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.