Shambles, But Make It Digital - School IT is a mess. As with enterprise IT, I bet it could be better by just choosing one platform, no matter the compromises. My kids have three or four systems (ManageBac, Google Classrooms, also email). They haven learned the corporate skills of keeping up with all of this, and it shows. If the school had a semester long course on “office work,” it might be OK, but they don’t.
The flavor is a little...spare
I’d heard that the NotebookLM feature that creates podcasts was cool, but it’s wild! I’ve used it several times now. Here, you can listen to its summary of my chip tasting shorts. These are 60 second videos where my daughters and I try different chips - like foie gras, holiday stuffing, or just BBQ. You just give it some stuff and it comes up with a male host and female host doing a two people talking podcast.
Deep Dive: Digital WTF book discussion
The Deep Dive crew discuss my book, Digital WTF. This is a collection of columns I wrote for The Registerbetween 2014 to 2018. This one is 32 minutes, which gives a lot of time to see the weird things - strange noises they make, repeated phrases and talking patterns. In the producer notes, I asked them to do a scat intro, but they didn’t manage it. Maybe next time!
RTO or GFTO - RTO is like a dress code.
Deep Dive - Five Years of State of Kubernetes Surveys
I ask the NotebookML Deep Dive crew to comment on the past five years of our State of Kubernetes Surveys. Check out one of blog posts on our most recent survey.
Deep Dive: Jeffrey Dahmer - AI Generated
I asked the NotebookML Deep Dive crew to discuss Jeffrey Dahmer. I just gave it the text of the wikipedia page on him. My wife listens to a lot of true crime podcasts, so I wanted to see what she thought of the Deep Dive crew. She said it was good!
Weird Chips - AI Generated
CEO Kurian: ‘When I Started, Most People Told Me We Didn’t Have a Chance’ - “We’re now the fourth largest enterprise software company.”
Survey Says: Tech Spending Is Up, But AI Rollouts Slower Than Expected - Initial AI hype is finally going back to reality. // " The AI wave is still building, but the future has been slower than anticipated. Today only 5.5% of identified AI use cases are in production, a sobering reality check on respondents' Q1'24 projection that 52% of identified use cases would be in production over the next 24 months."
Platforms Engineering - Not a fan: “Platform engineering isn’t gluing a bunch of off-the-shelf tools together. More templates, variables, and YAML isn’t going to make it easier for application developers to deploy faster, reduce cognitive load, and still innovate (a topic for another time). And the CFO isn’t going to fund multiple platform teams–at least not part of the same organization."