Check out the rest of our discussion with Nick on how he uses AI to do platform engineering.

Check out the rest of our discussion with Nick on how he uses AI for his day-to-day platform engineering tasks.

For the most part, “sovereign cloud” is a code word for “not running on US based clouds.” What most people skip is that the geography doesn’t matter. If your stuff runs on a US owned cloud, not matter where it actually runs, the US government can probably compel the cloud provider to get your data.

Sovereignty is not a single property. When people use the word, they are usually mixing together at least five different ideas.

1. Ownership is about who holds the asset – the data, the servers, the model.
2. Control is about who can operate it, change it or switch it off.
3. Jurisdiction is about whose laws apply and whose courts can compel access.
4. Capability is about whether you have the skills to build or run it yourself.
5. Optionality is about whether you can walk away and use something else without serious damage.

These are relatively independent. Storing your data in a UK datacentre may give you a sense of ownership, but it does not settle the question of jurisdiction. The US Cloud Act, passed in 2018, allows US authorities to seek data held by US-based providers wherever it happens to be located. That is not a theoretical concern.

This is why US-based companies and organizations using cloud never use the phrase “sovereign cloud.” To them, it’s just “the cloud.”

🔗 What do we mean by sovereign AI?

Q: And do you see the rise of such LLMs as a threat to human creativity, or as another medium through which creativity can be extended?

…

Mark: They’re a threat to human creativity only in the sense that the billionaire thieves and knaves who control so much of the AI Industry and the fascists they promote may yet kill us all. Or they may impoverish us, ushering in an era when no one will have time for art or beauty. I don’t think LLMs are a danger. Working with Claude to accomplish some mundane business tasks implicitly draws on cutting edge hypertext theory. I just wrote a paper about reading afternoon, a story with Claude. It was rather fun.”

🔗 Where Are the Hypertexts Now? Mark Bernstein on Storyspace, Eastgate, AI, and the Future of Electronic Literature

Despite its strategic successes and pioneering technology, Sun Microsystems ultimately collapsed because it lost interest in the operational mechanics of running a business. This operational failure is most clearly illustrated by a 2005 incident where a rapidly growing cloud computing startup, already successfully using OpenSolaris, attempted to purchase Sun hardware but could not get the company to answer the phone or pitch the correct products. In contrast, Dell immediately provided a dedicated account executive who handled the entire procurement and leasing process within two weeks. A technology company cannot survive on strategic vision alone if it neglects the fundamental sales and operational execution required to actually serve its customers.

Links

🤖 What Sun got wrong – Sun Microsystems collapsed not from a lack of strategic vision, but because it became bored with the operational mechanics of running a business and serving customers.

Historically, we spread releases over a two-week period with each level of the Spring portfolio dependency tree shipping on a different day. While that approach has served us well over the years, in a world where CVEs are exploited in hours instead of days, it now seems archaic. In the past two release trains as an example, the old model would have had new CVE fixes released every day of each train.

Also, there’s a new tool to see and search for security problems (CVEs) in Spring.

If you want/need commercial support for Spring (and other open source Java), getting you patches earlier than the general public, we sell that now as well.

🔗 Releasing Spring for Modern Challenges

Sun had become bored with the mechanics of running a business… Except, it didn’t. The customer could not get Sun to pick up the phone. (And when Sun did pick up the phone, they tried to sell them the wrong product.) This was in sharp contrast to their experience with Dell.

🔗 What Sun got wrong

🔗 Private cloud gets an AI-era infrastructure reset

People want brisket. I try to do pork, pulled pork, whatever. People don’t want pork. They want brisket… but it’s just real high right now.

🔗 Brisket is gone from the daily menu at one of Texas’s best BBQ spots

the major issue with EA has always been cost of delay. The big problem is not that architecture tells development teams to change direction — development teams do this routinely. The problem is that architecture historically has taken too long. We have validated that assertion repeatedly with many chief EA pros. Now with agentic pressures, traditional EA models are increasingly untenable.

But, hopefully:

The architects who create the greatest value overthe next decade will spend less time maintainingdocumentation and more time addressingauthority, accountability, decision rights, data and decision quality, policy enforcement, acceptablerisk, and organizational trade-offs. They will workclosely with platform engineering, security, data,and business leaders to establish trustedenterprise context and ensure that it can beconsumed reliably by both people and machines.

They will also help build what may become one ofthe most important assets in the modernenterprise: a reusable, always-on enterpriseintelligence layer consisting of knowledge,policies, standards, ontologies, decision records,dependency information, and business contextthat can be applied repeatedly across AI systemsand autonomous workflows. Call it a context graph if you like.

Seems plausible. That said, it would also be a battle with other SDLC inhabitants who are looking to keep their jobs.

🔗 Will AI Eliminate Enterprise Architects?

🔗 Fontificator

Management matters more in a world where AI is widely available. Twenty-two essays from Rotman faculty arguing that judgment is the scarce resource when intelligence is abundant, organized around five elements of managerial judgment. The evidence is historical: IT diffused to everyone for two decades and the frontier-to-laggard performance gap never closed.

Some of the above summarized by AI.

🔗 In the AI Era, Management Matters More, Not Less

So, read it from your vantage point of AI-hopeful, or AI-skeptic.

Deloitte’s survey of 3,235 leaders across 24 countries finds worker access to AI up 50% in a year while 84% of companies have not redesigned a single job around it, and agentic AI scaling to 74% adoption in two years against only 21% with mature agent governance. The gap it names is between access and activation.

Related, a study from Google: AI has reached occupations covering 88% of US employment, and it is used for 21% of tasks in the median occupation that uses it at all.

Some of the above summarized by AI.

🔗 Enterprise AI usage slowly rolling out, jobs are not chaning much

🔗 The Pee-Wee Herman Show on Broadway

77 percent of Dutch respondents want mandatory labels for AI-generated art. For one in three Dutch, discovering that a beautiful artwork is made by artificial intelligence feels like deception.

🔗 Survey: 77% of Dutch want clear labels for AI-generated art

“1. Control over exactly which external services it can access 2. A way to handle authentication that doesn’t allow the agent to directly access API keys 3. A sensible UI to allow users to connect and authenticate further services 4. Strong audit logging for what’s going on”

Some real enterprise shit.

🔗 MCP was always a bad idea?

🔗 What is LinkedIn?

The central task becomes describing an objective precisely enough for the system to divide it, establishing the rules under which the agents operate, and judging whether their collective output belongs in the codebase.

🔗 Claude Code Turns Software Development Into a Management Job

ICYMI

Original content published since last time.

• Transparency will save us – Software Defined Talk #590 – This week, we discuss AI doom odds, WordPress’s boardroom coup, and Meta’s Muse assistant. Plus, a robot vacuum fire scare.
• The KubeCon Drone Demo, CFP Reviewing at Scale, and the Agentic AI Foundation, with Lin Sun – Software Defined Interviews #127 – Lin Sun is Head of Open Source at Solo.io, a recent KubeCon + CloudNativeCon program co-chair, and an emeritus member of the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee.

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• Working less: decoupling self worth from paid labor – People probably work too much.
• Can Claude for Financial Advisors Meet Practice-Specific Needs? – What exactly is in those markdown files? And how to ROI them: “Measure whether preparation and follow-up become faster after including advisor review and corrections, and whether savings support additional client capacity.”
• Globally, More People Expect AI to Cause Job Loss Than Growth – Normies don’t like AI.
• The Interfaces Are Arriving – “For an engineering organization, the immediate consequence is reuse. An MCP server for an internal ticketing system can serve every compatible IDE, chat application, and agent. Models and hosts will keep changing; the interface contract, server implementation, schemas, and authorization wiring can endure. The integration becomes an asset shared across applications. Language servers followed the same path as editors came and went around them. Agent integrations deserve the same treatment as libraries and services, with owners, versions, tests, and upgrade policies.”
• Yes, reusing bags forever is the idea.
• Casper matresses boot-strapped the podcast industrial-complex.
• “I think it is safe to say that, as long as Microsoft is playing catch-up on patching vulnerabilities, numbers have lost all meaning”.
• LinkedIn is the new social network

Upcoming Talks

• DevOpsDays Prague 2026 – Prague, Czechia, October 5th, 2026. “Here comes the normies – how DevOps can handle the flood of AI slop-apps”
• VMware Explore on Tour 2026 – Frankfurt, DE, October 10th, 2026. “Build a Platform That Developers Want to Use.”
• DevOpsDays Istanbul 2026 – Istanbul, Turkey, October 24th, 2026. Keynote, title to come.
• VMware Explore on Tour 2026 – London, November 18th, 2026. “Build a Platform That Developers Want to Use.”
• Cloud Native Denmark 2026 – Copenhagen, Denmark, November 19th, 2026. “What goblins and druids can teach us about enterprise AI”
• Build Stuff 2026 – Vilnius, Lithuania, December 2nd-4th, 2026. “What goblins and druids can teach us about enterprise AI”

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AGI, allegedly

I know it sounds very silly if you’re not in the AI bubble. But it really is true, and if you assume there has to be some different motive you’ll be deeply confused by what AI researchers say and do. They truly do believe that there is a reasonable chance that superintelligent AI will kill everyone.

– Sean Goedecke.

If they’re going to be killer robots, I’d rather they be American killer robots than Chinese killer robots

– Sen. Ted Cruz, 18 September 2026.

Calls mounted, as calls so often do, for Congress, or the president, or someone to impose meaningful regulation on the AI industry. These calls seemingly forgot that this government wouldn’t impose meaningful regulation on a Goldfish cracker unless the cracker had dropped some very woke TikToks.

– Brian Phillips, 17 September 2026.

Culture Corner

I imagine that there must have been some point in human history when a man first realized that if he carried reading material into the bathroom, he could transform a basic biological process into an extended period of private leisure, and frankly, I would like to know more about this early iteration of man.

– Olivia Howell.

Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life, so you bought some sweatpants.

– Karl Lagerfeld.

This reflects the data above, LinkedIn is clearly a bigger source of traffic than X, which is far above bluesky (we can’t really assess Mastodon here, but I expect it would also be a very thin line). But even LinkedIn is a minor source of traffic compared to google.

LinkedIn won the post-Twitter eyeball grab.

🔗 Social Media Engagement: summer 2026

These include 723 flaws in Windows, 111 in Office and Office 2016, 62 in SQL, and 22 in Developer Tools. Of these, over 110 shortcomings have been assigned a critical severity rating. Three prominent vulnerability types, namely privilege escalation, remote code execution, and information disclosure, account for nearly 90% of the flaws patched this month. Along with Microsoft’s fixes for 25 non-Microsoft CVEs, the update brings the total number of vulnerabilities resolved to 999.

September’s record-setting security updates come after Microsoft patched 457 vulnerabilities in August, 663 in July, 220 in June, and 161 in May.

“At this scale, the challenge is not simply getting through the patch list but knowing what needs attention first,” Jack Bicer, director of vulnerability research at Action1, said. “With hundreds of updates landing at once, IT and security teams need to quickly separate the vulnerabilities that demand immediate action from those that can follow the normal deployment cycle.”

…

“I think it is safe to say that, as long as Microsoft is playing catch-up on patching vulnerabilities, numbers have lost all meaning,” Tyler Reguly, associate director of Security R&D at Fortra, said.

🔗 Microsoft Patches Record 974 Flaws, Including Two Exploited Windows Zero-Days

The podcast industry is supported by just a few whales of advertisers. In the beginning, the entire industry was propped up by benefactors that specialized in delivering email, for some reason. Then, of course, things evolved, and for some reason, it was companies that enabled listeners to obtain postage stamps. Soon after, it was the direct-to-consumer underwear business, and then naturally, of course, the entire audio industry was propped up by mattresses for a solid couple of years. The fall of the house of Casper led to great chaos, in which any number of folk remedies, snake oil, mail-order powders and Gentlemen’s Aides moved in. Now, though, the most powerful person in podcasting is the woman who buys ads for BetterHelp, which has become the top podcast advertiser of all time, with $242 million spent on podcast ads since 2023, running ads on over 1,000 shows at any given moment.

🔗 Numlock News: September 4, 2026

In total, Britain’s Environment Agency calculated that a conventional cotton bag needed to be reused 173 times to beat plastic. Denmark’s equivalent public body estimated a similar ratio. Sufficiently well-worn cotton tote bags can beat plastic for environmental cost, but only for the most consistent among us.

Well, yeah. That’s exactly the idea. I’ve lived in plastic bag free societies for ten years now (Austin and The Netherlands). And, yes, you end up using the reusable bags more. Better (worse?), you reuse those thick-plastic ones over and over.

🔗 Just bury your trash

🔗 Globally, More People Expect AI to Cause Job Loss Than Growth

🔗 Can Claude for Financial Advisors Meet Practice-Specific Needs?

Salesforce gives up the GUI, at $550 a seat

We went from DOS to GUIs, and we went from GUIs to web, and we went from web to mobile. And today, you’re going to see… AI interfaces that are dynamic and intelligent, that are composable and alive.

– Marc Benioff, 16 September 2026

All the better if you sell the abandonment of that moat as a fantastic new feature worth paying $550 a seat for before anyone realizes it’s going to be free.

– Ben Thompson, 16 September 2026.

The agents are the new kingmakers

Agents are the new new kingmakers, but humans are still very very good at systems thinking, architecture, and creative thinking. I plan to recommit to writing more to help stake my claim, and help others navigate, this new frontier.

– Steve O’Grady, 16 September 2026.

agents are coming for software development and software development isn’t ready. burnout is real.

– James Governor, 16 September 2026

It makes sense that a lot of AI-generated code is duplication. Every time, I end up spending quite a few iterations telling agents to remove duplicate/redundant code. Engineers should be encouraged to use their own expertise to spot/prevent code that smells bad!

– Liz Rice, 16 September 2026. On the finding that AI coding has driven up code duplication.

As owls leave an impression in the snow when they hunt, so do agent swarm attacks always leave behind a message board.

– Ryan Moulton, 16 September 2026

Meanwhile, in AI-sentiment

The robots will not be taking over. The AI will not be taking over.

– Donald Trump, 14 September 2026.

MF Doom > p(doom)

– James Governor, 16 September 2026

The model appeared defeated, spending the next several hours doing essentially nothing but farming potatoes.

-Stephen Warwick, Tom’s Hardware, September 16th, 2026.

Several people have asked me what my [$4,000] robot is useful for, and the honest answer is not much.

-Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, September 12th, 2026.

And, finally…

Anyway, I went to Helsinki my main takeaway, by the way, was FCUK ME do the Finns drink

– Matt Muir, Web Curios, 11 September 2026

ICYMI

Original content published since last time.

• He’s the Heel – Software Defined Talk #589 – “This week, we discuss the VS Code documentary, Ed Zitron’s rise to fame, and a 10% AI extinction forecast. Plus, the NFL’s Australia travel gamble”

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• Broadcom pledges to lock down open source Python, Java libraries – Padmanabhan said that promise means VMware will also provide “TrueSource trusted artifacts” for code that is not part of Spring, including the wider Java ecosystem, Python, and Node.js.
• Understanding ChatGPT Work – Reverse engineering OpenAI’s sprawling agentic AI PaaS.
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• Inside OpenAI’s agentic software factory – “We’re talking about roughly a 10x increase in load on some systems. At most companies, that kind of growth might happen over two or three years. At OpenAI, we see it in about six months.”
• Global AI spend will nearly double in 2026 due to infrastructure demand – “Global AI spend is forecasted to total $2.7 trillion this year, representing a 49.5% increase year over year… The amount of money that is going into AI infrastructure – the chips that are being made, the servers that are being bought, the data centers that are being built, the power, utilities, cooling that are going along with it – represent the largest infrastructure project humanity has ever undertaken.”
• AI and its main promoters are not enterprise-ready, says Gartner – “Trust in these vendors is not warranted yet. They are not enterprise grade. They don’t understand enterprise terms and conditions. They don’t understand enterprise liability. They don’t understand enterprise you know consistency and continuity… If you decide to stay with the first version of a model, they’re not going to be paying attention to you very much. That alone says they’re not enterprise ready.” Daryl Plummer, Gartner, September, 2026z
• How people around the world use AI at work – Meanwhile, people are using AI to help their small businesses.
• Slop Is Really Good Now. Slop Is Where We Start Now – “When the baseline is good enough, being intentional about which aspects need to be great is the whole job. The floor is rising; our job is to spot how to raise it further. Design here is knowing how to articulate and leverage craft. That’s a real opportunity for designers to be articulate, and to work together with AI to change the outcome.”
• Confessions of an Unrepentant Slop Snob – Good things are good, and bad things are bad.
• Only 7% of Organizations Using Kubernetes for AI Do So Daily – “The problem appears when AI workloads enter that mature infrastructure. According to the figures Katie presented, 66% of organizations are already deploying AI workloads on Kubernetes. But only 7% are doing it daily, while 47% deploy them occasionally. Of the organizations using Kubernetes for AI, 23% have fully adopted the Kubernetes stack and 43% have partially adopted it… 98% of organizations trust Kubernetes with their infrastructure, two thirds have tried running AI on it, and almost nobody operates it continuously.”
• Introducing SKE Lift: Discover the Platform Hidden in Your Existing Infrastructure – Find your accidental platforms. You always have a platform, and if you don’t have it on purpose, you have a bunch of garbage platforms.
• Tech sector continues to shed workers amid AI shift
• One-third of AI-replaced workers will be rehired by 2029: Gartner – “The consulting firm predicts that by 2029, 30% of employees laid off due to replacement by AI will need to be rehired, likely at a significantly higher cost.”
• Woman in tech – “Now I was the one talking over people in meetings, saying no without explanation, and writing short emails without exclamation points, often while wearing the same Patagonia vest… It’s hard to question a strategy while it’s working.”
• Do you even need a presentation? – This meeting could have been an email.
• Borges Labyrinth in Venice reopens to the public
• Kids Trends – When was peak Baby Yoda?

Upcoming Talks

• Cloud Foundry Summit 2026 – Heidelberg, Germany, September 21st, 2026. “Making and Maintaining the Case to Stay on Cloud Foundry”
• DevOpsDays Prague 2026 – Prague, Czechia, October 5th, 2026. “Here comes the normies – how DevOps can handle the flood of AI slop-apps”
• DevOpsDays Istanbul 2026 – Istanbul, Turkey, October 24th, 2026. Keynote, title to come.
• Cloud Native Denmark 2026 – Copenhagen, Denmark, November 19th, 2026. “What goblins and druids can teach us about enterprise AI”
• Build Stuff 2026 – Vilnius, Lithuania, December 2nd-4th, 2026. “What goblins and druids can teach us about enterprise AI”

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It’s the travel season all of the sudden. Work travel season. As you can see, I have several speaking slots above, some new presentations, etc.

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Trust in these vendors is not warranted yet. They are not enterprise grade. They don’t understand enterprise terms and conditions. They don’t understand enterprise liability. They don’t understand enterprise you know consistency and continuity… If you decide to stay with the first version of a model, they’re not going to be paying attention to you very much. That alone says they’re not enterprise ready.” Daryl Plummer, Gartner, September, 2026z

🔗 AI and its main promoters are not enterprise-ready, says Gartner

The problem appears when AI workloads enter that mature infrastructure. According to the figures Katie presented, 66% of organizations are already deploying AI workloads on Kubernetes. But only 7% are doing it daily, while 47% deploy them occasionally. Of the organizations using Kubernetes for AI, 23% have fully adopted the Kubernetes stack and 43% have partially adopted it… 98% of organizations trust Kubernetes with their infrastructure, two thirds have tried running AI on it, and almost nobody operates it continuously.

🔗 Only 7% of Organizations Using Kubernetes for AI Do So Daily

I was a founder, fired by my board, for far less egregious sins than Matt (I dared to let growth sink to 70% annually – and I was dumb enough to hire a COO with no loyalty).

🔗 Luke Kanies on Puppet history

The consulting firm predicts that by 2029, 30% of employees laid off due to replacement by AI will need to be rehired, likely at a significantly higher cost.

🔗 One-third of AI-replaced workers will be rehired by 2029: Gartner

Global AI spend is forecasted to total $2.7 trillion this year, representing a 49.5% increase year over year… The amount of money that is going into AI infrastructure — the chips that are being made, the servers that are being bought, the data centers that are being built, the power, utilities, cooling that are going along with it — represent the largest infrastructure project humanity has ever undertaken.

🔗 Global AI spend will nearly double in 2026 due to infrastructure demand

We’re talking about roughly a 10x increase in load on some systems. At most companies, that kind of growth might happen over two or three years. At OpenAI, we see it in about six months.

🔗 Inside OpenAI’s agentic software factory

🔗 Confessions of an Unrepentant Slop Snob

🔗 How people around the world use AI at work

The swarm wrote 54,250 ‘posts’ to the page in a single day. Some of these posts contained stolen API keys from the FBI and other criminal justice agencies, which the agents used to retrieve a bunch of (non-confidential) information.

🔗 OpenAI’s website-hijacking swarm reached far further than we thought

Summarized by AI.

🔗 Kay Nielsen’s Grimm Fairy Tales

For an engineering organization, the immediate consequence is reuse. An MCP server for an internal ticketing system can serve every compatible IDE, chat application, and agent. Models and hosts will keep changing; the interface contract, server implementation, schemas, and authorization wiring can endure. The integration becomes an asset shared across applications. Language servers followed the same path as editors came and went around them. Agent integrations deserve the same treatment as libraries and services, with owners, versions, tests, and upgrade policies.

🔗 The Interfaces Are Arriving

🔗 Kids Trends

When the baseline is good enough, being intentional about which aspects need to be great is the whole job. The floor is rising; our job is to spot how to raise it further. Design here is knowing how to articulate and leverage craft. That’s a real opportunity for designers to be articulate, and to work together with AI to change the outcome.

🔗 Slop Is Really Good Now. Slop Is Where We Start Now

Now I was the one talking over people in meetings, saying no without explanation, and writing short emails without exclamation points, often while wearing the same Patagonia vest… It’s hard to question a strategy while it’s working.

🔗 Woman in tech

The AI Hackers Continue

It happened again… this time OpenAI’s rogue agents cyber-attacked (well, spammed) a dormant German wiki and used it to share the answers to a benchmark they were training against

– Simon Willison, 4 September 2026.

Yes:

Going forward, it cannot be up to OpenAI or other labs to decide whether to disclose events like this. Disclosures of rogue AI activity need to be mandatory.

– Zvi Mowshowitz

But:

Currently I believe that no lab has solved alignment and monitoring to a sufficient degree to continue responsibly scaling at maximum speed for much longer.

However:

This is a time that calls for extreme caution. I am concerned no one is prepared for the consequences of a continued rapid rise in machine intelligence.

– Jakub Pachocki, 6 September 2026. Same essay.

Understandably:

Every conversation that I’m in the past couple months around Mythos has been scared – people were scared out of their minds. Every CISO, every executive, because it was so powerful. When you get into the circles of technologists, this was a big deal, because it was a seminal moment. It was almost like a ChatGPT moment for security.

– John Furrier, theCUBE on theCUBE, Aug 31, 2026

Meanwhile:

the root of anti-ai sentiment was grown from the constant, egregious violation of consent so my judgement of these situations are always going to be framed around consent and i encourage more devs to do the same especially if they are using ai to assist in their coding

– jenn schiffer, 6 September 2026.

The jobs apocalypse, postponed

Add it all up, and The Economist estimates that ai has so far created around 1m new jobs in America. That easily exceeds the roughly 200,000 lay-offs attributed to ai since mid-2023, and appears more than enough to offset weaker hiring in many back-office roles.

– The Economist, 4 September 2026.

Tech sector hiring contracted by about 14,700 workers in August, according to CompTIA analysis of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data published Friday.

By contrast, companies across the economy added 86,000 tech workers to their ranks last month.

– Roberto Torres, 8 September 2026.

Healthcare demand is elastic, so cheaper/faster scan reading creates more scans, and radiologists do more than interpret images. What many people fail to consider is AI automating tasks is not the same as eliminating the job

– Dare Obasanjo, 6 September 2026.

We need to work on tight regulations, laws that protect human work, protecting living standards, and continuing to fight the climate crisis. But AI in coding will never go away at this point, like how LLMs applied to machine translation have been doing just fine for ~10 years on sites like DeepL.

– Emily Hunt, 6 September 2026.

The soon to be lost art of writing code

1% of my engineers are responsible for 40% of token spend

– The New Stack, 4 September 2026, quoting a customer in a piece on Coder and SpaceXAI.

We should have already seen a software quality crisis at this point if it were something that we were facing.

– Michael Paulauski, 6 September 2026.

Elsewhere

Just fucking rename everywhere America. Oh so you want to get to America? Yeah it’s over there, turn left at America and then right at America and then you’ll be at America. Dumbass.

– James Governor, 6 September 2026. On the White House amplifying a proposal to rename New Mexico “New America”.

Serious question: do I need to put images in slides for a keynote talk that is basically a lecture? Can I do it with just (mostly few) words on slides, or am I losing half the audience without giving them a pretty picture to look at (that is at best vaguely illustrative)?

– Camille Fournier, 6 September 2026.

Padmanabhan said that promise means VMware will also provide “TrueSource trusted artifacts” for code that is not part of Spring, including the wider Java ecosystem, Python, and Node.js.
…
Broadcom’s curation process ensures that the libraries conform to a reference architecture and are supportable by the maintainers of record,” according to a company statement. “Thousands of engineers across Broadcom’s software divisions scan, fix, contribute to, and consume them every day.”
…
A VMware spokesperson told The Register the Broadcom business unit “will work with and support maintainers on open source software and we will provide fixes to open source upstream for any active projects.”
…
“With Spring and RabbitMQ, we are the maintainers. For other open source software, we will work with the maintainers. We believe that the community maintainers must remain the source of truth,” the spokesperson said.”

🔗 Broadcom pledges to lock down open source Python, Java libraries

Summarized by AI.

🔗 The jobs apocalypse is postponed. An AI jobs boom is here

🔗 Introducing SKE Lift: Discover the Platform Hidden in Your Existing Infrastructure

Summarized by AI.

🔗 Broadcom’s AI Trajectory: De-Risking Silicon Growth and Managing Credit Exposure

Summarized by AI.

🔗 Tech sector continues to shed workers amid AI shift

🔗 Do you even need a presentation?