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.

Also: Spring still number one, KubeCon AI workloads, the end of Doctor No, and a buyer’s market for employees. Spring still king, from The State of Java 2025, JetBrains. Related to your interests 🤖 From Red Hat OpenShift to VMware Cloud Foundation 9: A Journey to a Unified Cloud Operating Model - A defense-industry case study describing a migration from OpenShift running on vSphere to VMware’s native Kubernetes stack (VKS + VCFA + VCF 9), framed around operational consolidation and TCO reduction.

Also: local models worth running, Susan Sontag on list-making, GraalVM as thriller novel, and the slow ROI of children. The Prodigal Daughter (1903), John Collier. Via New Cartographies. Related to your interests Recommended local models - “I’ve experimented with the following models and have found useful applications (mostly around chat, MCP and coding) with all of them: gpt-oss-120b; Qwen3-Coder-30B; GLM-4.7-Flash; MiniMax-M2.5; Qwen3.5-35B-A3B” On Critical Thinking in a Multi-Model World - Getting the AI to be helpfully disagreeable, thus, engaging and truth-finding rather than satisfying.

Also: sovereignty’s control plane, 81,000 people tell Anthropic what they want, Google sells its fiber, and oats for the sparrows, and cake Related to your interests My pal Adib Saikali wrote up an MCP security guide covering how to think about securing MCP servers in the enterprise (no lead-generation required, just a straight-up PDF download). It gets into access tiers (open, group, and user-level servers), authentication with OAuth 2.1, identity propagation models (when to use service accounts vs.

Also: sovereign AI, Claude Code auto mode, FCC bans foreign routers, Walmart digital price tags KubeCon EU 2026 KubeCon is crazy big. James says something like 13,500+ people. They’re going for another infrastructure grab: all the stuff used to run AI. It’s worth asking who they’re competing with there. I have no idea how OpenAI and Claude run the AI PaaSes they’v built - the ones that everyone is bonkers for.

Spotted in the Tenerife South Airport, February, 2026.Related to your interestsBroadcom Empowers Platform Engineers to Accelerate AI and Modern Application Innovation on Kubernetes - Round-up of VMware Kubernetes releases and announcements at KubeConEU 2026. Strengthening the Cloud-Native Ecosystem Through Upstream Collaboration - VMware’s open source work in the kubernetes community. Broadcom expands Kubernetes support with VKS upgrades, open-source contributions and new partnerships - analysis thereof. The Mythical Agent-Month - “Put another way, agents are so good at attacking accidental complexity that they generate new accidental complexity that can get in the way of the essential structure that you are trying to build.