The problems feel like something we should have moved passed long ago. The general problems and patterns are not new. Why do they persist? 🔗 Why Up to 70% of Platform Engineering Teams Fail to Deliver Impact

What’s wrong with the CMDB concept, especially how it’s applied and managed. 🔗 “CMDB” Is Dead — Long Live The IT Management Graph

As enterprises try to figure out the benefits of AI, they’re relying on lots of private cloud: Over half (53%) of enterprises say deploying new workloads to private cloud is among their top priorities over the next three years. 84% already run both traditional and cloud-native apps in private environments. 69% are considering repatriating workloads from public to private cloud, and more than one-third have already done so. 🔗 The AI Advantage: Running Next-Gen Workloads in Private Cloud Environments

My work at OpenAI reminds me every day about the magnitude of the socioeconomic change that is coming sooner than most people believe. Software that can think and learn will do more and more of the work that people now do. Even more power will shift from labor to capital. If public policy doesn’t adapt accordingly, most people will end up worse off than they are today.” Four years later, he’s betting his company on its ability to sell ads against AI slop and computer-generated pornography.

“artistic product” versus “artistic process.” Well, I guess “home made” sounds tastier than “mechanically extruded.” 🔗 judgment day

“Individual teams making rational decisions create organisational fragmentation.” // An overview of the impossibly fine line between restricting developers for long term agility and reliability, and giving them freedoms to perfectly solve their apps problems. 🔗 Golden Paths: One Size Does Not Fit All

As someone who uses and appreciates 37signals products, I can honestly say - we like being the kind of people who use and appreciate 37signals products. JA Westenberg. Tech marketers way undervalue identity as a marketing tactic. It works well, just like in shoes and coffee loyalty. Stickers. Devrel. Community management. Conference schwag. We assume that people chose one technology over another based on utility (does it work for what they want), and also price.

🔗 Generative AI’s Productivity Myth

Ancient Dutch proverbs are the best. 🔗 Netherlandish Proverbs, Pieter Bruegel the Elder

“Despite there being no systematic age differences between women and men in the workforce according to the US Census, we found that women are represented as younger than men across occupations and social roles in nearly 1.4 million images and videos from Google, Wikipedia, IMDb, Flickr and YouTube, as well as in nine language models trained on billions of words from the internet.” 🔗 Age and gender distortion in online media and large language models