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Also: Zoom system-of-action, the curl deluge, the unreasonable effectiveness of HTML, behavior-first mainframes, fewer books, the meeting Ask, and the multi-agent delegation problem. Related to your interests Executives have a narrow view of AI gains - “CEOs are uniquely prone to AI psychosis because they’re sufficiently distant from the last mile of work that still has to happen to generate most value with AI.” Aaron Levie Box CEO. The users have plenty of feature ideas - in contrast, in favor of doing the whole “citizen developer” thing.

Stop brainstorming. There’s a mountain of research showing that team brainstorming doesn’t work. There are several reasons why, some having to do with unconscious conformity, others with fear of being judged, and still others with unclear norms. (For example, people are often told to say whatever comes to mind, but also not to criticize.) Some six page memo vibes there. Come to the meeting with a proposal. And, for as much as I loath the pre-wire and socializing the deck, those does give people a chance to consider an idea.

Via geralt on Pixabay When an executives says layoffs were driven by AI, what exactly is the AI doing that removes the need for those humans? Here’s some dog-walk speculation. Decks, Meetings, etc. All the prep work around The Meeting. Things like: the agenda, slides, the pre-read, notes during the meeting, and followup tracking. There’s the careful synthesis of who said what so it can be presented in a different room to a different set of people for the next round of synthesis.

The AI-driven security freak-out is a time to see what if your platform engineering strategy is working. A good platform makes it possible - if not easy - to find and patch all these new CVEs. And, of course keep patching them. A good platform will keep track of all these apps and dependencies deployed on the platform; be able to rebuild apps and services with minimal to no developer work; and be able to roll-out upgrades, rotate keys, and otherwise “seamlessly” deploy the patches.

Also: does anyone actually use microwave food-buttons? Castanet handler. Related to your interests Platform Engineering in the Age of AI: Why Operational Complexity Is the New Bottleneck - “while coding is becoming cheaper and faster, operational complexity hasn’t disappeared” // Day 2 operations is always the bottleneck. // Also included is the current Syntasso/Kratix pitch. 🤖 Five takeaways from Michael Dell’s keynote at Dell Technologies World 2026 - “Dell’s most direct strategic move was to counter the idea that AI belongs primarily in the public cloud.

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 centrist-leaning Democrats, are the ones who do that. It’s a cliché, but that is a notion I haven’t encountered in a long time.

AI allows people who aren’t software engineers to build meaningful software. Those of us who are software engineers at companies should stop building features and focus instead on building systems that allow people on the sales team, the factory shop floor, etc. etc. etc. to ship safely. 🔗 notes from o11ycon 2026

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 ask. And: I’m sure we’re due for a few Atlantic and New York Times brunchlord opinion columns condemning young graduates for not being appreciative enough of consumer-culture innovation.

For most of modern history, we’ve invested perhaps 10% of our energy in ‘be’ and 90% in ‘do’. The AI era invites (demands?) something closer to the reverse. That’s not a comfortable shift for an industry that prides itself on shipping, but might be the most important thing we build next. 🔗 The Identity Crisis AI Didn’t Warn You About

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 longer than that curved screen we bought you last year, the CISO is coming, fix them,” and goes to brunch.