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Enterprise Java apps are much more than just code, AI benchmarks don’t measure the Java SDLC enough: cote.io
","summary":"There’s countless dependencies in other frameworks and libraries, plus the build pipeline and even production platform are part of the app. Enterprise Java applications frequently span hundreds or thousands of modules connected through Maven or Gradle builds, Spring dependency injection, Jakarta EE ...","url":"https://cote.io/2026/07/08/enterprise-java-apps-are-much-more-than-just-code-ai-benchmarks-dont-measure-the-java-sdlc-enough.html","date_published":"2026-07-08T15:31:46+00:00","author":{"name":"Coté","url":"http://cote.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F8457.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cote"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-08 15:31","date_timestamp":1783524706,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://www.threads.com/@bushwald/post/DaiXs9bHNmU"]}},{"id":"93629170","content_html":"Writing for LinkedIn, Ford’s Gray Beards, and Nvidia the Lottery Winner – Related to your interests, Wednesday: cote.io
","summary":"Also: harness engineering teams, the Mario meeting, LinkedIn engagement data, and one million passports. By Robert Brook ICYMI From the blog since last time. DIY Platform – don’t do it – my presentation at PlatformCon 2026. The Headless Lifestyle – Software Defined Talk #579 – “Anthropic’s 18-day Fa...","url":"https://cote.io/2026/07/08/writing-for-linkedin-fords-gray-beards-and-nvidia-the-lottery-winner-related-to-your-interests-wednesday.html","date_published":"2026-07-08T06:59:27+00:00","author":{"name":"Coté","url":"http://cote.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F8457.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cote"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-08 06:59","date_timestamp":1783493967,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://www.threads.com/@bushwald/post/DahdFjPnO6C"]}},{"id":"93569807","content_html":"find your customer: cote.io
","summary":"Compensation theater: Everyone cares about the compensation (base salary, bonus, and stock). That’s the data they care about, but where did this pile of compensation come from? Who decided how big it is? And how is it allocated? It is a long, complicated, and large process that began over a year ago...","url":"https://cote.io/2026/07/07/find-your-customer.html","date_published":"2026-07-07T07:22:11+00:00","author":{"name":"Coté","url":"http://cote.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F8457.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cote"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-07 07:22","date_timestamp":1783408931,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://www.threads.com/@bushwald/post/Dae7fuelmjn"]}},{"id":"93567084","content_html":"why big companies build their own software, and hire consultants to do it: cote.io
","summary":"But selling anything to big enterprises is hard. You are asked to meet with a dozen people in the organization, spending hours and hours trying to explain and persuade. Half the people you meet with are skeptics who are going to argue that your service won’t work. The other half are going to argue i...","url":"https://cote.io/2026/07/07/why-big-companies-build-their-own-software-and-hire-consultants-to-do-it.html","date_published":"2026-07-07T06:07:33+00:00","author":{"name":"Coté","url":"http://cote.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F8457.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cote"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-07 06:07","date_timestamp":1783404453,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://www.threads.com/@bushwald/post/Daey1rPFgAv"]}},{"id":"93565382","content_html":"here come the normies: cote.io
","summary":"Consulting giant Accenture is trying to figure out how to stop non-technical workers from blowing through companies AI token budget on trivial tasks like converting PDFs to presentation slides, according to leaked audio obtained by 404 Media. Across the industry Accenture is seeing “soaring token sp...","url":"https://cote.io/2026/07/07/here-come-the-normies.html","date_published":"2026-07-07T05:33:06+00:00","author":{"name":"Coté","url":"http://cote.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F8457.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cote"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-07 05:33","date_timestamp":1783402386,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"93564510","content_html":"Harness engineering is the new DevOps: cote.io
","summary":"Are we going to see harness engineering teams? Yes: these are already emerging. It’s too early to say, but that feels wrong in the same way that DevOps teams were a misunderstanding of DevOps-the-movement. My belief is that while there is friction in having every team create their own harness, that ...","url":"https://cote.io/2026/07/07/harness-engineering-is-the-new-devops.html","date_published":"2026-07-07T05:11:39+00:00","author":{"name":"Coté","url":"http://cote.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F8457.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cote"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-07 05:11","date_timestamp":1783401099,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://www.threads.com/@bushwald/post/DaesYPHkT-b"]}},{"id":"93564509","content_html":"training your replacement: cote.io
","summary":"Yes: the work is moving from writing code to specifying, verifying, and curating knowledge. But: the code is the better spec. Their point: code is the only artifact that’s unambiguous, executable, and – this is the big one – deterministic. A prose spec is fuzzy and an agent will interpret it a littl...","url":"https://cote.io/2026/07/07/training-your-replacement.html","date_published":"2026-07-07T05:08:07+00:00","author":{"name":"Coté","url":"http://cote.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F8457.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cote"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-07 05:08","date_timestamp":1783400887,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://www.threads.com/@bushwald/post/DaesYGZnJwS"]}},{"id":"93522345","content_html":"potential fatigue: cote.io
","summary":"The old system said: ‘Obey.’ The new system says: ‘Realize your potential,’ which can be a much crueler thing because potential’s infinite, and people, last time I checked, are not. There’s no stopping point in an achievement society. ‘Potential’ is the modern world’s term for whatever you haven’t d...","url":"https://cote.io/2026/07/06/potential-fatigue.html","date_published":"2026-07-06T11:35:42+00:00","author":{"name":"Coté","url":"http://cote.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F8457.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cote"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-06 11:35","date_timestamp":1783337742,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"93360131","content_html":"How NatWest is using AI: cote.io
","summary":"The NatWest CIO goes over how they’re using AI with some use cases. Some: “Today at NatWest, over 40% of all code is either AI-generated or AI-assisted.” AI use: “If you’re a relationship manager, if you’re a branch manager, or you’re sitting as a teller in the branch, whatever that role is, you’ve ...","url":"https://cote.io/2026/07/03/how-natwest-is-using-ai.html","date_published":"2026-07-03T09:11:42+00:00","author":{"name":"Coté","url":"http://cote.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F8457.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cote"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-03 09:11","date_timestamp":1783069902,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://www.threads.com/@bushwald/post/DaU0o2fm2qZ"]}},{"id":"93302209","content_html":"🤖 Ten do’s and don’ts for LinkedIn posts, according to actual research, based on pre-slop posts: cote.io
","summary":"Summarized by AI, July 2, 2026. Original” What Users Post and Engage With on LinkedIn: A Mixed Methods Study Most LinkedIn advice comes from people whose job is giving LinkedIn advice, which should make you suspicious. So here’s something rarer: an actual peer-reviewed study of 1,001 individual user...","url":"https://cote.io/2026/07/02/%f0%9f%a4%96-ten-dos-and-donts-for-linkedin-posts-according-to-actual-research-based-pre-slop-posts.html","date_published":"2026-07-02T10:19:12+00:00","author":{"name":"Coté","url":"http://cote.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F8457.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cote"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-02 10:19","date_timestamp":1782987552,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://www.threads.com/@bushwald/post/DaSXO4_IJel"]}},{"id":"93298659","content_html":"get rid of that crap blocking your YouTube shorts: cote.io
","summary":"YouTube is also introducing a new “Clear Screen mode,” which is designed to temporarily hide “all icons and text from your playback view,” giving users a clean view of their content unencumbered by floating distractions. 🔗 YouTube Shorts are getting even shorter with an update that lets you double t...","url":"https://cote.io/2026/07/02/get-rid-of-that-crap-blocking-your-youtube-shorts.html","date_published":"2026-07-02T09:05:55+00:00","author":{"name":"Coté","url":"http://cote.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F8457.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cote"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-02 09:05","date_timestamp":1782983155,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"93298658","content_html":"don’t keep PII: cote.io
","summary":"high-value credential – a passport – was used in an ancillary low-value authentication system: ID verification for cannabis dispensaries. And it’s the low-value system that got hacked, putting the high-value credential at risk.” It’s always best to delete whatever you no longer need. 🔗 One Million P...","url":"https://cote.io/2026/07/02/dont-keep-pii.html","date_published":"2026-07-02T09:04:58+00:00","author":{"name":"Coté","url":"http://cote.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F8457.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cote"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-02 09:04","date_timestamp":1782983098,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"93298424","content_html":"Reducing token usage: cote.io
","summary":"Better Defaults (not Usage Caps) — Engineers can choose any model they want, but defaults matter. We’re experimenting with defaulting to open weight models like GLM 5.2 and Kimi 2.7 through our LLM gateway, while still encouraging engineers to choose the right model for the task. 91% of our employee...","url":"https://cote.io/2026/07/02/reducing-token-usage.html","date_published":"2026-07-02T09:01:56+00:00","author":{"name":"Coté","url":"http://cote.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F8457.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cote"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-02 09:01","date_timestamp":1782982916,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"93298135","content_html":"“this is the voice of American business that is being channeled through me”: cote.io
","summary":"“Livid” was the word he used to describe enterprise customers who are “paying for tokens that create no value,” while handing over their data to the major firms and, in the end, taxing the public who will end up paying for it in some form. The reason, he ventured, was the “models have completely… ir...","url":"https://cote.io/2026/07/02/this-is-the-voice-of-american-business-that-is-being-channeled-through-me.html","date_published":"2026-07-02T08:56:23+00:00","author":{"name":"Coté","url":"http://cote.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F8457.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cote"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-02 08:56","date_timestamp":1782982583,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://www.threads.com/@bushwald/post/DaSNtsgIPT2"]}},{"id":"93298134","content_html":"executives don’t really know how their companies work, AI layoff edition: cote.io
","summary":"Mistakenly we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence and ingesting the design requirements that we had, that that would produce a high-quality product.” To be clear, this doesn’t mean Ford is abandoning its AI plans entirely. Instead, it’s using the rehired employees — referred to ...","url":"https://cote.io/2026/07/02/executives-dont-really-know-how-their-companies-work-ai-layoff-edition.html","date_published":"2026-07-02T08:51:22+00:00","author":{"name":"Coté","url":"http://cote.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F8457.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cote"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-02 08:51","date_timestamp":1782982282,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://www.threads.com/@bushwald/post/DaSNtpEHAiN"]}},{"id":"93294495","content_html":"🤖 Findings and CIO Retention Guide: Gender, Priorities, and Exit Triggers in High Tech: cote.io
","summary":"Original: Beyond the Pipeline: A Gender Lens on Priorities and Exit Triggers in the High-Tech Industry by researchers at The Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo, Communications of the ACM. Summarized by Claude AI on July 2, 2026. The Findings Men are far more committed to staying. 44.9% of men select...","url":"https://cote.io/2026/07/02/%f0%9f%a4%96-findings-and-cio-retention-guide-gender-priorities-and-exit-triggers-in-high-tech.html","date_published":"2026-07-02T07:24:37+00:00","author":{"name":"Coté","url":"http://cote.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F8457.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cote"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-02 07:24","date_timestamp":1782977077,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://www.threads.com/@bushwald/post/DaSDpGOlgE-"]}},{"id":"93255454","content_html":"DIY Platform – don’t do it: cote.io
","summary":"Here’s the 15 minute version of my overview of why you should buy your platform instead of building it. It’s based on the paper I co-authored on the topic. You can find the slides here, and there’s also a longer version of the talk from cfgmgmtcamp 2026. If you want to see more of my […]","url":"https://cote.io/2026/07/01/platformcon2026-diy-platform.html","date_published":"2026-07-01T15:21:47+00:00","author":{"name":"Coté","url":"http://cote.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F8457.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cote"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-01 15:21","date_timestamp":1782919307,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"93228756","content_html":"Enterprise AI Gets Uber-ed, Smaller Models Cut Energy 90%, and Stop Building Innovation Labs – Related to your interests, Wednesday: cote.io
","summary":"Also: Target’s RAG pipeline, the 13-person B2B buying group, Uber on AI dev productivity, and prompt injection as role confusion. ICYMI Original content published since last time. War for Talent – Software Defined Talk #578 – “This week, we discuss Fable follow-up, Gartner’s AI Governance MQ, and th...","url":"https://cote.io/2026/07/01/enterprise-ai-gets-uber-ed-smaller-models-cut-energy-90-and-stop-building-innovation-labs-related-to-your-interests-wednesday.html","date_published":"2026-07-01T05:27:24+00:00","author":{"name":"Coté","url":"http://cote.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F8457.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cote"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-01 05:27","date_timestamp":1782883644,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://www.threads.com/@bushwald/post/DaPQ8lPjsWP"]}},{"id":"93228726","content_html":"Elusive Enterprise AI ROI: bring in the FDEs: cote.io
","summary":"Enterprise AI needs a lot of custom fitting and one off integration, so you need a lot of post-sales engineering. On the one hand, this is lock-in in the making, but lock-in to your own, stack. You build a stack that is unique to you. On the other hand, it means you get exactly what […]","url":"https://cote.io/2026/07/01/elusive-enterprise-ai-roi-bring-in-the-fdes.html","date_published":"2026-07-01T05:19:24+00:00","author":{"name":"Coté","url":"http://cote.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F8457.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cote"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-01 05:19","date_timestamp":1782883164,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://www.threads.com/@bushwald/post/DaPQz54DpmE"]}},{"id":"93105751","content_html":"From the school or culture eats technology for breakfast: cote.io
","summary":"Yes: The environments capable of creating meaningful change are almost always the ones that shorten the distance between assumption and evidence – ensuring that learning happens before institutions become too committed to decisions that are difficult to reverse. But: The question has never really be...","url":"https://cote.io/2026/06/29/from-the-school-or-culture-eats-technology-for-breakfast.html","date_published":"2026-06-29T04:41:20+00:00","author":{"name":"Coté","url":"http://cote.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F8457.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cote"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-29 04:41","date_timestamp":1782708080,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://www.threads.com/@bushwald/post/DaKCS3Wjn93"]}},{"id":"93012291","content_html":"Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam
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Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam
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AI Coding Costs Overtake Salaries, Broadcom’s Intelligence Processor, and sovereign cloud – Related to your interests, Thursday: cote.io
","summary":"Defeat AI-Powered Threats with VMware Tanzu Spring Here’s the panel I hosted on how the Spring project is adapting to AI-powered threats. We covered the volume spike in Spring security reports, the kinds of vulnerabilities the models are good at finding, chained “narrative” attacks, the three-bucket...","url":"https://cote.io/2026/06/25/ai-coding-costs-overtake-salaries-broadcoms-intelligence-processor-and-sovereign-cloud-related-to-your-interests-thursday.html","date_published":"2026-06-25T09:34:31+00:00","author":{"name":"Coté","url":"http://cote.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F42%2F8457.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cote"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-25 09:34","date_timestamp":1782380071,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://www.threads.com/@bushwald/post/DaAQgyJHKJc"]}},{"id":"90273372","content_html":"@manton The AI is great for taxes, and financial stuff. I use PocketSmith’s API to pull down everything locally and then just build apps and dashboards. With taxes, it’s so fast to just download all the info and have it search and fill out things for you. To build confidence in its output, I had it create and audit log (just a spreadsheet) that linked every field in a document to the original source (all those PDFs of statements, CSV files, screenshots, ledger, etc.)
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