All I really need to know about socio-political culture I learned from 80s high school movies.
“Laws can be opinions on inevitabilities in the world of software engineering, or wry observations on unavoidable realities.” // A round-up of all those laws and bromides tech world people use.
A vision for a kinder post-AI meltdown. Also, speculation about where AI code generation will stick and not stick.
“According to IDC research, 72% of tech marketers say creating original, differentiated thought leadership is a top challenge. Even more cite difficulty connecting that content to real business outcomes. 37% of CMOs say creating a unified, omnichannel customer experience will have the greatest influence on their marketing strategy over the next 12 to 18 months.” And: “It’s not about doing more. It’s about making what you already do work harder to drive the engagement you need.”
Your business processes are tribal knowledge passed down through email chains and hallway conversations. Before an AI can handle expense reports or customer inquiries autonomously, you need to document, standardize, and make machine-readable every workflow. That’s a multi-year project.
🔗 Your employees are already AI-augmented. Your enterprise isn’t. Here’s why that matters
”Prioritize sovereignty where it matters most. Not every workload requires sovereign infrastructure — and overengineering can be costly and inefficient. Focus on areas where sovereignty is critical: AI workloads, sensitive data, and operations in regulated industries. Use edge computing to process data locally and reduce compliance risks. Localized cloud options, including sovereign clouds and regional vendors, can help meet legal requirements without compromising agility. A surgical approach to sovereignty ensures strategic alignment and cost-effectiveness.”
For those who prefer Kubernetes instead of a PaaS, there are good options that your organization likely already has.
As the kids say: 👀 ”This repository provides Authorization support for Spring AI integrations with the Model Context Protocol (MCP). It covers both MCP Clients, MCP Servers, and Spring Authorization Server.”
🔗 spring-ai-community/mcp-security: Spring Security Configuration for MCP
‘JFrog Fly is the company’s agentic developer platform and an MCP server that works with multiple IDEs, including VS Code and Cursor. Integrated with GitHub and observability, Fly provides a chat interface that allows users to query, promote, and roll back existing releases based on specifics of the code (e.g., “Which features were added to this release?” or “Deploy the release that added styling to the user field”). Fly includes an audacious reimagining of the software development process, making versioning automatic and version names obsolete. This makes for a slick demo but may introduce confusion for JFrog clients who don’t want to give up their semantic versions or who need to support back-level software.’
🔗 JFrog SwampUp 2025: The Agentic Development Era Emerges From The Swamp
Move fast and leak things.