Tag: microblogimport20260616
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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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5G versus _The Grapes or Wrath_
From the recent cellphone ban in schools study: The share of students using cellphones in class for nonacademic reasons declined to 13 percent from 61 percent in schools using the pouches, according to teacher surveys, which suggested that students were not widely able to circumvent the bans. Even so, the bans had a “close to…
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Aesthetic Computing Consider “ascetic computing”: Here’s what “ascetic computing” means to me: Doing without things that compromise my personal standards or morals. Learning to live Fearlessly in the face of Missing Out. Resisting the Endless Pursuit of Shiny Things. … The goal is to live a (computing) life of principle, purpose, and focus. … Nothing…
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How to raise money without profit, and then profit
Winning in the court of opinion, and all that: Musk, to be clear, has already succeeded. Regardless of what actually happened and what’s decided from here, he’s inflicted real pain. The trial has been an opportunity to make Altman and OpenAI’s founders look like greedy, sociopathic liars, which is a narrative that much of the…
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Got your deck ready?
Image by geralt on Pixabay. The mystery is why everyone is using presentation software for communication that is not a presentation. Predicable, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about this post since first reading it. The mystery of this is that everyone complains about slides-driven work cultures, but the revealed preference is that people…
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Bedazzled by slides and data
During the 2000s, slides became even more ornate. Consultancies evolved their formatting rules, and created fancy data-dense charts. They learned that a 200 slide deck made clients feel like they got a lot for their money. E.g.: I vividly remember being shown the charts room in fund manager Fidelity’s huge London office. There were graphs…
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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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Datacenter NIMBYism: What Did You Think Was Going to Happen?
Tech people are amazingly bad at marketing to The Community. And by “the community,” I mean normal people, not the “open source community.” Take the datacenter problem. Tech companies need more compute, so they need datacenters. They plop them down in some small town, avoid paying taxes, and consume huge amounts of electricity and water.…
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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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Because it seems fancy pants and authoritative: The generally accepted hypothesis to explain this overuse ties back LLMs’ training and reinforcement processes. As models learn to predict language patterns, they begin to use their learned patterns to do so. However, this isn’t the only factor determining which patterns get used more often. Models like Claude and ChatGPT have an…
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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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Always taste the digital transformation while you’re making it
At a large enterprise I recently worked with, the board asked the Chief Digital Transformation Officer to develop an AI adoption strategy to drive innovation, growth, and cost efficiency. His consultant of choice conducted stakeholder interviews and proposed a three-phase program scheduled to last 3.5 years: Phase 1: Fix digital basics and address the leftover…
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History is not a story
But how much was really done to unravel the Soviet Union by Solzhenitsyn’s three-volume narrative history of the Soviet Gulag between its publication and the end of Communism in the Soviet Union? Could the works of one author really dissolve a nation? Some might cite the election of the Polish Pope John Paul II in…
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Laws, anecdotes, and other shit people say
Betty Crocker, mid-1950s. I heard a reference the Betty Crocker “add an egg” cake-mix story recently. It is: originally, people didn’t buy the cake mix because it felt too easy and didn’t feel loving, or at least sufficiently Calvinistic; General Mills removed the egg, then people cracked one in themselves, and suddenly they felt like…
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VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 – private cloud, private AI, enterprise-grade kubernetes
Our cousins over in VMware announced the most recent version of VMware Cloud Foundation, 9.1, yesterday. We all call this “VCF.” It’s at the center of Broadcom’s strategy to be the private cloud stack for large enterprises. You know: banks, governments, large retailers, manufactures, et. al. Our layer, the Tanzu Platform, sits a-top VCF like…
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Treat AI as a stoner
The right mental model for working with an AI, according to my co-host David. If you’ve spent any real time with an AI, you know exactly what he means. The model can do impressive work in a tight scope. Step out of that scope, or feed it more than fits, and you’re suddenly explaining the…
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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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don’t call it “social media,” call it “parasocial media”
In 2006, most people who logged into the large platforms posted content because they were co-constructing sociable spaces to enjoy the companionship of others. In 2026, posting has waned (John, 2024); most social media users prioritize scrolling ‘amateur’ content rather than posting their own haphazard updates for friends. The quality of the media on social…
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