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AI Coding Costs Overtake Salaries, Broadcom’s Intelligence Processor, and sovereign cloud – Related to your interests, Thursday
Defeat AI-Powered Threats with VMware Tanzu Spring Here’s the panel I hosted on how the Spring project is adapting to AI-powered threats. We covered the volume spike in Spring security reports, the kinds of vulnerabilities the models are good at finding, chained “narrative” attacks, the three-bucket fix/fork/ditch triage for open source deps, the clean-room rebuild…
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the actual cost of AI coding is going up, and will likely increase
Research by Gartner Peer Insights has found that 23% of tech leaders are spending $200 to $500 per developer per month on tokens for artificial intelligence (AI) coding agents, such as Claude Code, Cursor and OpenAI Codex. And: The IT analyst firm has forecast that by 2028, AI coding costs will overtake the average developer’s salary…
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people work better with HTML, not markdown
I like the idea of having your AI thingies creating one off HTML pages as output. For example, monitoring and management agents. Most services now have an MCP server that will give API access to observability, logs, etc. What if instead of emitting JSON, they (also) emitted an HTML page? 🔗 Using Claude Code: The…
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Chainguard targets Java’s unpatched vulnerability backlog with drop-in remediated libraries
Chainguard’s CVE remediation capability gives Java shops a fourth option beyond filing exceptions, doing their own backports, or disruptive upgrades: drop-in remediated libraries that keep scanners and auditors satisfied. Summarized by AI. 🔗 Chainguard targets Java’s unpatched vulnerability backlog with drop-in remediated libraries
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Conference talks in an AI driven world are likely to get boring, or need to dramatically change
If “I will never write code again, and instead use AI to code” becomes the norm, what will programming conference talks look like. Most of those talks hinge on seeing someone stunt demo coding. But now you’ll just see them write prompts? Like, seeing Josh Long tell Claude to help get demented pets adopted would…
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keep domestic wages low + sell to rich countries = profit!
If you do not buy your domestic products and instead export them to richer countries, you can underpay your workers and generate a surplus. This means you don’t need to optimize employee pay and production. Your employees stay poorer, and are thus more desperate and less feisty, and have little buying power, but they are…
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Ranch Dressing Crisis at the Border, the Legibility of Effort, and iPad Sadness – Related to your interests, Wednesday
Also: AI lessons from SMB banks, build vs buy redux, and the return-to-office secret. Generated by ChatGPT on June 23rd, 2026. I’ve got two speaking things this week: Today at noon, Austin time: I’m hosting a three person panel on how the Spring Framework team has been dealing with all these AI-driven problems. It has…
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The Millennial Aesthetic, 2020
Millennial pink, sage, ocher, beveled edges — a palette and a reading of the aesthetic that turned “good design” into the product itself. Built from Molly Fischer’s 2020 essay for The Cut.
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What people use sovereign cloud for, and why
IDC survey data on sovereign cloud: more than half of organizations already use it, 72% say their interest has risen in the past six months, and 42% are now running AI workloads on sovereign infrastructure. Here’s what they’re using it for, what’s driving adoption, and where current offerings still fall short.
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the cost of fitful night of sleep
One night of sleep loss [costs] close to €200 [£173],” she said. .. Imagine a street where there are 100 people living, everybody sleeps terribly for three nights because of a heatwave and the next day they’re unproductive. That’s your investment in trees for the whole year. 🔗 From mobile jungles to shadow art: how…
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