Reflections on Palantir - There’s a lot going on here, from small tactical points (much of the work in enterprise software is just meetings and “politics” to get access to enterprise data and systems) to complete world views (always questing for the most optimized, quickest, and profitable solution that actually works, no matter the cost). Counter arguments: how would one live like this with three kids, even one kid? // There’s also the mystery of why the thought leaders and executives of this world are so weird.

Avoiding all the usual, boring app development problems with AI

Most of the generative AI applications we'll see in the coming years will be just new features added to existing applications. Even more pragmatically, simply improving how existing applications work will drive a lot of the AI benefits. When it comes to applications, this means we should manage AI like we would any other service, both in process and how we run it. That's my prediction at least. I'm as enamored with AI as anyone else, trying out plenty of experiments and ravenously hungry for any real world case studies that are more complex that chatbots, sophisticated search, and (re)writing.

“The Curious Case of the Strategic Snoozer.”

The Deep Dive crew [adds commentary to hitting the snooze button a lot](https://newsletter.cote.io/p/the-curious-case-of-the-strategic). Here’s the text I gave it, a narration of waking up in the morning, rather, not waking up: Well, I woke up at the time you woke up about 6 AM, and I thought I shouldn't get up now so I played a game a little bit. And then I went back to sleep. And then my alarm went off, which is about seven, and I hit snooze and went back to sleep.

How I got 8,700 views for my talk about developer productivity.

The recording of one of my talks has 8,400 views. That’s a lot more than other talk recordings. How does YouTube work, I sure don’t know! Confusing it more is that the same talk given at a different conference has 85 views. At least I wore a different shirt each time. Oh, and while I’m promoting myself, here’s my lighting talk (5 minutes) from DevOpsDays Antwerp pondering if DevOps is successful.