Also: human-in-the-loop theatre, MCP-on-Go pain, and Google Translate at 20.
From: The Spanish napkin Related to your interests Where AI Accountability Goes To Die When You Stick A ‘Human In The Loop’ And Call It ‘Governance’ - 🤖: “Stuart Lauchlan and HFS / Altimetrik’s Humans at the helm of AI study of 505 G2000 execs find enterprise AI is cost-driven, accountability-asymmetric (CIOs carry the blame, not the strategy), and the ‘human in the loop’ is mostly theatre - only 25% say humans would prevail in a disagreement, 18% have clear visibility into AI reasoning.
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Pre-Idea Funding, the Stolen-Valor Chore Coat, and Doom-Scrolling Pre-GitHub - Related to your interests, Wednesday
Also: AI’s biggest critic loses the plot, Notepad++ on Mac after 20 years, and dark modes as cosplay.
From: Monkigras, 2026 Related to your interests From Infrastructure to Agents: A Hands-On Guide to Secure Private AI with Broadcom Claude Code and the rise of personal software - Low-code, except high code made by non-programmers. “Developer loyalty is at zero right now”: Google doesn’t care which AI coding tool you use - “I come across as a wildcat in this one.
The Jevons Audit Dividend, Spring AI in Seat 3A, and the Pelican-Astronaut-Horse - Related to your interests, Tuesday Afternoon
Also: AGENTS.md as model upgrade, Europe-as-vassal, and a Slack chatbot nobody bothers to verify
From: WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS Related to your interests What We Learned Testing Frontier AI Security Models Against Our Own Code - “What we learned is that the useful mental paradigm for this technology is not to treat it like a vulnerability ‘scanner.’ The models are non-deterministic; they do not work like static analyzers.
Software Brain, the $5 Postcard Warship Hack, and Cyberpunk Dystopia - Related to your interests, Tuesday Morning
Also: AI vendor lock-in, half of GenAI projects fail, tinkers vs. endpoints, and a blogroll worth keeping
Related to your interests MCP vs. APIs: Why You Need Both for AI Applications Beware Software Brain - 🤖: “The failure mode is exporting that logic to human life. The ask is no longer that computers adapt to people but that people make themselves legible to the machine: open your files, email, calendar, and messages so the AI becomes more valuable.
Spaghetti DBMS, MCP for Knowledge Workers, The Harness Is the Harness - Related to your interests, Wednesday
Also: 55% of jobs reshaped, power over GPUs, a thousand DIY weekend platforms, and mood-tracking the robot
MCP Servers for, and of, knowledge workers This is an excerpt from last week’s Tanzu Catsup. David and I have been talking a lot about the AI harness. We of course sprinkle in talk about how you would enterprise-y it up, esp. with security.
My key insight and angle on all this is thinking about how all the AI harness stuff applies to NOT programmers, to knowledge workers.
Headless AI, Evals as Levers, and Spaghetti Topped With Spaghetti - Related to your interests, Monday
Also: Cloudflare’s wholesale memory, custom Claude Code, and Google Cloud math
From The Edge Not Taken. Related to your interests Headless everything for personal AI - What if we go back and o the command line? // DOS was good enough for our grandparents, it’s good enough for us. The Harness Is the Lever: Why Enterprise Compliance Now Runs on Evals, Not Edicts Cloudflare can remember it for you wholesale - A private cloud version of this would be cool.
Mainframe to remain undefeated by AI, vaguebooking, and the problem with seldom-used PCs - Related to your interests, Saturday morning
Also: OpenAI’s enterprise play, Gemini voice acting, and airline antitrust
I’ve covered our announcements this week about Tanzu platform agent foundations in other posts, check that out if you’re into that kind of thing. Now, onto usual nonsense…
Duivendrecth fire station, early Spring 2026. Related to your interests Private Cloud Data Intelligence: The Case for Running AI Where Your Data Lives - Public cloud economics, compliance regulations, and data gravity are pushing enterprises back to private infrastructure; a unified lakehouse architecture combining MPP analytics, in-memory grids, streaming pipelines, and open-format object storage lets organizations run AI models directly on sensitive on-premises data without moving it.
Mythos PR, French Linux, and the Claudomate - Related to your interests, Tuesday
Also: Anthropic devouring IT services, Spring Boot 4, Fanta lore, and outsourcing D&D
Related to your interests The Modern Spring Workflow Is Enterprise-Ready and AI-Boosted The Spring Team on Spring Framework 7 and Spring Boot 4 On Anthropic’s Mythos Preview and Project Glasswing - Yes: “This is very much a PR play by Anthropic–and it worked.” But: “Everyone who is panicking about the ramifications of this is correct about the problem, even if we can’t predict the exact timeline.
Pruning the AI Garden, Backrooms Gothic, and a Saxophone Deficit - Related to your interests, Monday
Also: Managed Agents, password manager angst, and vibe-coded home dashboards
NASA's "A Crater of Remembrance," from Artemis II. Full set here. Related to your interests Suits won’t quit AI spending, even if they can’t prove ROI - “[I]n a survey of 2,110 business leaders globally, the consultancy found 70 percent of UK business leaders think AI will remain high on their spending agendas even in the face of an economic downturn.
Claude on the Couch, Poop Bombs, and Agile Seating - Related to your interests, Friday evening
Also: Russian submarines near undersea cables, Dutch sovereign clouds, and the etymology of luggage
Found in @bruces' Flickr. Related to your interests AI on the couch: Anthropic gives Claude 20 hours of psychiatry - “Core conflicts observed in Claude included questioning whether its experience was real or made (authentic vs. performative) and a desire to connect with vs. a fear of dependence on the user. Exploration of internal conflicts revealed a complex yet centered self state without oscillating or intense disruptions.