The iterative design process for the Mac calculator app highlights the challenges of executive feedback and suggests that executives should use AI to better articulate their visions.
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We should be calling it all “AIaaS,” but I don’t think anyone could pronounce that without going PG-13 in every EBC and MQ.
Stop Building Frameworks, Go With Good Enough. And, check out the full discussion I had with Brian.
Some of the risks of having AIs write codes and AIso check code, “recursive AI security loops.” There’s also some advice about what to do, a post from Camille Crowell-Lee.
3 factors is all you need - Notes on Modernizing Enterprise Apps
In this Tanzu Talk interview, Coté talks Brian Friedman about his extensive experience working with Pivotal, Tanzu, and Broadcom. They discuss the intricacies of modernizing enterprise applications, the relevance of .NET in the current tech landscape, and the role of platforms like Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes. They also explore using AI, the challenges of application transformation, and the importance of leveraging the right tools and methodologies to drive successful tech modernization initiatives.
Private Cloud AI Platform Engineering, at SREDay Amsterdam
I’m at SREDay Amsterdam today, hosted by ING at their lovely Cedar building.
Here’s the slides I’m going to present later today:
I’m not sure if they’re recording it. But, of course, if they are, it will be on my weblog.
Update: Some photos of presenting, taken by the SREDay people. Fancy!
Organizations are measuring DevEx metrics more, JetBrains survey
JetBrain’s The State of Developer Experience and Developer Productivity survey is out. It’s an oddly, narrowly focused survey. Mostly on metrics used to measure developer experience.
Above, the metrics most used for tracking/rating/metric’ing development..As the conclusion says, measuring DevEx is getting better:
The good news is that companies are getting more serious about tracking developer experience, not just productivity. The drop in irregular DevEx assessments – from 53% in 2024 to 29% in 2025 – shows a positive shift toward more structured and thoughtful measurement.
How Tanzu Platform Fixes the AI Deployment Problem
You need a proper AI platform:
Interested? Try a 90 day trial of the Tanzu Platform: https://trytanzu.ai.
3 + 1 Cloud Foundry Stories
We don’t tell Cloud Foundry stories enough. Here are four:
This talk was also a request to make more “case studies” and “customer references,” that is stories. So, I try to go over how to do that as well. At the last Cloud Foundry Day, I spoke more generally about the need for more Cloud Foundry marketing. Maybe I’ll become “that one guy who talks about Cloud Foundry marketing at CF Day”…if they let me.
AI video generation is very good, but its current prudishness will limit art and general use
AI-generated videos and images could be significantly “better” without current technological and content restrictions.