When Marc Benioff was talking about how he spends like 3 hours a day chatting with AI, things made a bit more sense. I suspect that a lot of these guys are just chattering away with self-affirming LLMs and have just completely lost the plot.

I hadn’t considered that before Marc was talking about how much time he spends chatting to LLMs.

A lot of the younger Big Tech CEOs are notoriously averse to human interaction, so I’m sure there’s some of that at play.

Something I keep in mind is that the “goal” success/failure rate really needs to be appropriate in context. We sure can’t eliminate human error, but for my work a best case 80/20 would mean I’m losing customers and probably getting myself sued. I don’t have a problem “doing things by my own hand” in that case.

For me the notification is the point, and the point of notifications to me is that they deserve my attention. Of the vanishingly few apps I install these days, almost nothing can say it deserves my attention. Even my bank doesn’t get those privileges.

We are partly there in spirit with App Transparency keeping track of the IPs and hostnames apps connect to.

Spam filter push notifications.

Ideally enough spam reports for Uber Eat’s constant marketing abuse and they lose APNs access for the Bundle ID associated with the spam reports. For example.

How much time must everyone be asked to waste to “tune” a working set of applications to something reasonably sane for human beings.

Sure, what is sane for one human might not be for the next, but it’s not as if trends cannot be discerned.

How ridiculous would it be to be told “if you don’t want people constantly barging into your office, lock the door”?

But I digress.

My spouse’s employer mandated that everyone move off AWS “because they’re a competitor” (they’re absolutely not), and Microsoft was happy to roll out discounts for Azure.

To say that has gone poorly would be generous. Azure is impressive in its own right, but it’s not comparable to AWS. (Which has its own problems, to be clear.)

The stagnation in Azure is apparent everywhere you look. The capacity issues have only gotten worse. There are still change advisory callouts in the Azure Portal with dates in the year 2020.

The point is to make sure there’s not a mess on the other end when you enforce SSO for MAIDs.

Apple’s documentation for ABM and ABE is atrocious, but they do manage to document a bunch of footguns, just poorly and in seemingly bizarre places.

For example, ABE doesn’t support MDM migration (either as source or destination), despite the fact that the feature launched with macOS/iOS/iPadOS 26 and is supported by other MDM solutions.

And you cannot push custom config profiles with ABE which declare a non-Apple preference domain. Utter nonsense.

If you’re using the full ABM-with-ADE and MDM stack, it’s expected that you push apps to employees.

You can also use Munki to make apps available to users. You can just push only Munki via MDM if you want, and let it manage app installs and self service installs for you. There are caveats.

Which I find…unusual.

Or, at best, competently.

Sometimes both of those, or neither, are in evidence.

But I like the way you think. Make it a contract performance issue for legal teams to police internally.

At least the new edition would be a worthwhile expense.

I made this suggestion when I served on the security team at a major cybersecurity player.

When we had our company-wide annual internal conference it was always in person. This meant that basically everyone, with basically cumulative access to everything, and all our code, would be traveling across a multitude of borders at once. Some of which were less friendly than the US (at that time).

This was rejected as impractical for developers and redundant for everyone else. So I suggested locking the accounts of everyone who was traveling between the time they left and the time they arrived. This would have the side effect of signing them out of our most sensitive systems and removing certain highly confidential data from laptops. This was also rejected as “unnecessary”.

That company now counts a healthy proportion of the Fortune 500 amongst their customer base. I hope things are not so cavalier anymore.

But what it seems to be is just a fast way to deploy resources to platform providers that use Stripe to bill you?

Or maybe the marketing is just confusing?

I don’t think this is for me though. I’m using things like AWS, Azure, and dedicated servers from companies that lease out dedicated servers. For my company Stripe is nothing more than a payment processor.

They’re also purpose built to do tax/accounting work, and can’t go “off script” with filling in your tax return.