Tag: agenticai

  • Understanding ChatGPT Work

    Reverse engineering OpenAI’s sprawling agentic AI PaaS. 🔗 Understanding ChatGPT Work

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  • Platform Engineering 2.0: The Evolution of the AI Era

    The same five-pillar argument as the Platform Engineering 2.0 white paper, but in conversation and with two things the slide deck does not say out loud: that the internal developer platform is becoming an agent developer platform serving dozens of machine consumers per human, and that virtual machines – pushed off the golden path entirely…

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  • The Evolution to Platform Engineering 2.0

    Platform engineering succeeded so completely that the platform most enterprises already run is now the constraint: built for one persona, before AI workloads, autonomous agents and GPU scheduling. The proposed fix is to push security, cost awareness and AI readiness down into the platform as defaults rather than onto developers, which makes infrastructure the strategic…

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  • The Mills Review: AI and the future of retail financial services

    The FCA-commissioned review argues retail finance is shifting toward continuous AI delegation with general-purpose LLMs operating outside regulatory oversight. Proposes seven foundational reforms, including an AI-enabled agentic supervisory model and trusted agent frameworks. Summarized by AI. 🔗 The Mills Review: AI and the future of retail financial services

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  • Tokenmaxxing at Amazon, Potato Stamp Fonts, and Tax Code Hacking – Related to your interests, Monday

    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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  • Buy your platform, AI edition

    Building an internal agentic AI platform in banking or insurance demands a multi-year orchestration engineering commitment with a regulatory surface area that most organizations underestimate. [Bryan Ross] Tinkers and opexmaxxers take in huge risks when they decide to build their own platforms. And it usually fails, for at least seven reasons. 🔗 The hidden cost…

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  • McDonald’s Geofence, Power Tools Got Worse on Purpose, and Big Things Are Trusted Less – Related to your interests, Wednesday

    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 Platform 10.4 Source Coverage

    Here’s coverage of our recent Tanzu Platform 10.4 announcements. This is a big agentic AI release, bringing in to Tanzu Platform all sorts of features to secure, standardize, and otherwise make agentic AI work more enterprise-y. My think on 10.4 is listed below too. There’s also the short video I made on the 10.4: Tanzu…

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  • Tanzu Platform 10.4: a private cloud platform for AI harnesses (or, “agentic AI”)

    Tanzu Platform 10.4: a private cloud platform for AI harnesses (or, “agentic AI”)

    AI companies are building platforms for running agentic applications. Right now, those applications are primarily for software development, with a little bit of knowledge worker stuff. In each case, you get a “harness,” an application that wraps all sorts of functionality around a model. This harness app is way beyond the chat-based apps we grew…

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  • Don’t forget what I told you yesterday – AI memory and the mind palace – Tanzu Catsup

    If you’ve spent any real time with Claude Code or Cursor, you know the feeling. The thing you told the agent five minutes ago is now optional as far as it’s concerned. The fix isn’t a smarter model. It’s architecture. This week David Zendzian and I dig into memory for AI agents – what it…

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  • Agents Don’t Know What Good Looks Like – And That’s a Design Constraint, Not a Bug

    Summarized by AI on April 11th, 2026. Luca Mezzalira reacts to a fireside chat between Neal Ford and Sam Newman on agentic AI and software architecture. The core argument is that current AI agents are stuck between novice and advanced beginner on the Dreyfus Model of Knowledge Acquisition – they can follow and even adapt…

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  • Zero-Token Architecture, Robot Wikis, and Battery Kids – Related to your interests, Friday

    Also: analyst asymmetry, AI layoff scapegoats, and LinkedIn translation services Related to your interests Spring AI Agentic Patterns: AutoMemoryTools – Persistent Agent Memory Across Sessions – A ready made memory system for AI apps, modeled after Claude’s memory model. In the AI Age, Java is More Relevant Than Ever – “Java’s explicitness and verbosity turn…

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  • The New Bottleneck That Will Chill Your AI Vibes

    The New Bottleneck That Will Chill Your AI Vibes

    Platforms are helpful, from 2025 DORA Report. Getting software from idea to production quickly has always been important, but the increase in AI-driven application deploys is about to overwhelm even the best laid golden path to production. We can feel in our bones developers are already revving apps more frequently. The 2025 DORA Report found…

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  • Using HATEOAS for agentic AI – a demo

    My co-worker Adib did a video showing how to use Spring HATEOAS to make existing REST APIs agent-friendly. Instead of wrapping your 700 APIs as MCP servers and dumping all those tool definitions into the context window, you build a an adapter layer that lets agents discover what they can do by following links in…

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  • Using AI for security log analysis and how to fix it suggestions: Building on that foundation, leading the list of announcements is a strategy described as an “agentic security operations center” powered by its latest Gemini AI models. Google is introducing adaptive AI agents that can investigate alerts, synthesize intelligence and assist in remediation workflows…

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  • Related to your interests, Monday

    Related to your interests, Monday

    Potsdamer Platz bei Nacht, Paul Paeschke, ca. 1929. Related to your interests Why your DIY Kubernetes stack won’t survive the era of agentic AI How tech chiefs gauge ROI on AI – AI uses: better search, preparing leases, and this: “When the system senses that ice is running low, it fires off an order to…

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  • Relevant to your interests, Monday

    Relevant to your interests, Monday

    I’m at cfgmgmtcamp today and tomorrow, in Ghent. Later today, I have a talk, and then a live Software Defined Interviews recording, with returning guest Andrew Clay Shafer. Americans can expect to live longer than ever, per the latest CDC data – ”newborn Americans in 2024 could expect to live to 79 on average” CIOs…

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  • Big Tech, aggregator companies are always trying to steal your customer relationship: If they can’t generate that experience for the customer, then there isn’t really going to be a sense of loyalty to the retailer. That means retailers face potential disintermediation because AI and the consumers themselves won’t necessarily see strength in your brands. 🔗…

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  • Relevant to your interests, Saturday

    Relevant to your interests, Saturday

    The rise of ‘micro’ apps: non-developers are writing apps instead of buying them – Another go at LowCode: “It is a new era of app creation that is sometimes called micro apps, personal apps, or fleeting apps because they are intended to be used only by the creator (or the creator plus a select few…

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  • Day 2 AI looms

    Achieving enterprise AI ROI still tough: According to a recent Gartner poll, over half (53%) of participants were exploring Agentic AI, whereas 25% were piloting it and only 6% had reached production mode. The high exploration and pilot percentages suggest strong interest and perceived potential in Agentic AI. However, ==the low production percentage implies barriers…

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