Author: Coté
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Bags
In total, Britain’s Environment Agency calculated that a conventional cotton bag needed to be reused 173 times to beat plastic. Denmark’s equivalent public body estimated a similar ratio. Sufficiently well-worn cotton tote bags can beat plastic for environmental cost, but only for the most consistent among us. Well, yeah. That’s exactly the idea. I’ve lived…
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Globally, More People Expect AI to Cause Job Loss Than Growth
Normies don’t like AI. 🔗 Globally, More People Expect AI to Cause Job Loss Than Growth
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Can Claude for Financial Advisors Meet Practice-Specific Needs?
What exactly is in those markdown files? And how to ROI them: “Measure whether preparation and follow-up become faster after including advisor review and corrections, and whether savings support additional client capacity.” 🔗 Can Claude for Financial Advisors Meet Practice-Specific Needs?
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These AI companies aren’t serious people w/r/t “Enterprise”
Trust in these vendors is not warranted yet. They are not enterprise grade. They don’t understand enterprise terms and conditions. They don’t understand enterprise liability. They don’t understand enterprise you know consistency and continuity… If you decide to stay with the first version of a model, they’re not going to be paying attention to you…
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How much AI runs on Kubernetes?
The problem appears when AI workloads enter that mature infrastructure. According to the figures Katie presented, 66% of organizations are already deploying AI workloads on Kubernetes. But only 7% are doing it daily, while 47% deploy them occasionally. Of the organizations using Kubernetes for AI, 23% have fully adopted the Kubernetes stack and 43% have…
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Luke Kanies on Puppet history
I was a founder, fired by my board, for far less egregious sins than Matt (I dared to let growth sink to 70% annually – and I was dumb enough to hire a COO with no loyalty). 🔗 Luke Kanies on Puppet history
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One-third of AI-replaced workers will be rehired by 2029: Gartner
The consulting firm predicts that by 2029, 30% of employees laid off due to replacement by AI will need to be rehired, likely at a significantly higher cost. 🔗 One-third of AI-replaced workers will be rehired by 2029: Gartner
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Enterprise AI spending
Global AI spend is forecasted to total $2.7 trillion this year, representing a 49.5% increase year over year… The amount of money that is going into AI infrastructure — the chips that are being made, the servers that are being bought, the data centers that are being built, the power, utilities, cooling that are going…
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Inside OpenAI’s agentic software factory
We’re talking about roughly a 10x increase in load on some systems. At most companies, that kind of growth might happen over two or three years. At OpenAI, we see it in about six months. 🔗 Inside OpenAI’s agentic software factory
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Confessions of an Unrepentant Slop Snob
Good things are good, and bad things are bad. 🔗 Confessions of an Unrepentant Slop Snob
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New open source support plan from Broadcom VMware Tanzu
Padmanabhan said that promise means VMware will also provide “TrueSource trusted artifacts” for code that is not part of Spring, including the wider Java ecosystem, Python, and Node.js. … Broadcom’s curation process ensures that the libraries conform to a reference architecture and are supportable by the maintainers of record,” according to a company statement. “Thousands…
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Procrastinating by being productive.
In fact, excessive activity can protect us from the harder work of deciding what actually matters. When everything is important, prioritization disappears. When every request earns a meeting, the calendar begins determining the strategy rather than serving it. The deeper discipline of leadership may therefore be subtraction. 🔗 Busyness Can Be a Form of Avoidance
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What Broadcom said about using Mythos at Explore 2026
Broadcom has been using Mythos to find and address security vulnerablities since the begining. Here are recent comments about that from Explore 2026.
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Using AI to play Role Playing Games – Building tools to play Dungeons and Dragons is playing D&D…?
I wanted to see how much time I spend playing D&D with AI versus building the tooling for playing D&D with AI. Charted across 4,245 conversations back to 2023: harness building goes from 5% to 53%. The cobbler’s curse – you love making shoes so much you never walk around in them.
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Relative to your interests, Tuesday
The above is an excerpt from the interview with Caleb about platform as a product. He’s been on that scene since the beginning, starting at State Farm. I updated our platform as a product paper recently, so it was fun to ask him “do people still do this stuff”? ICYMI Original content published since last…
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Platform as a Product, 9 years later
Nine years after the platform as a product paper first came out, Caleb Washburn and I went through what changed. The answer is mostly “not much,” and the good bit is why developers keep asking for Kubernetes clusters they don’t actually want.
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or: I think that’s ugly.
Personalisation produces sameness rather than niches because minimising prediction error means hedging toward the conditional mean, and the resulting world then validates the prediction. Evidence from London high streets, Billboard lyrics, MovieTweetings concentration, and synthetic personas; the fix is a mandated exploration floor of about twenty percent, since a token discovery tab does nothing. Aesthetics…
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Americans don’t like AI
Today, 52% of Americans say they are more concerned than excited about the increased use of AI in daily life – up from 37% in 2021. Another 9% are more excited than concerned and 37% say they’re equally excited and concerned, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted June 22-28, 2026. 🔗 Young US…
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when thought leaders get their voice wrong
Academic rigor and thought-leadership polish both edit the writer’s judgment out of the prose, and LLM text is that same absence with no one behind it. The proposed alternative opens with the conclusion, leaves the reader to close the gap, and keeps the author’s judgment visible throughout. 🔗 🤖 Practitioner Voice
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the programmer’s boss is not competition
Perhaps more intriguing is the makeup of that adoption, and how it appears to be blurring roles. Senior leaders are doing more of the hands-on IC work, adopting AI aggressively to help them do it, and non-engineers are committing code. The suggestion that everyone in an organization is becoming a “builder” seems to be directionally…
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