Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
“I don’t think I’ve done a single prompt in the last three months that did not end with: you do not make any decisions. I make all decisions.” That’s David Zendzian’s actual working discipline with coding agents, and the reason he gives for it is the useful part. Left alone it’ll go compile and deploy something, not knowing there was a faster way, because it doesn’t know the system, its context isn’t good enough, and it’s too easily distracted.
Clipped from a conversation on running agentic AI inside a platform that assumes it will misbehave, with David Zendian and @thecote on Tanzu Catsup.
Full episode: youtube.com/watch?v=lyar-Hndkxg
Interested in a platform that can help you with enterprise-y excellence? Check out: vmware.com/products/app-platform/tanzu
Tanzu Catsup is a weekly conversation about platform engineering, cloud-native operations, and building software in large organizations…and, of course, AI.
Check us out Fridays at 10am US Eastern/4pm Amsterdam time! In YouTube: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAdzTan_eSPSlg3nySSAI7DjrbN2Bt56r
Hosts: @thecote and David Zendzian
“I don’t think I’ve done a single prompt in the last three months that did not end with: you do not make any decisions. I make all decisions.” That’s David Zendzian’s actual working discipline with coding agents, and the reason he gives for it is the useful part. Left alone it’ll go compile and deploy something, not knowing there was a faster way, because it doesn’t know the system, its context isn’t good enough, and it’s too easily distracted.
Clipped from a conversation on running agentic AI inside a platform that assumes it will misbehave, with David Zendian and @thecote on Tanzu Catsup.
Full episode: youtube.com/watch?v=lyar-Hndkxg
Interested in a platform that can help you with enterprise-y excellence? Check out: vmware.com/products/app-platform/tanzu
Tanzu Catsup is a weekly conversation about platform engineering, cloud-native operations, and building software in large organizations…and, of course, AI.
Check us out Fridays at 10am US Eastern/4pm Amsterdam time! In YouTube: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAdzTan_eSPSlg3nySSAI7DjrbN2Bt56r
Hosts: @thecote and David Zendzian
