Latest episode of @coffeecornerradio.bsky.social with @holgerbsky.bsky.social and @cyclingfisch.bsky.social on Sapphire 2026 is a good listen, centres around the messaging around the Autonomous Enterprise & the correlation with MySAP, one takeaway was all the recent AI investments were European

I was laid off by Atlassian www.youtube.com/watch?v=55pT... a few people have referenced this video in conversation, its a masterclass in system thinking

I used to think culture was the worst behaviour we’re willing to accept. Not what we say in public, but what we do behind closed doors. Now I think it’s the compromises we make on our core values to keep results coming. Culture follows incentives, not values.

Last night I watched Project Hail Mary. Felt like the movie really did the book justice. The actor playing Stratt was excellent, and I still can’t understand how Ryan Gosling and a rock make a 150 minute movie fly by.

Local offie just gave me a couple of these bad boys, started a meta conversation on goblet vs bolleke

First a "SaaSpocalypse" and now "AI Vampire" (or "Zombie") narrative, classic venture capital pivot from one looming disaster to another. AI Vampires Can't Stop Coding - Marc Andreessen a16z youtube.com/shorts/z_5bf...

I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that

Every time Billy Butcher opens his mouth, I hear a New Zealander pretending to be Australian doing what an American thinks a Cockney sounds like or Cockwi as Reddit dubs it.

The single most accurate science fiction author writing about AI turned out to be… Douglas Adams He wrote about AIs that work best when emotionally manipulated & that guilt you in turn. And he understood there was no upper bound on test time compute for hard problem. Also dolphin communication!

With the price changes to GitHub copilot and others likely to follow suit - How long until we start seeing a timesheet or field on Jira for token inference, what was the business value for this spend, who needs to pay?

Late last week i got two calls out of the blue, two senior leaders for big consulting companies I hadn't spoken to either in over 15 years, both asking what they should know about specific SAP technical people they were already considering.

👤 Post by Yogananda (by SAP): "CAP Developers - Call to Action to mitigate and Apply Solution provided in SAP Note 3747787" 🔗 Link: https://community.sap.com/t5/technology-blog-posts-by-sap/cap-developers-call-to-action-to-mitigate-and-apply-solution-provided-in/ba-p/14387683

www.theregister.com/2026/04/30/s... me.sap.com/notes/3747787 #OhNoWhatsGoingOnWithGitHub

With the move to usage based pricing for AI services, GitHub has also adjusted the pricing model for users on an annual plan. The adjustments give a glimpse of how much AI usage was being subsidized. For instance, the price of Claude Opus 4.5 is going up 5x, Claude Opus 4.7 up 9x and GPT 5.4 up 6x.

GitHub Copilot is officially moving to usage based billing from its current model of allocating a fixed number of “premium requests” per month for using advanced features. The post states it’s no longer sustainable for GitHub to absorb inference costs. The Uber moment for AI token pricing is here.

SpaceX intends to IPO soon around $2T, using the Cursor founders to chase an AI multiple. What could go wrong. Time to hoard baked beans.

Brilliant piece

This was a really good episode I can't wait for part 2

Automating busy work is busy work.

"A skill tells you how. An ADR tells you why. The why is what transfers to the next person and the next decision. That is worth more than a recipe." this is Sonnet 4.6, i asked for a skill, it gave me and ADR with sound reasoning, why i went back to Sonnet from Opus 4.7

Reading LinkedIn today. Phase 1: build AI startup on SAP APIs. Phase 2: ???. Phase 3: cry in a LinkedIn post when SAP updates their policy.

I used to measure a holiday by how many passwords I'd forgotten by the time I got back to work. Now I just think I'm getting old.

If an American company made Super Mario Bros.

The Instagram is strong with this one

Having flashbacks on the beach at Da Nang

I remember when it was a scandal that a company laid people off over Zoom. Now that seems warm and fuzzy compared to the norm today. Oracle laid off 30K people with a 6AM email with a link to click and accept terms if they wanted severance.

After years of using Google Pixel phones for their lack of bloat, I found the actual devices a bit meh. The Nothing 3, on the other hand, feels slick and looks great.

10/ You can solve an enormous number of technical problems by taking a walk

The new reality of software delivery We're writing 59% more code and yet shipping less code than before. Code review, testing, integration, recovery. None of it got faster. The SDLC is choking on volume it was never built for. circleci.com/resources/20...

People are grossly mistaking productivity for value. An app is a thing that works. Software is a thing built to last and operate reliably. Was wide before but In the last 6 months, that ratio has only widened further. Knowledge, like time, has been democratized. Value hasn't.

Really see the benefit of the Fiori mockserver now. CAP annotations like @hierarchy where SQLite and H2 don't behave like HANA, without a local HANA the process is very slow going and full of workarounds.

Cold

ESLint apparently doesn't flag em dashes (—) because it's a code linter, not a spell checker. 5 mins with Opus trying to decide whether a plugin, rule, skill, or prompt is needed. The whiplash hurts. Update- asked Gemini - it's a line in eslint.config.js. Cool.

Heard from a recruiter about another project where BTP developers implementing it and working WFH are being paid more than the architects who designed it months ago and worked onsite.

SAP acquiring a high-growth startup. Curious what multiple they paid given the recent stock dip. Guessing this will drive cost cuts elsewhere

Kubernetes Still Feels Weird? What i wish i knew sooner aws.plainenglish.io/kubernetes-s...

yay spent 2 days trying to work out why Fiori Elements TreeTable was working fine for one entity and not another @odata.bind an OData V4 annotation used to update a relationship between two existing entities was being stripped out in CAP FE Wizard now using "odataVersion": "4.01" not "4.0"

SAP once needed a dot in every Gartner Magic Quadrant. It was how you signalled competitive breadth. If AI is reducing the influence of analyst firms, that pressure fades too. Fewer companies following Gartner means fewer reasons to chase every square. Expect products to get cannibalized.

The less someone knows about a problem, the more they trust GenAI to solve it. Confidence peaks where understanding is thinnest. GenAI made us forget about imposter syndrome. Dunning Kruger didn’t get the memo.

A few callous layoffs in the news lately When HR fumbles the fallout you have to ask who they actually serve Because in that moment it was not the people

I find myself sharing this talk a lot. Too many freelancers and contractors start on a handshake or a lopsided contract, then wonder why they’re chasing the last invoice. Don’t start till it’s sorted. “F*ck You, Pay Me” - Mike Monteiro youtu.be/jVkLVRt6c1U?...

The people who used to occasionally drop gold on LinkedIn are gone. Not because they had nothing to say but because the algorithm rewards everything else. Play the game or leave. Build an audience to feed the algorithm, or watch it evaporate. Truffle hunting.

Look what I found at the pub round the corner from my house

Great discussion on the gap & need for tech apprenticeship in the AI era "We're going from a learning culture to a shipping culture .. one that forgets how to learn" "I only know that this is wrong because I have done it" why shared wisdom and tribal knowledge matter 👍👍 a preceptorship programme

Vale Chuck

Stop Confusing API Gateway, Load Balancer and Reverse Proxy youtu.be/DVR0zvDYJgY?... this just popped into my play list If you come from on-prem, F5 and SAP Web Dispatcher covered a lot of this, including WAF, in one box. Cloud native just unbundled it. The L4 vs L7 section is worth it alone.

port1355.dev Looks like a nice reverse proxy node alternative to Nginx or Caddy

I miss tech twitter. SAP conferences just wrapped all over the world and all LinkedIn has to show for it is selfies. Have conferences turned into Pokemon Go? Gotta catch 'em all

www.theregister.com/2026/03/19/s... 5 years into RISE with SAP only 39% of ECC customers have started migrating to S4HANA Pundits suggest focus has already shifted to selling AI innovation to those who moved DSAG data this week shows 75% of orgs aren't driving AI initiatives through SAP workloads

AI makes code cheap to produce, but it also creates false confidence. The scarce thing is still the tribal knowledge of why the system works the way it does and who you can rely on to fix it when it does not or explain it to regulators. System comprehension is still the real work.