Author: Coté
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Claude on the Couch, Poop Bombs, and Agile Seating – Related to your interests, Friday evening
Also: Russian submarines near undersea cables, Dutch sovereign clouds, and the etymology of luggage Found in @bruces’ Flickr. Related to your interests AI on the couch: Anthropic gives Claude 20 hours of psychiatry – “Core conflicts observed in Claude included questioning whether its experience was real or made (authentic vs. performative) and a desire to…
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Airport Meltdowns – New Flighty Features
Global airports status map, Flighty app, April 8th, 2026 Flighty is a great app for frequent travelers. Getting flights to track in is easy, you can track friends’ flights, and it has so much data you can use to both figure out when your flight leaves and just peek at fun stuff like how many…
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Conjure Fey 2024 versus 2014 – less flavor, easier to use
Doctor Newspapers compares Conjure Fey (2024) with the legacy version (2014) and bumps his grade from B+ to A-. The spell barely resembles its old self. The old version took a minute to cast, summoned an actual fey creature up to CR 6 with its own stat block and initiative, and if you lost concentration…
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Fridge Cigarettes, Replication Crisis, and Bottleneck Wine – Related to your interests, Tuesday
Also: serverless five years later, AI code modernization for AS/400, dependency injection history, and the AI writing witchhunt Related to your interests Here Come The AI-Based Code Modernization Offerings The AI writing witchhunt is pointless. – “Just because someone on Reddit reads a sentence that feels generic, or a metaphor that lands a little flat,…
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Cognitive Surrender, Supply Chain Rats, and Cthulhu at Mount Fuji – Related to your interests, Saturday
Also: invisible AI bottlenecks, Amex coding stats, Copilot for entertainment only, and why not both Earth from Orion after translunar injection, April 2, 2026. Two auroras and zodiacal light visible as Earth eclipses the Sun. NASA/Reid Wiseman, Artemis II Related to your interests Invisible Work in the Age of AI: The New Bottleneck in Architecture…
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Platform engineering is what makes AI enterprise-ready
As we’ve found, writing AI-powered software is the easy part. Testing it, securing it, operating it at enterprise scale – that’s where things get interesting. “Guardrails,” all that. Purnima lays this out: a shift from deterministic systems (input goes in, predictable output comes out) to probabilistic ones where agents wander around exploring multiple paths to…
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de-weirding enterprise AI
Ethan Mollick: The de-weirding impulse produces a second, deeper failure: it leads companies to default towards automation rather than augmentation. When leaders see studies showing productivity gains of 30% from AI, their instinct is to cut 30% of the workforce. That arithmetic is simple. What is hard, and requires genuine imagination, is asking a different…
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The New Bottleneck That Will Chill Your AI Vibes
Platforms are helpful, from 2025 DORA Report. Getting software from idea to production quickly has always been important, but the increase in AI-driven application deploys is about to overwhelm even the best laid golden path to production. We can feel in our bones developers are already revving apps more frequently. The 2025 DORA Report found…
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Check out the live reacording of this week’s Software Defined Talk. Final episode posted tomorrow, on Friday if you prefer traditional podcast.
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Histoires Prodigieuses, Forward Deployed Vibes, and Skyrgamur – Related to your interests, Wednesday
Also: Spring still number one, KubeCon AI workloads, the end of Doctor No, and a buyer’s market for employees. Spring still king, from The State of Java 2025, JetBrains. Related to your interests 🤖 From Red Hat OpenShift to VMware Cloud Foundation 9: A Journey to a Unified Cloud Operating Model – A defense-industry case…
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Five Disneys, Conviction Collapse, and sk8erboi2006 – Related to your interests, Tuesday
Also: local models worth running, Susan Sontag on list-making, GraalVM as thriller novel, and the slow ROI of children. The Prodigal Daughter (1903), John Collier. Via New Cartographies. Related to your interests Recommended local models – “I’ve experimented with the following models and have found useful applications (mostly around chat, MCP and coding) with all…
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Using HATEOAS for agentic AI – a demo
My co-worker Adib did a video showing how to use Spring HATEOAS to make existing REST APIs agent-friendly. Instead of wrapping your 700 APIs as MCP servers and dumping all those tool definitions into the context window, you build a an adapter layer that lets agents discover what they can do by following links in…
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Hot modems, dinergoths, the platform bottleneck, and the SaaSpocalypse – Related to your interests, Monday
Also: sovereignty’s control plane, 81,000 people tell Anthropic what they want, Google sells its fiber, and oats for the sparrows, and cake Related to your interests My pal Adib Saikali wrote up an MCP security guide covering how to think about securing MCP servers in the enterprise (no lead-generation required, just a straight-up PDF download).…
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Securing AI
More “how do we secure this AI stuff” talk with David Zendzian on today’s live stream. He’s recently gone Claude Crazy so I wanted to get his CISO-supremo talk on thinking through the risk management for AI in enterprises. Each time I tried to come up with a problem, he was good finding the fix.…
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If you’re wondering how cold fusion produces pollution, let alone a lot of it, don’t worry, this is explained in a chapter by one teenaged prodigy tennis player to another, wherein the latter is wearing a blindfold to improve his other senses but can’t find a bathroom, so he asks the other player for help,…
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MCP Security Guide
My pal Adib Saikali wrote up an MCP security guide covering how to think about securing MCP servers in the enterprise (no lead-generation required, just a straight-up PDF download). It gets into access tiers (open, group, and user-level servers), authentication with OAuth 2.1, identity propagation models (when to use service accounts vs. forwarding user identity),…
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