Day 2.

(1) When you accidentally watch YouTube without YouTube Premium... (2) Oh. I see what all the slop people are talking about. "This is a bummer, man."

Ironically, one of the better examples of why vibe coding is a bad idea. https://maggieappleton.com/gastown

Orgs frequently underestimate the complexity, budget, and time required to build an IDP. While initial estimates might focus solely on labor, real-world "all-in" costs over a 3-to-5-year period can balloon to between $80 and $120 million. Full discussion: www.youtube.com/live/4ocETiO...

"Meanwhile, some 49% of the US workforce reported 'never' using AI in their role” Also, cool chart. https://sherwood.news/tech/12-percent-of-american-workers-use-artificial-intelligence-in-their-roles-every-day/

"Amazon is where overachievers go to feel bad about themselves." https://substack.com/home/post/p-185260410

Coming up, live, in ~30 minutes - How much should you budget for building an internal developer platform? Are there alternatives. Of course there are: you should buy one instead. - www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ocE...

Kubernetes use rising, large organizations slowest to adapt, not many people train their own AI model or deploy new AI models frequently - my quick look at the new CNCF survey: cote.io/2026/01/26/k...

Enterprises, build #GenAI apps with confidence! This blog details how Tanzu Platform's AI Services offer governance, PII scanning, & cost controls built-in. Speed + Safety = Innovation. Be sure to also see @ciberkleid.bsky.social#GenAIat #DevNexus2026! https://brcm.tech/4pKJ402

My newsletter for today. It's chock full of links and strange things fro the World Wide Web: open.substack.com/pub/cote/p/e...

I'm going to be on Cloud Foundry Weekly, live streamed, in about 30 minutes, talking about platform engineering in 2026: www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6NC...

This week, @brandonwhichard.com, @cote.io and @mattray.dev discuss the end of Cloud 1.0, AI agents fixing old apps, and Chainguard vs. Docker images. Plus, the mystery of Dutch broth is finally solved. https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/556

Be well known around the company, do some personal marketing, "have an impact" on other teams and make sure people know about it. // When there's blood on the boardroom floor, there is no "I" in team. https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-avoid-underperformer-label-and-layoffs-2025-2

Another one for @taylor.town, from spectrum.ieee.org/prompt-injec...

Fears about rivals putting your national and corporate interests into AI training. I suppose it's just like fear of TikTok: that it's a propaganda tool, as well as just a simple data gathering tool, i.e., surveillance. https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/21/nadella_ai_sovereignty_wef/

The messaging stack for private cloud. https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/2026/01/21/scaling-messaging-with-confidence-vmware-vsphere-kubernetes-service-and-tanzu-rabbitmq/

”Under this new agreement, [US] agencies can purchase select Broadcom software solutions at a 64% discount off the list price. These offers are valid until May 2027 across the portfollo” https://news.broadcom.com/government/gsa-broadcom-onegov-agreement

Enterprise AI ROI is still elusive. What IT can do to fix it. It's not "culture." New post on my weblog: cote.io/2026/01/23/e...

Developers Lean on AI More, But Report Growing Doubts About Accuracy, Stack Overflow Survey Says https://adtmag.com/blogs/watersworks/2026/01/stack-overflow-survey.aspx

How the normies experience AI news. https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2026/01/21/perplexed/

To have full sovereign IT, you need to build the software from the ground up. https://lu.is/2026/01/two-questions-on-software-sovereignty/

The #1 in a market doesn't have to give up customer control to Apple. https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/01/22/walmart-apple-pay

The Information: ‘With Google Deal, Apple’s Craig Federighi Plots a Cautious Course in AI’ https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/01/22/information-federighi

"A platform is repeatable. Channel partners can sell it. Your team can operate it. Reference architectures exist for common workloads. You’re buying a product, not hiring an implementation." https://thectoadvisor.com/blog/2026/01/22/your-fourth-cloud-for-ai-platform-or-project/

Even Jamie Dimon is like: fellas, fellas....let's slow-roll destroying society as we know it... https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366637505/JPMorgan-CEO-urges-slowdown-of-AI-roll-out-to-save-society

"More than half of CEOs report seeing neither increased revenue nor decreased costs from AI, despite massive investments in the technology, according to a PwC survey of 4,454 business leaders" https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/20/pwc_ai_ceo_survey/

Get rid of that old fridge in the garage to keep energy usage flat. https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/20/electricity-use-of-ai-coding-agents/#atom-everything

After several years of optimism and working on AIs playing role playing games (like D&D), I'm starting to doubt if they're ever be good enough at running adventures, DM'ing.

My findings after 3 years on AIs playing games is that they're just generally bad at it. They're just good enough to string you along, hoping they'll get good. https://borretti.me/article/letting-claude-play-text-adventures

"AI isn't revealing new problems - it's exposing decades of process debt we've been carrying all along." / One bottleneck after another... https://itrevolution.com/articles/the-revenge-of-qa-how-ai-code-generation-is-exposing-decades-of-process-debt/

“Since we started using Application Advisor, we’ve seen a 70% reduction in engineering time tied to upgrades,” says Roberts. “Now we can focus more of our time and resources on the delivery of new value-added features for our customers.” https://www.vmware.com/docs/Alight-Case-Study

How to use AI for solo roleplaying with Dungeons & Dragons cote.io/2026/01/18/h...

If @taylor.town was into enterprise software, this would be one in his no-comment absurdist image series.

MANRUSH.BMF

Another go at LowCode https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/16/the-rise-of-micro-apps-non-developers-are-writing-apps-instead-of-buying-them/

A whole lot thinking about the silo problem for enterprise AI. When a new, expensive technology benefits multiple groups, who decided on it and pays for it? https://diginomica.com/who-pays-agentic-ai-enterprise-budget-problem-no-vendor-will-address

Walmart: This year, AI tinkering ‘becomes transformation’ https://www.ciodive.com/news/walmart-ai-shopping-strategy-tinkering-transformation/809895/

This week, @brandonwhichard.com, @cote.io and @mattray.dev discuss Gemini powering Siri, AWS’s biggest competitor, and AWS strategy choices. Plus, when should your next meeting actually start? https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/555

Kroger taps Google Gemini, announces more key AI moves https://www.ciodive.com/news/kroger-ai-google-gemini-shopping-assistant-technology-associate-platform-sage-nrf-2026/809669/

Lack of sleep drives stress, stress make it harder to get to sleep - recent surveys on that loop. https://johnfdickerson.substack.com/p/stress-is-the-algorithm

"An approach to CX that is too focused on speed and ease can lead to a lack of brand identity that makes it hard to form relationships with customers." // This is an odd way of thinking. https://www.customerexperiencedive.com/news/taco-bell-memorable-not-frictionless-experiences/809652/

"Perhaps that’s worth spinning in a more positive light. Most Americans, 60%, did read a book in 2025." And: "Those who identified as female read at higher rates than their male counterparts at 63% to 56%." https://bookriot.com/american-reading-habits-2025/

Enshittification applied to corporate culture. https://seths.blog/2026/01/the-squeeze/

Does anyone use Drafts for their full on PKM? Yes, I know that’s not its purpose, mostly. It doesn’t support images (at least displaying them online). Nor plain text files in a directory (more or less). But it sure is fast and easy.

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Good advice. Also, gave a good product. That is deodorant for any stink. https://www.forrester.com/blogs/my-tips-for-crushing-your-analyst-briefings-and-wowing-the-analyst/

No, no...you won't be replaced by AI. A person using AI will replace you and 4,999 other people.

No, no...you won't be replaced by AI. A person using AI will replace you and 4,999 other people.

once again, we show that VR/cyberspace is a solution that will never find its problem. https://sherwood.news/tech/rip-the-metaverse/

🤖 Study finds that LLM scaling reduces task time 8% per year and could boost U.S. productivity by 20% over the next decade. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.21316