Author: Coté
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VMware/Broadcom at KubeCon EU 2026
Here’s Claude’s take on VMware’s stuff at KubeCon – just some light editing for me. KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 ran March 23-26 in Amsterdam. Here’s what VMware by Broadcom announced. VKS 3.6 Ships The VKS stack as seen at VMUG Connect Amsterdam 2026. VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service 3.6 shipped with Kubernetes 1.35 support, RHEL…
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The end of the meat-mouse
The agency in agentic AI feels a lot more like giving the users – the humans – agency they didn’t have. That’s what’s making it useful for me, from sorting out dumb-shit home-networking incompatibilities, figuring out taxes, and otherwise sorting my shit out. When you unleash something like Claude code on all the messy and…
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The Mythical Agent-Month, Retirement Cartoons, and Coffee Brains – Related to your interests, Monday
Spotted in the Tenerife South Airport, February, 2026. Related to your interests Broadcom Empowers Platform Engineers to Accelerate AI and Modern Application Innovation on Kubernetes – Round-up of VMware Kubernetes releases and announcements at KubeConEU 2026. Strengthening the Cloud-Native Ecosystem Through Upstream Collaboration – VMware’s open source work in the kubernetes community. Broadcom expands Kubernetes…
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Using AI to help with SRE, ops, etc.: The problem, he said, is that Claude “will get wrong correlation versus causation.” It’s like a new joiner on the team, they will think “oh, it’s a capacity problem, when actually you lost your cache.” “This is why we can’t trust LLMs for incident response,” said Palcuie.…
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Using AI for security log analysis and how to fix it suggestions: Building on that foundation, leading the list of announcements is a strategy described as an “agentic security operations center” powered by its latest Gemini AI models. Google is introducing adaptive AI agents that can investigate alerts, synthesize intelligence and assist in remediation workflows…
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Enterprise ROI: Banking edition
Maybe no new banking businesses from AI yet: “It is a long, expensive and risk-constrained transformation,” Wells Fargo analyst Mike Mayo wrote in a note to investors last week. “Indeed, we can’t find one extremely noteworthy new product or service from AI in these very early days (it’s been a little boring from a product…
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It’s real, enterprises just need to do the CISO work and SRE work
After using Claude more and more for task in my personal life, my current zinger analyst take on the Squawk Box would be: “OpenAI talks about business strategy, Anthropic just does it.” It’s really getting close to a sci-fi personal assistant. It takes A LOT of work to get your rig (or “harness”) setup, and…
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It was a rather stressful period
Related to your interests Your database is about to become an AI tool. Is it ready? Banks struggle to scale AI as legacy tech devours IT budgets – “Executives said only 29% of annual IT budgets are set aside for transformative technologies while a larger chunk – 43% – is devoted to maintaining legacy systems.”…
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AI Brain Fry, Zombie Projects, and Gentleman Vibe Coders – Related to your interests, Monday
KubeCon EU is next week, in Amsterdam, and I’m talking at VMUG Amsterdam tomorrow about what private equity does to enterprise software companies. If you’re at RAI, come say hi. AI might have written some of the below; we’re still working on keeping it under control for “helpful” content generation. Related to your interests When…
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My grandfather was mildly obsessed with organizing and documenting the history of his life: a memoir about a career in the military from 1938 to ~1975, growing up in a Depression era Oklahoma “dirt farm.” There was also geology. I think all old people have that project. Us soon to be old Gen-X’ers have more…
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AI use isn’t about firing people, it’s about making the people you already have more productive. You have to change your corporate system/culture to adapt to that: However, when finance leaders seek to identify where this return appears in terms of headcount shifts or cycle-time compression, the answers are less clear. These gains remain trapped…
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“Feminization” and Deming
The term “feminization” is, as the kids used to say, “suss,”[^1] but this reminds me of one of the points John Willis made in his Deming work. There was a huge influx of women in corporate work/factories during WWII, and also lots of rapid process change. It was all wildly successful – proven by a…
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When Developer Workflow Discipline Isn’t Enough thectoadvisor.com/blog/2026… Selling cross-silo enterprise infrastructure stuff is very difficult: These are platform engineering objections. And they’re coming from a team the vendor never talked to. Because the vendor optimized their story for developer adoption. They have research that tells them developers love this. What they don’t have is a…
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Fully Synergized Paradigms – Related to your interests, Monday sweep
The Links Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs – “The results revealed a troubling paradox. Workers who were more susceptible to corporate BS rated their supervisors as more charismatic and ‘visionary,’ but also displayed lower scores on a portion of the study that tested analytic thinking, cognitive reflection and fluid…
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Related to your interests – Week of March 2nd, 2025
The Links Claude, without me asking, rewrote many of my original description below. Enjoy! Pentagon Leverages AI in Iran Strikes Amid Feud With Anthropic – One artillery unit doing the work of 2,000 staff with a team of just 20 people. Anthropic didn’t want their model used for this; the Pentagon used it anyway. The…
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When to use AI for writing, and when it’s totally acceptable
If you’re dyslexic and just trying to communicate more clearly in writing, or you’ve got a bullshit job and you just want to get your bullshit job’s bullshit tasks out of the way so you can move on to more meaningful endeavors, or at least move past the day-to-day slog that permeates your workday and…
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Art Degrees, Sun Microsystems, and How Kubernetes Scales Contributions, with Josh Berkus – Software Defined Interviews #121
Our interview for this week is up, it’s with Josh Berkus: Whitney and Coté discuss with Josh Berkus (Red Hat, Kubernetes contributor) how liberal and fine arts degrees (philosophy, photography, sculpture, pottery) apply to tech careers. Berkus details how early hardware experience influenced his database performance work, noting hardware’s renewed relevance with AI and multi-arch…
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