GenX - working as designed

Plus, a whole bunch on AI middleware, and the usual fun and strange fines from the World Wide Web

More on the Tanzu AI Stack

As you may recall, along with several colleagues, I worked on the Tanzu annual update which came out last month. I’m sure you’ve watched the entire video, right? How else would you get to see my AAA skills at talking with my hands at the end? I mean, I even cut my hair for the thing, so you know I put some effort into it.

Here’s some follow-up writing and coverage if you’d like to, as they say, go deeper.

From Tanzu people:

• Three Essential ROI Goals for Agentic AI Applications - Camille Crowell-Lee

• The Top Three ROI Goals Organizations Should Have for Agentic AI - Camille Crowell-Lee

• Scalable Agentic Applications with Model Context Protocol (MCP) - Camille Crowell-Lee

• From POC to Profit: Rapid Iteration is the Key for Agentic App ROI - Camille Crowell-Lee

• Evolving From Pre-AI to Agentic AI Apps: A 4-Step Model - Coté and Camille Crowell-Lee

• Agentic AI: A New AI Paradigm Driving Business Success - Purnima Padmanabhan

• What Developers Need To Build Successful AI Apps - Jonathan Eyler-Werve and Mark Pollack

Press coverage:

• VMware Ups Tanzu’s GenAI Support - SiliconANGLE

• Broadcom’s Tanzu gets AI updates, but is definitely not Kubernetes - SDxCentral

Lightboard videos going over how we think about AI enterprise architectures:

• AI ROI from Tanzu: Build an AI Agent with Tanzu Platform and Model Context Protocol

• AI ROI from Tanzu: Faster and Less Expensive Iteration for AI Applications

• AI ROI from Tanzu: Achieve Continuous Iteration for AI App Delivery

More casual discussion in Cloud Foundry Weekly Podcast:

• Is Cloud Foundry the Agentic AI Platform?

• Zero to Hero Part with SpringAI: Part Two

• Vibe Coding with Coté and Tanzu Updates

Be sure to click on all of those, reading them would be cool too.

The Dutch don’t strike me as a gnome-loving culture, so when I see a gnome, I gnotice.

Relative to your interests

• Why Gen X is the real loser generation - I was there for the design meetings. Works as designed. I mean, we had a whole song called “Loser.”

• AI use damages professional reputation, study suggests.

• A CEO of AI Applications Marks a New Era of AI Competition - Digging the moats: “Like airplane reward programs, personalization & memory introduce switching costs that may outweigh the benefits of state-of-the-art models.”

• Thanks to DOGE, Gumroad’s founder has a second job with the VA - Fast Company - It’s always too many meetings: ‘But when it comes down to it, what he’s found is a machine that largely functions, though it doesn’t make decisions as fast as a startup might. I would say the culture shock is mostly a lot of meetings, not a lot of decisions,” he says. “But honestly, it’s kind of fine—because the government works. It’s not as inefficient as I was expecting, to be honest. I was hoping for more easy wins.”’

• Slop Farmer Boasts About How He Uses AI to Flood Social Media With Garbage to Trick Older Women - How the slop is made. // Important point: it’s unclear if it actually makes money. // Imagine applying this to B2B marketing, industry analysis (AIMonk, ChatGartnerPT), and news coverage.

• Most AI spending driven by FOMO, not ROI, CEOs tell IBM - “Just over half (52 percent) of CEO respondents say their organization is realizing value from GenAI investments beyond cost reduction.”

• Three Reasons to Write More in an Age When Writing Means Less. - Write (and publish in the web) oto make sure you are known and have a legacy in the LLMs. Also, contribute to the future of knowledge (slight eyeroll there). // Oh, also because writing it the best way to think.

• Jack Clark on AI’s Uneven Impact - Great interview and ideas.

Conferences

Events I’ll either be speaking at or just attending.

Tanzu AI workshop, Palo Alto, CA, May 13th, speaking. CF Day US, Palo Alto, CA, May 14th, speaking. NDC Oslo, May 21st to 23rd, speaking. SREDay Cologne, June 12th, speaking (10% off with the code CLG10).

Is this the first Hugh Grant action figure? Probably should have bought it, but where would I put it?

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Whitney and I are recording our interview with Taegan Goddard next week. I’m a huge fan of his work - both blog and podcast - and an even bigger fan of his “production function.”

I grew up in the era of and as a blogger. I wouldn’t say I’m a blogger anymore, but he sure is a blogger in a the best ways. Talking US politics with him isn’t really on the agenda - by the time the episode came out, it’d be stale. Plus, what is there to say? Read his blog instead. But, there’s plenty of ever-green topics, not to mention the afore mentioned production function.

Got any questions I should ask?

Suggested outro to glide into the weekend.