Some Kind Of Monster (Type) - “The convoluted agreements common to many Fey are an aspect of their adherence to a particular vector of existence. If they agree to something, everyone has to agree that their perspective is the perspective through which the fey are experiencing reality.” // Ponderous! This seems derived from the idea that Fey take oaths very seriously. In the other side, this similar to fiends (devils) being bound by contracts.
Dell ends hybrid work policy despite remote work pledge - “Overall, our results do not support the argument that managers impose these mandates to increase firm values,” the authors state in their paper. “Instead, these findings are consistent with managers using RTO mandates to reassert control over employees and blame employees as a scapegoat for bad firm performance."
Purely AI-generated art can’t get copyright protection, says Copyright Office - If you can’t control it, you can’t copyright it.
ChatGPT vs. Claude vs. DeepSeek: The Battle to Be My AI Work Assistant - Good overview of what Claude is good for and what ChatGPT is good for.
Links and strange finds, January 31st, 2025
“Socrates drawing at a whiteboard with a rapt audience set in ancient Athens, but the whiteboard is like a contempory whiteboard,” Midjourney, January, 2025.Socrates Didn’t WhiteboardThis week’s Software Defined Talk: “This week, we discuss the latest news about DeepSeek, how to make sense of the countless hot takes, and a review of The Nvidia Way. Plus, some thoughts on Valentine’s Day.” Take a listen, or watch the unedited recording, and subscribe if you don’t already.
Taking advantage of cheap AI
Take a walk with me and ponder cheaper AI:
I found some good charts for this one:
"State of Enterprise Tech Spending," Battery Ventures, September, 2024. “Where's the Value in AI?" BCG, October, 2024. 🍃 Spring AI, an open source SDK for using AI.
Tanzu AI Solutions and VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA.
This chart in particular is helpful. It’s showing that there aren’t actually that many - hardly any!
Spring Cloud Services for Tanzu Platform - Spring Cloud Services for Cloud Foundry v3.3 introduces an enhanced dashboard UI, improved configuration validation, and simplified secret management.
The 2024 State of Platform Engineering? Fledgling at Best - ”Only about 9% of respondents were indeed mature by the CNCF Platform Maturity Model’s standards.” // (1) There must be a lot of Tanzu Platform users in that 9%, (2) good thing we decided to throw out all the previous PaaS work and build up from the Kubernetes studs…
Nosferatu (2024), review from Warren Ellis - Great review of a great movie.
GKE and its developer appeal to scale workloads - Giving people what they need to operate at “Google Scale”…whether they need to or not.