Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 20 hours ago
“It’s very polite and responsible about asking permission to do things. But that kind of kills the vibe of getting all this benefit.” @thecote on the productivity tax you pay when the agent is so careful it makes you click through every action. Okay. No. Okay. Over-asking leads to the exact thing you were trying to avoid: people stop reading what’s being asked.
(There is a name for this: alert fatigue.)
Clipped from a conversation on giving agentic AI a shell in the enterprise, with @davidzendzian on Tanzu Catsup.
Full episode: youtube.com/watch?v=5F2d8ErclUg
Interested in a platform that can help you with enterprise-y excellence? Just TryTanzu.ai
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 on YouTube: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAdzTan_eSPSlg3nySSAI7DjrbN2Bt56r
Hosts: @thecote and David Zendzian
“It’s very polite and responsible about asking permission to do things. But that kind of kills the vibe of getting all this benefit.” @thecote on the productivity tax you pay when the agent is so careful it makes you click through every action. Okay. No. Okay. Over-asking leads to the exact thing you were trying to avoid: people stop reading what’s being asked.
(There is a name for this: alert fatigue.)
Clipped from a conversation on giving agentic AI a shell in the enterprise, with @davidzendzian on Tanzu Catsup.
Full episode: youtube.com/watch?v=5F2d8ErclUg
Interested in a platform that can help you with enterprise-y excellence? Just TryTanzu.ai
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 on YouTube: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAdzTan_eSPSlg3nySSAI7DjrbN2Bt56r
Hosts: @thecote and David Zendzian
