Desperately seeking AI ROI as IT budgets tighten - ”As we show above in red, at least 44% of the respondents indicate that gen AI is funded by stealing from other budgets. We’ve seen that number hover around 40% to 42% in previous surveys, and it pops up to at least 55% in the Global 2000.” // Also, one tactics for general IT cost savings is vendor consolidation.

Developer Relations Foundation Aims to Clarify Role - Hopefully it’s good for enterprises too, big organizations that need internal-facing devrel.

California Becomes the First State to Ban Sell-By Dates on Food Labels - I think we all knew these were bullshit. // “Sell-by dates are a slightly ironic, and unnecessary, cause of food waste, because they’re not intended to ever be used by consumers. Instead, these dates are meant to indicate to store employees when stock needs to be rotated, and are not accurate representations of freshness or consumability."

Viktor Farcic: There is no such thing as a DevOps engineer - Platforms bundle services developers use to make it easier and faster for them. // Viktor’s platform engineering definition: “In practice, certain experts are codifying their experience into services. Hence, if you’re a database administrator, you’re an expert. Instead of waiting for somebody to ask you to create a database for them or to configure it, you can codify that knowledge, transform it into a service and plug it into that platform so that everybody else can do it themselves instead of asking you to do things for them. Click a button, fill in some fields, and create some YAML; whatever the system is, should be the mechanism for others to create and manage that database without you. And you should focus on managing those services instead of managing requests from people to do something."

Writing Examples - Good for itself, and probably good for instructing The AI.

Continuous Authorization to Operate (cATO) needs a DevSecOps platform - This is written in US Federal government speak, but the same benefits apply to commercial enterprises. If you use a centralized PaaS for your apps instead of customized infrastructure per each app, you can certify the layers below the application as compliant to use. Then when you put new all code on it, you only need to certify a thin layer of new code. The more traditional alternative (a customized infrastructure stack per app) means you have to certify the whole stack for each new app version. That takes a lot more time than the wafer thin layer of app.

Parents' Earnings and the Returns to Universal Pre-Kindergarten - “parents work more hours, and their earnings increase by 21.7%. Parents' earnings gains persist for at least six years after the end of pre-kindergarten. Excluding impacts on children, each dollar of net government expenditure yields $5.51 in after-tax benefits for families”

Sorry, GenAI is NOT going to 10x computer programming - People have been using generative AI to help with coding for a couple years now. Is it making 10x developers? This guy tries to make the excitement more realistic by pulling together research on the topic.

Departure Mono - This font from Tobias Fried, Departure Mono, is amazing. Well, amazing if you remember dot-matrix printers and the screens in the Aliens movie. What’s even more amazing is the website: be sure to scroll and keep scrolling.

My daughter’s opinion of platform engineering is “cool story, let’s go get that kibbeling.”

Relative to your interests

• Ask HN: What happens to “.io” TLD after UK gives back the Chagos Islands? - Not good.

• Users engage with only 6% of product features: Product benchmark findings - ”We found that even the best product teams are focusing on features that aren’t being used by their end users. While 6.4% of features are driving 80% of clicks, almost 94% of features are untouched and ignored.”

• Workers have AI confidence — but no training to back it up, survey shows - ”Nearly two-thirds of leaders said AI is “fully implemented” across their organizations, while only 36% of workers agreed. Additionally, 60% of leaders say they are ahead of their competitors in AI maturity, while only 46% of workers agreed.”

• YouTube takes on TikTok with longer Shorts, templates, trends, and more - Longer shorts, up to three minutes now. Now viewers can avoid watching 175 seconds of content instead of just 55.

Wastebook

• If this is GChat, Slack must be OGChat.

• “Creighton lives on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and he is not planning to voyage far.” Aspirations!

• The sunw dress code: “You must!”

• “What I want is trousers, that merge into shoes.” The good ol' days.

• “We used to work together at Target. He would walk around humming, singing and making weird noises. One day he quit, no one heard from him. Three years later I’m still working at Target and he’s in Amsterdam rocking this crowd. WTF.” Here.

• “It is about Family, Nature, red bricks and the charm of industrial style.” #CaroLife.

• “The Golden Ditch.” James.

• “Rewrite in process is usually found to be an excuse for not going on.” Steinbeck. // Perfection is procrastination.

• “And the Police don’t like poetry.” Rands.

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