Robert Cathey

supports the companies and open source projects building the future of AI infrastructure and apps with messaging, content, and PR strategies.

[Robert Cathey @robertcathey]

"Agents are only as good as the data and semantics behind them, so the context layer, not the model, is the thing to watch right now"

[Sean Kerner @TechJournalist]

It's all about context with @Snowflake Horizon

"There are a lot of tools out there that you can ask questions, you get a very confident answer, but whether it's correct or not is different.."
https://t.co/cV4nalawLU via @VentureBeat

[Robert Cathey @robertcathey]

@jesseproudman To be fair, everyone is stooging their way through this right now. Like running a race blindfolded, and you don't know where the finish line is.

[Robert Cathey @robertcathey]

"Disregard" breaks Google is something I never contemplated. And I contemplate a lot of stuff.

[Robert Cathey @robertcathey]

@sparkycollier Do not take AI psychosis if you are allergic to the ingredients in AI psychosis.

[The Linux Foundation @linuxfoundation]

AI isn't going to kill tech jobs - it is going to redistribute them - we already seeing it. Net technical hiring is projected to increase 31% in 2026. Companies are prioritizing upskilling over external hiring. - LIVE from #OSSummit in Minneapolis

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and its impossible to have rational conversations about it with them. I can't name any specific people because they include personal friends I deeply respect, but I worry about how this plays out.

I lived through the great MTBF vs MTTR (mean-time-between-failure vs. mean-time-to-recovery) reckoning of infrastructure during the transition to cloud and cloud automation. All those arguments are rearing their ugly heads again but now its... the whole software development industry (maybe the whole world, really).

It's frightening, because the psychosis folks operate under an almost absolute "MTTR is all you need" mentality: "its fine to ship bugs because the agents will fix them so quickly and at a scale humans can't do!" We learned in infrastructure that MTTR is great but you can't yeet resilient systems entirely.

The main issue is I don't even know how to bring this up to people I know personally, because bringing this topic up leads to immediately dismissals like "no no, it has full test coverage" or "bug reports are going down" or something, which just don't paint the whole picture.

We already learned this lesson once in infrastructure: you can automate yourself into a very resilient catastrophe machine. Systems can appear healthy by local metrics while globally becoming incomprehensible. Bug reports can go down while latent risk explodes. Test coverage can rise while semantic understanding falls. Changes happens so fast that nobody notices the underlying architecture decaying.

I worry.

[Robert Cathey @robertcathey]

If AI can create sources from the binaries, does how we presently think about open source vs. proprietary matter anymore?

[Robert Cathey @robertcathey]

So, who's up for rebuilding the entire SDLC from the ground up with AI driving the car? 🙋🏼‍♂️

[Robert Cathey @robertcathey]

Another day, another catastrophic exploit: CVE-2026-46300

[Robert Cathey @robertcathey]

To the man at the gate 11 who confronted me because I was on a call, I hope your day gets better. You must be struggling with a heavy load. ☮️

[Sean Kerner @TechJournalist]

I've been writing on @OpenStack since day one. Now its 15 years later and it keeps on adding features that cloud operators need. Oh and even now - just as it was a decade ago, going after VMware users is still a primary target.

“VMware escapees represent currently a lot of the new deployments that are coming to OpenStack right now,” @tcarrez general manager of the OpenInfra Foundation, told me https://t.co/MWA7vUBRYp

[Robert Cathey @robertcathey]

Token Factory enables infrastructure operators to turn GPU capacity into a token-based revenue stream. https://t.co/8kzZxzgymf @rafaysystemsinc #agenticai #Tokenomics

[Robert Cathey @robertcathey]

Good one #mcpdevsummit

[Robert Cathey @robertcathey]

So many tokens consumed this week. #kubecon

[CNCF @CloudNativeFdn]

It’s official: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 26 is our biggest event yet.

With 13,500+ attendees in Amsterdam, we’ve surpassed the size of a small town. From drones to a full-size glider on the keynote stage, we're keeping up the energy!

Let's keep cloud native moving for Day 2!

#KubeCon #CNCF #CloudNative

[Robert Cathey @robertcathey]

@shar1z @_ediri @cra @SWDevAngel Wish you were here!

[Robert Cathey @robertcathey]

@sriramhere @SWDevAngel lol! That pic from the London #KubeCon has gotten a ton of exposure. Glad I'm on the right-hand side for easy cropping 😂

[Robert Cathey @robertcathey]

@cra Passport control officer asked me, "Which conference are you going to?" I replied, "KubeCon." He said, "I know this KubeCon. Welcome to Amsterdam!"

[Sean Kerner @TechJournalist]

Open source @Qdrant just raised $50M and what it means is that vector database (or what Andre Zayarni prefers to call the '..information retrieval layer for the AI age') is more relevant than ever before.

With insights from Kamen Kanev (GlassDollar) and Herbert Turner (&AI)

https://t.co/DK5frXpyla via @VentureBeat

[Jesse Proudman @jesseproudman]

Do I know any one that works within the Google Adwords group here?