A Coxswain on Your Shoulder - AI as executive coach. Primary tip: listen more before you ask questions. Big Blue Poised To Peddle Lots Of On Premises GenAI - Welcome to the last 18 months of labor-intentive services - “Legacy delivery models focused on bums-on-seats aren’t relevant anymore, and services firms must reinvent themselves to survive. Those who don’t will quickly find themselves obsolete, as 75% of the Global 2000 recently declared in our Pulse Study” Deploying Moltbot (Formerly Clawdbot) - Good round-up of Clawdbot/Moltbot.
AI won’t replace you. Your boss using AI to cut costs will.
Your boss is not incentivized by utopian imagination, he is incentivized by showing his boss a lowering of costs so he can keep his job and lifestyle. The miraculous science fiction future AI shills often proselytize will not be realized in the halls of SaaS companies, because the incentives for that future do not exist in a capitalist framework.
How much does it cost to build an internal developer platform? - Tanzu Catsup
This week’s Tanzu Catsup is about how much you need to pay people to build your own internal developer platform:
I think building your own platform is a terrible idea, especially for larger organizations. My co-host Tony ran the platform for Home Depot and now talks with other platform teams a lot, so I wanted to get his take.
Here’s an excerpt if you prefer something shorter.
This is our seventh episode, and they’re getting better and better.
Enterprise ROI is elusive - maybe ROI is just headcount chopping, not revenue growth and "transformation"
AI implementation in organizations currently focuses on efficiency rather than transformative growth, leading to a disconnect between productivity improvements and financial accountability.
You need to write SEO and enterprise research text for AIs now, in addition to humans. Does this mean separate pages, often hidden from humans like we see for search engine SEO? Probably.
A Gartner survey of 377 U.S. consumers, conducted in June and July 2025, revealed that rather than shortcutting decisions, AI features are lengthening the research journey. Thirty-one percent of consumers surveyed say AI summaries cause them to spend more time searching for information, compared to just 16% who spend less. Over two-thirds continue past Google’s AI Overview, signaling that summaries are not the final answer. When researching purchases, 31% of consumers consider more product options due to AI overviews, versus only 7% who consider fewer.
And:
“Winning visibility now means optimizing for both AI-driven answers and classic search results, with content that is specific, conversational, and trustworthy. That means refreshing content regularly across search, social, and retail platforms, as well as investing in comparison tools, FAQs, and reviews to meet consumers' demand for deeper research and broader consideration sets.”
Relevant to your interests, Wednesday
How the 1944 CIA Sabotage Manual Accidentally Became Your Software Acquisition Playbook - as always, have less meeting. Stellan Skarsgård: ‘Don’t try to be perfect. Tell your children: I’m sorry, I’m a piece of crap, but I love you’ - “I believe that art is important because it allows you to see the world through someone else’s eyes. What language can’t explain, art can.” Every data centre is a U.
Internal Developer Platforms - Build vs. Buy
“Don’t build something if you can buy it.” Building a bespoke internal platform should focus on specific organizational needs rather than replicating available market solutions.
Kubernetes use rising, large organizations slowest to adapt, not many people train their own AI model or deploy new AI models frequently
The CNCF cloud native report indicates a growing adoption of Kubernetes and container usage in production, with larger organizations facing cultural resistance as a primary barrier to implementation.
TikTok ownership in the US is one the strangest tech stories ever.
Sixty-seven percent of online youths ages 12 to 17 report using it weekly, and nearly 50% of US online adults under 45 report using it at least weekly.
See also Kelsey’s (Forrester) predictions on what will change, plus Usage in the US. There’s also a link round-up from Kagi News.
Optimizing marketing web pages for AI
You need to write SEO and enterprise research text for AIs now, in addition to humans. Does this mean separate pages, often hidden from humans like we see for search engine SEO? Probably.
A Gartner survey of 377 U.S. consumers, conducted in June and July 2025, revealed that rather than shortcutting decisions, AI features are lengthening the research journey. Thirty-one percent of consumers surveyed say AI summaries cause them to spend more time searching for information, compared to just 16% who spend less.