Why CIOs can’t afford another modernization failure in 2026 - ”Gartner estimates that up to 70% of large-scale digital transformation and modernization initiatives fail to deliver their intended outcomes. That number has hovered stubbornly high for years, but the stakes in 2026 are different.”

This is the kind of thing the Internet was made for, with that “one person can do a thing” vibe. Plus, this is the kind of music I go nuts for.

Goldman Sachs bankers explore limits of AI: ‘The risk is over-reliance’

Some enterprise uses of AI. In this case, it feels like it’s all just using a chat app integrated with data - if even that!

“Goldman rolled out its generative AI-powered platform – GS AI Assistant – to all its roughly 46,000 employees in June, telling staff the aim was for it to help with tasks such as summarising complex documents, drafting content and performing data analysis.”

And: “They offer enormous efficiency gains, such as drafting documents for an initial public offering in minutes that previously would have taken months, or quickly sketching out a multiyear investment plan. But they can lack the personal nuance that is crucial in a demanding client service business such as banking, which commands multimillion-dollar fees.”

Also: “So far she says AI has helped her do her job in four key ways: getting quick answers to complex technical questions; summarising the key points within dense documents; editing and polishing her own written work; and brainstorming. Time saved can be spent with colleagues and clients.”

From: “Goldman Sachs bankers explore limits of AI: ‘The risk is over-reliance,'" Joshua Franklin, Financial Times, September 14th, 2025

Update on the Chick-fil-a Kubernetes, edge stuff. // How our Edge Kubernetes Platform has Evolved

In 2026, I’d like to see a lot more coverage about the actual enterprise AI apps people are building and running. // Agents show promise, but widespread usage in the enterprise remains elusive

“The last thing I bought and loved was a sauna. It came on a truck from Sweden. It looks like a little troll barrel and I have it in my garden by one of the two lakes. It’s admittedly a faff, because you have to build a fire, then come back in the house and wait for it to heat up. But there’s nothing else to do where I live, in Northamptonshire. And it’s nice when people stay, because it means there is an activity to break up the wine drinking.” And: “enforced gift giving around Christmas and birthdays is a bourgeois horror.” // Edie Campbell’s supermodel secret: ‘I go to bed at 7.30pm’

I think this means “thing you use to run and manage container based applications on public and/or private cloud.” Magic Quadrant for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure. // You know, “multi-cloud.” // Anyhow, congrats to this year’s winners.

An IT modernization tale, with both technology and culture. // The Untold Saga of What Happened When DOGE Stormed Social Security

If true, this is probably great. Obvs people engaging with each other - with strangers - on social media is too risky for society: “People aren’t connecting or conversing on social media like they used to; they’re just wading through slop, that is, low-effort, low-quality content produced at scale, often with AI, for engagement.” (Via Russel Davies.) // The Last Days Of Social Media

Same from elsewhere:

In the early days of the internet, social media offered a space where anyone could casually post thoughts, fleeting moments, and feelings about the world. But lately, that culture has disappeared. It has been replaced by highly curated influencer content, manufactured viral slop, and it feels like everyone is just posting… less.

That via Warren Ellis.

And, some reflection on social media making micro-society shit, no ROI on commenting. That one via maya.land.

How the Sun Microsystems acquisition made Oracle the cloud company it is today