“We’re trying to get everyone to be AI experts and that might not be the way.” My pal @bryanross.me, Field CTO at GitLab, on the new episode with @whitneylee.com and me. www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/124
The Chief Therapy Officer, Job Titles as Culture Change, and AI as Spreadsheets, with Bryan Ross
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Lesson learned last week, you have to tell the AI and students not to cheat. www.youtube.com/live/BeblGh_...
If you’re an AI skeptic, may I please suggest “convert this shitty pdf of my child’s school calendar into an .ics file” as a use case?
How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing | jola.dev https://jola.dev/posts/how-to-stop-claude-from-saying-load-bearing First Claude code hook prank?
The best theory of elusive enterprise AI ROI yet: AI makes workers more productive, not organizations. Doctorow's "centaurs" set the terms of their own automation. The productivity is real, it just never shows up as a headcount saving. cote.io/2026/08/03/t...
Forrester: 55% of employers regret their tech-driven staff cuts, and half of AI-attributed layoffs will get quietly reversed. Robert Half says a third of those execs already rehired. "We did it because of AI" was the story told afterwards, not the reason. cote.io/2026/08/03/a...
My review of using Claude to cook.
Software Defined Talk@softwaredefinedtalk.com · 5d agoThis week, @brandonwhichard.com, @cote.io and @mattray.dev discuss how normal people use AI, Alphabet's Anthropic-fueled earnings, and skills vs. agents. Plus, catching AI-cheating students with a hidden prompt. https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/583
New links newsletter: Metric Theater, a trillion tokens a month, and COBOL still running 95% of ATMs. Satyrs with chainsaws. cote.io/2026/07/31/r...
Relative to your interests, Friday
Metric Theater in AI ROI dashboards, Visa collapsing ten-person dev teams, AT&T burning a trillion tokens a month, and COBOL still running 95% of ATM transactions. Plus Kubernetes won the argu…
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I was hoping it would do things like carry around amphorae to refill my wine between each sip and plates of succulent grapes, and then help me stumble home after the bacchanal. https://www.satyress.com/
Tokenomics - how AT&T burns through a trillion+ tokens a month (and rising), but still manages to drive down enterprise costs through ‘moneyballing’ https://diginomica.com/tokenomics-how-att-burns-through-trillion-tokens-month-and-rising-still-manages-drive-down A
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When vendor-supplied support matters: How AI is changing the open source security equation
"What's happened with frontier AI is that what was a trickle has now turned into a tidal wave." Open-source vulnerability is growing fast, and tested fixes and first-party support are central to…
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"What's happened with frontier AI is that what was a trickle has now turned into a tidal wave." Spring security reports, went from ~7/month to 55 in March, 112 in April, 370 more from more scans. From @carlypage.bsky.social's talk with Ryan & @michaelminella.com: thenewstack.io/ai-open-sour...
How I tell AI to write in my style, other people's styles -- and how to strip out shitty AI talk and LinkedIn language - my agent skill and prompt: cote.io/2026/07/29/h...
How I tell AI to write in my style, other people’s styles – and how to strip out shitty AI talk and LinkedIn language
Discover how AI can enhance your writing with techniques to avoid clichés and maintain your unique style. Elevate your centaur writing today!
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Google looked at 15 million Gemini conversations: mostly TV, homework, and government paperwork. Work is only 13.5% of it, and almost none of that is trying to automate anything: cote.io/2026/07/29/h...
I'm often told infrastructure people don't care about developers and platforms. But whatever your developers build above your infrastructure is a platform and they'll soon flit away from it, and now for you it's: not my mistake, and now my problem. Full talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSiP...
This week, @brandonwhichard.com, @cote.io and @mattray.dev discuss Bun's move to Rust, OpenAI hunting for revenue, and Stripe's bid for PayPal. Plus, Coté's Dad wisdom. https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/582
Talking About Modernization
This week, we discuss Bun's move to Rust, OpenAI hunting for revenue, and Stripe's bid for PayPal. Plus, Coté's Dad wisdom.
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DevOps has ended up meaning your build pipeline and project tracking app. And, sure, why not? Most of the people I see who call themselves “DevOps Engineers” do that. https://about.gitlab.com/resources/gartner-magic-quadrant/
Each R stands for “Rockin.’”
VMware Tanzu@vmwaretanzu.bsky.social · 2w agoNine years ago, we argued that "faster is safer" in enterprise security. In 2026, with #AI-driven exploits operating at machine speed, that philosophy isn't just a goal—it’s a survival requirement. Learn how we've evolved the Three R’s: https://brcm.tech/3RiQZWD #EnterpriseSecurity
I read a lot of "we can't figure out enterprise AI ROI" stuff. It sounds a lot like the "containers won't fix your broken culture"/"culture eats strategy for breakfast" big word slides from the digital transformation days. Some theories on what to change: cote.io/2026/07/22/a...
AI won’t fix your broken culture, but you can fix your broken culture
AI amplifies what you have: good processes get faster, bad ones get worse. Getting real enterprise AI ROI means changing how you work – structure, focus, scope.
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”Nearly half (46%) of European marketers say their organizations have already reduced headcount or replaced marketing employees with AI.” www.forrester.com/blogs/europe...
European Marketers Say AI Won’t Replace Employees, But The Reality Is More Complicated
European marketers believe AI will augment employees, yet many organizations have already reduced headcount. Learn how AI is redesigning marketing jobs.
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Using short feedback loops to experiment and direct software development is always a good idea, especially with AI. www.oreilly.com/radar/the-ri...
The Right Amount of Spec for Agentic Development
When code gets cheap, the hard part is deciding what “correct” means and building a reliable way to check it.
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The .env file: every project has one, almost nobody manages it well. This week I sat down with the founders of varlock to talk about fixing that.
Software Defined Talk@softwaredefinedtalk.com · 4w agoEvery project has environment variables. Almost nobody manages them well. This week @brandonwhichard.com talks with Phil Miller and @theozero.bsky.social, who built varlock to fix that — bringing structure and security to the humble .env file. https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/580
Stop building your own platforms. Start building your own apps. // here's my #WeAreDevelopers talk at this morning, 10am, right after the keynote, on Stage 12 // talks.cote.io/wearedevelop...
7 Ways to Fail at Building a Platform - Cote's Talks
Seven ways teams fail at building their own platform: scope creep, ongoing investment, project mindset, lock-in, retention, security, and resume-driven dev.
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This is a good overview of using Tanzu Platform's/Cloud Foundry's delegated image building magic to host Claude Code: www.vmware.com/docs/running...
Links newsletter: Writing for LinkedIn, Ford's Gray Beards, and Nvidia the Lottery Winner. Also: the tokenpocalypse and the Mario meeting. cote.io/2026/07/08/w...
Harness Engineering: The Future of DevOps and Collaboration
Explore insights on harnessing engineering teams and LinkedIn engagement data in this latest update. Don't miss key highlights!
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Lots of AI use comments, some comments on the UK tech scene. "Today at NatWest, over 40% of all code is either AI-generated or AI-assisted." https://diginomica.com/best-job-bank-natwest-cio-scott-marcar-ai-impact-cx-centrticity-and-how-support-uk-innovation
I predict the end of the GUI.
Software Defined Talk@softwaredefinedtalk.com · last mo.This week, @brandonwhichard.com and @cote.io discuss Anthropic's 18-day Fable timeout, whether AI is actually killing jobs, and OpenAI's trillion-dollar IPO problem. Plus, SoftBank's golden goose slides. https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/579
entogo https://entogo.com/about "entogo turns short keywords into instant redirects. Type gh, land on GitHub. No more digging through bookmarks, retyping long URLs, or hunting through browser history for a page you visit every day."
This week, @brandonwhichard.com and @cote.io discuss Anthropic's 18-day Fable timeout, whether AI is actually killing jobs, and OpenAI's trillion-dollar IPO problem. Plus, SoftBank's golden goose slides. https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/579
The Headless Lifestyle
This week, we discuss Anthropic's 18-day Fable timeout, whether AI is actually killing jobs, and OpenAI's trillion-dollar IPO problem. Plus, SoftBank's golden goose slides.
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