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John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 2h

Yeah long-tail strategy relies on shifting the ownership and risk to third parties to remain viable, every edge case creates operational friction, really need to trust partners

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John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 3h

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.

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John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 4h

I wonder if the bigger AI opportunity for SAP isn't making existing work cheaper or easier. It's going places SAP couldn't economically go before, new industries, new LOBs, more specialised processes. That's a much bigger prize than productivity gains.

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John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 4h

Has the strategic focus and budget shifted to the AI-native, compositional UX?

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John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 5h

“We have therefore decided…” Blink twice if you need help. 😂

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my ordinary life @calne.ca · 27/09/2026

im very busy

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John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 28/09/2026

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

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John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 28/09/2026

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...

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John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 27/09/2026

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...

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John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 24/09/2026

A barcode GTIN or UPC or EAN and 12 is the magic number

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 24/09/2026

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

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John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 23/09/2026

Every context switch puts real skin in the game. AI makes it cheap to fire off ideas, designs, plans, prompts and code But someone still has to absorb the context, work through the consequences and own the outcome That's the difference The chicken lays the eggs. The developer is still in the bbq

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John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 23/09/2026

Been thinking about ham and eggs. AI makes context switching easier for non-developers and vibe coders. AI can build the mental model for the next task. But developers still pay the cost. Flow breaks. Unfinished work nags. We may feel like the chicken, but the developer is still the pig.

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John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 23/09/2026

The anxiety of unfinished work used to stay at the keyboard. You walked the dog or went to the gym, and the work waited. With AI agents, the work keeps running. So instead of leaving work behind, you wake up wondering what your agents did overnight.

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John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 23/09/2026

This is giving me Logan’s Run vibes. 😆

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John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 21/09/2026

Enterprise tech strategy often dictates the boring choice to optimise cost, skills, support and standardisation. But if AI makes development cheaper, can it promote autonomy of choice? This is an interesting example - Python vs SAP's CDS/RAP. Is it autonomy, or naive Not Invented Here in disguise?

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John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 21/09/2026

We moved to cloud and Clean Core because customisation was expensive, created technical debt, and was costly to own. If AI changes that cost curve, does the current enterprise development strategy still make sense? Maybe customers should own more of the glue, extensions and customisation.

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John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 21/09/2026

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.

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John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 21/09/2026

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?

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John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 20/09/2026

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

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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 18/09/2026

Fire is invented.

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John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 18/09/2026

The interesting part isn't the AI. They measured where the constraint actually was, moved the capability there, then measured what happened. Find the constraint. Move the capability. See where it moves next - ToC

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John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 16/09/2026

Write a thought-leadership article positioning SAP Knowledge Graph as essential for enterprise AI. Use a French chef analogy. Make it compelling and explain the business value.

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John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 15/09/2026

Looks like spring, feels like winter

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John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 14/09/2026

"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

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John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 14/09/2026

“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.

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John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 13/09/2026

Caught between Scylla and Charybdis

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John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 12/09/2026

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

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John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 11/09/2026

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. 😂

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John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 09/09/2026

Why does AI struggle so much with words on images

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 07/09/2026

"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

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John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 06/09/2026

I feel jQuery arrived a couple of years too late, in 2004 I was having so much fun writing BSP apps with Dojo and Yui, then came Java Webdynpro, Silverlight, Flex and Flash not same fun, took 8 years for SAPUI5 to be released and a lot of it's success was based on the popularity of JQM I felt

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John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 06/09/2026

Perfect location, not too loud and lots of new faces

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John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 06/09/2026

Your right, not Fathers Day content

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John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 06/09/2026

Yep, at some point, introversion stopped being a personality trait and became a social media content format.

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John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 06/09/2026

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

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John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 06/09/2026

What's left is big companies fighting over big-volume, low-margin work that can't go offshore, and government. Thirty years of experience, but the industries and markets we built that experience in have largely disappeared

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John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 06/09/2026

At SAP #SITSyd on Friday, I was talking with other industry veterans, lamenting that 30 years later salaries and rates haven't gone up. We worked in tobacco, alcohol, building products, car manufacturing and steel. Most have disappeared, moved offshore or been made uncompetitive.

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John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 05/09/2026

I wonder if enterprise developers will opt for local small language models that are more accurate and cost-effective for specific workloads, buying something like a DGX Spark seems like a nice NUC upgrade.

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John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 05/09/2026

Was a really good day, the location was amazing and people came in from all over Australia and the world and stayed around till late, I can only imagine the effort that went on behind the scenes

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John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 04/09/2026

@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

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John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 04/09/2026

@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

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