I’m giving a talk on what platform engineers seem to be doing (and probably will do) to manage AI a #SREDay London today. Here are the slides: speakerdeck.com/cote/ai-p…
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When you don't know what you're doing, do a lot of it
This a good, correct framing of the AI project failure stuff. No one really knows what will work and what they’re doing yet. As we learned in the digital transformation craze of the 2010’s, this means failure == learning. And learning is what you need to do a lot of.
More so, this kind of rapid learning, innovation, and sense making is exactly what a platform like Tanzu Platform with Cloud Foundry is excels at, and has a long, proven history of supporting.
Claude Code for things that are not code - Claude Not Code
Claude Code is being utilized beyond coding, particularly for analyzing and reformatting plain text notes, suggesting that AI may emerge as standalone applications rather than being integrated into existing software.
How to use Tahoe's new Use Model shortcut to summarize articles
The new Use Model shortcut in Apple Shortcuts opens up a lot of possibilities. For example, I like to summarize a lot of pages. Sometimes, ChatGPT can’t get the text for those pages, or I don’t trust the text it retrieves. There’s a shortcut that will retrieve the cleaned up text of a page (as markdown). So, you can get that markdown, and with the new Use Model shortcut, you can summarize it and then send the markdown summary to Drafts.
All of the nerd content I've made this fiscal year, so far
A collection of work-related content produced between November 2024 and July 2025 pertains to technology discussions, particularly focusing on AI, platform engineering, and private cloud solutions.
Export markdown from Apple Notes, even in bulk...almost works.
In macOS Tahoe, you can finally export Apple Notes in markdown. This is great, and even exports images and handwriting from the Apple Pencil. You can also bulk export, which is great! Sadly, bulk exporting images and handwriting doesn’t work. It saves the images and handwriting in a file called Attachements, but then in the actual note markdown, all references to images are to a file called FallbackImage.png. Also, it exports an sqlite database.
ChatGPT uses, a survey
OpenAI’s study indicates that users primarily utilize ChatGPT as an advisory tool to enhance decision-making and productivity in knowledge-intensive jobs.
Invisible to the robots
In my searches/research, analysts like Gartner, IDC, and Forrester are invisible to ChatGTP, Claude, etc. The robots will find the reports licensed by vendors - I’m guessing only if they don’t require leadgen.
The analysts should probably start publishing some juicy abstracts with just enough numbers, analysis, and advice to get into the training data and search results to get people to funnel to their pages. Of course, converting a rando-click to a $95,000 PDF would be some real funnel-management magic.
When the AI policy board is slowing everything down youtube.com/shorts/Xq…
AI uses at Goldman
Goldman Sachs has implemented its GS AI Assistant to enhance employee efficiency in tasks like document summarization and data analysis, while acknowledging the importance of personal nuance in client services.