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Relative to your interests, Wednesday
Gemini crossed a billion users, most of them just talking to it. Eight Pulitzer winners admitted to using AI. Adobe moved its whole suite inside ChatGPT, which I think is the correct move: the stuff you can reach through an agent is the stuff you keep paying for. Also: agent skills escaping the laptop, DOGE’s…
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Relative to your interests, Friday
From: The adorable love story behind Wikipedia’s ‘high five’ photos ICYMI Original content published since last time. Shadow AI and Who Is Watching What the AI Bill Actually Looks Like People Actually Using It More Wastebook All things are possible, but this thing is more possible. AI Summaries I wanted to read these, but I…
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Relative to your interests, Thursday
From Marc Weidenbaum, June 22, 2026. ICYMI Original content published since last time. Where the Developer Day Actually Goes Theoretic charts: Only three of the eight bands move. Source: The AI productivity gap by Bjorn Roche. Juniors spend more of the day on the one thing AI speeds up, so they gain more, not less.…
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Relative to your interests, Friday
Metric Theater in AI ROI dashboards, Visa collapsing ten-person dev teams, AT&T burning a trillion tokens a month, and COBOL still running 95% of ATM transactions. Plus Kubernetes won the argument and promptly became the problem.
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Relative to your interests, Thursday
The return of the 3 R’s!!! These were the best R’s. – “A decade ago, Pivotal published a security manifesto, a radical call to action of sorts, via a blog post that broke the glass of traditional security culture inside of enterprise IT. The premise was faster is safer, a radical departure from the calcified,…
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Relative to your interests, Wednesday
After reading many of the below and other links in elusive enterprise AI ROI, I wrote this theory on how to be successful with enterprise AI projects. It’s the usual “culture” cliché, but hopefully a little more practical than usual. Are PMs becoming irrelevant? – Once you remove the need for a bunch of “paperwork,”…
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Relative to your interests, Tuesday
I have been on vacation for a little while, in Finland for the third time. Finland feels different than the other parts of Europe I have been to. Perhaps it’s because I spent my time there in rural Finland. But it also feels like most of Finland is rural. In that way, it feels a…
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Enterprise AI Gets Uber-ed, Smaller Models Cut Energy 90%, and Stop Building Innovation Labs – Related to your interests, Wednesday
Also: Target’s RAG pipeline, the 13-person B2B buying group, Uber on AI dev productivity, and prompt injection as role confusion. ICYMI Original content published since last time. War for Talent – Software Defined Talk #578 – “This week, we discuss Fable follow-up, Gartner’s AI Governance MQ, and the war for AI talent. Plus, Matt and…
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AI Coding Costs Overtake Salaries, Broadcom’s Intelligence Processor, and sovereign cloud – Related to your interests, Thursday
Defeat AI-Powered Threats with VMware Tanzu Spring Here’s the panel I hosted on how the Spring project is adapting to AI-powered threats. We covered the volume spike in Spring security reports, the kinds of vulnerabilities the models are good at finding, chained “narrative” attacks, the three-bucket fix/fork/ditch triage for open source deps, the clean-room rebuild…
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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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Implicit Rules, Paste Special, and Grand Theft Carp – Related to your interests, Sunday
Also: the perfect length for a list, post-Christian kitsch, and the forth R. ICYMI Original content published since last time. Related to your interests AI Summaries I wanted to read these, but I didn’t make the time, so I asked the robot to summarize them.
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Elusive AI ROI, 3,611 Government Use Cases, and Storied Colors – Related to your interests, Friday
Elusive AI ROI, 3,611 federal AI use cases, and storied colors. // new links newsletter ed. // Plus Gartner says 70% of mainframe exit projects will fail, 60% of US consumers find “AI” in brand messaging a turnoff, AGENTS.md tips, PE 2.0, and the silent revolutionaries weren’t the boomers.
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Software Defined Talk listener survey
Pardon the not-an-actual-newsletter episode of the newsletter, but… Do you listen to my podcast, Software Defined Talk? If you do, I’d appreciate you taking the time to fill out our listener survey. We do occasional ads and paid interviews, and this helps us do more and charge more. It means we can pay for the…
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The airwaves are always there
You should check this out: You can try out our AI platform with a 90 day trial. It’ll host models in private cloud, act as a proxy to public models (OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropic, whatever), and has tight integration with Java apps. Python works fine too, of course: you can host LangChain in it to get…
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Minimum Viable All the Things
Max Ernst, 1934. Relative to your interests MCP Authorization in practice with Spring AI and OAuth2 – Filling in the missing piece of MCP: security. The Battle For Grounding Your AI Agents Has Begun – Data gravity considerations for AI. We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. –…
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“Significant improvement but still issues.”
Not much today. Found at the ITQ offices. Wastebook “decision-makers can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent. Career advice in 2025. ”a concept as antiquated as intent.” NYTimes. “a felicitous remove.” Spicy. “Significant improvement but still issues.” Oxide and Friends. Relative to your interests A Conversation Algorithm I Cribbed From Clinical PsychologistsWhat does…
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