The luxury of saying no. - “Most people don’t get to say no. Not really. They’re not debating whether to use AI on principle. They’re trying to figure out how to keep their job without surrendering their judgment or drowning in tasks that keep multiplying while headcount shrinks. For most people, using an LLM isn’t an abdication of thought–it’s often the only way to carve out enough time and focus to do any real thinking at all."

Dark Leisure - ”in many orgs, there is too little incentive to pass on these productivity gains by telling your manager: “i found this neat tool that lets me do 8h of work in 3h! give me more work!"” // Some “real workers of the world unite” vibes.

Now's a great time to rediscover PaaS

Norway, leaving OSL.My recap of Cloud Foundry Day is up on the Tanzu blog: check it out! I gave an opening talk at Cloud Foundry Day last week. I ended up shortening it a lot and, of course, I didn’t exactly give the talk I’d written down. Here’s the script I wrote for myself. It goes over the opportunity the Cloud Foundry community has right now. I gave a talk later in the day that more systematically made the case below.