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@jon.diginomica.com

diginomica co-founder + Enterprise Irregular who blogs/videocasts on the enterprise, w/ dash of bootstrappin' + media hacks. OK, I rant sometimes.

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so apparently multiple AWS outages can be directly linked to a policy of forcing employees to use half-baked vibe coding tools. this is exactly what we've been saying would happen. vibe coding is wildly inappropriate for infrastructure or security tasks.

10.03.2026 15:03 πŸ‘ 48 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0
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In wake of outage, Amazon calls upon senior engineers to address issues created by 'Gen-AI assisted changes,' report claims β€” recent 'high blast radius' incidents stir up changes for code approval Amazon says it's a routine meeting

yes, some more stories on this are hitting the wires today. Here is one credibler one: www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

10.03.2026 15:34 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

really excellent to hear such a thoughtful customer approach to applying AI, in a regulated industry

10.03.2026 11:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

your enterprise espresso is ready... :)

09.03.2026 23:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots β€” 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant Story has a happy ending of sorts, but should serve as a cautionary tale.

Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots β€” 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

-> on the positive side, it's definitely a faster way of working......

09.03.2026 04:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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DJI will pay $30K to the man who accidentally hacked 7,000 Romo robovacs The remaining issue may be fixed within the month.

DJI will pay $30K to the man who accidentally hacked 7,000 Romo robovacs www.theverge.com/news/890982/...

-> so the loopholes are getting fixed, but - visibility into thousands of homes is the wrong kind of "smart" if you ask me

09.03.2026 04:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Crunchyroll Sued Over Allegedly Leaking Fans' Anime Viewing Secrets After $16M Settlement Anime streaming giant Crunchyroll is accused of sharing user information with a marketing company and could be ordered to pay over $2.5K if convicted.

Crunchyroll Sued Over Allegedly Leaking Fans' Anime Viewing Secrets After $16M Settlement www.cbr.com/crunchyroll-...

-> ok, this is a bit awkward lol

09.03.2026 04:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels are making you dumber, according to science - Dexerto A study from scientists at Zhejiang University is going viral for showing a correlation between short-form content and lower impulse control.

YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels are making you dumber, according to science - Dexerto www.dexerto.com/entertainmen...

good news: TikTok isn't totally destroying your brain

bad news: it's making you a drag at parties and book club meetings

02.03.2026 01:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Gift of Feedback If it’s common sense, why don’t we welcome it?

The Gift of Feedback enterprisespectator.substack.com/p/the-gift-o...

" a workplace devoid of honest feedback becomes unhealthy, one with a culture of fear, negativity, and resentment."

-> good one @fscavo

02.03.2026 01:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The real breakthrough in robotics is foundation models β€” not hardware Discover how physical AI foundation models are moving beyond chatbots to power autonomous robotics in the real world. Explore LBM, VLA, and edge computing.

The real breakthrough in robotics is foundation models β€” not hardware thenewstack.io/physical-ai-...

02.03.2026 01:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Google and Microsoft offer lucrative deals to promote AI, but even $500,000 won't sway some creators Tech companies including Google and Microsoft are paying influencers hundreds of thousands of dollars to promote AI products.

Google and Microsoft offer lucrative deals to promote AI, but even $500,000 won't sway some creators www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/g...

02.03.2026 01:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Burger King AI bot will check up on staffs' please and thank yous The fast-food chain is testing OpenAI-powered headsets that monitor staff interactions with customers.

Burger King AI bot will check up on staffs' please and thank yous www.bbc.com/news/article...

"the fast-food outlet had trained the OpenAI-powered system to identify terms including "please" and "thank you"

@burgerking mark me down as someone who doesn't need obsequious service

via @iC

02.03.2026 00:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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ZohoDay 2026 posed a serious challenge: how to present a compelling future, amidst doubts about whether enterprise software has a future. @jon.diginomica.com says @zoho.com came out with strong positions on why SaaS is about risk transfer, and why AI context needs a rethink: bit.ly/4c3rnoC

23.02.2026 15:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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22.02.2026 23:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Microsoft Copilot ignored sensitivity labels twice in eight months β€” and no DLP stack caught either one venturebeat.com/security/mic...

"For four weeks starting January 21, Microsoft's Copilot read and summarized confidential emails despite every sensitivity label and DLP policy telling it not to."

22.02.2026 23:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Sam Altman would like to remind you that humans use a lot of energy, too | TechCrunch "It also takes a lot of energy to train a human."

Sam Altman would like to remind you that humans use a lot of energy, too | TechCrunch techcrunch.com/2026/02/21/s...

"it also takes a lot of energy to train a human"

-> now that is a world class misdirection, kudos Mr. Altman on that one. One difference I can think of: we need food to live.

22.02.2026 22:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Let’s vibe-regulate US transport with Gemini! The US Department of Transportation wants to β€œrevolutionize the way we draft rulemakings.” This means they’re going to write the regulations with Google’s Gemini chatbot! [ProPublica] This plan was…

Let’s vibe-regulate US transport with Gemini! pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/13/l...

"We don’t even need a very good rule on XYZ. We want good enough. We’re flooding the zone..."

-> flooding the zone - with "good enough" AI-generated rules? okeyyyy dokes

22.02.2026 22:30 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"the agentic tool determined that the best course of action was to 'delete and recreate the environment'"

-> everything is awesome lol

22.02.2026 22:27 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Amazon Web Services vibe-codes itself an outage or two pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/20/a...

"the agentic tool determined that the best course of action was to 'delete and recreate the environment'"

-> everything is awesome lol

22.02.2026 22:27 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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In this week's hits and misses from @jon.diginomica.com - good news for Cisco CEO, inside NetSuite's AI news, whistleblowing, tech regulations, vendor earnings, AI forcing a massive data rethink, Aneel Bhusri returning as Workday CEO, and the AI versus SaaS tension persists: bit.ly/4aTOkti

16.02.2026 15:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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UK tabloid newspapers quote fake experts created with AI The Press Gazette, the trade journal for UK newspapers, published a blinder today: β€œFaces of fakery: More fake and AI generated experts con their way into media”. [Press Gazette] This is by Rob Wau…

UK tabloid newspapers quote fake experts created with AI pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/10/u...

"The research exposed a prolific travel writer whose β€˜employer’ has admitted she does not exist"

-> to be fair, when you're on deadline you just need a good quote and if it's from a fake person, so be it lolz

16.02.2026 03:04 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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OpenAI Claims DeepSeek Stole Its Data to Train Their AI Model Takes one to know one.

OpenAI Claims DeepSeek Stole Its Data to Train Their AI Model 80.lv/articles/ope...

OpenAI: when you steal from us, it's stealing. When we steal content from you, it's for the greater good - of our increasingly commodified business model...

16.02.2026 02:53 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ars Technica Pulls Article With AI Fabricated Quotes About AI Generated Article A story about an AI generated article contained fabricated, AI generated quotes.

Ars Technica Pulls Article With AI Fabricated Quotes About AI Generated Article www.404media.co/ars-technica...

-> are we circling the drain, eating our own tail, or just getting dumber I'm not sure lol

16.02.2026 02:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
GeekWire Studios: Acumatica Summit 2026 Spotlight | Jon Reed, diginomica
GeekWire Studios: Acumatica Summit 2026 Spotlight | Jon Reed, diginomica YouTube video by GeekWire

β€œIf you’re not here learning from each other… I don’t like your chances.” @jon.diginomica.com on why community is a strategic asset – not a feel-good extra.
Full interview from Acumatica Summit 2026 via @geekwire.com
youtu.be/XK2sX4WuI7M?...

12.02.2026 19:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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@jon.diginomica.com and nekuda CEO Ayal Karmi debate agentic commerce and LLM autonomy, including those big changes announced by OpenAI and Google. What does it all mean for enterprises? Find out what they thought: bit.ly/4a8b5JL

10.02.2026 16:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Malicious VS Code AI Extensions Harvesting Code from 1.5M Devs Two popular AI coding extensions with 1.5M installs secretly harvest your entire codebase and profile you. Both are still live in the marketplace.

Malicious VS Code AI Extensions Harvesting Code from 1.5M Devs www.koi.ai/blog/malicio...

"They also capture every file you open, every edit you make, and send it all to servers in China. No consent."

-> hmmmm.... but if it made your coding faster then all is well....???

09.02.2026 03:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Wedding Photo Booth Company Exposes Customers’ Drunken Photos β€˜Curator Live’, a popular photo booth company for weddings and other events, is exposing all sorts of unsuspecting people’s photos.

Wedding Photo Booth Company Exposes Customers’ Drunken Photos www.404media.co/wedding-phot...

-> perhaps not ideal but I personally find those types of wedding photos oddly reassuring lolz

09.02.2026 03:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Microsoft walks back AI in Windows 11! Yeah, right Microsoft hasn’t been having the greatest month or two. In November, Pavan Davuluri,President of Windows and Devices, proclaimed Microsoft’s Agentic Operating System future! Users told him nobody w…

Microsoft walks back AI in Windows 11! Yeah, right pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/04/m...

"Copilot integrations like those found in Notepad and Paint are under review."

-> oh noooo, not the Paint Copilot!!! That's way more important than Windows 11 bugs lol....

09.02.2026 03:16 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Enterprise hits and misses - AI fears meet SaaS software earnings, and OpenClaw's security holes keep CISOs up past bedtime This week - software earnings look pretty strong, but not strong enough - back to the AI versus software debate. Moltbook and OpenClaw took over the AI agent hype train, but what does it mean for ente...

Enterprise hits and misses - #AI fears meet #SaaS software earnings, and #OpenClaw's #security holes keep #CISOs up past bedtime diginomica.com/enterprise-h... by @jon.diginomica.com. #EnSw

03.02.2026 08:40 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0