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Tips on running AI on your private cloudSome brief comments on using Tanzu Platform to run your private GenAI stuff. If you’re interested in more than that short clip, check out my co-worker Nick’s talk on this topic. You can check out the Tanzu Platform more at TryTanzu.ai. Relative to your interestsTwo strategies to succeed when AI seems to be eroding jobs around you - 🤖 Technical writers are shifting from writers to content directors, steering and editing AI output.

This is what I remember every portrait of an author or academic being like on the backs of all those used books I used to read from the 60s, 70s, and 80s. And, a variation: There was also the leaning back in chair, sports jacket wide open with a big gut and wild hair, waving hands discussing something important with someone off camera. Maybe even with a cigarette or, if you were really lucky, a pipe they were pointing with.

Next week in Frankfurt, October 7th, 2025: Cloud Foundry Day. I’m speaking in my ongoing attempts to help out the CF community with…marketing! Here is the agenda:

Programmer aesthetics: “your engineering taste is composed of the set of engineering values you find most important.” // And: “most bad taste comes from inflexibility. I will always distrust engineers who justify decisions by saying ‘it’s best practice.’ No engineering decision is ‘best practice’ in all contexts! You have to make the right decision for the specific problem you’re facing.” 🔗 What is “good taste” in software engineering?

They advocate for using JSON (with comments) over YAML: “Generating json as a better yaml Often the choice of format is not ours to make, and an application only accepts yaml. Not all is lost though, because yaml is a superset of json, so any tool that can produce json can be used to generate a yaml document.” 🔗 The yaml document from hell

🤖 Technical writers are shifting from writers to content directors, steering and editing AI output. To thrive: build deep subject matter expertise and tool expertise–with editorial judgment and workflow skills as supporting habits. // How many managers does the world need, though? 🔗 Two strategies to succeed when AI seems to be eroding jobs around you

“Doughnut Economics is based around an important insight: Diagrams are powerful marketing tools.” And, from the book reviewed: Visual frames, it gradually dawned on me, matter just as much as verbal ones…[N]ow is the time to uncover the economic graffiti that lingers in all of our minds and, if you don’t like what you find, scrub it out; or better still, paint it over with new images that far better serve our needs and times

Recording of my AI platform engineering talkThis is a new talk of mine going over how platform engineers can support AI. Well, it’s more about how we don’t exactly know, but we can speculate based on a handful of early use cases. Here’s the slides if you’re into that kind of thing. Here’s the 🤖 on my key points: Platform engineering for AI is mostly running another middleware service - same infrastructure tasks as always, plus model registries and figuring out who handles AI safety evaluations.

From Who’s Got the Apple, I book a spent a lot of time with as a kid.