A little fun for a Monday, I watch a lot of rugby, and like anyone following the URC there are lots of possible permutations for the final three rounds, so I put together a little app to stick in the results you expect and see what the table might look like fintanr.com/urc/

Introducing the MIST (Mystify, Intimidate, Sustain, Transform) framework. Transformational thought leadership via Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.5 in "Leveraging Buzzword Synergy to Maximize Stakeholder Confusion: A Strategic Imperative for the Modern Enterprise" msuaas.com/2025/09/30/m... #satire

Honestly don't understand the need for this. www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-...

Why I Replaced My Executive Team with a Magic 8-Ball and Saw 300% Growth Some ground breaking LLM generated thought leadership msuaas.com/2025/08/24/m...

Not sure building an updated deck on the AI devtools landscape to the strains of Chaos AD from Sepultura will set the correct tone, but lets see how this morning goes..

"Perfect! That's a great improvement." - no, no its not, its what I asked you to do the in the first place dear llm.

I've said more than a few times that if you like Vibe Coding your going to love Vibe Security... indeed... and thats not to mention the lessons in basic software engineering some folks learned over the last few weeks. www.wiz.io/blog/critica...

This is really excellent on our understandings of - and the reality of - intergenerational inequality.

Right up your street @monkchips.com , think @bettyjunod.bsky.social might enjoy this too. Occhipiniti SP68 Bianco 2023

Realise it’s trendy to dunk on bullet points right now, but you do realise that they existed before AI. And they are an incredibly effective way of writing for certain audiences.

The Silent Language of Office Plants: How Foliage Drives Innovation This weeks ground breaking thought leadership msuaas post, courtesy of Google Gemini 2.5. msuaas.com/2025/07/25/s...

Finishing up some work and stuck on A Forest by The Cure. Still wonderful that it sends shivers down my spine every time I hear it. youtu.be/xik-y0xlpZ0?...

Introducing "Corporate Astrology: Aligning Your Business Strategy with Mercury Retrograde", new LLM generated thought leadership. (yes it is satire). msuaas.com/2025/07/19/c...

Introducing "Corporate Astrology: Aligning Your Business Strategy with Mercury Retrograde", new LLM generated thought leadership. (yes it is satire). msuaas.com/2025/07/19/c...

This weeks MSUAAS post is courtesy of Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4 on "Retroactive Synergy: Achieving Tomorrow’s Results Yesterday" msuaas.com/2025/07/11/r...

Silly fun weekend project I finally got around to, introducing Making Shit Up As A Service (msuaas.com), an irreverent look at LLM generated thought leadership.

Don’t think I will make @monktoberfest.com this year. You should if you can.

It’s amusing watching people’s egos go stratospheric when they mistake luck and being the massive beneficiaries of the work and foresight of others for some sort of strategic brilliance on their part.

BBQ broccoli, bbq limes & satay sauce

A welcome view of Edinburghs shoreline after a long layover with an extra delay in Schipol.

OpenAI is the first consumer company in a longtime to have the scale to pull this off. Thinking all the way back to 2012 and a twitter interaction with @monkchips.com redmonk.com/jgovernor/20...

Heads down finishing some work to some new tunes /cc @monkchips.com open.spotify.com/album/2jaVvl...

The most useful of all Scottish Forecasts, as discussed by parents during a (wonderfully sunny) kids cricket session yesterday - www.smidgeup.com/midge-foreca...

Does anyone have a copy of the very first State of DevOps report by Puppet from 2012, can't find a version of it /cc some possible suspects in @jedi.be @monkchips.com @littleidea.bsky.social

We seem to be reaching a depressing circle of asking AI to summarise the post someone wrote with AI and then someone else asking AI to explain the summary. Exhaust fumes. Its a tool, and a fantastic tool, but its not a replacement.

Using openai deep research for an area you know well is, um, entertaining and shows up how dangerously inaccurate it can be. More summer intern than phd level research.

In which the vendor ecosystem responds to the platform core vision of MCP via A2A from Google developers.googleblog.com/en/a2a-a-new...

Catching up on all the commentary on 11x using logos without permission. I wrote up some thoughts on this "trend" from an analyst perspective a few years ago. medium.com/@fintanr/on-...

There is a lot of Model Context Protocol (MCP) news right now. Away from the head long rush of technologists to leverage and support MCP it is worth thinking about they why of Anthropic's strategy - some brief thoughts - medium.com/@fintanr/the...

And back in Edinburgh after #Monkigras. Thank you @monkchips.com and all the @redmonk.com crew for a great conference as always.

March 21, 1925: Scotland’s rugby team defeats England, 14-11, in the newly opened Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh. The victory by the Scots (dark jerseys) in the Five Nations tournament secures their first-ever grand slam—a win against all the other opponents.

I'd politely said interesting reading when the S1 arrived, @edzitron.com rips the Coreweave S1 to shreds. Long read, well worth it www.wheresyoured.at/core-incompe...

In the bleepy music stakes, new album coming from Surgeon in May, first tunes seem to have dropped. Kicking track /cc @monkchips.com open.spotify.com/track/6xRRpc...

Researching a talk and I have had ChatGPT tell me that someone I personally know is dead since 2018. Misinformation by stochastic parrot machine.

Links for March 13th including a fascinating podcast from @netlify.com CEO Mathias Biilmann & Martin Casado of A16Z on AX, MCP bits and Java Developer Productivity from Perforce. fintanr.com/links/2025/0...

Super excited to be speaking at Monkigras on March 27th & 28th. monkigras.com

Today in LLMs say the darnedest things, looking at some bits around @convex.dev and AX, and got "Convex is investing in the agent experience and building actual evil frameworks for agents". I can confirm they word should be useful, not evil. The LLM shall remain nameless.

Vibe coding. Scaling that legacy server in the corner which no one knows quite whats running on it for the AI era.

Boring practical take - the current weave of AI no code apps will hit the same governance wall as the last wave of Low Code tools. Enterprises need to ensure compliance at scale. Its boring, but its needed. All the shiny demos in the world can't get away from that fact.

Line out in #ScotlandvWales yesterday

Gorgeous sunset this evening in #Edinburgh

Very long week, but lovely to get time to cook at the end of it. Chicken w/ barberries & orange juice, roasted cauliflower salad w/ celery, hazelnuts & pomegranate & all spice, cinnamon, maple & sherry vinegar dressing, carrot salad w/ pistachios, coriander, nigella seeds & lime & honey dressing.

That Coreweave S1 makes for interesting reading www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...

Arthurs Seat from Allermuir

A sign of intellect is the ability to change your mind in the face of new facts. A mark of wisdom is refusing to let the fear of admitting you were wrong stop you from getting it right. The joy of learning something new eventually exceeds the pain of unlearning something old.

This. The focus on building bespoke platforms vs customer focused apps is an awful, long running, trend. Your compliance/security/platform requirements are likely almost identical to 100s of other companies. Your needs are likely not unique. Despite what the conferences & blog posts tell you.

Todays links include IBM's acquisition of DataStax, UK regulatory approval for the IBM acquisition of HashiCorp, Anthropic's new model, Northflank on abandoning next.js, bits on Web Components and MongoDB acquiring VoyageAI. fintanr.com/links/2024/0...

Happy Birthday 🍻 @sogrady.org

Top London restaurants adopt minimum spend - got to say I completely agree with this. No shows and partial shows ruin the viability of restaurants. High end cooking is a very skilled craft. www.ft.com/content/2d39...