Tag: 451Reports
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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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Elusive Enterprise AI ROI: No scaling, it’s not legible, lack of skills/need for training
Despite everything, reports are still that enterprise AI ROI is elusive. At the same time, for enterprise buyers, the bill is finally coming due for the past year of AI amazement. It’s not cheap. What’s up with this elusive enterprise AI? Gartner has some survey-driven theories for finance departments. One theory is that there actually…
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Rampant shadow AI
Of the 45 percent of all professionals using AI in the workplace regularly, 67 percent of those were accessing the platforms using personal accounts that were not authorized by their IT teams, data from Verizon’s annual data breach investigations report showed. Verizon said that the proportion of users accessing AI through personal accounts now represents…
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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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The end of the meat-mouse
The agency in agentic AI feels a lot more like giving the users – the humans – agency they didn’t have. That’s what’s making it useful for me, from sorting out dumb-shit home-networking incompatibilities, figuring out taxes, and otherwise sorting my shit out. When you unleash something like Claude code on all the messy and…
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A race against software calcification
Eventually, software is very hard to change. There are numerous reasons for this, and they often don’t even involve the software. The systems that run the software are old, regulators don’t let you change things, security controls, people have just forgotten how to program COBOL. There is so much code that it’s hard to know…
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🤖 Old infrastructure considered not optimal, Forrester study
Legacy systems are creating measurable revenue drag, with 63% of surveyed companies citing efficiency losses. Early adopters of cloud-native infrastructure report 40% faster deployment cycles. Commissioned by Broadcom, based on June 2025 survey. 🔗 🤖 Forrester: Modernize or Fall Behind – Rethinking IT Infrastructure (October 2025) Citation: “Modernize Or Fall Behind: Rethinking IT Infrastructure For…
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we gave up on that dream
The Concorde was fast, but not that fast. It could go from New York to Paris in just over 3 hours. The starry-eyed futurists of the song could be forgiven for expecting things to get even better. But even when oil prices were cheap, it was just too expensive to run, so we gave up…
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Slop might save us from social media
If true, this is probably great. Obvs people engaging with each other – with strangers – on social media is too risky for society: “People aren’t connecting or conversing on social media like they used to; they’re just wading through slop, that is, low-effort, low-quality content produced at scale, often with AI, for engagement.” (Via…
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Re: Still a lot of private cloud, numbers of cloud repatriation (higher than I thought)
The Clouds You know, I’ve never really looked at the Flexera State of Cloud surveys. I think they’re accepted as legit, and they have many years of data to make those multi-year charts I like. Here’s a quick one my favorite question, “where are the apps?”: Sources: Flexera State of Cloud Report, 2018, 2019, 2020,…
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KubeCon 2025: Technology Resilience, Sovereignty, And Security In An Era Of Political Change – ”Enterprise maturity is here. As demonstrated by HSBC’s implementation, which handles 600 million hits daily across over 7,000 production services, enterprise maturity is here.”
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How I get ChatGPT and Claude to help me write and write like me
Writing with ChatGPT and Claude I’ve been using ChatGPT and Claude a lot for writing recently. I had a long conversation in the car ride between Ghent and Amsterdam with one of my old DevOps pals and they described their AI writing process. It’s best describe it as “layering.” Well, actually, it’s just how writing…
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Where do modernized apps go to live?
Where are people putting their modernized apps? Here’s a recent survey chart on that topic from 451: Recent Content Three things for you today: The private cloud equilibrium – my most recent attempt to figure out how much private cloud is out there. Platform Engineering and UK Digital People, with Abby Bangser – this week’s…
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Mastering Corporate Asshat Improv
Improvised Corporate Asshole I’ve been listening to the book Impro by Keith Johnstone. Somewhere I read that it’s on Palantir’s new employee reading list, which made me interested. The section on status is both weird and intriguing. It’s very prescriptive – there’s no “it depends.” People love this book: it has 4.3 stars on Goodreads.…
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Citi taps Google Cloud for app migration, AI adoption – “As evidence of progress, CFO Mark Mason pointed to 450 apps retired by the bank since the start of the year. Citi has reduced tech sprawl by eliminating 1,250 apps in the last two years, Mason said.” // Thinks of all the zombie apps like…
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Beyond mystic management mind-games
Searching for Cheap Tricks The amount of AI content and conversations out there is getting exhausting. It’s almost as bad as the burbling font of platform engineering content that gets rewritten and published each week. The below RAND paper and commentary got me thinking though: a lot of the AI talk is just talk about…
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The Blue-State Wealth Exodus Continues – State income tax flight: “The IRS last week published its annual data on the migration of taxpayers and adjusted gross income (AGI) between states. California ranked, again, as the biggest income loser ($23.8 billion) in 2022, followed by New York ($14.2 billion), Illinois ($9.8 billion), New Jersey ($5.3 billion)…
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What I do with AI, what I’ve given up on
Consumer-grade Chat Gen-AI Churn Update Overall, the generative AI things have been a disappointment for me. For writing, they seem helpful for generating and starting content, but it ends up being more work to fix and, then, rewrite what they do. Over the years, people have ghostwritten things for me. Like, humans! I’d too often…
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Potato chips that taste like Thanksgiving stuffing – what could go wrong?
Relative to your interests Cluetrain at 25 – This was an important book to me when it came out. It probably had a huge influence on my professional life. All these years later, I think it was right. The biggest evolution, unexpected, was that the Big Bad Corporate Octopus took it seriously and figured out…
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We Fear Change (because we don’t get any rewarded for all the risk)
Suggested playlist for this episode. We Fear Change, a new talk I’ve got a mostly newish talk coming up next week about people’s fear of change in organizations, on Oct 24 2023 at 11:00am Amsterdam time. Register to Watch the Talk It’s narrowed down, of course, for software and ops stuff. You know: all that…
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