Build vs buy is really about where you spend your tokens @VMwareTanzu
Build vs buy is really about where you spend your tokens  @VMwareTanzu
Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 16 hours ago
"Spring had five or six vulnerabilities a month for the last ten years. Now we had 60 released last month." - David Zendzian

David reframes the AI-security-partner question as a token-allocation problem. Coté picks it up: it's classic buy vs build, except the currency is tokens - yours or somebody else's. An outside security firm spends their tokens more efficiently because they have multiple customers. So where do you want to spend yours?

Clipped from a conversation on platform engineering and AI security with @thecote and on Tanzu Catsup.

Full episode: youtube.com/watch?v=nULFH7-t2GQ

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Tanzu Catsup is a weekly conversation about platform engineering, cloud-native operations, and building software in large organizations...and, of course, AI.

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Hosts: @thecote and David Zendzian
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