[The Normans] gave English its double vision, which is the source of both the beauty and the mess. After 1066 you’ve got the Saxon peasantry keeping the Germanic words for the muddy daily grind and the Norman lords laying French over the top for everything refined, so English ends up with two words for everything and a built-in class system in the vocabulary. The peasant tends the cow, pig, and sheep (Old English); the lord eats beef, pork, and mutton (boeuf, porc, mouton).
Of course, for America at least, what you'd like to visualize is that every layer actually plays a part on "shareholder," just a small part. Maybe there's some stock certificates and cash that trickle down in pneumatic tubes?
Flood of security patches: Spring Framework ed.
Community security reports for Spring, by month. In April, utilizing new scanning capabilities, we received an unprecedented 482 new security reports across 65 scanned projects. Of those 482 new reports, 370 came from our internal scanning capabilities and 112 came from the community. This means that even without the new scanning, we would still have seen a doubling of community reports compared to our already high number in March.
Stochastic Smart Talk, the DIY Platform Trap, and Strategic AI Not Spending - Related to your interests, Friday
Also: hardened images everywhere, quarterly Java patch tours, Wells Fargo’s complicated employment math, and a Highgate gravestone.
Related to your interests Silo busters - a unified platform needs a unified team - “This matters because it removes the structural excuse for fragmentation. When a single platform surfaces all the controls a unified team needs, there is no longer a technical reason to keep five separate teams in five separate rooms.
Getting things done can be addictive. The joy you get from finally being empowered to do things you previously could not is a feedback loop that must be controlled for some of us.
Josh Long and I at J-Spring 2026.
I grew up spending a good deal of time with an older cousin of mine in Cullman, Alabama named Claude Basenburg. A hefty, hearty good ol’ boy in overalls, with a wad of tobacco in his cheek. So when I visit claude.ai I don’t think of an omniscient counselor, I just envision my cousin from Cullman. It helps…. But in the end the results are very clean and, to me, _extremely_satisfying.
That means each employee’s AI spending cap is ~11% of that median compensation package.
Last year, there were a few anecdotes about high growth tech companies spending $100,000/year per head on tokens. That seems like it’s coming to end.a
🔗 Uber Caps Usage of AI Tools Like Claude Code to Manage Costs
remote work reduces on-the-job training
According to the Fed’s analysis, youth unemployment has risen significantly since the coronavirus pandemic, and hasn’t receded in the same way that unemployment numbers for older, more experienced college graduates has in recent years. The analysis notes that the prevalence of remote work has increased since COVID-19, and it believes those two trends have more than just a correlation.
“Our analysis suggests that these trends are related, with remote work making it more difficult for managers to train and mentor new employees,” the Fed said of its data.