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We sent out the first batch of talk acceptance mails today ... but there's more to come. And you can still submit a talk for a couple of days.
November 12, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam, Power Mac G4 edition.
November 12, 2025 at 10:24 PM
The Potato, the Spreadsheet, and the AI That Checks Its Own Work // my newsletter episode for today: newsletter.cote.io/p/the-potato...
The Potato, the Spreadsheet, and the AI That Checks Its Own Work
From Kubernetes theology to AI-using lawyers and spreadsheet-based worldviews, and other ways to automate yourself into absurdity. // Plus, more fun and strange finds from the World Wide Web
newsletter.cote.io
November 12, 2025 at 10:36 AM
November 12, 2025 at 10:27 AM
"The one who tribalized every issue found a ready-made community that validated every prior. Etc, etc. The incentive gradient was clear: sanity was expensive, and extremism paid dividends." https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/how-to-stay-sane-in-a-world-that-rewards-insanity
November 12, 2025 at 10:25 AM
November 12, 2025 at 10:24 AM
In a tense situation, take a moment to say out loud your opponents position, feeling, and perspective. This is like setting up context and prompting for an AI. https://www.themarginalian.org/2025/11/11/carl-rogers-communication-breakdowns/
November 12, 2025 at 10:21 AM
AI uses at banks, private AI and customer built AI apps - skills and regulations are the friction for wider adoption - cote.io/2025/11/12/a...
AI uses at banks, private AI and customer built AI apps - skills and regulations are the friction for wider adoption
The most common use case for agentic AI is customer service, …
cote.io
November 12, 2025 at 10:20 AM
November 12, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Feels a little bit like a platform standard so powerful that you need an AI front-end to make it usable by mere mortals. https://thenewstack.io/kubernetes-and-ai-are-shaping-the-next-generation-of-platforms/
November 12, 2025 at 9:43 AM
We should be calling it all “AIaaS,” but I don’t think anyone could pronounce that without going PG-13 in every EBC and MQ.
November 12, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Some of the risks of having AIs write codes and AIso check code, "recursive AI security loops." There's also some advice about what to do: blogs.vmware.com/tanzu/shifti...
Shifting Security Left with AI — Is It Truly AI-Assisted Security, or an Infinite Loop?
A recent survey of more than 23,000 developers found that nearly half (49%) are now using AI regularly for coding and other development-related tasks. Among those developers, 73% report saving up to f...
blogs.vmware.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:35 PM
”In software development, we have 18,000 developers at the company that use coding agents today to optimize our development process,” https://www.ciodive.com/news/bank-of-america-AI-agents-strategy-compliance/805178/
November 11, 2025 at 12:01 PM
At this point this feels like what it's showing is that the amount of work needed to do law is crushing and unreasonable. And/or that the potential for profit is so high that taking stupid risks is worth it. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/business/lawyers-ai-vigilantes.html
November 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM
"I just need to survive this next meeting" - when it's a bad mindset, and when it's a good one: cote.io/2025/11/10/s...
Survive the next meeting
This is a mode I catch myself in where all I’m focused …
cote.io
November 10, 2025 at 12:34 PM
November 10, 2025 at 6:38 AM
"Give me just a second to think about what I need to be thinking about."
November 10, 2025 at 6:37 AM
You can probably do it with a spreadsheet. https://ben-mini.com/2025/everything-is-a-spreadsheet
November 10, 2025 at 6:36 AM
November 10, 2025 at 6:35 AM
The core IT spending is now projected to hit $3.45 trillion, an incremental $59.8 billion in spending and representing a 12.5 percent growth over the $3.06 trillion in core IT spending in 2024 https://www.itjungle.com/2025/11/10/gartner-raises-2025-it-spending-forecast-puts-out-2026-prediction/
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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🚀Excited to share Spring AI 1.1.0-RC1 is available now. This includes OpenAI reasoning support, MongoDB chat memory, Ollama “thinking” mode, event-driven caching updates for MCP tools, bug fixes and other enhancements. Try it out as we get closer to GA -> spring.io/blog/2025/11...
Spring AI 1.1.0-RC1 Available Now
Level up your Java code and explore what Spring can do for you.
spring.io
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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November 8, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Good Management Is a Fad, Use Women's Razors, and AI Saves Three Hours a Week, my newsletter, wrapping up links, content, and weird things found from this wekk. open.substack.com/pub/cote/p/g...
November 8, 2025 at 7:13 AM