“SOAP for AI tools cool cool."
Links and strange finds from the World Wide Web
Two quick things up top: in a little over a week we’re going to talk about what what us Tanzu folks been doing with enterprise AI, register to check it out online. Next month, at Cloud Foundry Day you can come to an in-person workshop for even more. I’ll be there, hopefully talking about the goblins and AI, as well as MC’ing.
Wastebook
“They’re not chasing perfection–they’re chasing momentum.” Om.
“[H]e led the team whose research convinced the UK government to legally recognize lobsters and octopuses as sentient beings.” To consider.
“I’m happy for u tho. or sorry that happened.” Universal reply algorithm for human interaction, April 1st.
“That’s a bit like saying you couldn’t find your house keys, so you proxied them with a banana.” 'naner logic.
“SOAP for AI tools cool cool,” James Governor on MCP, I think.
“Does Mr Trump really think Americans would be better off if only they sewed their own running shoes?” The Economist in a maximum vitriol column.
“Cashless society could be why fewer kids are eating coins.” Unintended benefits…
“[K]eep vibe coding pure.” Escalated quickly.
Relative to your interests
Schooled by Trump, Americans are learning to dislike their allies - ‘last year 17% of Republicans viewed the EU as “unfriendly” or as an “enemy”; that has now grown to 29%.’
Public sector still hanging on to private cloud • The Register - ”While 80 percent of decision-makers in government bodies report using a hybrid cloud arrangement, 36 percent said their organization still operates an internal private cloud as their primary platform.” // You have to image that, now, this number will sustain and go higher for EU countries, anyone outside the US.
How the US Public and AI Experts View Artificial Intelligence - ”U.S. adults as a whole – whose concerns over AI have grown since 2021 – are more inclined than experts to say they’re more concerned than excited (51% vs. 15% among experts).” OpenAI Embraces MCP: The Protocol Era of AI Has Arrived https://www.layered.dev/openai-embraces-mcp-the-protocol-era-of-ai-has-arrived Enterprise AI gateways.
Has VMware Finally Caught Up With Kubernetes? - ‘“Previously, there were multiple disparate APIs spread across different areas for VMs, containers and networking services,” Carr said. “The advantage of the new approach is the integration of Kubernetes and VMs APIs with a single operating model. This enables streamlined processes for both workloads.”’
Securing Spring AI MCP servers with OAuth2 - Add authentication to MCP agents. This has been the major piece missing for enterprise use.
We have to talk about AI “art” - No easy answers to this: “Artists are seeing their craft threatened by the careless complicity of those who use machines as some kind of art vending machine. It’s disturbing and scary, and when you consider that this is tied to people’s livelihoods, it can be painful to see.”
Flood The Zone - The “bullshit singularity: infinite bullshit at zero-cost” // Understanding the utility of Frankfurtian “bullshit” is an under appreciated thought technology. If you can spot it, you can analyze it and figure out if you should filter it out or not: use it weight claims and world-views (often negatively). You can also use it to evaluate your own actions, if you find that you are bullshitting, to check facts and see if you’re acting based on truth and logic, or just vibes. This especially true in marketing, but also life decision. // Also, the AI’s need to be careful about eating too much of their own bullshit as the results mutate into even worse bullshit.
How to Prepare for a Meeting Where Emotions Will Run High - Probably good advice for life too.
Rebuilding the Social Security Administration’s Codebase - “Still, it’s interesting to think about how this should be done. I wonder if they could run the new system in a sandbox for a year, feeding it all the same inputs, and see whether it generates the same outputs.” // This feels like the kind of advantage government modernization projects have over commercial. There is not as much urgency. If the lifetime of a government agency and software is in centuries (we hope!), you can take a year to just run tests. Plus, you have an existing system to both compare to and keep the plane flying while you change the engines.
Conferences
Events I’ll either be speaking at or just attending.
CF Day US, Palo Alto, CA, May 14th, speaking. NDC Oslo, May 21st to 23rd, speaking. SREDay Cologne, June 12th, speaking.
Logoff
I hope to record one or two more playing D&D with MCP stuff next week. See y’all next time.