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Lawyers love AI

At this point this feels like what it’s showing is that the amount of work needed to do law is crushing and unreasonable. And/or that the potential for profit is so high that taking stupid risks is worth it. 🔗 Vigilante Lawyers Expose the Rising Tide of A.I. Slop in Court Filings

Tech DEI programs on decline

Major employers including Meta and Google suspended minority hiring targets and dropped some references to “diversity, equity, and inclusion” from their websites and regulatory filings around the time of Trump’s order. Meta and Google also significantly reduced funding for DEI initiatives, such as events, training, and recruiting drives aimed at improving representation of minority groups, according to company announcements and employees. 🔗 Google, Microsoft, and Meta Have Stopped Publishing Workforce Diversity Data

"The core IT spending is now projected to hit $3.45 trillion"

“Gartner is now projecting that datacenter systems spending in 2025 will rise by 46.8 percent to $489.5 billion, which is an incremental $14.6 billion in spending in the datacenter for hardware and base systems software. The core IT spending is now projected to hit $3.45 trillion, an incremental $59.8 billion in spending and representing a 12.5 percent growth over the $3.06 trillion in core IT spending in 2024.” 🔗 Gartner Raises 2025 IT Spending Forecast, Puts Out 2026 Prediction - IT Jungle

Corporate culture can just be a tool to match the needs of the moment.

The conclusion here is clear: the industry will want different things from you as it evolves, and it will tell you that each of those shifts is because of some complex moral change, but it’s pretty much always about business realities changing. If you take any current morality tale as true, then you’re setting yourself up to be severely out of position when the industry shifts again in a few years, because “good leadership” is just a fad.

Remember when DevSecOps was all the rage?

Enterprises are till trying to figure out DevSecOps: [M]any organizations remain stuck in siloed approaches that pose problems due to competing demands for speed, efficiency and risk reduction. Enterprises that effectively integrate security into software development and deployment–both through platforms and tools, and via cross-team collaboration– are better positioned to drive velocity, quality and innovation while maintaining and even improving security." Also, if you must Kubernetes, try to run just one, or as few as possible: ”given the array of tools and personas involved, organizations must contend with complexity, staffing and other hurdles in addition to cost, security and integration issues.