"The number of monthly security advisories reported to Broadcom by the Spring community alone increased over 1700% from March to April 2026. [The] Spring engineering team has significantly scaled its investment in advanced AI-assisted security analysis" www.broadcom.com/company/news...

2016: ”The US has a similar record with 94% of federal government IT projects exceeding their budgets and schedules, and 40% failing to complete” https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0740624X23000588

Private AI prediction: "Tens of millions of these will proliferate inside companies in the next few years, each one quietly absorbing much of the work that today shows up on a hyperscaler invoice." https://www.tomtunguz.com/using-local-ai-to-work-faster/

Avoiding low value work to be ready for high value work. Also, an example of "homework": work people get you to do that is not your job and often goes nowhere. https://seangoedecke.com/doing-nothing-at-work/

Commentary on rolling out AI at a bank. https://diginomica.com/why-abn-amros-ceo-wishes-bank-was-going-further-and-faster-ai-rollout-set-take-out-quarter-its

Underrated: the whole The Terminator universe.

This week, @brandonwhichard.com, @cote.io and @mattray.dev discuss NVIDIA going consumer, Microsoft Build, and the Anthropic/OpenAI IPO race. Plus, does credit card insurance work? https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/575

Here's the talk about surviving and thriving in a big company that I gave at J-Spring yesterday. talks.cote.io/how-to-survi...

"In April, utilizing new scanning capabilities, we received an unprecedented 482 new security reports across 65 scanned projects." vs. "typically about 6.5 new security reports a month" https://spring.io/blog/2026/06/01/spring_and_security_in_the_times_of_ai

Prescriptive on the current "now more than ever" security freak out. https://venturebeat.com/security/claude-mythos-exposed-a-hard-truth-your-enterprise-patching-process-is-way-too-slow

It is good to develop taste - opinions about what you like and don't like. And then, it gets weird: an example of taste. https://warrenellis.ltd/status/taste/

Eventually, you have to pay full price or the seller is insolvent. https://www.forrester.com/blogs/anthropics-proposed-ipo-will-change-the-economics-of-enterprise-ai/

Things your platform should for AI. https://nordicapis.com/6-enterprise-mcp-adoption-best-practices/

"That means each employee's AI spending cap is ~11% of that median compensation package." https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/3/uber-caps-usage/#atom-everything

Defeating Conway's Law, one platform at a time cote.io/2026/06/03/d...

Using a platform to combat Conway's Law and organizational friction caused by too many groups/silos. https://news.broadcom.com/broadcom-knights/unified-platform-unified-team-private-cloud?ref=cote.io

"How much of that actually results in pure margin or return expansion is to be seen.” https://www.ciodive.com/news/wells-fargo-ceo-scharf-ai-employment-banking-jobs/821660/?ref=cote.io

From what I can tell, every core part of the software stack is stopping what they're doing and taking care of the flood of new, AI-driven security issues. https://adtmag.com/articles/2026/06/02/java-maintenance-engineering-shifts-focus-on-quarterly-critical-patch-stabilization.aspx

Why aren't all images super-secure, or hardned? https://redmonk.com/kholterhoff/2026/06/01/why-hardened-images-are-suddenly-everywhere/

Three reasons why a "batteries included" platform is urgently needed right now https://cote.io/2026/06/01/three-reasons-why-a-batteries.html

Enterprise AI ROI strategy: do both individual productivity and new revenue sources https://cote.io/2026/06/01/enterprise-ai-roi-strategy-do.html

This smells like folklore. Plus, I don't think you could put that much even on an Amex. "A mysterious, unnamed company is reported to have accidentally spent $500bn in a single month on Claude AI after forgetting to set usage limits for Claude" www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

An overview of the best tech podcasts of the week: https://buttondown.com/failover/archive/failover-weekly-in-the-beginning-there-was-rss/

We've heard that writing code is just 10% to 20% of what "programming" is. Fair enough. So, how can we use AI to get better at the other 80% to 90%? This week, we catsup with @danvega.dev to find out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFC4...

I don't mind being asked to review/edit stuff written by AI. It would be nice to know, though, so I can dial in my "this is needs work" delivery tone. People deserve and work well with a lot of kindnesses. Robot don't care.

New links newsletter: sucking air through teeth, Gartner calls the GenAI bust, and Dell's $43B AI server quarter. Plus Anthropic's $47B run-rate, the Economist on AI killing grad jobs, four years at AWS, and the most improbable life. cote.io/2026/05/29/s...

Success is rare in new projects, so 50%+ failure in AI projects isn't too shocking. Learning takes time, and expectations are often wrong. cote.io/2026/05/29/f...

By all accounts, working at Amazon is a tough gig. https://www.adventuresinoss.com/aws-four-years/

If speeding up coding was never the problem...then why are we spending money on speeding it up? cote.io/2026/05/29/i...

3 enterprise AI things execs are struggling with: cost, cases, control. My quick take: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRyE...

New links newsletter: good O-rings and bad O-rings, the AI efficiency plateau, and anti-labor by design. Plus Altman's walk-back, Goldman's 24x token forecast, NatWest's 35% AI code, Gartner's 84% productivity theater. cote.io/2026/05/28/g...

Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam. cote.io/2026/05/28/g...

Everyone needs help figuring out when to leave for and get to the airport. One of our @softwaredefinedtalk.com listeners made an app for that: apps.apple.com/us/app/depar...

The vibe I get is that a lot of that token increase is consumer and end-user oriented: replacing search, organizing inboxes. https://www.goldmansachs.com/insights/articles/ai-agents-forecast-to-boost-tech-cash-flow-as-usage-soars

Their theory: enterprise AI ROI is laying off people. https://henry.codes/writing/ai-at-work-is-anti-labor-by-design/

Elusive Enterprise AI ROI: No scaling, it's not legible, lack of skills/need for training https://cote.io/2026/05/28/elusive-enterprise-ai-roi-no.html

Headline figures for 2025 saw the bank's software engineers generate 35% of its code through AI software development tools https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366643529/NatWest-inks-AI-deal-for-trade-finance

"Chances are, you are becoming more discerning about how you use your time." https://arnoldkling.substack.com/p/why-are-you-reading-fewer-books?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=338673&post_id=198762028&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=3o9&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

"The rate of incoming security reports [for curl] is 4-5 times higher than it was in 2024 and double the speed of 2025 - meaning that on average we now get more than one report per day." https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/26/the-pressure/#atom-everything

Who knew you could have architecture cartoons? https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-cartoonist-who-mocked-the-madness-of-modernism/

Use AI to improve how you think and work, not replace and multiply you. https://om.co/2026/05/26/the-copy-and-the-guru/

”CEOs are uniquely prone to AI psychosis because they’re sufficiently distant from the last mile of work that still has to happen to generate most value with AI.” Aaron Levie Box CEO. https://x.com/levie/status/2058582370253701432?s=61

People are obsessed with responsibility in agentic AI. Part of this is driven by regulations, where we want to know who to blame when things go wrong. Also, attribution of good results would be cool too. https://www.oreilly.com/radar/who-authorized-that-the-delegation-problem-in-multi-agent-ai/

"Zoom outlined its vision to become a 'system of action.'" // They're great and video conferencing, so I hope they keep doing that well. https://siliconangle.com/2026/05/26/zooms-recent-quarter-highlights-transition-system-action-company/

When you hear that people were laid off because of AI, what exactly is the AI now doing instead of the humans? It's been hard to find out. Some speculation: cote.io/2026/05/26/h...

The AI Security freak-out: now is the time for platform engineering to shine - The AI-driven security freak-out is a time to see what if your platform engineering strategy is working. cote.io/2026/05/26/t...

Decoding what the point of a meeting when the Americans won't just tell you directly. https://randsinrepose.com/archives/the-ask/

Removing ads and paywalls as a social good https://breck7.github.io/breckyunits.com/ic.html

Why and when you should use use HTML over markdown as the way of working with AI. https://claude.com/blog/using-claude-code-the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-html

No one remembers how these things work, or what they were supposed to do. Maybe the AIs can figure it out by observing what they do. https://hyperframeresearch.com/2026/05/22/the-behavior-first-paradigm-moving-mainframe-modernization-past-llm-wishful-thinking/