John Patterson

I'm a big fan of Will Larson's writing and enjoyed this episode. It's a good reflection on how the industry has changed in recent years, and it's a dangerous time to be a middle manager who's lost touch with the technology and focuses more on bureaucracy.

Strong SAP Q3 earnings. Wall Street wants proof of AI progress. TechEd next week should be a celebration. www.wsj.com/business/ear...

Really enjoying Acquired Seinfeld podcast episode, a lot in-depth analysis into the business behind the most successful TV show in history www.acquired.fm/episodes/sei... @acquiredfm.bsky.social

Disagree Out Loud, Then Commit Some interesting points about silent compliance and to disagree silently is disloyal” davidgevorkyan.substack.com/p/disagree-o...

TIL - it's called the walrus operator (:=)

i quite like the look of this github.com/brandeis-con... a lightweight durable execution engine for RAP. AIF like stop-and-go error recovery to custom SAP business objects, minus the heavy complexity of a BPA or WF engine.

Made me lol

The last two episodes of SE06 of Slow Horses have been top shelf, can't wait for the finale

Made me lol

Sam's perspective on AI was quite refreshing, especially the macro Vs micro economics and how you need to hedge bets, spec driven development and the need to balance functional, non functional and business operations requirements, plus the discussion on cognitive surrender leading to cognitive debt

Made me lol

The Drift That Haunts Your BTP, from SAP Inside Track Sydney 2026 secondphase.com.au/the-drift-th... Many of the talks this day were on AI Mine asked the question what happens if we rely on it too much. A few people have asked me to share the slides so here they are.

Made me lol

My son plays the Teams ringtone through his phone speaker every time I go AFK. I sprint back to my desk to answer a call from absolutely nobody. Don’t know whether to be proud or angry. School holidays are going well. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6V_f...

OH: The way devs talk about Claude, Codex etc. is like they’re Beyoncé and Taylor Swift. Ralph loops? That was last week. Basically Keeping Up with the Kardashians for nerds.

The SAP Gateway log confirms someone is looking for the OnlyFans module.

Really enjoying The Peterman Pod - Podcast Two recurring topics FIRE - Financial Independence Retire Early and the people who did it and came back Doers Vs Talkers and riding the pendulum of going down deep Vs higher up and broad share.google/wUoGMKasp1M9...

Just finished listening to "Engineering Executive’s Primer" a bird’s-eye view into being a CTO at a fast-growing startup. Engineering strategy, P&L, GAAP vs non-GAAP, acquisitions, marketing vs GTM vs R&D and even angel investing as a way to understand VC funding. www.oreilly.com/library/view...

Seems the AI Labs are running a free pen testing service.

This is giving me Logan’s Run vibes. 😆

This is too funny well done

A friend told me he's interviewing for an architect role. For the next interview he has 15 minutes to explain what he's learnt about the programme, how he'd improve it, and what he'd do in his first 90 days. Honestly, I like it. It tests how you think.

A lot of enterprises have principles like buy vs build, and SI-first for development outside their core domain. I wonder how AI changes these. Build more, or use AI to write the glue between what we buy? Does that push SIs toward fractional, outcome-based engagements?

Just finished binge-watching Neagley. Felt on par with, if not better than, the latest season of Reacher.

Fire is invented.

Looks like spring, feels like winter

"We believe that rigorous use of AI helps a company like ours accelerate development, delight customers, and go head to head with competitors with vastly more resources. We believe that using AI is not a replacement for skill and craft, but an amplification." Culture eats breakfast for strategy

“Could you send me the prompt you used to create this email?” Asking for the prompt is now the shortcut. The email is the long way round.

Caught between Scylla and Charybdis

OH : “Projects die when they hit a deadline. Products die when we treat them like projects.”

If River Cartwright becomes the new James Bond, it would be a brilliant hat tip back to the slapstick Bond era, when Peter Sellers and Woody Allen were playing Bond. From Slow Horses to 007. 😂

The Story of VS Code youtu.be/kHL3XzjpT5w?...

"I don't know the answer myself, but I asked a blowhard I know and he took a wild guess, here's what he said: " How I interpret pasted replies from an LLM in online conversations

Lex goes to DHH "I'm an introvert who doesn't like speaking" DHH "me too!!" Meanwhile I'm half way through their 5 hour podcast that I can't listen to at 1.5X speed cause DHH already waxes lyrical at 2X speed

'Mitchell and webb holy grail' share.google/J7wTXi4eDhL6... always makes me lol @mikedoyle.bsky.social

@vishnandr.bsky.social and his colleague Abdel, demonstrating running local models and MCP with CAP, giving every developer a business case for upgrading their laptop #SITSYD

@marian.zeis.de walking us through his AI Journey (at 5:30am his time), so much has evolved in the last two years, who knows where we will be in another 2 years #SITSYD

Been over 8 years since I upgraded my laptop still running an XPS GTX 1050, thinking I'll wait for these RTX Sparks Nvidia RTX Spark ‘Superchip’: The First AI PCs Are Here | WIRED share.google/OZJ7dE5SICal...

Made me lol