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Rogue agents spamming a dormant German wiki, an AI jobs boom that has yet to eat anyone, and the soon to be lost art of writing code.

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…

In fact, excessive activity can protect us from the harder work of deciding what actually matters.

Fewer than a quarter of enterprises have scaled AI.

Holiday Laundromat facade sign, dinosaur detail, Route 40, Vernal, Utah – The Library of Congress The 1Password thing 1Password gave $300,000 to DHH’s Omarchy.

VMware Explore 2026 ran August 31 to September 3 in Las Vegas.

Broadcom has been using Mythos (Project Glasswing) to find and address security vulnerabilities since the beginning.

Getting your data in shape for enterprise AI usage.

AI is valuable to individuals – it automates not only much of their busy work but also their valuable work and, when I look at the anecdata (including my own use), it improves the quality of what they do.

Analysis and chart done by Claude Opus (1m) on August 27th, 2026.

I wanted to see how much time I spend playing D&D with AI and working on the tooling for playing D&D with AI.

The above is an excerpt from the interview with Caleb about platform as a product.

As part of the updating our platform as a product paper (almost ten years old, and now updated for 2026), I interviewed one of the people involved in it from State Farm and Pivotal, and now MomentumAI, going over how the concept has changed since then from

Personalisation produces sameness rather than niches because minimising prediction error means hedging toward the conditional mean, and the resulting world then validates the prediction.

Today, 52% of Americans say they are more concerned than excited about the increased use of AI in daily life – up from 37% in 2021.

Academic rigor and thought-leadership polish both edit the writer’s judgment out of the prose, and LLM text is that same absence with no one behind it.

Perhaps more intriguing is the makeup of that adoption, and how it appears to be blurring roles.

Beyond this being a highly interesting case on its own merits, it shows that ChatGPT transcripts can be obtained by opposing lawyers in discovery or during depositions.

If we map it, again, you can see the two arms of White Empire stretching over the Atlantic and Pacific oceans to draw resources and labor in.

ICYMI Original content published since last time.

Epictetus’s productivity method starts with a filter: Is this mine?

George Gessert ornamental plants as a form of domestication.

From Articulate Rise Scenario Block

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.

Gemini crossed a billion users, most of them just talking to it.

Adobe hasn’t done well in the “AI era.”

The industry [used to be] far more apprehensive about AI tools than it is today, with a clearer understanding now of what uses might be appropriate — data collection and analysis, for example — and when it might not, such as in writing and editing stories…

…of course, the revealed preference would say otherwise… 41% of respondents said they post to their Instagram grid once a month or less, with similar results for Facebook (38%) and TikTok (47%).* Sixty-four percent of respondents described themselves as p…

Google LLC’s Gemini artificial intelligence app has passed 1 billion monthly active users, making it the 14th product in the company’s history to reach that mark. … Alphabet Inc. put the app at 650 million monthly users last October and 750 million by Feb…

From last week’s Tanzu Catsup.

From: The adorable love story behind Wikipedia’s ‘high five’ photos ICYMI Original content published since last time.

From Marc Weidenbaum, June 22, 2026.

I wrote up how the Tanzu Platform product management team has been using AI, from talking with Chris McClanahan, one of the co-leads of product management, and Purnima Padmanabhan, the Tanzu GM.

Here’s another, totally custom and one-off battle-map AI made for me: This was just a random encounter in a D&D adventure I was doing with solo role-playing with AI (Claude).

I’m old enough to remember how much time and agony we spent explaining to managers the importance of context switching for developers, and how they should have meeting free Fridays… And now the same people that we’re trying to help are bragging about how…

Check the rest of our conversation on last week’s Tanzu Catsup.

For enterprises to get the most out of their AI investments, they should think about going deep with their AI deployments, not wide, Ashraf said.

If you’re an entrepreneur in the venture game, you should internalize this.

The client could copy the database, but the database structure was so complex, they couldn’t make sense of it, and had been working for ten months with limited progress.

[Forrester’s] survey of leaders found 55 percent of employers regret having made tech-driven staff cuts—leading its analysts to predict ‘half of AI-attributed layoffs [will] be quietly reversed.'”

From geralt.

This applies to generated images, audio and text, as long as they were designed to look real.

I was hoping it would do things like carry around amphorae to refill my wine between each sip and plates of succulent grapes, and then help me stumble home after the bacchanal.

COBOL remains a widely-used but aging programming language that works across mainframe computers and legacy operating systems, supporting more than 40% of online banking systems, 80% of in-person credit card transactions and 95% of ATM transactions, accor…

When you speed up the SDLC process, you should collapse silo’ed teams into one team to prevent human bottlenecks based on handoffs.

Community security reports for Spring.

AI just makes good things gooder, and bad things badder: The real work starts before evaluating tools or issuing an RFP.

Encode what you should next in AI ROI metrics, don’t leave the decision up to post-metrics vibes.

AI amplifies your current state, moral panic edition: Perhaps intuitively and certainly as framed by popular narratives, AICs aggravate precisely these existential nerves.

The biggest change in today’s update is an overhaul of how MCP processes request metadata.