Studying how large organizations get better at software, working at @VMwareTanzu, views are my own. Texas Forever.
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His diagnosis: fifteen years of shifting left killed the enterprise architect. @wiggitywhitney talk with @dendrobates on what replaces one, and why nobody is ready for agents. And other happy tales!
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Wow. Who knew Magic was such a money maker! toybook.com/hasbro-q3-2026-e…
From the cloud lock-in desk: "In total, the investigation found that less than one percent of customers move cloud providers yearly." datacenterdynamics.com/en/ne…
"Data indicates that between 59 and 75 percent of people never read past the headline, so it's particularly important that journalists try to, you know, avoid lying in the headline." karlbode.com/musks-fake-flyi…
Once you figure out what you're good at, and take the advice to focus on just that, all those (corporate) things that "do not matter" become friction. hils.substack.com/p/as-natur…
"In a world where AI is accelerating CVE volume, timing matters. Our customers get zero-day access to all of these fixes in the enterprise repository before the public CVE is even announced."
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"Having the patch was never the problem. There was always a patch. The hard part was the tooling and automation to get that patch to production."
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This week, @bwhichard, @cote and Matt Ray discuss AI yes/no deciders, the SaaS apocalypse, Bending Spoons, and Oxide's funding. Plus, why Google Docs still has no dark mode
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"Would you eat an egg sandwich you found sitting on the sidewalk?" // Good sandwich talk from @starbuxman
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Just so you know, if ever encounter the word “Tuesday,” that is an AI thinking. “Tuesday” is the opposite of the “Roman Empire,” which is why the robots reach for it.
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This week, @bwhichard, @cote and Matt Ray discuss Google Docs finally getting Markdown, Cloudflare's CF CLI, Gartner's agentic AI abandonment stat, and forward deployed engineers. Plus, Coté forgets his laptop.
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@VMware (by @Broadcom) #HybridCloud #VCF #Tanzu - Using AI to platform engineer all the things (by @cote, David Zendzian, @tehkuhnz) @VMwareVCF @VMwareTanzu #vExpertVCF #vExpertSecurity #TanzuVanguard @vExpert dy.si/TQ3mm
What a proper platform looks like. You know, a PaaS. blogs.vmware.com/tanzu/beyon…
A call to get VI admins interested in platform engineering: ”Your Challenge: if your platform team redesigned the infrastructure layer tomorrow, would anyone think to call you [a VI admin] first? What could you ship in the next 90 days to change that answer?” blogs.vmware.com/cloud-found…
Here's the slides I'll be giving for the last talk at #DevOpsDaysPrague later today. talks.cote.io/normieai/
"Design teams have spent years trying to get people to actually read their design system documentation. Agents read it every single time." lukew.com/ff/2164/design-sys…
Will AI Eliminate Enterprise Architects? forrester.com/blogs/will-ai-…
