Also: hardened images everywhere, quarterly Java patch tours, Wells Fargo’s complicated employment math, and a Highgate gravestone. Related to your interests Silo busters - a unified platform needs a unified team - “This matters because it removes the structural excuse for fragmentation. When a single platform surfaces all the controls a unified team needs, there is no longer a technical reason to keep five separate teams in five separate rooms.

Also: the improbable life, four years working at AWS, an AI-SDLC panel debate. Spotted by Dan Bettinger in Austin. Related to your interests Most generative AI and custom model projects will be a bust: Gartner - ‘Analyst firm Gartner thinks at least half of all generative AI projects “will overrun their budgeted costs due to poor architectural choices and lack of operational know-how,” and most organizations that try to build custom models “will abandon their efforts due to costs, complexity and technical debt in their deployments.

Also: Goldman’s 24x token forecast, Indian IT’s process-debt pitch, NatWest’s 35% AI-generated code, Gartner’s 84% productivity theater, vibesec. From: "AI Agents Forecast to Boost Tech Cash Flow as Usage Soars," Goldman, May, 2026 Related to your interests ‘I’m delighted to ⁠be wrong’: Sam Altman says AI won’t lead to a ‘jobs apocalypse’ - but admits he was ‘pretty wrong’ on the social and economic implications it is having - “It really, in both positive and negative ways, ​updated me to thinking that the jobs picture is likely to be very different than we thought,” he said.

Also: Zoom system-of-action, the curl deluge, the unreasonable effectiveness of HTML, behavior-first mainframes, fewer books, the meeting Ask, and the multi-agent delegation problem. Related to your interests Executives have a narrow view of AI gains - “CEOs are uniquely prone to AI psychosis because they’re sufficiently distant from the last mile of work that still has to happen to generate most value with AI.” Aaron Levie Box CEO. The users have plenty of feature ideas - in contrast, in favor of doing the whole “citizen developer” thing.

Also: does anyone actually use microwave food-buttons? Castanet handler. Related to your interests Platform Engineering in the Age of AI: Why Operational Complexity Is the New Bottleneck - “while coding is becoming cheaper and faster, operational complexity hasn’t disappeared” // Day 2 operations is always the bottleneck. // Also included is the current Syntasso/Kratix pitch. 🤖 Five takeaways from Michael Dell’s keynote at Dell Technologies World 2026 - “Dell’s most direct strategic move was to counter the idea that AI belongs primarily in the public cloud.

Also: Claude Managed Agents, Antigravity, Project Glasswing, repugnant economics, and writing observations. From: Wes Anderson's Impossible Dreams Related to your interests Innovations from Google I/O 26 on Google Cloud - Google seems the cleanest when it comes to describing their AI stuff…it’s something like a mix of clear naming (aside from “Antigravity”) and functionality, and not carpet combing you with tools like AWS. Announcing Claude Managed Agents on Cloudflare - “Integrating with Claude Managed Agents is another step in this direction.

Also: Elon’s OpenAI lawsuit, build-vs-buy for agentic AI, and rethinking observability. From: Wakamai Fondue, the tool that answers the question what can my font do? Related to your interests Amazon employees admit to using AI unnecessarily to pump up internal usage scores - workers complain of intense pressure to use AI tools - Tokens are the new lines of code. Also, yes, of course, “Goodhart’s Law," blah blah.

Also: AI makes marketing opaque, execs value humans less, and clown world logic. You’re either left holding the bag, or pro-activity delivering “value creation” The answer is pretty clear: TryTanzu.ai. Related to your interests What’s New in Tanzu Platform 10.4: Powering Agentic Apps at Scale - Nick and Keith walk through it. Quit VMware and you’ll emerge with more complex and less capable infrastructure - “One is that few organizations will be able to quit VMware entirely, as they run applications with dependencies that aren’t easy or economical to unwind.

Also: Mirantis acquisition logic, and tech jobs at a 3-year high, so why the layoffs? Here’s the latest Tanzu Catsup: AI lets us find more vulnerabilities, faster than ever. That’s good news. You want to know what’s broken, and you want to patch it. The hard part is the volume. How do you handle it without drowning? We stream these every Friday at 10am US Eastern/4pm Amsterdam time.

Also: opinion shows for writers, no-update weeks, and the Spinoza heresies. From: The Brautigan Library Related to your interests Pushing Local Models With Focus And Polish - Building a DIY AI stack is difficult. The “AI Job Apocalypse” Is a Complete Fantasy - “The macro story is not a jobless future, where we retire fat and complacent to our Netflix-scooters.” // Yes, but, There is a bit of “disruption for thee, but not for me” going on in pieces like this.