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Good O-Rings and Bad O-Rings, the AI Efficiency Plateau, and Anti-Labor by Design – Related to your interests, Thursday
Also: Goldman’s 24x token forecast, Indian IT’s process-debt pitch, NatWest’s 35% AI-generated code, Gartner’s 84% productivity theater, vibesec. From: “AI Agents Forecast to Boost Tech Cash Flow as Usage Soars,” Goldman, May, 2026 Related to your interests ‘I’m delighted to be wrong’: Sam Altman says AI won’t lead to a ‘jobs apocalypse’ – but admits…
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Elusive Enterprise AI ROI: No scaling, it’s not legible, lack of skills/need for training
Despite everything, reports are still that enterprise AI ROI is elusive. At the same time, for enterprise buyers, the bill is finally coming due for the past year of AI amazement. It’s not cheap. What’s up with this elusive enterprise AI? Gartner has some survey-driven theories for finance departments. One theory is that there actually…
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CEO Said a Thing: jobs apocalypse
It really, in both positive and negative ways, updated me to thinking that the jobs picture is likely to be very different than we thought. I don’t think we’re going to have the kind of jobs apocalypse that some of the companies in our space advocate or talk about.” Sam Altman From: ‘I’m delighted to…
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Enterprise AI Slop
People are using AI to generate too much work because they think they know what they’re doing: A growing body of work calls this output-competence decoupling. In any previous era, the quality of a piece of work was a more or less reliable signal of the competence of the person who produced it. A novice…
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Usually life hacks and productivity tips are the same old things, these are fresher
Stop brainstorming. There’s a mountain of research showing that team brainstorming doesn’t work. There are several reasons why, some having to do with unconscious conformity, others with fear of being judged, and still others with unclear norms. (For example, people are often told to say whatever comes to mind, but also not to criticize.) Some…
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The coming AI backlash: capital is not here to make friends
[O]ur fears of what AI will do to us are really just our fears of what capitalism is already doing. And: the threat isn’t so much that AI is inevitable as that the ongoing—and likely expanding—immiseration of workers is unstoppable. This is the subtext of the strange and conflicted messaging that we get from the…
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How do AI Layoffs Work? Some Speculation.
Via geralt on Pixabay When an executives says layoffs were driven by AI, what exactly is the AI doing that removes the need for those humans? Here’s some dog-walk speculation. Decks, Meetings, etc. All the prep work around The Meeting. Things like: the agenda, slides, the pre-read, notes during the meeting, and followup tracking. There’s…
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The AI Security freak-out: now is the time for platform engineering to shine
The AI-driven security freak-out is a time to see what if your platform engineering strategy is working. A good platform makes it possible – if not easy – to find and patch all these new CVEs. And, of course keep patching them. A good platform will keep track of all these apps and dependencies deployed…
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AI Pees in the Pool, Permanent Indenture, and the Metric Fuck-Ton – Related to your interests, Monday
Also: does anyone actually use microwave food-buttons? Castanet handler. Related to your interests Platform Engineering in the Age of AI: Why Operational Complexity Is the New Bottleneck – “while coding is becoming cheaper and faster, operational complexity hasn’t disappeared” // Day 2 operations is always the bottleneck. // Also included is the current Syntasso/Kratix pitch.…
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trying your best properly rated
widely accepted reading of the-west-wing, as such, is that of a liberal Fantasia, not because it depicts the Bartlet administration as being liberal, but because it depicts a world in which the best possible thing you can do is to try very hard to do the right thing — and the liberals, or really the…
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The users have plenty of feature ideas
AI allows people who aren’t software engineers to build meaningful software. Those of us who are software engineers at companies should stop building features and focus instead on building systems that allow people on the sales team, the factory shop floor, etc. etc. etc. to ship safely. 🔗 notes from o11ycon 2026
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AI backlash, from the read the room/Picard face-palm files.
The normies don’t like AI, esp. The Kids: They’re being told, usually by people who already have theirs, that they should be more excited about the latest evolutions in software automation. “Why aren’t you more interested in nuanced conversations about the latest evolutions in software automation,” fans of the latest evolutions in software automation will…
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Do less
For most of modern history, we’ve invested perhaps 10% of our energy in ‘be’ and 90% in ‘do’. The AI era invites (demands?) something closer to the reverse. That’s not a comfortable shift for an industry that prides itself on shipping, but might be the most important thing we build next. 🔗 The Identity Crisis…
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Now you can react faster than ever to security problems
This is an excerpt from our Tanzu Catsup last week. In that episode we talked all about how this AI stuff is changing – for the better – how you can handle security problems at the app layer. It’s Monday morning. Your boss walks up, says “scrap the backlog, we’ve got a list of CVEs…
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Shadow AI Surge, The Coming AI Backlash, and Apollonian Tyranny – Related to your interests, Wednesday
Also: Claude Managed Agents, Antigravity, Project Glasswing, repugnant economics, and writing observations. From: Wes Anderson’s Impossible Dreams Related to your interests Innovations from Google I/O 26 on Google Cloud – Google seems the cleanest when it comes to describing their AI stuff…it’s something like a mix of clear naming (aside from “Antigravity”) and functionality, and…
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The coming AI backlash
Along with datacenter backlash, 2026 and 2027 is shaping up to have a big, general population backlash against AI. Polls show that 70% of Americans think AI is moving too fast, over 50% have negative views of it, and just 18% of young people say they feel hopeful about it. Partly, they are turned off…
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Rampant shadow AI
Of the 45 percent of all professionals using AI in the workplace regularly, 67 percent of those were accessing the platforms using personal accounts that were not authorized by their IT teams, data from Verizon’s annual data breach investigations report showed. Verizon said that the proportion of users accessing AI through personal accounts now represents…
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