Author: Coté
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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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Related to your interests, Tuesday
The Links Gartner Research Reveals CFOs’ Budget Plans Prioritize Growth Functions, Technology and AI in 2026 – More spending on tech, less on people. The Supreme Court doesn’t care if you want to copyright your AI-generated art – I think this means you can’t copyright stuff made by AI? In the US, at least. How…
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Related to your interests, Monday
Potsdamer Platz bei Nacht, Paul Paeschke, ca. 1929. Related to your interests Why your DIY Kubernetes stack won’t survive the era of agentic AI How tech chiefs gauge ROI on AI – AI uses: better search, preparing leases, and this: “When the system senses that ice is running low, it fires off an order to…
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DIY Stacks, Agent Memory, and the Great Migration – Related to your interests, Monday
Links! Wastebook! Background changes afoot! Potsdamer Platz bei Nacht, Paul Paeschke, ca. 1929. Related to your interests Why your DIY Kubernetes stack won’t survive the era of agentic AI How tech chiefs gauge ROI on AI – AI uses: better search, preparing leases, and this: “When the system senses that ice is running low, it…
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Kubernetes alone does not a platform make
Even the platform engineers need to hide Kubernetes to get their job done: Kubernetes adds another layer of complexity for platform engineering teams, introducing architectural complexities that require a deep understanding of containers, networking, storage, and cluster security protocols. While it has become the default runtime for modern applications, managing Kubernetes at scale alongside existing…
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Does Platform Product Management & Design Really Happen? Or is it all just platform engineering? – Tanzu Catsup
Most organizations treat infrastructure as a series of projects to be “completed,” but successful platform engineering requires a permanent product mindset. In this episode, we explore why platform teams need dedicated product management to balance competing priorities—like security, cost, and developer experience—and why the “why” scales much better than the “what” in large enterprises. We…
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Developers crave AI tools for various tasks beyond coding, but that’s only about 20% of their work. But, ops people freak out about security and control challenges, like cost, regulatory compliance, and usage tracking.
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Bad advice from Wall Street on enterprise AI.
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Automating everything but changing how people work – Relative to your interests, Friday
Enterprise AI apps (or lack thereof), ROI surveys, CFO budget pivots, agile’s stubborn relevance, platform engineering vs. private cloud, Heroku’s freeze, IRS tech cuts, and Europe hedging on AI tools Peter Klúcik’s The Hobbit illustrations. Related to your interests Where are the enterprise AI apps? Part n + 1 – AI capacity demand is high,…
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You Can Feel It Coming – Software Defined Talk
This week, we discuss personal AI hype cycles, bottoms-up adoption, and “The Modern Stack” simplifying cloud. Plus, thoughts on new cars and the dogs that ride in them. See the traditional podcast listing for links and more.
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Progressive Delivery, with Heidi Waterhouse – Software Defined Interviews
See the traditional podcast version for more and Heidi links.
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Why it’s great to be a Spring developer now, and how to make it even better – State of Spring, 2026
This is a talk I give at the start of Spring workshops we do. Here is the recording. The point is to show people that being a Java and Spring developers is fantastic right now. Here’s the description: Spring developers are in a strange position in 2026: everything is changing: AI, platform engineering, enterprise architecture.…
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Best review of The Sound and The Fury, in Mad Men, s2e11: “Sex is good. This book is just OK.”
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Management is always eager to “reduce costs.”
The real story lies “in collapsing headcount growth expectations, from 6% in 2025 to just 2% in 2026 with just 21% of CFOs planning staff increases of 4% to 9%, down from 31% last year,” Nauman Abbasi, vice president analyst in Gartner’s finance practice, said in the release. “This marks a structural pivot from labor…
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Say you love business logic without saying “business logic.”
Model Eats the Software: Why the Marginal Cost of Enterprise Software Approaches Zero More on agentic AI changing the software business from Jason Hoffman: Andreessen specifically predicted that Salesforce would disrupt Oracle. Fourteen years later, Oracle is roughly 2.5x the size of Salesforce. Salesforce sells application logic – workflows, configurations, business rules. Oracle sells infrastructure…
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AI still not good at basic knowledge worker workflows, which is likely an apps problem
Here is one account of AI being shit at multi-step activate outside of coding: I think my request of “Hey Gemini, show me a list of all the articles I wrote over the last year and arrange them into categories by subject” is a straightforward one, and I came away from this experience surprised that…
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Where are the enterprise AI apps? Part n + 1
Outside of programming, there’s still a dearth of enterprise AI apps, it seems. Palo Alto’s CEO: “Consumers are far outstripping enterprise for the moment, but we expect enterprise will surely and slowly get on that bandwagon,” he said on the company’s Q2 earnings call. … “Right now … tell me how many enterprise AI apps…
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Attention, Autonomy, and AI in the Critical Path – Related to your interests – February 17th, 2026
“‘CEO said a thing!’ journalism” – fantastic new phrase! How AI Is Redefining Product Teams – What do product managers do in AI code gen land? NatWest hails progress after £1.2bn spent on tech last year, but true AI transformation to come – “According to the bank, more than 70,000 hours were saved through automated…
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