It really, in both positive and negative ways, ​updated me to thinking that the jobs picture is likely to be very different than we thought. I don’t think we’re going to have the kind ​of jobs apocalypse that some of the companies in our space advocate or talk about." Sam Altman From: ‘I’m delighted to ⁠be wrong’: Sam Altman says AI won’t lead to a ‘jobs apocalypse’ - but admits he was ‘pretty wrong’ on the social and economic implications it is having

[O]ur fears of what AI will do to us are really just our fears of what capitalism is already doing. And: the threat isn’t so much that AI is inevitable as that the ongoing—and likely expanding—immiseration of workers is unstoppable. This is the subtext of the strange and conflicted messaging that we get from the hype men: when they say that you better learn AI or be left behind, they are admitting that a great many people will be left behind.

Via geralt on Pixabay When an executives says layoffs were driven by AI, what exactly is the AI doing that removes the need for those humans? Here’s some dog-walk speculation. Decks, Meetings, etc. All the prep work around The Meeting. Things like: the agenda, slides, the pre-read, notes during the meeting, and followup tracking. There’s the careful synthesis of who said what so it can be presented in a different room to a different set of people for the next round of synthesis.

The normies don’t like AI, esp. The Kids: They’re being told, usually by people who already have theirs, that they should be more excited about the latest evolutions in software automation. “Why aren’t you more interested in nuanced conversations about the latest evolutions in software automation,” fans of the latest evolutions in software automation will ask. And: I’m sure we’re due for a few Atlantic and New York Times brunchlord opinion columns condemning young graduates for not being appreciative enough of consumer-culture innovation.

For most of modern history, we’ve invested perhaps 10% of our energy in ‘be’ and 90% in ‘do’. The AI era invites (demands?) something closer to the reverse. That’s not a comfortable shift for an industry that prides itself on shipping, but might be the most important thing we build next. 🔗 The Identity Crisis AI Didn’t Warn You About

Here’s coverage of our recent Tanzu Platform 10.4 announcements. This is a big agentic AI release, bringing in to Tanzu Platform all sorts of features to secure, standardize, and otherwise make agentic AI work more enterprise-y. My think on 10.4 is listed below too. There’s also the short video I made on the 10.4: Tanzu Platform 10.4 Clippings "Introducing Tanzu Platform 10.4: Extending Platform as a Service to Agentic Applications," Darin Zook, Tanzu blog, April 15th, 2026.

AI companies are building platforms for running agentic applications. Right now, those applications are primarily for software development, with a little bit of knowledge worker stuff. In each case, you get a “harness," an application that wraps all sorts of functionality around a model. This harness app is way beyond the chat-based apps we grew up with over the past few years. They use the model to figure out multi-step processes and get access to data and other apps - accessing files, working with your email, PowerPoint, etc.