Author: Coté
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After years of playing [solo role-playing], I have developed a personal rule about rolling dice: only roll if the potential outcome advances _or _enhances _the narrative. If rolling would throw the story off track in a way that doesn’t _enhance the narrative or creates an unnecessary or nonsensical detour, I won’t roll. Also, an interesting…
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“Since we started using Application Advisor, we’ve seen a 70% reduction in engineering time tied to upgrades,” says Roberts. “Now we can focus more of our time and resources on the delivery of new value-added features for our customers.” 🔗 Alight Removes Roadblocks for App Innovation with VMware Tanzu Spring [PDF]
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Where there is saxophone, synth is sure to follow.
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How to use AI for solo roleplaying with Dungeons & Dragons
Here’s my talk from AI for the Rest of Us: What the goblins can teach us about enterprise AI. // I’ve learned what agentic AI is by fighting goblins, talking with trolls, and buy custom made boots from gnomes. After a few years of playing solo D&D with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, etc., playing the role…
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Relevant to your interests, Saturday
The rise of ‘micro’ apps: non-developers are writing apps instead of buying them – Another go at LowCode: “It is a new era of app creation that is sometimes called micro apps, personal apps, or fleeting apps because they are intended to be used only by the creator (or the creator plus a select few…
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The Internet and social media platforms are now obviously detrimental to collective goods, cooperative politics and sane public debate. From here. I’ve encountered this sentiment a lot recently, even from Ben Thompson. If you take out “the Internet,” it’s probably right. My vibe here is: “human culture can not handle everything, everywhere, all the time.”…
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“For the last year or two, we’ve been tinkering with it,” Daniel Danker, executive vice president of AI acceleration, product and design at Walmart, said at the ICR Conference on Tuesday. “This is the year where tinkering becomes transformation. This is the year where we’ve built a level of mastery around that and we’ll start…
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Amazon Should Buy Anthropic, AI Doctors, Metaverse RIP
Original Content Amazon should buy Anthropic. I wasn’t really sure what hardned images were, let alone “distroless,” so Tony and I were lucky to get William on this week’s Tanzu Catsup to sort it out. We also discuss how it fits into platform engineering. If you can’t be bothered, here’s an excerpt on optimizing Helm…
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After the Dream – Software Defined Talk #555
This week’s Software Defined Talk podcast: This week, we discuss Gemini powering Siri, AWS’s biggest competitor, and AWS strategy choices. Plus, when should your next meeting actually start? Watch the video (above), or if you prefer traditional podcasts, subscribe to it.
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Relevant to your interests, Friday
Texas judge throws out second lawsuit over CrowdStrike outage | Computer Weekly – “the plaintiff’s claims were dismissed in their entirety in part because the shareholders had failed to establish any plausible motive of intent to commit securities fraud on CrowdStrike’s part.” How Daimler Trucks North America built a living knowledge graph of its business…
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Goes over lots of use cases for AI at a grocer. Some internal facing ones: The platform provides Kroger workers with a single point of access to check their shift schedule, request time off, set shift availability and view their pay stubs from one mobile app, according to a video Kroger played during the panel.…
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I suppose it can be said that I’m an absent-minded driver. It’s true that I’ve driven through a number of red lights on occasion, but on the other hand, I’ve stopped at a lot of green ones but never gotten credit for it. Glenn Gould
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60% of you Java people are living dangerously
Check this out from my pal DaShaun: in May of 2025, 60% of Spring Boot downloads were for versions no longer supported by the open-source project. That’s a lot. Too much, really. I can see how it happens. You get an app into production, it runs fine, and then you moveon to the next thing.…
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Here’s a cynical, but good overview of Anthropic’s attempt to use Claude code for generic knowledge work, a tool called Cowork. One part: Cowork may find fans among knowledge workers who have to create presentations but take no pride in their work. Come on. This is an application of that caustic Protestant belief that godliness…
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Relevant to your interests, Wednesday
RIP the metaverse – It’s fine to use your mountains of spare cash (and voting control) to try out new things. We’re all about innovation and expect it; you have to embrace lots of failure, giant failure. // The actual problem is then discarding all the people you hired to help you. It shucks the…
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No, no…AI won’t replace you. A person using AI will replace you and 4,999 other people.
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Winning in AI, story mode
Winning in AI is now defined as having a great chat app, not the AI infrastructure running that app. Amazon (AWS) has no chat app (that I know of, which is the point!), so people don’t think they’re winning. If AWS did have an app, and evolved it as a product, they would be at…
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I wasn’t really sure what hardned images were, let alone “distroless,” so Tony and I were lucky to get William on this week’s Tanzu Catsup to sort it out. We also discuss how it fits into platform engineering.
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All dads are ethnic dads.
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