Gartner Survey Finds 77% of Engineering Leaders Identify AI Integration in Apps as a Major Challenge - ”Seventy-seven percent of engineering leaders identify building AI capabilities into applications to improve features and functionality as a significant or moderate pain point, according to a survey by Gartner, Inc. The survey also found that the use of AI tools to augment software engineering workflows was the second largest pain point, with 71% of engineering leaders considering it significant or moderate.”

It’s Not About “Nice” - ”So next time you read about organizations moving away from ‘nice,’ what they’re really doing is voluntarily choosing to lower their own performance and demotivate their talent.”

Generation Z leading shift toward GOP, survey shows - ”voters aged 18 to 21 now favor Republicans by 11.7 points, challenging the common perception of Gen Z as ‘uniformly progressive.'"

MCP Authorization in practice with Spring AI and OAuth2 - Filling in the missing piece of MCP: security.

Minimum Viable Humans. - “it’s only possible with algorithmic management taking over functions previously handled by human managers: performance monitoring, task allocation, basic feedback and guidance, coordination and information flow. On the positive side, this should translate into a sunset for the endless run of pointless meetings. Good riddance."

morning computer sociomediapath - As ever, the way to improve productivity is stop interrupting people, be they writers, programmers, or any “make something” type.

After months of coding with LLMs, I’m going back to using my brain - “I’m leveraging them to learn Go, to upskill myself. And then I apply this new knowledge when I code.” And: “But I’m not asking it to write new things from scratch, to come up with ideas or to write a whole new plan. I’m writing the plan. I’m the senior dev. The LLM is the assistant."

We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. - It’s still hard to know how much energy AI uses…until the big AI companies start telling us.

Reports of Deno’s Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated - ”Most developers weren’t deploying simple stateless functions. They were building full-stack apps: apps that talk to a database, that almost always is located in a single region.” // People love the CRUD app. // Also, a tales from PaaS-land.

The Battle For Grounding Your AI Agents Has Begun - Data gravity considerations for AI.