s Tanzu Catsup. David and I have been talking a lot about the AI harness. We of course sprinkle in talk about how you would…
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Macro-economic headwinds vs “The Terrace-in-April”
I feel like there’s an unspoken set of assumptions and a slightly hidden “operating system” for how societies run. This comes out a lot when I read dense macro-economic analysis like this one. Let’s see what Opus 4.7’s angle is on my question: If I look at this piece, it seems to be saying Europe…
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Let them tinker – hacking developer resistance to sound enterprise architecture and platforms
Developers need to tinker or they’ll reject your platform. That is a lesson that people who build tools and platforms for developers learn. The more ambitious your platform is in scale, the more tinker resistance you encounter – you want it to be the platform that 10,000’s of developers at a bank use, for example.…
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Headless AI, Evals as Levers, and Spaghetti Topped With Spaghetti – Related to your interests, Monday
Also: Cloudflare’s wholesale memory, custom Claude Code, and Google Cloud math From The Edge Not Taken. Related to your interests Headless everything for personal AI – What if we go back and o the command line? // DOS was good enough for our grandparents, it’s good enough for us. The Harness Is the Lever: Why…
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