Category: newsletter
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AI Pees in the Pool, Permanent Indenture, and the Metric Fuck-Ton – Related to your interests, Monday
Also: does anyone actually use microwave food-buttons? Castanet handler. Related to your interests Platform Engineering in the Age of AI: Why Operational Complexity Is the New Bottleneck – “while coding is becoming cheaper and faster, operational complexity hasn’t disappeared” // Day 2 operations is always the bottleneck. // Also included is the current Syntasso/Kratix pitch.…
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Shadow AI Surge, The Coming AI Backlash, and Apollonian Tyranny – Related to your interests, Wednesday
Also: Claude Managed Agents, Antigravity, Project Glasswing, repugnant economics, and writing observations. From: Wes Anderson’s Impossible Dreams Related to your interests Innovations from Google I/O 26 on Google Cloud – Google seems the cleanest when it comes to describing their AI stuff…it’s something like a mix of clear naming (aside from “Antigravity”) and functionality, and…
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Tokenmaxxing at Amazon, Potato Stamp Fonts, and Tax Code Hacking – Related to your interests, Monday
Also: Elon’s OpenAI lawsuit, build-vs-buy for agentic AI, and rethinking observability. From: Wakamai Fondue, the tool that answers the question what can my font do? Related to your interests Amazon employees admit to using AI unnecessarily to pump up internal usage scores – workers complain of intense pressure to use AI tools – Tokens are…
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McDonald’s Geofence, Power Tools Got Worse on Purpose, and Big Things Are Trusted Less – Related to your interests, Wednesday
Also: AI makes marketing opaque, execs value humans less, and clown world logic. You’re either left holding the bag, or pro-activity delivering “value creation” The answer is pretty clear: TryTanzu.ai. Related to your interests What’s New in Tanzu Platform 10.4: Powering Agentic Apps at Scale – Nick and Keith walk through it. Quit VMware and…
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Tanzu’s 15-Year Head Start, Max Headroom in Every Terminal, and Doctors Catch the AI Bug – Related to your interests, Monday
Also: Mirantis acquisition logic, and tech jobs at a 3-year high, so why the layoffs? Here’s the latest Tanzu Catsup: AI lets us find more vulnerabilities, faster than ever. That’s good news. You want to know what’s broken, and you want to patch it. The hard part is the volume. How do you handle it…
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Mythos Firefox, the AI Job Fantasy, and Oregon Red Clover – Related to your interests, Saturday
Also: opinion shows for writers, no-update weeks, and the Spinoza heresies. From: The Brautigan Library Related to your interests Pushing Local Models With Focus And Polish – Building a DIY AI stack is difficult. The “AI Job Apocalypse” Is a Complete Fantasy – “The macro story is not a jobless future, where we retire fat…
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Tinkerslop, Class Wartime, and Jobs Not AI Enough – Related to your interests, Friday
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…
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Parasocial Media, the War on Adobe, and Garbage Chairs – Related to your interests, Wednesday
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…
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Never Talk About Goblins, McDonald’s AI Teammate, and the Slop Defense – Related to your interests, Friday
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…
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Pre-Idea Funding, the Stolen-Valor Chore Coat, and Doom-Scrolling Pre-GitHub – Related to your interests, Wednesday
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…
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The Jevons Audit Dividend, Spring AI in Seat 3A, and the Pelican-Astronaut-Horse – Related to your interests, Tuesday Afternoon
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…
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Spaghetti DBMS, MCP for Knowledge Workers, The Harness Is the Harness – Related to your interests, Wednesday
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…
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Headless AI, Evals as Levers, and Spaghetti Topped With Spaghetti – Related to your interests, Monday
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…
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Mainframe to remain undefeated by AI, vaguebooking, and the problem with seldom-used PCs – Related to your interests, Saturday morning
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…
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Mythos PR, French Linux, and the Claudomate – Related to your interests, Tuesday
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…
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Pruning the AI Garden, Backrooms Gothic, and a Saxophone Deficit – Related to your interests, Monday
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…
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Claude on the Couch, Poop Bombs, and Agile Seating – Related to your interests, Friday evening
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…
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Fridge Cigarettes, Replication Crisis, and Bottleneck Wine – Related to your interests, Tuesday
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,…
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