The Banquet, René Magritte, 1958.
The weird bastion stuff in D&D 5e 2024 makes a lot more sense after reading Dungeon Crawler Carl.
AI Reality Bites, Wall Street Panics, and Everyone Becomes an Architect
Original ContentA few things since last time:
Kubernetes use rising, large organizations slowest to adapt, not many people train their own AI model or deploy new AI models frequently - my highlights from the most recent CNCF state of stuff survey.
Enterprise ROI is elusive - maybe ROI is just headcount chopping, not revenue growth and “transformation” - Executives continue to say they don’t know how to measure ROI for AI, and/or that it’s low.
Large enterprises continue to run a hybrid model for the foreseeable future. After more than 15 years of cloud migration, just over 54% of production workloads have been moved to the public cloud." IDC, November 2025 survey
🔗 Enterprises Continue to Leverage Both Private and Public Cloud as Data Grows
Go cheap on innovation. Otherwise you just buy PowerPoints. Jana Werner on using tight timelines and small teams to force real progress.
Two theories of the AI investor spook-out
Concerns are growing that AI-generated applications could disrupt existing software companies, leading to significant drops in market value for tech stocks, particularly following major announcements from firms like Anthropic and Amazon.
Relative to your interests, Friday
Enterprise AI reality checks everywhere: no more free lunches, Copilot productivity gaps, agent sprawl, usage control, and OSS maintainers drowning in AI slop. Also: Kubernetes + Greenplum, MCP auth that finally works, EA’s quiet resurgence, AI prompts-as-infra, propaganda via images, and yes, a Chicken McNugget futures market.
Building your own internal developer platform is a trap. Buy it instead. // My talk at cfgmgmtcamp 2026. This is the live stream recording, it starts at 5 hours 38 minutes.
Two leading thinkers of the 18th century, the French philosopher Montesquieu and the Scottish political economist Adam Smith, argued that world trade promoted peace and harmony because it advanced mutual interest and interdependency.
Yes, but:
Beckert emphasizes how capitalism has depended at every stage of its development on the military power of the modern state and frequently on practices of extreme violence, such as the outright terror required to build the Atlantic system of slavery.
one of the values of Pair Programming is that you have to regularly explain things to your pair. This is an important part of learning - for the person doing the explaining. After all one of the best ways to learn something is to try to teach it.