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Texas Forever!
"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...
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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
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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/
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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/
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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
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Underrated: the whole The Terminator universe.
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Software Defined Talk
5 days ago
This week,
@brandonwhichard.com
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@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
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UI blizzard
This week, we discuss NVIDIA going consumer, Microsoft Build, and the Anthropic/OpenAI IPO race. Plus, does credit card insurance work?
https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/575
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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...
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How to Survive and Thrive in a BigCo - Cote's Talks
How to survive and thrive in a BigCo - Cote's J-Spring 2026 talk on managing your career, your projects, your presentations, and yourself inside a large enterprise.
https://talks.cote.io/how-to-survive-and-thrive-in-a-bigco-jspring-2026/
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"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
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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
6 days ago
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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/
6 days ago
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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/
6 days ago
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Things your platform should for AI.
https://nordicapis.com/6-enterprise-mcp-adoption-best-practices/
7 days ago
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"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
7 days ago
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Defeating Conway's Law, one platform at a time
cote.io/2026/06/03/d...
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Defeating Conway's Law
Try using a platform to combat Conway’s Law and …
https://cote.io/2026/06/03/defeating-conways-law.html
8 days ago
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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
8 days ago
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"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
8 days ago
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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
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Why aren't all images super-secure, or hardned?
https://redmonk.com/kholterhoff/2026/06/01/why-hardened-images-are-suddenly-everywhere/
9 days ago
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Three reasons why a "batteries included" platform is urgently needed right now https://cote.io/2026/06/01/three-reasons-why-a-batteries.html
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Enterprise AI ROI strategy: do both individual productivity and new revenue sources https://cote.io/2026/06/01/enterprise-ai-roi-strategy-do.html
10 days ago
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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...
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Mystery company accidentally blew $500 million on Claude AI in a single month — failed to put usage limit on licenses for employees
A new report claims AI is getting too expensive for big companies
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/mystery-company-accidentally-blew-usd500-million-on-claude-in-a-single-month-failed-to-put-usage-limit-on-licenses-for-employees?ref=cote.io
12 days ago
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An overview of the best tech podcasts of the week: https://buttondown.com/failover/archive/failover-weekly-in-the-beginning-there-was-rss/
12 days ago
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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...
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How to use AI for more than just programming
YouTube video by VMware Tanzu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFC4Z5QTXEw
12 days ago
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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.
12 days ago
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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...
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Sucking Air Through Their Teeth, 50/50 success/failure, and Dell's $43B AI Server Quarter - Related to your interests, Friday
Also: the improbable life, four years working at AWS, an …
https://cote.io/2026/05/29/sucking-air-through-their-teeth.html
12 days ago
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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...
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By all accounts, working at Amazon is a tough gig.
https://www.adventuresinoss.com/aws-four-years/
13 days ago
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If speeding up coding was never the problem...then why are we spending money on speeding it up?
cote.io/2026/05/29/i...
13 days ago
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3 enterprise AI things execs are struggling with: cost, cases, control. My quick take:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRyE...
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The CFO is about to see the AI bill - and two other enterprise AI problems
YouTube video by VMware Tanzu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRyEfH_TEUo
13 days ago
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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...
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Good O-Rings and Bad O-Rings, the AI Efficiency Plateau, and Anti-Labor by Design - Related to your interests, Thursday
Also: Goldman’s 24x token forecast, Indian IT’s …
https://cote.io/2026/05/28/good-orings-and-bad-orings.html
13 days ago
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Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam.
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Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam
https://cote.io/2026/05/28/garbage-chairs-of-amsterdam.html
13 days ago
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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...
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DepartTime App - App Store
Download DepartTime by Jason Clishe on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like DepartTime.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/departtime/id6771132452
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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
14 days ago
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Their theory: enterprise AI ROI is laying off people.
https://henry.codes/writing/ai-at-work-is-anti-labor-by-design/
14 days ago
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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
14 days ago
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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
14 days ago
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"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
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"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
15 days ago
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Who knew you could have architecture cartoons?
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-cartoonist-who-mocked-the-madness-of-modernism/
15 days ago
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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/
15 days ago
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”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
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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/
15 days ago
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"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/
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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...
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How do AI Layoffs Work? Some Speculation.
Via geralt on Pixabay When an executives says layoffs were …
https://cote.io/2026/05/26/how-do-ai-layoffs-work.html
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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...
15 days ago
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Decoding what the point of a meeting when the Americans won't just tell you directly.
https://randsinrepose.com/archives/the-ask/
16 days ago
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Removing ads and paywalls as a social good
https://breck7.github.io/breckyunits.com/ic.html
16 days ago
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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
16 days ago
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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/
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