Google Cloud engineering chief: that Kubernetes dev experience? Sorry about that… - ‘”McCleod, possibly with at least part of his tongue in his cheek, said. “I also just wanted to kind of apologize for the developer experience in Kubernetes. I think when we open source all this wonderful technology, we also open source some of Google’s internal culture about the developer experience.” It’s not like Google was beating up on outside developers, he continued. Rather it reflected Google itself. “We’re not very nice to ourselves at Google. That’s an afterthought. I made this amazing like, engineering marvel, like, figure out how to use it.”'

IDC Predicts AI-driven Transformation By 2025 - “Key findings from the IDC report include a forecast that 67% of the projected $227 billion AI spending in 2025 will originate from enterprises integrating AI into their core operations.” And: “IDC warns that up to 30% of organizations may reevaluate their GenAI investments if these barriers remain unaddressed."

IDC Publishes New, Actionable AI Research at Annual ‘Directions’ Event - “Currently, 51% of businesses are taking an opportunistic approach to AI, but there’s a significant trend toward more structured and strategic adoption. The research highlights how organizations are increasingly viewing AI as a fundamental transformation of business, operating, and organizational models. Governance, knowledge, and skills are emerging as key elements in implementing AI-driven transformation. Companies are moving beyond ad-hoc experimentation, with about 35% now developing more repeatable and managed AI strategies."

Google boards the AI agent hype train - A summary of all the boring enterprise worries with AI. Mostly: unexpected costs.

KubeCon 2025: Technology Resilience, Sovereignty, And Security In An Era Of Political Change - ”Enterprise maturity is here. As demonstrated by HSBC’s implementation, which handles 600 million hits daily across over 7,000 production services, enterprise maturity is here.”

Model Context Protocol has prompt injection security problems - There’s a lot of security work TBD with MCP. // “The curse of prompt injection continues to be that we’ve known about the issue for more than two and a half years and we still don’t have convincing mitigations for handling it."

Old Fashioned Function Keys - Ode to function keys, and a reminder that they’re useful.

Have We Been Thinking About A.D.H.D. All Wrong? - “rather than continuing to treat ADHD as a chronic medical disorder primarily requiring pharmaceutical intervention, it may be more helpful to see it as a situational mismatch between individuals and their environments."

France singles out digital services for EU’s tariff response - ‘“The second response will cover all products, and I want to stress this—services will be included,” Primas said, before listing “digital services, including those provided by the GAFAM,” as examples… GAFAM refers to Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft.'

S&P Global: Generative AI Adoption Surges, but Project Failures Rise - “42% of companies abandoning most of their AI initiatives before reaching production.” // Yes, and… there’s an increase in AI projects.