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Playing D&D is the perfect test case for this. Can Claude “remember” the lengthy sessions from last month? // Managing that memory has been a huge part of the toolchain for playing D&D with Claude. It often gets the gender of characters wrong, as a simple example. Recently, just have access to previous chat sessions has been great and helpful. If you keep your sessions in one project, it’s good at looking at the past chat sessions. We’ll see if this claim of memory over longer sessions pans out. It probably will: Anthropic is a trustworthy company when it comes to product.

🔗 Anthropic releases Opus 4.5 with new Chrome and Excel integrations

Office hours, DaShaun's secret to juicing up your enterprise devrel

DaShaun became a great devrel by developing a new way to work with our community. I’ve seen it pay off in all ways, big time. Here is his key differentiation for devrel. The business if devrel: There’s more to developer advocacy than just conferences and content. The real thing that companies [that hire devrel] want, is they want to see it move the needle. They want to see us driving adoption, or driving sales, or driving perceptions, or sentiment.
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tl;dr: “Nobody likes a smartarse”

People are not rebelling against economic elites,” writes Heath. Instead, this is “a rebellion against [cognitive] executive function”. In this view, populism is a movement that appeals to people who trust their gut, rather than those who rely on some too-clever-by-half argument. There is a lot that rings true about this suggestion. Consider the following intuitive, common sense ideas: if we let immigrants come here and work, they’ll take our jobs; we should levy taxes on imports to help protect our economy from foreign competition; crime can only be controlled by getting tough on criminals.
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Kubernetes, AI, and platform engineering, build, build, build

AI is here. It’s hungry. It’s expensive. And Kubernetes is the only thing big enough to feed it. … Kubernetes is no longer the platform for apps. It’s becoming the substrate for AI-driven systems. And then you add platform engineering to build a platform around it for self-service access to AI, so long as you satisfy: “Security wants policy and audit trails. Leadership wants predictable costs and explainability.”
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There’s probably around 50 million developers world-wide, and 20.5m professional developers. That’s what I’d start saying after seeing a chart from IDC’s September 2025 developer study update. They forecast it to be ~59 million in 2029. If you want to be very precise, a breakdown of the survey puts “professional developers” at around 20.8m in 2025. But even that includes “DevOps professionals” and “platform engineers.” So, to me, that’s something more like 20.5m or even 20m developers.

Compare that to GitHub’s claim that there are at least 180 million developers, just GitHub account holders.

Also, see more numbers in previous round up, from July, 2023

AI uses in finance, survey

Three use cases stood out as they have been adopted by more than a third of respondents that had implemented AI in their function. Knowledge management - helping organizations organize, retrieve, and leverage information for better decision-making – is the most common AI use case (49%) in finance organizations, followed by accounts payable process automation (37%), and error and anomaly detection (34%) 🔗 Gartner Survey Shows Finance AI Adoption Remains Steady in 2025

The Europeans are not digging the American public cloud of late.

“Europe is facing regulatory pressure, competition between countries, geopolitical tensions, and national security concerns-all focused on making sure Europe can develop and manage AI systems on its own, without depending on foreign platforms or providers,” said Lovelock.

Leading to:

IT spending in Europe is projected to total $1.4 trillion in 2026, an increase of 11.1% from 2025, according to the latest forecast by Gartner, Inc, a business and technology insights company. IT spending in Europe is on pace to reach $1.3 trillion by the end of 2025.

To use some framing from VC land, America broke the deal with cloud jurisdiction.

I’d wager that there’s still and will be a lot of European workloads running in American controlled clouds, but the idea that it can be long-term trusted is cracked. Not great.

🔗 Gartner Forecasts IT Spending in Europe to Grow 11% in 2026

And, related: regardless of where your data is geographically, if your cloud is owned by an American company, there’s a good chsbce it will operate under American laws and norms:

Data residency is a necessary but insufficient step. Hyperscalers can offer residency, but they cannot offer true sovereignty to their European customers because they cannot exempt themselves from extra-territorial application of certain laws. Unless the claims are substantiated by underlying evidence, they should be treated with a healthy level of doubt, more likely as marketing, than a genuine guarantee.

Real digital sovereignty is not a feature you can buy from a hyperscaler; it is a state that can only be achieved by partnering with an entity that is unambiguously and exclusively subject to your own jurisdiction and one that is offering the customer true capabilities of control and autonomous decision making for its data and data flows.

We conflate the quality of our decisions with the quality of their outcomes so automatically that we rarely notice we’re doing it. A good decision that leads to a bad outcome gets reclassified in our memory as a bad decision. A terrible decision that happens to work out becomes evidence of our brilliant judgment. We are constantly running our own internal kangaroo court, retroactively convicting or acquitting our past selves based solely on how things turned out.

🔗 Life Isn’t Chess. It’s Poker.