Also: VCF 9.1 prefers private cloud for AI, the McGroc analyst trap, and the bank that lost the pope’s account. From: The undertow - Astrid Related to your interests VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 - a roundup of it all. Broadcom Announces VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 - “A preview of Broadcom’s Private Cloud Outlook 2026 report reveals private cloud continues to be the preferred platform for production AI.

Also: Bob picks the model, AI-BOMs, $37.5M DIY platforms, and AI slop on tap. From: AI Slop Me Related to your interests 🤖 The Venture-Capital Populist - Packer’s profile of David Sacks as architect of Silicon Valley’s MAGA alliance, who delivered crypto legitimisation and AI deregulation to the Trump administration while keeping his venture fund running and benefiting from the policies he wrote. don’t call it “social media,” call it “parasocial media” Most AI coding is “like taking your Ferrari to buy milk”: IBM’s Neel Sundaresan - Harness talk from IBM: “Bob doesn’t expose the underlying model to users.

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.

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.

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.

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.