Author: Coté
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Large enterprises continue to run a hybrid model for the foreseeable future. After more than 15 years of cloud migration, just over 54% of production workloads have been moved to the public cloud.” IDC, November 2025 survey 🔗 Enterprises Continue to Leverage Both Private and Public Cloud as Data Grows
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Go cheap on innovation. Otherwise you just buy PowerPoints. Jana Werner on using tight timelines and small teams to force real progress. From our interview with Jana Werner.
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Two theories of the AI investor spook-out
First, there is the fear that AI generated apps will replace existing software companies. This from Benji Edwards at Ars: These releases occurred during a week of exceptional volatility for software stocks. On January 30, Anthropic released 11 open source plugins for Cowork, its agentic productivity tool that launched on January 12. Cowork itself is…
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Relative to your interests, Friday
A Perfect Match for Big Data: VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service and Tanzu Greenplum MCP Auth made easier in Spring – doing auth in MCP has always been a shit-show. The AI Free Lunch is Over – Links to several analyst surveys on enterprise AI. Enterprise Architecture Has Never Been Stronger – Soon, we’ll all be…
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Building your own internal developer platform is a trap. Buy it instead. // My talk at cfgmgmtcamp 2026. This is the live stream recording, it starts at 5 hours 38 minutes. 🔗 Config Management Camp Ghent 2 Feb 2026
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Two leading thinkers of the 18th century, the French philosopher Montesquieu and the Scottish political economist Adam Smith, argued that world trade promoted peace and harmony because it advanced mutual interest and interdependency. Yes, but: Beckert emphasizes how capitalism has depended at every stage of its development on the military power of the modern state…
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one of the values of Pair Programming is that you have to regularly explain things to your pair. This is an important part of learning – for the person doing the explaining. After all one of the best ways to learn something is to try to teach it. 🔗 Fragments: February 4
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The broader lesson extends beyond music. When outcomes worsen, we are tempted to regulate expression rather than confront underlying issues. School bans, censorship campaigns and moral lectures target what is easiest to see. But culture, more often than not, is a lagging indicator—not a driver—of economic life. If hip hop had never existed, the trajectory…
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AI, open source, talent, and more, live at cfgmgmtcamp 2026, with Andrew Clay Shafer
This week’s Software Defined Interviews episode was recorded live at #cfgmgmtcamp with Andrew Clay Shafer as a returning guest: Spotting talent, getting innovation adoption and driving use, open source, AI, and developing taste – those are the major topics Andrew and I discussed this week at a live recording. Also, a framework for creating the…
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Relative to your interests, Tuesday
Codex App – OpenAI’s Claude Code competitor. U.S tech backlash grows as countries and startups seek alternatives – Big revealed preferences tests coming up here. Related, the investor angle: “Europe is hitting the kills witch on some U.S. tech.” AWS destiny: becoming the next Lumen – ‘The real problem is that developers don’t choose AWS…
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This is how the new announcement economy works. You declare a massive number. The headlines write themselves. The stock moves. Mission accomplished.” Whether the deal actually closes becomes almost irrelevant. The momentum already happened.” As a generalized marketing strategy: “my doctrine is that velocity has replaced authority as the organizing principle of information. What and…
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The real problem is that developers don’t choose AWS anymore (because honestly, given a choice between AWS and a vendor who thinks deeply about developer experience, who would?). They choose Vercel, or Netlify, or whatever their AI coding assistant suggests when they type “deploy this.” Some charts/survey/data would be nice to see here. Still, I…
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Relevant to your interests, Monday
I’m at cfgmgmtcamp today and tomorrow, in Ghent. Later today, I have a talk, and then a live Software Defined Interviews recording, with returning guest Andrew Clay Shafer. Americans can expect to live longer than ever, per the latest CDC data – ”newborn Americans in 2024 could expect to live to 79 on average” CIOs…
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Enterprise ROI continues to be elusive, but 48% of surveys say they’ve been cutting humans
AI is still stuck in “efficiency mode.” In many organizations, a technology organization leads AI efforts and is treated as a cost center. Those CIOs are incentivized to optimize for efficiency, not growth. The result is predictable: Tech-led AI strategies deliver productivity improvements, but not transformation. Equally concerning is that technology and AI executives tell…
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Runciman’s thesis, roughly, is that any given week in a democracy looks like a clown show of dithering, delay, u-turns, squabbling and complacency. But from the longer perspective the chaos is effective – a symptom of democracy’s capacity to criticise itself, to change tack, to spread its bets widely, keep its options open and correct…
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Researchers at the University of Manchester followed 25,000 11- to 14-year-olds over three school years, tracking their self-reported social media habits, gaming frequency and emotional difficulties to find out whether technology use genuinely predicted later mental health difficulties. Participants were asked how much time on a normal weekday in term time they spent on TikTok,…
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Google shows that large language models, when paired with traditional tools and validation pipelines, can accelerate enterprise code migrations by 50% or more, unblocking projects stalled for years. The robot says: The most dramatic impact occurred in previously stalled migrations, which AI unblocked after years of delay. One migration achieved an 89% estimated time savings,…
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Here are the slides for the talk I’ll be giving at @cfgmgmtcamp.bsky.social later today, at 2pm. It’s based on the DIY pitfalls paper I revised recently. CfgMgmtCamp #PlaformEngineering
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Related to your interests, Saturday
Your Life is the Sum Total of 2,000 Mondays – “If your life is going to be 80% Mondays and their equivalents, the design specifications for Monday matter more than the design specifications for your vacation.” The State Of GenAI And Consumers For 2026 – As agentic AI ascends, companies are grappling with control –…
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Big Tech, aggregator companies are always trying to steal your customer relationship: If they can’t generate that experience for the customer, then there isn’t really going to be a sense of loyalty to the retailer. That means retailers face potential disintermediation because AI and the consumers themselves won’t necessarily see strength in your brands. 🔗…
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