It’s all fun and games until the majority of your workforce suddenly becomes AI builders—and needs new and improved guardrails to prevent security havoc.

That’s the predicament faced by numerous companies thanks to the rise of vibe coding, and retail giant Walmart is no exception.

All in on AI. Walmart has been gearing up its workforce for the AI era. During a June 3 press briefing at its annual Associates Week, Walmart Global Chief Technology Officer and Chief Development Officer Suresh Kumar said associates are now leveraging AI tools like Code Puppy, Walmart’s internal vibe-coding platform.

“Right now, we have as many non-technical associates who are now able to do things that require technology as we have engineers,” Kumar said. The retailer also announced the general availability of its OpenAI certification program to US associates to bolster AI literacy across its workforce.

Code better.—BM

If you think you had a bad day at work, at least your IT error didn’t accidentally free a bunch of dinosaurs.

Jurassic Park, the 1993 box-office hit, is known more for velociraptors breaking doors than tech stacks breaking down, but that doesn’t mean IT Brew shouldn’t warn readers about the dino-sized disasters possible when a tech leader ignores security fundamentals.

The theme park’s computer programmer, Dennis Nedry (Wayne Knight), thinks his peers and boss don’t recognize his talents (like a few IT practitioners today, perhaps). In response, he packs dino embryos into a fake Barbasol can and sets out to sell them to a competitor. Aside from his messy desk and messier attempt at corporate espionage, Nedry also commits a herd of technical errors worth noting.

Spit takes to follow.—BH

Can’t snag time on your CEO’s calendar? Try the next best thing: Checking in with their digital twin, instead.

Executives are cashing in on the digital twin trend. Earlier this year, Meta was rumoured to be working on a digital twin, a.k.a., AI clone, of CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Meanwhile, Customers Bank CEO Sam Sidhu tapped his own digital twin to assist with part of the company’s Q1 2026 earnings call.

Mark Thomas, president of IT governance firm Escoute Consulting and creator of his own digital twin, told IT Brew he is seeing a lot of demand for digital twins from various company stakeholders.

“What I’m seeing right now are more specific roles like CFOs, chief risk officers, and so on, who are using these twins to help them make decisions and help them look at risk categories,” Thomas said.

It takes two.—BM

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