Tag: Anthropic
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Claude market penetration in enterprises still low
Enterprises, IDC says, remain largely unsold on Anthropic’s Claude models, with only 19 percent using them extensively and 25 percent actively evaluating them. OpenAI and Google are better represented in enterprises, with about 42 percent and 38 percent of organizations” This means there’s lots of “headspace” to grow revenue, or disappointing and incomprehensible ROI, i.e.,…
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Good O-Rings and Bad O-Rings, the AI Efficiency Plateau, and Anti-Labor by Design – Related to your interests, Thursday
Also: Goldman’s 24x token forecast, Indian IT’s process-debt pitch, NatWest’s 35% AI-generated code, Gartner’s 84% productivity theater, vibesec. From: “AI Agents Forecast to Boost Tech Cash Flow as Usage Soars,” Goldman, May, 2026 Related to your interests ‘I’m delighted to be wrong’: Sam Altman says AI won’t lead to a ‘jobs apocalypse’ – but admits…
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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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Tax code hacking
Using AI to hack tax codes is a bigger threat than hacking computers. Using AI to hack tax codes is a bigger threat than hacking computers. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/05/how-dangerous-is-anthropics-mythos-ai.html 🔗 How Dangerous Is Anthropic’s Mythos AI?
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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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🤖 Tyler Cowen and Jonathan Zittrain on Agents, Consciousness, and Why America Can’t Pause
Summarized by AI on 2026-04-14. A Berkman Klein Center public conversation between Tyler Cowen (George Mason, Mercatus Center) and Jonathan Zittrain (Harvard), framed around hypothetical Anthropic and OpenAI releases Mythos and SPUD, each powerful enough to be withheld on safety grounds. Cowen opens by saying he believes the safety claims, adding that the real question…
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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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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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Histoires Prodigieuses, Forward Deployed Vibes, and Skyrgamur – Related to your interests, Wednesday
Also: Spring still number one, KubeCon AI workloads, the end of Doctor No, and a buyer’s market for employees. Spring still king, from The State of Java 2025, JetBrains. Related to your interests 🤖 From Red Hat OpenShift to VMware Cloud Foundation 9: A Journey to a Unified Cloud Operating Model – A defense-industry case…
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Using AI to help with SRE, ops, etc.: The problem, he said, is that Claude “will get wrong correlation versus causation.” It’s like a new joiner on the team, they will think “oh, it’s a capacity problem, when actually you lost your cache.” “This is why we can’t trust LLMs for incident response,” said Palcuie.…
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It’s real, enterprises just need to do the CISO work and SRE work
After using Claude more and more for task in my personal life, my current zinger analyst take on the Squawk Box would be: “OpenAI talks about business strategy, Anthropic just does it.” It’s really getting close to a sci-fi personal assistant. It takes A LOT of work to get your rig (or “harness”) setup, and…
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Fully Synergized Paradigms – Related to your interests, Monday sweep
The Links Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs – “The results revealed a troubling paradox. Workers who were more susceptible to corporate BS rated their supervisors as more charismatic and ‘visionary,’ but also displayed lower scores on a portion of the study that tested analytic thinking, cognitive reflection and fluid…
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Related to your interests – Week of March 2nd, 2025
The Links Claude, without me asking, rewrote many of my original description below. Enjoy! Pentagon Leverages AI in Iran Strikes Amid Feud With Anthropic – One artillery unit doing the work of 2,000 staff with a team of just 20 people. Anthropic didn’t want their model used for this; the Pentagon used it anyway. The…
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AI Is Normal Now – The Enterprise Is Not
Original Content Enterprise AI needs new apps, enterprise AI doesn’t need new platforms – I’ve been circling a theme this week after reading “AI as a Normal Technology” (Spring, 2025). This is some stream of conscious on it. Enterprises are gonna enterprise-y, especially with AI. Also available in LinkedIn, if you prefer that kind of…
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Relative to your interests, Friday afternoon
What’s a software CEO to do in the current climate? Here’s the urgent 2026 playbook – Playbook for software companies that are (forced to) switch from growth mode to normal company mode. Anthropic raises $30 billion in Series G funding at $380 billion post-money valuation \ Anthropic – “Today, our run-rate revenue is $14 billion,…
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Related to your interests, Thursday
Why it was a Boston vacation. Europe set to treble sovereign cloud investment – “European spending on sovereign cloud infrastructure services is forecast to more than triple from 2025 to 2027 as geopolitical tension drives investment in homegrown services, according to Gartner.” More context: Sovereign Computing, panel – This was a great panel, very detailed…
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Two theories of the AI investor spook-out
First, there is the fear that AI generated apps will replace existing software companies. This from Benji Edwards at Ars: These releases occurred during a week of exceptional volatility for software stocks. On January 30, Anthropic released 11 open source plugins for Cowork, its agentic productivity tool that launched on January 12. Cowork itself is…
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Amazon Should Buy Anthropic, AI Doctors, Metaverse RIP
Original Content Amazon should buy Anthropic. I wasn’t really sure what hardned images were, let alone “distroless,” so Tony and I were lucky to get William on this week’s Tanzu Catsup to sort it out. We also discuss how it fits into platform engineering. If you can’t be bothered, here’s an excerpt on optimizing Helm…
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Here’s a cynical, but good overview of Anthropic’s attempt to use Claude code for generic knowledge work, a tool called Cowork. One part: Cowork may find fans among knowledge workers who have to create presentations but take no pride in their work. Come on. This is an application of that caustic Protestant belief that godliness…
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