John Patterson
@jasper07.secondphase.com.au
"Such is life" https://secondphase.com.au
The Drift That Haunts Your BTP, from SAP Inside Track Sydney 2026 secondphase.com.au/the-drift-th... Many of the talks this day were on AI Mine asked the question what happens if we rely on it too much. A few people have asked me to share the slides so here they are.
The Drift That Haunts Your BTP, from SAP Inside Track Sydney 2026
The slides and the talk from my session on drift in SAP BTP.
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My son plays the Teams ringtone through his phone speaker every time I go AFK. I sprint back to my desk to answer a call from absolutely nobody. Don’t know whether to be proud or angry. School holidays are going well. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6V_f...
Microsoft Teams Calling Sound/Hang up sound
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OH: The way devs talk about Claude, Codex etc. is like they’re Beyoncé and Taylor Swift. Ralph loops? That was last week. Basically Keeping Up with the Kardashians for nerds.
The SAP Gateway log confirms someone is looking for the OnlyFans module.
Really enjoying The Peterman Pod - Podcast Two recurring topics FIRE - Financial Independence Retire Early and the people who did it and came back Doers Vs Talkers and riding the pendulum of going down deep Vs higher up and broad share.google/wUoGMKasp1M9...
The Peterman Pod
Technology Podcast · Updated Weekly · Sharing the transparent career stories of technical people. Hosted by an ex-Staff engineer at Instagram
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Just finished listening to "Engineering Executive’s Primer" a bird’s-eye view into being a CTO at a fast-growing startup. Engineering strategy, P&L, GAAP vs non-GAAP, acquisitions, marketing vs GTM vs R&D and even angel investing as a way to understand VC funding. www.oreilly.com/library/view...
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Seems the AI Labs are running a free pen testing service.
The anxiety of unfinished work used to stay at the keyboard. You walked the dog or went to the gym, and the work waited. With AI agents, the work keeps running. So instead of leaving work behind, you wake up wondering what your agents did overnight.
A friend told me he's interviewing for an architect role. For the next interview he has 15 minutes to explain what he's learnt about the programme, how he'd improve it, and what he'd do in his first 90 days. Honestly, I like it. It tests how you think.
A lot of enterprises have principles like buy vs build, and SI-first for development outside their core domain. I wonder how AI changes these. Build more, or use AI to write the glue between what we buy? Does that push SIs toward fractional, outcome-based engagements?
Just finished binge-watching Neagley. Felt on par with, if not better than, the latest season of Reacher.
"We believe that rigorous use of AI helps a company like ours accelerate development, delight customers, and go head to head with competitors with vastly more resources. We believe that using AI is not a replacement for skill and craft, but an amplification." Culture eats breakfast for strategy
Charity Majors@charity.wtf · 3w agoI wrote a new piece yesterday, called "Confessions of an Unrepentant Slop Snob", about my escalating rage at AI-generated text. It includes a framework for thinking about when AI involvement is fine -- just another tool -- and when it lands as a violation. charity.wtf/p/confession...
“Could you send me the prompt you used to create this email?” Asking for the prompt is now the shortcut. The email is the long way round.
OH : “Projects die when they hit a deadline. Products die when we treat them like projects.”
If River Cartwright becomes the new James Bond, it would be a brilliant hat tip back to the slapstick Bond era, when Peter Sellers and Woody Allen were playing Bond. From Slow Horses to 007. 😂
"I don't know the answer myself, but I asked a blowhard I know and he took a wild guess, here's what he said: " How I interpret pasted replies from an LLM in online conversations
Lex goes to DHH "I'm an introvert who doesn't like speaking" DHH "me too!!" Meanwhile I'm half way through their 5 hour podcast that I can't listen to at 1.5X speed cause DHH already waxes lyrical at 2X speed
At SAP #SITSyd on Friday, I was talking with other industry veterans, lamenting that 30 years later salaries and rates haven't gone up. We worked in tobacco, alcohol, building products, car manufacturing and steel. Most have disappeared, moved offshore or been made uncompetitive.
'Mitchell and webb holy grail' share.google/J7wTXi4eDhL6... always makes me lol @mikedoyle.bsky.social
Mitchell and Webb - Holy Grail boot sale
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@vishnandr.bsky.social and his colleague Abdel, demonstrating running local models and MCP with CAP, giving every developer a business case for upgrading their laptop #SITSYD
