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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Also: analyst asymmetry, AI layoff scapegoats, and LinkedIn translation services Related to your interests Spring AI Agentic Patterns: AutoMemoryTools - Persistent Agent Memory Across Sessions - A ready made memory system for AI apps, modeled after Claude’s memory model. In the AI Age, Java is More Relevant Than Ever - “Java’s explicitness and verbosity turn into a strength when it comes to using AI code assistants, because it’s easier to read and understand the Java code they suggest adding to your critical, highly-optimized enterprise apps.

Also: serverless five years later, AI code modernization for AS/400, dependency injection history, and the AI writing witchhunt Related to your interests Here Come The AI-Based Code Modernization Offerings The AI writing witchhunt is pointless. - “Just because someone on Reddit reads a sentence that feels generic, or a metaphor that lands a little flat, they (increasingly) conclude with absolute certainty that a machine wrote it, as if mediocre prose is a new invention, as if bad writing didn’t exist before November 2022.

Also: invisible AI bottlenecks, Amex coding stats, Copilot for entertainment only, and why not both Earth from Orion after translunar injection, April 2, 2026. Two auroras and zodiacal light visible as Earth eclipses the Sun. NASA/Reid Wiseman, Artemis II Related to your interests Invisible Work in the Age of AI: The New Bottleneck in Architecture and Delivery - All that human and culture stuff you need for AI code generation to go well.