Related to your interests, Tuesday

CFOs boost tech budgets and squeeze headcount, AI art may not be copyrightable, and agents expose your structural chaos. Also, slide fails, secret soap…

Mar 3 • Coté

DIY Stacks, Agent Memory, and the Great Migration - Related to your interests, Monday

Kubernetes in the age of agentic AI, ROI in ice-routing logistics, cheap-but-not-free code, mainframe modernizing, Podman vs. Docker, Claude COBOL…

Mar 2 • Coté

February 2026

Automating everything but changing how people work - Relative to your interests, Friday

Enterprise AI apps (or lack thereof), ROI surveys, CFO budget pivots, agile’s stubborn relevance, platform engineering vs. private cloud, Heroku’s…

Feb 20 • Coté

AI Is Normal Now - The Enterprise Is Not

New apps over new platforms, absurd valuations over sober integration work, sovereign clouds rising, and a reminder that burnout scales just as fast as…

Feb 13 • Coté

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AI Reality Bites, Wall Street Panics, and Everyone Becomes an Architect

Enterprise AI ROI is still fuzzy, cloud narratives keep flipping, and the link pile finally admits it’s too big to ignore.

Feb 7 • Coté

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January 2026

Enterprise ROI continues to be elusive

Plus, lots of links and strange finds from the World Wide Web.

Jan 23 • Coté

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Amazon Should Buy Anthropic, AI Doctors, Metaverse RIP

Also: Helm chart optimization, knowledge graphs before AI actually works, stress as an algorithm, why most Americans did read a book, personal websites…

Jan 16 • Coté

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When AI Eats Its Own Tail

Also: Gartner after AI, platform engineers facing a 10× developer count, AI music as background noise, Amazon selling Wegovy, and a Wastebook full of…

Jan 12 • Coté

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Software Defined Talk listener survey

Jan 8 • Coté

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I used to be from here, 2025 edition

And: octopus organizations, what happened in 2025. Plus, links and fun finds from the World Wide Web

Jan 7 • Coté

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December 2025

Platform Plumbing, AI Ads That Work (But People Hate), and D&D Characters Drawn by Robots

Plus, more strange and fun finds from the World Wide Web

Dec 19, 2025 • Coté

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Platforms, Agents, Anxiety, and Ice Cream

Enterprise AI realities, platform product thinking, NL housing stress, Oracle’s bind, therapy-speak backlash, the politics of global ice cream, and more…

Dec 15, 2025 • Coté

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