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Here's the talk I'll be giving at DevOpsDays Istanbul this morning #devopsdaysist2026 talks.cote.io/diy/

"Your platform has to maintain what it creates."

How the TrueSource team responded to that PHP freakout this week:

We’re now shipping a full on agentic platform. Enterprise grade, proven, private cloud platform stack out there for running apps, serving up AI, and providing all that isolated VM and deny by default stuff you want for your enterprise AI apps, or any app. blogs.vmware.com/tanzu/vmware...

Fifteen years of shifting left killed the enterprise architect. And other happy stories! :) www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/129?utm_sour...

Wow. Who knew Magic was such a money maker!

From the cloud lock-in desk: "In total, the investigation found that less than one percent of customers move cloud providers yearly."

"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."

"Process is documented culture" https://randsinrepose.com/archives/the-insider/

"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." youtu.be/Sy2ozmsy_1A

The unique, micro-tourism destination of America. More from touring everyday America through British expat eyes. https://www.commonreader.co.uk/p/nothing-is-boring-in-america?r=2d4o&utm_source=cote&utm_medium=blog

"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." youtu.be/eyDmq-ytNRA

This week, @brandonwhichard.com, @cote.io and @mattray.dev discuss AI yes/no deciders, the SaaS apocalypse, Bending Spoons, and Oxide's funding. Plus, why Google Docs still has no dark mode https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/594

"You can't trust mystery sandwiches. And if we agree on that, then surely we agree we wouldn't want to trust mystery dependencies either." Good sandwich talk from @starbuxman.joshlong.com enterprise.spring.io?utm_source=c... youtu.be/nj2KoEa2gIs

Beyond the Kubernetes complexity: Delivering an AI-Ready Platform Developers Love (Over Lunch) https://blogs.vmware.com/tanzu/beyond-the-kubernetes-complexity-delivering-an-ai-ready-platform-developers-love-over-lunch/ What a proper platform looks like. You know, a PaaS.

Here's the slides I'll be giving for the last talk at #DevOpsDaysPrague later today. talks.cote.io/normieai/

Design Systems for AI Agents https://www.lukew.com/ff/2164/design-systems-for-ai-agents "Design teams have spent years trying to get people to actually read their design system documentation. Agents read it every single time."

This week, @brandonwhichard.com, @cote.io and @mattray.dev discuss Meta's Muse, who's spending $500 million on tokens, and why nobody can measure AI ROI. Plus, the case for importing NyQuil by the suitcase. https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/592

New links newsletter: normies don't like AI, MCP as the integration that outlives the model, and how Casper mattresses bootstrapped the podcast industrial complex. cote.io/2026/09/21/r...

Here's the slides for my talk, "Making and Maintaining the Case To Stay on Cloud Foundry" that I'll be giving in a few minutes here at #CloudFoundrySummit talks.cote.io/stick-with-c...

Globally, More People Expect AI to Cause Job Loss Than Growth https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2026/09/17/globally-more-people-expect-ai-to-cause-job-loss-than-growth/ Normies don't like AI.

New links newsletter: accidental platforms, AI vendors that aren't enterprise-ready, and $2.7tn of AI infrastructure spend. cote.io/2026/09/17/r...

Kids Trends https://walzr.com/kids-trends/#trend=Baby%20Yoda When was peak Baby Yoda?

New Left without comment: OpenAI's agents spammed a German wiki with benchmark answers, the jobs apocalypse is postponed, and 1% of engineers burn 40% of token spend. cote.io/2026/09/09/l...

Do you even need a presentation? https://martinfowler.com/articles/never-send-slides/need-presentation.html This meeting could have been an email.

Understanding ChatGPT Work https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/30/understanding-chatgpt-work/ Reverse engineering OpenAI's sprawling agentic AI PaaS.

New links newsletter: fewer than a quarter of enterprises have scaled AI, agent sprawl vs. a runtime, and MCP is SOAP for Zoomers. cote.io/2026/09/04/r...

Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam.

New links newsletter: getting your data in shape for enterprise AI, MCP gateways, and flying toasters. Plus: maybe AI is just bad at firing people. cote.io/2026/08/31/r...

Before You Build An AI-Powered Enterprise, Build Its Human Foundation https://www.forrester.com/blogs/before-you-build-an-ai-powered-enterprise-build-its-human-foundation/ "AI Amplifies What Already Exists" - you'll get better at what you're good at, and worse at what you're bad at.

Claudeforce: The AI Interface Salesforce Never Built https://www.forrester.com/blogs/claudeforce-the-ai-interface-salesforce-never-built/ Headless life-style, no need for a UI, just give me an API.

We announced some new AI-ready data stuff for Tanzu Platform today. Here's a little video I made about it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1im... Also, there's more details in our blog: blogs.vmware.com/tanzu/introd...

This week, @brandonwhichard.com, @cote.io and @mattray.dev discuss Stripe's singularity letter, its $8B Open Router buy, and AI job anxiety. Plus, Matt plays “Bot or Not” on another podcast. https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/587

The cobbler's curse! Charted every D&D conversation I've had with AI since 2023. Building tooling rather than playing: 5% then, 53% now. cote.io/2026/08/27/u...

You're Not Behind, You're Being Sold a Vocabulary https://www.chieftherapyofficer.co.uk/p/youre-not-behind-youre-being-sold?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web A cheatsheet for understand what all the AI-loving nerds are talking about.

New links newsletter: AI saves three hours a week, 71% say the workload grew anyway, and ChatGPT prompts are discoverable in court. cote.io/2026/08/25/r...

AI Bottlenecks https://www.johndickerson.com/p/ai-bottlenecks Things they slow down AI growth, or, why those tokens are so expensive.

What’s the Difference between Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) & Agent Experience (AX)? https://redmonk.com/kholterhoff/2026/08/24/ax-v-geo/ SEO for AIs is still weird.

This week, @brandonwhichard.com and @cote.io discuss the unsung genius of Apple Pay, AI watermarking, and why digital transformation fails without a crisis. Plus, D&D Beyond's secret character API. https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/586

"I wouldn't have even attempted it, 'cause it was like 60 or 100 hours. Like, where am I gonna get that from?" So, like me, he had Claude vibe-rpg him up a game. Hear more in @whitneylee.com and my interview with @peopleforrester.bsky.social www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/125

PostgreSQL for Everything https://www.raphaelbauer.com/posts/postgresql-everything/ One database for all uses.

Résumé-driven development often hides the true cost of custom platforms. Don't let your "build it yourself" initiative turn into an unmanageable maintenance burden. https://brcm.tech/4hCN0ip

Two of these are how humans document a real business process. One is how you take a turn in D&D. Which is which? Riga, Saturday, AI Connect: what three years of getting AI to run D&D taught me about enterprise AI. aiconnect.lv?utm_source=c...

Precision matters. Whether you're archiving logs or analyzing high-frequency trade data, PXF 8.0.2 ensures your timestamps remain untouched. No silent truncation, no errors—just full precision pipelines. https://brcm.tech/4wIxXbI

This week, @brandonwhichard.com, @cote.io and @mattray.dev discuss Zuckerberg's open source AI manifesto, GPUs as securitizable assets, and who actually gets AI ROI. Plus, Buc-ee's goes to war over beavers. https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/585

Work Just Became Fun for Millions of People https://danielmiessler.com/blog/work-just-became-fun "Another way to say that is, AI has opened the door to humans spending more time making things instead of being crushed by meetings and process and bureaucracy."

New links newsletter: Gemini crosses a billion users, eight Pulitzer winners disclosed AI use, and Adobe moves the Creative Suite inside ChatGPT. cote.io/2026/08/12/r...

The first notch is magical https://unsung.aresluna.org/the-first-notch-is-magical Lovely pictures of knobs and dials.

"If you just ask it to solve a problem, it's too broad and the context is too big." Andreas Eiken on why the Tanzu UX agent never gets handed a whole problem. Each decision gets its own small context window instead. Full interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTN2...

This week, @brandonwhichard.com, @cote.io and @mattray.dev discuss the Situational Awareness meltdown, Airtable getting sold, and review the Java documentary. Plus, what you should actually buy at IKEA. https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/584