Tag: tech
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Relative to your interests, Monday
Also: decoupling self worth from paid labor, what is actually in those markdown files, what the normies think of AI, MCP as an interface contract that outlives the models, and how Casper mattresses bootstrapped the podcast industrial complex.
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Left without comment
Why the people inside the AI bubble genuinely believe the machines might kill everyone, and, in Culture Corner, sweatpants.
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Relative to your interests, Thursday
Also: sovereign agentic AI on Tanzu, TrueSource trusted artifacts, reverse engineering ChatGPT Work, agents that took over a wiki, accidental platforms, and a meeting that could have been an email.
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Woman in tech
Now I was the one talking over people in meetings, saying no without explanation, and writing short emails without exclamation points, often while wearing the same Patagonia vest… It’s hard to question a strategy while it’s working. 🔗 Woman in tech
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Relative to your interests, Friday
Fewer than a quarter of enterprises have scaled AI. Also: adoption that’s broad but shallow, agent sprawl vs. a runtime, second brains, and MCP as SOAP for Zoomers.
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Relative to your interests, Monday
Getting your data in shape for enterprise AI usage. Also: MCP gateways, day-two platform ownership, flying toasters, and a pantograph.
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🤖 Findings and CIO Retention Guide: Gender, Priorities, and Exit Triggers in High Tech
Original: Beyond the Pipeline: A Gender Lens on Priorities and Exit Triggers in the High-Tech Industry by researchers at The Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo, Communications of the ACM. Summarized by Claude AI on July 2, 2026. The Findings Men are far more committed to staying. 44.9% of men selected “no intentions to leave” vs.…
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making money, taking care of people
The counter-point to all those Europe is decadent economic charts people put out: After roaming the Earth for 35 years, my conclusion is the U.S. is the best place to make money and Europe is the best place to spend it.” … In terms of moving bits, the Netherlands is one of Europe’s key connection…
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Platform as a Product, 2017 to 2026 – not much changed, which is the point
The Platform as a Product paper, first published in 2017 and updated for 2026. The concept survived Pivotal, the platform engineering category, and kubernetes blocking out the sun for five years.
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How AI change your software development organization
A catch-up with Purnima Padmanabhan, GM of the Tanzu Division at Broadcom, on what her team has actually learned shipping enterprise software with AI for the last year and a half: code generation is the small part, beautiful code is the new uncanny valley, and you cannot solve the agent boundary problem from inside the…
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🤖 Valiantys-Glean Partnership Bets That Cross-Platform Knowledge Graphs and Behavioral KPIs Are What Move Enterprise AI Past Pilots
Original: Enterprise AI is still stuck at experimentation – Valiantys and Glean think they know why by diginomica. Summarized by AI on June 3, 2026. Most enterprise AI pilots stall, and the diagnosis from Nathan Chantrenne, Chief AI Officer at Valiantys, is that the field measures the wrong things and fragments its tooling. The dominant…
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Enterprise self-harm: cleaning the data is the hard part
I think the critical part of it was really realizing that we had built the original product presupposing that our customers had data integrated, that we could focus on the analytics that came subsequent to having your data integrated. I feel like that founding trauma was realizing that actually everyone claims that their data is…
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50%+ failure is normal
Analyst firm Gartner thinks at least half of all generative AI projects “will overrun their budgeted costs due to poor architectural choices and lack of operational know-how,” and most organizations that try to build custom models “will abandon their efforts due to costs, complexity and technical debt in their deployments.” Yes, and this matches decades…
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Patching CVEs at AI speed is a platform engineering problem
AI-assisted vulnerability discovery cut the gap from CVE published to weaponized exploit from weeks to hours. Quarterly patch windows and hand-rolled CVE spreadsheets are no longer a defensible posture.
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trying your best properly rated
widely accepted reading of the-west-wing, as such, is that of a liberal Fantasia, not because it depicts the Bartlet administration as being liberal, but because it depicts a world in which the best possible thing you can do is to try very hard to do the right thing — and the liberals, or really the…
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AI backlash, from the read the room/Picard face-palm files.
The normies don’t like AI, esp. The Kids: They’re being told, usually by people who already have theirs, that they should be more excited about the latest evolutions in software automation. “Why aren’t you more interested in nuanced conversations about the latest evolutions in software automation,” fans of the latest evolutions in software automation will…
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Now you can react faster than ever to security problems
This is an excerpt from our Tanzu Catsup last week. In that episode we talked all about how this AI stuff is changing – for the better – how you can handle security problems at the app layer. It’s Monday morning. Your boss walks up, says “scrap the backlog, we’ve got a list of CVEs…
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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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