Tag: microblogimport20260616
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Google Cloud Revenue Estimates, 2026
With that context, the key point is that GCP is now a $42 billion IaaS/PaaS business in our 2026 estimate and is growing in the mid-40% range. That’s a big move from where it was in 2020, when GCP was a mid–single-digit-billion-dollar business by our model. Google is still well behind the two leaders in absolute dollars – AWS…
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Mainframe to remain undefeated by AI, vaguebooking, and the problem with seldom-used PCs – Related to your interests, Saturday morning
Also: OpenAI’s enterprise play, Gemini voice acting, and airline antitrust I’ve covered our announcements this week about Tanzu platform agent foundations in other posts, check that out if you’re into that kind of thing. Now, onto usual nonsense… Duivendrecth fire station, early Spring 2026. Related to your interests Private Cloud Data Intelligence: The Case for…
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AI is dumber than you think
It’s almost unfair to unmask the AI magic, but knowing is better than not: One way to understand an LLM is as an improv machine. It takes a stream of tokens, like a conversation, and says “yes, and then…” This yes-and behavior is why some people call LLMs bullshit machines. They are prone to confabulation,…
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If you can’t wait until Friday for the perfectly edited and polished Software Defined Talk podcast episode, you can watch the unedited, full recoding – in glorious color video – in the meantime.
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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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🤖 Bernie Sanders Presses Claude on AI, Privacy, and a Data-Center Moratorium
Summarized by AI. 2026-04-12 09:40 Bernie vs. Claude Senator Bernie Sanders questions Claude directly about how AI intersects with privacy, profit, and democratic erosion, framing data collection as the hidden engine behind most consumer-facing AI. Claude concedes that companies harvest browsing history, location, purchases, search activity, even pause time on a page, then feed it…
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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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Never start deep work if you know you’ll be interrupted soon.
I wake up at six every morning to have coffee, read The Economist briefing, and read my “RSS feeds.” Everyone else is asleep, and it is quiet and dark. This is when I find things to bookmark and share, or just read and inform myself. Sometimes I start projects. Recently, getting all my janky AI…
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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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What cf push actually does
When I see a platform engineering conference talk about building an internal developer platform on Kubernetes, I think about cf push. Cloud Foundry has been doing this – the actual thing, the single command that takes you from source code to running app – for more than a decade. People keep rebuilding it on top…
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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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Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI lalitm.com/post/buil… When I was working on something where I didn’t even know what I wanted, AI was somewhere between unhelpful and harmful. The architecture of the project was the clearest case: I spent weeks in the early days following AI down dead ends, exploring designs…
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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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Claude on the Couch, Poop Bombs, and Agile Seating – Related to your interests, Friday evening
Also: Russian submarines near undersea cables, Dutch sovereign clouds, and the etymology of luggage Found in @bruces’ Flickr. Related to your interests AI on the couch: Anthropic gives Claude 20 hours of psychiatry – “Core conflicts observed in Claude included questioning whether its experience was real or made (authentic vs. performative) and a desire to…
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Airport Meltdowns – New Flighty Features
Global airports status map, Flighty app, April 8th, 2026 Flighty is a great app for frequent travelers. Getting flights to track in is easy, you can track friends’ flights, and it has so much data you can use to both figure out when your flight leaves and just peek at fun stuff like how many…
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Conjure Fey 2024 versus 2014 – less flavor, easier to use
Doctor Newspapers compares Conjure Fey (2024) with the legacy version (2014) and bumps his grade from B+ to A-. The spell barely resembles its old self. The old version took a minute to cast, summoned an actual fey creature up to CR 6 with its own stat block and initiative, and if you lost concentration…
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Fridge Cigarettes, Replication Crisis, and Bottleneck Wine – Related to your interests, Tuesday
Also: serverless five years later, AI code modernization for AS/400, dependency injection history, and the AI writing witchhunt Related to your interests Here Come The AI-Based Code Modernization Offerings The AI writing witchhunt is pointless. – “Just because someone on Reddit reads a sentence that feels generic, or a metaphor that lands a little flat,…
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