Tag: newsletter
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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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Ben Brown – 2026-06-28
All of the planets are deserts, populated only sparsely by aliens races that look like they escaped a BBC show from the 80s. 🔗 Ben Brown – 2026-06-28
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Prince – You Must Die
Prince is saying that you should be more worried about losing your mind than you should be about mortality. 🔗 Prince – You Must Die
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Why AI Coding Costs Are Spiraling: Context, Not Usage, Is the Real Culprit
Futurum data shows 55.4% of enterprises (n=820) identify AI agent reliability and hallucination management in production as a top challenge, and 50.4% (n=736) actively monitor accuracy and hallucination rates as a formal inference metric. 🔗 Why AI Coding Costs Are Spiraling: Context, Not Usage, Is the Real Culprit
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Did a lottery winner become “the company of the future”?
Right place, right time: They won the lottery. Now, they’re smart, and they didn’t squander it. They’re building ecosystems and platforms on top. 🔗 Did a lottery winner become “the company of the future”?
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Taste Is in the Spec (Cooking Is Not the Recipe)
The big problem is that the slop will be in how the software works. The flow. The defaults. The thousand tiny decisions about what to make easy and what to make possible. An agent has no opinion about whether this should be one screen or three. It has no taste. 🔗 Taste Is in the…
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AI Fiction in the Wild
Analysis of 573K WildChat conversations finds over a third involve fiction generation, dominated by power users obsessively iterating on fanfiction and erotica. Summarized by AI. 🔗 AI Fiction in the Wild
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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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The problem with quarter zip
On why quarter-zip and half-zip sweaters draw dislike, now that they have become both a finance-office staple and a fashion item, in the same way as navy chinos. Summarized by AI. 🔗 The problem with quarter zip
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6 use cases for agentic AI in major IT incident management
Six ways to use an AI operations assistant in major IT incident management, aimed at improving team efficiency, sharing knowledge and delivering immediate value. Summarized by AI. 🔗 6 use cases for agentic AI in major IT incident management
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executives don’t really know how their companies work, AI layoff edition
Mistakenly we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence and ingesting the design requirements that we had, that that would produce a high-quality product.” To be clear, this doesn’t mean Ford is abandoning its AI plans entirely. Instead, it’s using the rehired employees — referred to as “gray beard” engineers — to train younger staff…
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Networking Is the Hydra of Kubernetes
Argues networking remains the dominant unresolved concern in the Kubernetes ecosystem, despite service meshes, CNI plugins and enough iptables rules to make an SRE cry all trying to abstract it away. Written from the end of KubeCon 2025. Summarized by AI. 🔗 Networking Is the Hydra of Kubernetes
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Signals for 2026
The technology trends being watched for the new year, written three years into the generative AI era. Summarized by AI. 🔗 Signals for 2026
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The Convenience Equation
Names the trade in which privacy, ownership, control and independence are given up for convenience, and asks what conditions make people willing to make it. Applied to the current pace of AI adoption. Summarized by AI. 🔗 The Convenience Equation
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How Autocracies Recruit “Loyal Losers” to Do Their Dirty Work
This is a summary of the research on how midlevel mediocrity sustains modern authoritarianism. Summarized by AI. 🔗 How Autocracies Recruit “Loyal Losers” to Do Their Dirty Work
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AI in SRE Practice: Engineering Reliable Operations
Argues Site Reliability Engineering faces a paradigm shift as AI adoption spreads through the software development lifecycle. With AI coding assistants accelerating code generation and deployment velocity, and organisations targeting up to a 4x productivity increase, traditional manual practices become unsustainable. Summarized by AI. 🔗 AI in SRE Practice: Engineering Reliable Operations
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The Intellectual and Moral Failing of Anti-AI Alarmism
A critique of AI alarmism that argues human agency and responsible use of technology are overlooked by fear-driven public intellectuals. Summarized by AI. 🔗 The Intellectual and Moral Failing of Anti-AI Alarmism