Pre-Idea Funding, the Stolen-Valor Chore Coat, and Doom-Scrolling Pre-GitHub - Related to your interests, Wednesday

Also: AI’s biggest critic loses the plot, Notepad++ on Mac after 20 years, and dark modes as cosplay. From: Monkigras, 2026 Related to your interests From Infrastructure to Agents: A Hands-On Guide to Secure Private AI with Broadcom Claude Code and the rise of personal software - Low-code, except high code made by non-programmers. “Developer loyalty is at zero right now”: Google doesn’t care which AI coding tool you use - “I come across as a wildcat in this one.

Software Defined Talk #122: Emily Long, VCs, startups, Edera, etc.

In this episode, Whitney and I talked with Emily Long, CEO and co-founder of Edera about their hardened container runtime - the kind you can swap in without re-platforming or kicking off yet another zero-trust migration. The pitch is basically: stop chasing detect-and-respond alerts and just fix the foundation. We also got into the messy reality of going from COO to CEO (the COO title is, it turns out, kind of made up) and what it’s like raising a deep-tech Series A as an all-woman founding team - the downside-vs.

Hard pass with a 20% registration discount

The author at SCALE, March 2023. I've been having a terrible time getting talks accepted at conferences. Talking at conferences has, you know, been a huge part of my life for about 20 years, so this is kind of a bummer. Care to join me in some self-pity-partyingcare? I've got the wrong haircut What gives with my high rejection rate? My theories are: I don't have enough new material.

The Jevons Audit Dividend, Spring AI in Seat 3A, and the Pelican-Astronaut-Horse - Related to your interests, Tuesday Afternoon

Also: AGENTS.md as model upgrade, Europe-as-vassal, and a Slack chatbot nobody bothers to verify From: WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS Related to your interests What We Learned Testing Frontier AI Security Models Against Our Own Code - “What we learned is that the useful mental paradigm for this technology is not to treat it like a vulnerability ‘scanner.’ The models are non-deterministic; they do not work like static analyzers.

Software Brain, the $5 Postcard Warship Hack, and Cyberpunk Dystopia - Related to your interests, Tuesday Morning

Also: AI vendor lock-in, half of GenAI projects fail, tinkers vs. endpoints, and a blogroll worth keeping Related to your interests MCP vs. APIs: Why You Need Both for AI Applications Beware Software Brain - 🤖: “The failure mode is exporting that logic to human life. The ask is no longer that computers adapt to people but that people make themselves legible to the machine: open your files, email, calendar, and messages so the AI becomes more valuable.

Tanzu Platform 10.4 Source Coverage

Here’s coverage of our recent Tanzu Platform 10.4 announcements. This is a big agentic AI release, bringing in to Tanzu Platform all sorts of features to secure, standardize, and otherwise make agentic AI work more enterprise-y. My think on 10.4 is listed below too. There’s also the short video I made on the 10.4: Tanzu Platform 10.4 Clippings "Introducing Tanzu Platform 10.4: Extending Platform as a Service to Agentic Applications," Darin Zook, Tanzu blog, April 15th, 2026.

Spaghetti DBMS, MCP for Knowledge Workers, The Harness Is the Harness - Related to your interests, Wednesday

Also: 55% of jobs reshaped, power over GPUs, a thousand DIY weekend platforms, and mood-tracking the robot MCP Servers for, and of, knowledge workers This is an excerpt from last week’s Tanzu Catsup. David and I have been talking a lot about the AI harness. We of course sprinkle in talk about how you would enterprise-y it up, esp. with security. My key insight and angle on all this is thinking about how all the AI harness stuff applies to NOT programmers, to knowledge workers.

Macro-economic headwinds vs "The Terrace-in-April"

I feel like there’s an unspoken set of assumptions and a slightly hidden “operating system” for how societies run. This comes out a lot when I read dense macro-economic analysis like this one. Let’s see what Opus 4.7’s angle is on my question: If I look at this piece, it seems to be saying Europe is not growing and the money isn’t flowing. Prices go up, etc. However, it lacks a certain reminding us of what the point is.