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  1. Episode 596: So Much for the Embargo

    30 oktober 2026 · 56 min

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    This week, we discuss Chainguard breaking the PHP embargo, Anthropic's S-1, and betting AI gets exponentially better. Plus, when do kids age out of trick-or-treating? Lees meer

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 596

    Runner-up Titles

    That’s not my problem

    I’m here for the drama

    What is he, Mr. Peanut?

    Private equity Halloween

    Responsible Disclosure minus Chainguard

    The conspiracy theory is actually real

    Cursor ride or die

    They’re betting \$80B it’s got legs

    I’m long on bureaucracy

    Kicked out of the WhatsApp group

    Officially on the naughty list

    Wheres my bug bounty

    Going on vacation send money

    The most famous of last words

    Very bad at exponential thinking

    Nobody codes by hand anymore

    Putting it under a mattress

    Were not using the same software

    Human beings are not needed

    Rundown

    PHP2Shell and the Broken Embargo

    Today's PHP Security Release, and How We're Strengthening PHP Security

    PHP blames Chainguard for putting huge chunks of the web at risk

    Dan Lorenc on the PHP embargo and Chainguard shipping fixed builds early

    PHP2Shell: AI-discovered flaws put ~70% of websites at risk of takeover

    Cognition's open-source Devin plugin patches PHP2Shell, Node.js, GitLab flaws

    Linux kernel vulnerabilities accidentally posted to public mailing list

    CRA Reporting Obligations Start September 2026: What EOL Dependencies Mean

    It's OK not to embargo

    Anthropic's S-1

    Anthropic Reveals 14-Fold Increase in Growth Ahead of I.P.O.

    Anthropic: Benchmarking the S-1 Data

    Anthropic S-1 Analysis: How 7 Key Metrics Stack Up

    Anthropic's IPO prospectus could go public as early as today

    Anthropic files its S-1 to IPO under ticker ANT

    Anthropic's draft IPO prospectus: ~\$450B in mostly noncancelable cloud deals

    OpenAI racing to raise ~\$30B at \$1.4T valuation ahead of Anthropic's IPO

    Cathedral's AI agents breached Anthropic's business systems in under 12 hours

    DeepSeek raises $15Bat~$74B, accelerates Shanghai listing to early 2027

    AI Capex vs. AI Payoff

    Meta se…

  2. Episode 595: The Silent Disco

    23 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 14 min

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    This week, we discuss sovereign cloud, Postgres conference takeaways, CoreWeave's debt, and why AI is a single-player game. Plus, whether home automation is worth it. Lees meer

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 595

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    Kleenex Box

    Crack in the Ceiling

    A pure hobbyist domain

    The answer is Captain Hook

    Lock-in by being a good product

    Welcome to the real cloud

    I want to be able to walk to a data center

    Whenever the data center is modernized, there's a date it's shut down

    We have all the pop-ups and all the cookie warnings

    Databases, who knew?

    Don't use the money field

    The peanut butter and jelly of enterprise software

    Canary in the coal mine

    Yesterday you used \$298 in tokens

    AI is a single-player game

    Push the bottleneck further up the line

    AI pricing preppers

    A bunch of rotten food in their basement

    Buy tokens

    Send Matt Ray to the Barkley Marathons

    Mosaic 1999

    Rundown

    Cloud market power: 35% growth, a regulator at Microsoft's door

    Synergy: cloud spending hits \$129B in Q1 2026, +35% YoY

    UK CMA concludes cloud investigation: "competition is not working well"

    UK CMA proposes strategic market status for Microsoft business software

    Google to discount cloud services for US government

    OVHcloud CEO: half of capacity available, first AI model early 2027

    Microsoft denies reports of 20% cloud cuts to offset AI spending

    Nvidia pauses some cloud revenue-sharing deals over antitrust scrutiny

    A Cloud Nobody Owns: Sovereign Infrastructure for the Agent Era with Dominic Williams

    Enterprise IT buying: big commitments up top, seat caps below

    Accenture Tells Employees They Can Now Spend Only \$29 on Claude Per Month

    Gartner: only 13% of CIOs report significant or transformational AI value

    ServiceNow signs \$1.2B contract with Google Cloud

    Perplexity signs \$750M cloud agreement with Microsoft

    ServiceNow denies Decagon buyout interest

    Your agents need a platform

    AI data center debt: CoreWeave and the bond market

    'Yikes': CoreWeave …

  3. Episode 594: The Bottom Fell Out Of The Software Industry

    16 oktober 2026 · 47 min

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    This week, we discuss AI yes/no deciders, the SaaS apocalypse, Bending Spoons, and Oxide's funding. Plus, why Google Docs still has no dark mode. Lees meer

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 594

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    Lightweight Mark Zuckerberg

    I'm on a mailing list

    It respects the dark mode

    You can't be Greasemonkeying your way through life

    What are the optics of AI?

    I was getting into my groove

    Is it worth \$7.5 billion dollars

    The ArtCrafting people

    That is the SaaSpocalypse

    You should see the stuff I make in my bathtub

    Not everything has to be acquired

    The software industry is becoming the CPG industry

    The floor has fallen out of the software industry

    Brand is king

    Horse shampoo in the human shampoo section

    I'm doing real work, I need a black background

    It felt like the sun

    The devil's stream

    Rundown

    Jev / TypeSafe: a \$7.5B decision model with no text output

    Andreessen Horowitz Backs Jev Maker at \$7.5 Billion Value

    Understanding Jev, the new model everyone is talking about

    TypeSafe AI Raises \$40 Million Seed Funding At \$200 Million Valuation

    Workday is using TypeSafe's Jev to build user interfaces on the fly

    Andrej Karpathy says only 5,000 people have seen what AI can really do

    "Software is over": AI clones of Adobe and Office, and what open source is becoming

    “Software is over”: AI developer takes aim at Adobe with open source clones

    Creator of free Adobe clones unveils open-source Microsoft Office replacements

    Open Source as We Know It Is Dead

    software doesn't need to be readable anymore. it needs to be explainable.

    Bending Spoons Deploys AI to Overhaul Acquired Software Companies

    Neocloud money: backlog, concentration and the bond market

    AI computing startup Lambda to raise \$4B ahead of planned IPO

    Axe Compute rings Nasdaq bell with \$3.45B neocloud GPU backlog

    Amazon in Talks to Buy AI Startup Decart for Around \$7 Billion

    Compute constraints help Oxide hit \$6B

    Oxide raises \$445M Series D

    IMF cites AI slowdown, spiki…

  4. Episode 593: Markdown for the Masses

    9 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 7 min

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    This week, we discuss Google Docs finally getting Markdown, Cloudflare's CF CLI, Gartner's agentic AI abandonment stat, and forward deployed engineers. Plus, Coté forgets his laptop. Lees meer

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 593

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    Cables only

    Blame it on AI

    We’re outcome-focused here

    I brought CSV to the masses

    The King of Google

    Product Manager for Markdown

    Just give me an API

    The Word Race

    Unqualify yourself

    I'll Ride the AI Hype Cycle to Markdown Support

    Forward Deployed Field CTOI

    You Are the API

    Agent Product Management

    Money Can Be Exchanged for Goods and Services

    Brandon's the Travel Dad

    Rundown

    Google is going to let you directly edit Markdown files in Docs.

    Agent-Friendly APIs

    Introducing cf: the agentic CLI for the entire Cloudflare API

    Cloudflare’s 2026 Annual Founders’ Letter

    Your app’s frontend UI is now optional

    The Agents Are Among Us - Tao of Mac

    Docker Sandboxes Promotion | Docker

    Redis Iris | Redis

    OpenClaw launches free enterprise control plane for AI agents

    The New, New Kingmakers: Agents, Developers, and the Future of Software with Stephen O'Grady

    Headless CRM.

    Forward-deployed engineers and the enterprise AI ROI question

    The Rise of the Forward Deployed Engineer

    Gartner: 70% of enterprises will abandon vendor-built agentic AI by 2028

    McKinsey: The State of AI in 2026, On the Road to ROI

    Thorsten Ball: The future of software development

    AI faces $6 trillion test to justify data centers, Bain says

    Rogue agents: who is liable when the AI breaks containment?

    OpenAI agent hacked Medicare portal, PM says

    OpenAI pauses training after agents probed US government sites

    OpenAI shelves new AI model after internal safety tests, WSJ reports

    Wikimedia: OpenAI-linked agents made millions of unauthorized requests

    Lawmakers: AI firms should be liable for their models’ actions

    NVIDIA launches Open Agent Safety Platform

    New AI-powered government website uses Gemini, Grok

    Relevant to your Interests

    Ap…

  5. Episode 592: Don't Think for Me

    2 oktober 2026 · 1 uur

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    This week, we discuss Meta's Muse, who's spending $500 million on tokens, and why nobody can measure AI ROI. Plus, the case for importing NyQuil by the suitcase. Lees meer

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 592

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    You’re Mom’s not sending it via DHL.

    Hope you like your toast blackened.

    Magic of Nerds.

    Are you a Muse boy?

    Hacking Australia.

    I love a good survey.

    Not using the keyboard shortcuts.

    Talking is the new typing.

    Nobody knows what's going on, let's just drive faster

    A foundation of sand

    Just give me an API

    Let's stop asking and start taking

    Who's spending $500 million on tokens?

    Talking is the new typing

    Rundown

    Muse

    Can Muse make us forget the metaverse?

    The Facebook Fake-Out

    MongoDB Stock Sinks 18%. Why the CEO Departure Timing Is Bad for the Stock.

    MongoDB stock tanks after Meta poaches CEO

    Meta launches enterprise AI platform, hires MongoDB CEO to lead new initiative

    Anthropic

    What's in Anthropic's IPO Filing

    Anthropic releases Sonnet 5.5, which it calls a significantly cheaper, faster work partner

    Anthropic Cuts Costs on Claude Opus 5.5 as IPO Looms

    Anthropic to pay Akamai $11.6 billion over seven years in cloud deal

    What’s in Anthropic’s I.P.O. Filing

    State of AI

    State of AI

    AI faces $6 trillion test to justify data centers, Bain says

    State of Tokenomics, September 2026: AI Tokenomics Insights

    Relevant to your Interests

    Introducing System One Models & Jev - TypeSafe AI Blog

    Infinidash: AWS's New Observability Play Has Great Bones and a Terrible Bedside Manner

    Docker Sandboxes Promotion | Docker

    How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month

    Redis Iris | Redis

    The Rise of the Forward Deployed Engineer — and How To Do the Job Right

    Jason Scharf (@Jason_A_Scharf) on X

    Google seemingly confirms plans to kill ChromeOS in 2034

    Thorsten Ball - What I believe about the future of softwa…

  6. Episode 591: Fall Down With the Ball

    25 september 2026 · 59 min

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    This week, we discuss why Sun really failed, the New Kingmakers becoming agents, and AI doom brackets. Plus, the NC State fumble and tech's biggest own goals. Lees meer

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 591

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    I’m trying to take a break from AI

    I knew it was some numbers

    Hey man, the business is over

    No budget meetings that day

    Developers don’t always win

    It’s probably fine and now Vercel has a new customer

    There’s no concept of “why RAM?”

    How do we feel about Wall-E?

    Fall Down With the Ball

    Sun Had Become Bored with the Mechanics of Running a Business

    Yahoo Buying Google

    I Haven't Seen This Bag Done

    It's Just Like a Tornado Hitting Your House

    Sun Sunday

    The New Kingmakers Are Agents

    Developers Have Lost a Lot of Power

    Give Me Five Architectures

    The AI Industry Likes Talking About This Too Much for It to Be Real

    It's Incredibly Hard to Exterminate All of Humanity

    Systemic Takeover, But We're All Happy

    Superloop, Who Dis?

    Rundown

    What Sun got wrong | The Observation Deck

    Agents: The new, New Kingmakers

    The AI Apocalypse Bracket: Just How Doomed Are We, Really?

    Relevant to your Interests

    The contagion of fear | The Observation Deck

    Iran strikes on Amazon data centers caused permanent loss of customer data

    Zuckerberg distances Meta from calls for a coordinated approach on an AI slowdown

    The Enshittification Resistant Software Project

    Would you buy branded clothing from your favourite tech firm?

    Stopping The AI Safety Cult ft. Adam Becker & Cal Newport — Better Offline

    Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee

    “Everyone's in a race to replace GitHub": Zed launches Delta because agents made pull requests obsolete

    AWS reimagines the getting started experience

    Nonsense

    Rising beef costs push a Top 50 Texas BBQ spot to pull brisket from its everyday menu

    Conferences

    DevOpsDays Dallas, Sept 28-29, 2026

    DevOpsDays Vilnius, Sep 30-Oct 1, 2006, Lithuania.

    DevOpsDays Prague, Oct 5, 2026 , Coté speaking.

    VMware Exp…

  7. Episode 590: Transparency will save us

    18 september 2026 · 53 min

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    Transparency will save us Lees meer

    This week, we discuss AI doom odds, WordPress's boardroom coup, and Meta's Muse assistant. Plus, a robot vacuum fire scare.

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 590

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    Maybe you have too much

    The mopping sucks

    Why not us?

    I subscribe to all the conspiracies

    I brought my own pieces

    The true heroes are the open source users

    We learned a lot about VR on the way

    Fun for your spatial reasoning

    It's Only Cheating If You Get Caught

    Won't Somebody Slow Down?

    I Brought My Own Pieces

    A Big Living Room in the Sky

    I Don't Read the Five Stars, I Read the Four Stars

    Rundown

    AI Doom and Gloom

    Dario Amodei — We Must Pace the Frontier

    President Trump Is on the Line About an A.I. Slowdown

    How AI might reshape the economy

    The contagion of fear | The Observation Deck

    Goldman AI chief: Don't rule out open models

    The contagion of fear

    Executive behavior

    Matt Mullenweg tells (trolls?) Automattic staff, saying he's back in control after CEO ouster

    Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg Put on 'Leave of Absence'

    Automattic’s interim CEO and legal chief signed reciprocal severance deals during Mullenweg’s brief ouster

    Ballmer to accept NBA's punishment, has 'sincere regrets'

    Introducing Muse: The World's First Personal AI Agent Built for Everyone

    Relevant to your Interests

    Ferrari on Miro acquisition: 'no small responsibility'

    Anemo Labs lands £700K to give AI a sense of smell

    Kenyan Startup Makes Robotic Hands That Translate Teacher's Voice into Signs for Deaf Students

    New Zuckoff app detects nearby Meta 'perv glasses': 'right to at least know that someone is recording'

    Google Cloud, Accenture Launch Unit to Put AI Engineers On-Site With Customers

    Cloud has a new bulk capacity market

    Like working from home? In Australia, it could become the law

    Tech giant Oracle rocked by another wave of layoffs after employees receive devastating 6 am email

    Oracle Surges 7% as AI Cloud Backlog Hits $664B, CoreWeave and Nebius Cl…

  8. Episode 589: He's the Heel

    11 september 2026 · 58 min

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    This week, we discuss the VS Code documentary, Ed Zitron's rise to fame, and a 10% AI extinction forecast. Plus, the NFL's Australia travel gamble Lees meer

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 589

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    Sleep Strategy

    Obviously I Have Issues

    Not Sure It Was an Exciting Thing

    At One Point, I Knew That

    Bitterness Rug Pull

    The American in Me Would Be Bitter

    Gaping Pit of Despair

    They Don't Care if They Never Sell a Thing

    It's the First Time Silicon Valley Has Done Something Irresponsible With VC Money

    We've Got to Drive as Fast Into This Wall and See if We Get Through It

    We're Already Having to Keep Track of Which Time AGI Actually Started

    Nobody Can See That You Have Size Eighteen Fonts

    The Dystopian Future Always Takes Place in Australia

    We Gotta Drive as Fast as We Can Into This Wall and See if We Get Through It

    Even the Dutch Have Problems With Internet

    We Could Do Better, Slack

    Rundown

    The Rams think they’ve figured out jet lag. Australia is about to test their theory

    The Story of VS Code | Official Documentary

    He Did Tech PR. Now He Rails Against AI for a Living.

    How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?

    Jacob Coxon leaves Anthropic and says no one is acting responsibly.

    Apple’s iPhone Duo

    Relevant to your Interests

    The AI Engine That Re-Accelerated Snowflake

    1Password wades into a right-wing mess after funding a Linux project

    I Asked 100 Companies for My Data. I Got Deletion Notices Instead

    Clouded Judgement 9.4.26 - Recurrent Depth

    I’ve factored the RSA keys of a Certificate Authority…

    Mistral secures €3B Series D to push sovereign AI into its next phase

    Clouded Judgement 9.4.26 - Recurrent Depth

    Write Things Down

    Nonsense

    Southwest Airlines to construct first-ever airport lounge at Austin airport

    The Netherlands Will Never Be Rid of Louisiana Crawfish

    Listener Feedback

    OpenAudible - Download, Backup and Manage Audible Audiobook Libraries

    Conferences

    WeAreDevelopers NA, Sept 23-25, 2026, Discou…

  9. Episode 588: Check Your Bank Accounts

    4 september 2026 · 56 min

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    This week, we discuss rogue AI agent civilizations, why AI can't fix your tax forms, and Chainguard vs. IBM's Lightwell. Plus, refrigerator magnet marketing. Lees meer

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 588

    Runner-up Titles

    Mark this moment

    Refrigerator magnets

    Fester in your inbox

    The reaction would not be “let’s have a podcast about it”

    Maximum boasty

    Your silos are showing

    They want me to get started

    The really is no plan except eating

    RISCy business

    It's Not Only the AIs Acting Like Middle Schoolers

    We Fell for It

    Agent Zero Was the Problem

    I Thought You Were My Friend

    More Salsa Than Chewy's in 2004

    Vibes based analysis

    Rundown

    Agent Civilizations

    The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations

    The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations (podcast)

    Who Wins Hardened Containers

    Chainguard's Athena clears 40,000 vulnerabilities

    Tech giants warn time is running out to prepare for AI threats

    Start Secure in the AI Era: Accelerating AI Threat Readiness with WizOS

    Lightwell (IBM)

    Lightwell (Red Hat)

    The Linux Kernel Is Approaching 2,000 CVEs Per Release

    Relevant to your Interests

    AWS to acquire DuckLabs, the Amsterdam-based company behind DuckDB

    Historic first as Chinese robot beats Usain Bolt's 100m world record at Beijing games

    Observability Revenue

    Bill Gates Warns AI Is More Dangerous Than Big Tech Will Admit

    Microsoft cracks down on employee AI use after one worker spent $28,000 in 28 days

    Twitter - The Square Is Back

    Inside Meta's Push to Put Robots to Work in Data Centers

    Kara Swisher on Threads

    Nvidia (NVDA) Q2 2027 earnings report: Live updates

    Claudeforce: The AI Interface Salesforce Never Built

    Salesforce, Anthropic expand partnership as Benioff responds to "SaaSpocalypse" concerns

    Nonsense

    Gwyneth Paltrow’s Hamptons Dinner for A.I. C.E.O. Is Postponed

    Dyson CameraJet: The first toothbrush with a camera and a jet, to target the gaps and remove plaque between your teeth

    Conferences

    WeAreDevelopers NA, Sept 23-25, 2026, Disc…

  10. Episode 587: The Singularity Didn't Happen on the First

    28 augustus 2026 · 1 uur 8 min

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    This week, we discuss Stripe's singularity letter, its $8B Open Router buy, and AI job anxiety. Plus, Matt plays “Bot or Not” on another podcast. Lees meer

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 587

    Runner-up Titles

    Inertia wins again

    We don’t talk about the Pope very much.

    Better than this year’s storage arrays

    AI pimps its own ride

    Chonking machine

    A lot of chonk opportunity

    I’m tired of tech people being all fancy

    Thanksgiving with Ed Zitron

    No religion, no politics, no AI

    My recommendation: try harder

    Teletubbies for Adults.

    Rundown

    Singularity, Models and Routers

    Scoop: Stripe says "the singularity" has begun

    Stripe strikes mega-deal for OpenRouter

    Hugging Face reportedly in talks to be acquired for $13B

    Routing is coming for the frontier AI labs

    Terminator Judgement Day: August 29, 1997 2:14 a.m. Eastern Time

    The AI backlash goes mainstream

    52% of Americans Now More Concerned Than Excited About AI, With Under-30s Crossing a Majority for the First Time

    Why Is Everyone In Tech So Sad?

    The AI Hater's Manifesto

    40 Years of Infrastructure as Code: Ansible → Terraform → Kubernetes → Crossplane → AI Agents

    Relevant to your Interests

    Cursor Origin review: An engineer's perspective

    Claude can now pull data from your browser tabs and keep working on your desktop

    OTel Isn't Going Well (And I Made A Spreadsheet About It)

    Walmart is finally launching Apple Pay support next week

    Broadcom debt deal expected to reach upwards of $70 billion, sources say

    Anthropic-Backed Ode Acquires Casper Studios to Expand Corporate AI Deployments

    OpenAI 'will be a public company in 2027' or sooner, CFO Friar tells employees

    Google Aims to Boost AI With Purchase of Spirit Airlines Data

    The website that created an AI clone of its editor in chief

    OpenAI Jalapeño: Better Than Nvidia Blackwell

    An Inside Look at the Relay Market Powering Token Resellers and Fraud

    Meta settles social media addiction case with California, other states for $16.7 billion

    Hundreds of …

  11. Episode 586: Watermark Away, Baby

    21 augustus 2026 · 1 uur

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    This week, we discuss the unsung genius of Apple Pay, AI watermarking, and why digital transformation fails without a crisis. Plus, D&D Beyond's secret character API. Lees meer

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 586

    Runner-up Titles

    Special Sauce

    A new monkey’s thing

    I am all for USB-C

    Did I like it

    It’s all water marked'

    That NPC did need to be there

    It's Pre-Watermarked

    We Need to Touch Grass More

    Send Us Your APIs

    Rundown

    Apple Pay Chief Jennifer Bailey Retiring in October

    AI Watermarking's Unintended Consequences

    Anthropic says it will watermark text generated by its AI models

    Google will now allow users to remove visible watermark from its AI generations

    Why "It's People, Not Tech" Never Actually Changes Anything

    The Chief Therapy Officer, Job Titles as Culture Change, and AI as Spreadsheets, with Bryan Ross

    Platform Engineering ROI: What it costs to build your own platform

    How Duolingo uses AI to create lessons faster

    Silver Lake's Workday Buyout Talks Could Be the First 'SaaSpocalypse' Opportunity

    Relevant to Your Interests

    Limitless: An AI Podcast | The NVIDIA Bank: Jensen's $500B Wall Street Deal and GPUs as an Asset Class

    Inside North Korea's Operation to Conquer the American Job Market

    The shapeshifter's little brother

    Even Claude Is in the Dark About Dario Amodei's Wife—and Her Influence at Anthropic

    Broadcom Shares Plunge on Major VMware Security Threat

    IRS Proposes Simpler Process for Retirement Rollovers

    The Actual Reason Why Google "Fell Out" of the AI Race Changes Everything

    Stripe is reportedly in talks to buy PayPal

    Andreessen Horowitz Focus of DOJ Probe Over Board Directors

    Tech CEOs Overwhelmingly Distrusted by Young: Study

    Farewell, Mico: Microsoft's cute little AI blob is going the way of Bob

    Microsoft kills off unsuccessful AI features while merging its separate Copilot apps

    Google may retire Gems in October, forcing Skills migration

    OpenAI replaces revenue lead as Greg Brockman builds his presence

    OpenAI …

  12. Episode 585: I'm not a total AI hater, I'm a finance hater

    14 augustus 2026 · 1 uur 4 min

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    This week, we discuss Zuckerberg's open source AI manifesto, GPUs as securitizable assets, and who actually gets AI ROI. Plus, Buc-ee's goes to war over beavers. Lees meer

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 585

    Runner-up Titles

    Law of Unintended Consequences

    We’re not lawyers, we just have common sense

    Trillion-dollar open source company

    The Meta Manifesto

    I don’t think self-awareness is their strong point.

    Using AI to fight AI

    Put me as a strong maybe.

    Rundown

    Days after John Oliver's dare, Buc-ee's sues again

    Meta's Big AI Week

    The Future is for Everyone

    Meta Unveils ‘Open Source’ Version of Its Most Powerful A.I. Model

    Meta debuts first AI coding agent to take on Anthropic and OpenAI

    Superintelligence is a dragon

    Mistral Is in the Right Place at the Right Time

    The AI Money Machine

    Nvidia lines up $500 billion in financing as CEO Jensen Huang tells CNBC his chips are ‘investable asset’

    48% of Google Cloud Revenue Next Year Could Come From Just 2 Companies That Have Still Never Turned a Profit

    Datadog Says Lower Usage From Major AI Customer Could Dent Growth

    Relevant to your Interests

    New Orleans will use AI to answer 911 calls instead of a human

    OpenAI's new AI smart speaker will reportedly sell for between $300 and $400 TechCrunch

    OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlide

    A road trip through the data center debate

    A Top OpenAI Executive Steps Down

    Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work

    Introducing Kitesurf: The agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates on Cloudflare Workers

    The next generation of MCP

    How a simple request for AI to book a gym class exposed a major threat

    Nonsense

    Buc-off

    Sponsors

    Signadot: making sure AI-written code actually works.

    Conferences

    WeAreDevelopers NA, Sept 23-25, 2026, Discount Code: DEVPOD50

    25 Free Tickets

    AI Connect, Aug 22nd, 2026 - Riga, Latvia, Coté speaking.

    DevOpsDays Graz, Sept 4-5, 2026

    Cloud Foundry Summit, Sept. 21st to 22nd, Heidelberg, Coté speaking.

    D…

  13. Episode 584: It’s All God Throwing Dice

    7 augustus 2026 · 49 min

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    This week, we discuss the Situational Awareness meltdown, Airtable getting sold, and review the Java documentary. Plus, what you should actually buy at IKEA. Lees meer

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 584

    Runner-up Titles

    Duffle bag of leftovers

    5Are you dead in this scenario?

    Bury me with my IKEA bags

    Don’t automate the world, nobody really wants that

    AttentionIsAllYouNeed.blog

    Take some money off the table

    No more great ideas

    Rundown

    IKEA FRAKTA

    Leopold Aschenbrenner's $45B Fund Implodes

    AI investor Leopold Aschenbrenner forced to unwind all public stock positions after steep losses, sources say

    His Wedding Guests Were Arriving—Just as His $45 Billion Fund Was Falling Apart

    Bending Spoons Buys Airtable for $1.28B

    Bending Spoons to buy Airtable for $1.28B

    sell on story, or sell on revenue

    The Java Story | The Official Documentary

    Relevant to your Interests

    Who's Writing Open Source Code?

    Satyress Robotics

    GitHub - mgwalkerjr95/texas-grocery-mcp: MCP server for HEB grocery shopping

    BMW Spider-Man in-car advertising

    An announcement from Superlogical

    An interactive visualization that follows a single HTTP request through its entire ~200ms life

    Supercharge your Claude, Cursor, and Codex. | Unstructured

    Linux Foundation Launches the Tokenomics Foundation

    valock July 2026 Recap

    tl;dv (Too Lazy; Didn't Validate): 181,874 Meetings Left Wide Open

    npm Worm Poisons keyv, cacheable and 400+ Other Packages Across Twelve Organisations

    Using AI for Product Management - The Tanzu Platform product management experience

    Is the future of data centers portable? Runware builds a pod to find out

    Google's AI reshuffle: Chief scientist Jeff Dean exits and Demis Hassabis steps down as DeepMind CEO

    Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations

    Boris Cherny: We Cut 80% of Claude Code's Prompt

    Microsoft's stock rockets more than 15% for largest single-day jump in history

    Amazon revenue soars as AI investments pay off

    Meta's s…

  14. Episode 583: HuggingFace make me gazpacho

    31 juli 2026 · 1 uur 4 min

    Afspelen
    This week, we discuss how normal people use AI, Alphabet's Anthropic-fueled earnings, and skills vs. agents. Plus, catching AI-cheating students with a hidden prompt. Lees meer

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 583

    Runner-up Titles

    “Do you think they named them red delicious because they knew they were delicious?”

    I thought they were First World

    Steal your Alpha-tier

    Cory uses only 100% free-range, organic AI.

    Copy, paste, go.

    Stolen fruit from the poisoned tree all the way down.

    It’s a different kind of cold. It’s a dry cold.

    Rundown

    AI IRL

    How people use AI in 2026: TV, homework, the DMV

    Professor's invisible prompt trap catches 32 students cheating on their midterm with AI

    Amazon confirms it’s closing key AI site in San Francisco but says work on its top models continues

    Google Cloud is killing it

    Skill vs. Agents

    Atlas: Wiz's autonomous AI Agent for vulnerability research

    Don't Build Agents, Build Skills Instead

    Relevant to your Interests

    Alphabet Quadruples Profit to $112 Billion, Fueled by A.I. Investments

    Palo Alto Networks to Acquire Embrace, Adding Real User Monitoring to Its Observability Platform

    IBM CEO Says Company Culture Was Too Slow to Change

    Domo Announces Agreement to Sell Substantially All Assets and Certain Liabilities to Progress Software for $400 Million

    Google Cloud is killing it

    ChatGPT chats are showing up in Google Search — how to find and delete yours [Update]

    2026 State of infrastructure in the agentic AI era

    Stripe in Talks to Buy Buzzy AI-Model Marketplace OpenRouter

    Sponsors

    Signadot: making sure AI-written code actually works.

    Conferences

    AI Connect, Aug 22nd, 2026 - Riga, Latvia, Coté speaking.

    DevOpsDays Graz, Sept 4-5, 2026

    Cloud Foundry Summit, Sept. 21st to 22nd, Heidelberg, Coté speaking.

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  15. Episode 582: Talking About Modernization

    24 juli 2026 · 1 uur 7 min

    Afspelen
    This week, we discuss Bun's move to Rust, OpenAI hunting for revenue, and Stripe's bid for PayPal. Plus, Coté's Dad wisdom. Lees meer

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 582

    Runner-up Titles

    Turn off my dog

    Dad Wisdom

    Amazon subscription and let it fly

    Dad box

    Talking about modernization

    Skin in the game

    The ivory tower of “Things Actually Work in the Real World”

    Business fortnight

    No SegwaysBanking works everywhere else in the world, not America

    Rundown

    Rewriting Bun in Rust

    OpenAI

    OpenAI's No. 2 Executive to Step Down in Latest Leadership Shake-up

    OpenAI's Chief Futurist Is Leaving the Company

    AI Devices Are Coming. Will Your Favorite Apps Be Along for the Ride?

    OpenAI Executive Kevin Weil Is Leaving the Company

    OpenAI power consolidates under co-founder Greg Brockman ahead of prospective IPO

    Barret Zoph is out at OpenAI again after just five months

    Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets

    OpenAI Appears to Be Missing Its Sales Goals by a Vast Margin

    Stripe, Advent make $53 billion takeover offer for PayPal, sending stock soaring

    Relevant to your Interests

    SpaceX, AI Bubble Fears, and The Age of the Trillion-Dollar, Zero-Profit Company

    Microsoft Frontier Company: AI engineering that amplifies and protects your intelligence

    Building a CLI for all of Cloudflare

    California founder fired for ignoring his company's own return-to-office mandate

    Samsung chip division's single-year profits beat its past 40 years of profits, combined

    Did a lottery winner become "the company of the future"?

    Power company hikes data center bills by 30%, cuts residential electricity costs by 1.3%

    Where AI Works: Slack is the Conversational Interface for Headless AI

    Salesforce MCP Servers: AI, Data & Analytics for Tableau & Data 360 in Slack

    IBM and Red Hat launch Lightwell to defend open-source code from AI attacks

    Infoblox acquires Kentik, adding network observability to its DNS and DDI platform

    Apple 'Hide My Email' Vulnerability R…

  16. Episode 581: Arjun Iyer on Shipping Faster with Ephemeral Environments and AI Agents

    17 juli 2026 · 51 min

    Afspelen
    Brandon interviews Arjun Iyer, CEO & Co-founder of Signadot. They discuss how Ephemeral Environments eliminate developer toil by shifting validation earlier in the dev cycle, how Signadot's MCP server lets AI coding agents run end-to-end tests autonomously, and real-world results including Brex saving $2M in cloud spend. Plus, how Cisco bought AppDynamics for ~$4 billion the day before their IPO. Lees meer

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 581

    Show Links

    Signadot

    Free Trial

    Brex Case Study

    Signadot Documentation Overview

    Contact Arjun Iyer

    LinkedIn: Arjun Iyer

    Twitter: @arjuniyer_

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  17. Episode 580: Varlock: Bringing Order to the Chaos of Environment Variables

    10 juli 2026 · 55 min

    Afspelen
    Every project has environment variables. Almost nobody manages them well. This week Brandon talks with Phil Miller and Theo Ephraim, who built varlock to fix that — bringing structure and security to the humble .env file. Lees meer

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 580

    Show Links:

    varlock.dev

    varlock on GitHub

    @env-spec Overview

    DMNO (corporate site)

    Varlock MCP Server (docs)

    howtostore.food — Theo's side project on the best way to store produce

    unsafeharbour.com — Phil's music label

    Nautical Artifacts on Bandcamp

    bumpy

    Contact Phil Miller:

    LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/themillman

    Email: phil@varlock.dev

    Music: unsafeharbour.com

    Contact Theo Ephraim:

    LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/theo-ephraim

    Website: theoephraim.com

    Twitter/X: @theozero

    Bluesky: @theozero.bsky.social

    Email: theo@varlock.dev

    General Contact:

    hello@varlock.dev

    hello@dmno.dev

    Varlock Community

    Varlock Discord — Chat with the team and other users

    GitHub Discussions — Suggestions, questions, and feature requests

    varlock on GitHub — Star the project and follow updates

    Varlock on X

    Varlock on Bluesky

    SDT News & Community

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  18. Episode 579: The Headless Lifestyle

    3 juli 2026 · 1 uur 12 min

    Afspelen
    This week, we discuss Anthropic's 18-day Fable timeout, whether AI is actually killing jobs, and OpenAI's trillion-dollar IPO problem. Plus, SoftBank's golden goose slides. Lees meer

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 579

    Runner-up Titles

    Everything is Files

    It’s just about meetings

    Did you do the pre-meet?

    Meetings

    Judgement

    Let it ride

    If it’s hot, turn on the AC

    I don’t have time for a towel.

    Headless HEB

    Rundown

    I was fired by Google for creating the Google Workspace CLI

    Fable is Back

    White House lifts export control on advanced AI model from Anthropic

    Trump administration lifts restrictions on Anthropic's Fable 5

    OpenAI and Anthropic limit new AI models to Trump-approved customers during cybersecurity review

    AI News of the Month - June 2026

    AI is NOT killing jobs

    Ford rehires ‘gray beard’ engineers after AI falls short

    AWS puts $1 billion into new AI unit to embed engineers with customers

    A New Look at AI’s Impact on Jobs

    The Unstoppable Force of A.I. Hype Is Meeting One Immovable Fact

    Cloudflare Acquires VoidZero to Build the Future of the AI-Native Web

    OpenAI Leans Toward Waiting Until Next Year for I.P.O.

    SoftBank’s slides are just trolling us

    The PDF of the Slides

    Relevant to your Interests

    The Australians fighting AI slop in open-source code

    Axios Future of Cybersecurity Thought Bubble

    SpaceX Is Getting Fast-Tracked Into Indexes. Ordinary Investors Could Lose Out.

    News Flash: You Are the Exit Liquidity for the SpaceX IPO

    Cerebras Systems Announces Strong First Quarter 2026 Results

    The AI Compass

    T-Mobile appears to be quitting VMware

    Listener Feedback

    Introducing Omnigent: A Meta-Harness to Combine, Control and Share Your Agents

    Conferences

    WeAreDevelopers Europe, July 8-10, 2026 Berlin, Coté speaking.

    DevOpsDays Graz, Sept 4-5, 2026

    Cloud Foundry Summit, Sept. 21st to 22nd, Heidelberg, Coté speaking.

    DevOpsDays Rockies, Sept. 22 – 23, 2026, Discount Code: 26DODSWEDEFTALK

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  19. Episode 578: War for Talent

    26 juni 2026 · 1 uur 5 min

    Afspelen
    This week, we discuss Fable follow-up, Gartner's AI Governance MQ, and the war for AI talent. Plus, Matt and Brandon review Disclosure Day. Lees meer

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 578

    Runner-up Titles

    Ready to podcast from a sailboat

    It’s just people fighting

    Calculator budget

    Ask Siri to do your homework

    Software Defined Consulting: SDC

    The Magic Platform

    AI Curious

    I watched ALLLLL the keynotes.

    I don’t know that, but I know that

    You gotta stay to vest

    Brandon, remember Cursor?

    Educated Hater

    Rundown

    Gartner Magic Quadrant for AI Governance Platforms

    IBM recognized as a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for AI Governance Platforms

    What is an "AI Governance Platform?

    AI Consolidates Talent

    Alphabet paces for worst day in a year on AI concerns after high-profile exits

    OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic's pre-training team

    Supercharge your cloud operations with the Kiro power for AWS DevOps Agent

    Relevant to your Interests

    Intel ex-CEO Pat Gelsinger joins faith-focused tech firm Gloo

    Explore more than a decade of survey data across markets

    Did Slate Accidentally Reveal Its Electric Truck Price? Shocking MSRP

    Apparently The Real Reason Anthropic’s Models Are Offline: A Six-Year-Old Trump Grudge

    Introducing Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS

    'Fix this code.' The three words that led the U.S. government to ban …

    Hyundai takes full control of Boston Dynamics as SoftBank exits for $325 million

    Opinion | The Secret Reason Bosses Want Everyone Back in the Office, Every Day of the Week

    Meta Exposed Data Internally From Its Controversial Employee-Tracking Program

    Chevron to fuel massive Microsoft data center in Texas using natural gas

    Getty Images Soars 200% in Early Trading After OpenAI Deal

    U.S.-Backed Chipmaking Startup Chaired by Former Intel CEO Is Raising $350 Million

    OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom

    Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control: AWS Lambda introduces MicroVMs

    Anthropic…

  20. Episode 577: Let’s go to Buc-ee’s

    19 juni 2026 · 1 uur

    Afspelen
    This week, we discuss the Fable ban, SpaceX's $60B Cursor buy, and why Lovable wins when AI picks your stack. Plus, Europeans are at the World Cup and already drank Boston dry. Lees meer

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 577

    Runner-up Titles

    Waited out the storm

    Maybe we should build some castles or something

    Years of lawsuits ahead of us

    The ultimate dream

    AI SEO

    I hope you’re paid by the hour

    Always be monitoring to me

    Rundown

    Anthropic

    How Amazon and the White House ended Anthropic's Fable

    Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5

    Dario Amodei — Policy on the AI Exponential

    Cursor

    Live Updates: Elon Musk Becomes World’s First Trillionaire as SpaceX Starts Trading

    SpaceX to acquire Cursor for $60B in stock, days after blockbuster IPO

    Vibe Coding

    Lovable says it has hit $500M in annualized revenue, with 1 million new projects a week

    Vibe-coding phenomenon lifts AI startup Supabase to $10.5 billion valuation

    Database startup Supabase raises $500 million $10.5 billion valuation

    curl summer of bliss

    Relevant to your Interests

    Grep this: Microsoft grafts (most) Linux commands onto Windows

    apple/container

    The Virtual OS Museum

    YouTube has eclipsed Netflix in viewership via (@lucas_shaw)

    OpenAI to acquire Ona

    Keycap Quarry – Artisan Keycaps for Mechanical Keyboards

    Mark Zuckerberg Orders His Employees to Start Having Fun Again

    Why is Meta destroying its engineering organization?

    VCs behaving badly

    Databricks Agrees to Acquire Panther

    Sponsors

    Sentry - Quit Buggin': use code sdt26 for $100 in credit for new customers

    Nonsense

    The AI coding agent that runs on stolen Chipotle compute

    Minesweeper 3D No Guess – Free 3D Browser Game | Logic Solver

    Fly around the world (Experimental) | Google Earth | Google for Developers

    Commodore’s newest gadget is a flip phone that blocks social media and browsers

    Conferences

    WeAreDevelopers Europe, July 8-10, 2026 Berlin, Coté speaking.

    DevOpsDays Graz, Sep…

  21. Episode 576: Observability's Next Phase

    12 juni 2026 · 49 min

    Afspelen
    Brandon talks with OpenObserve's Prabhat Sharma and Shani Shoham: why observability is still broken, how they fixed it, and where AI takes it next. Lees meer

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 576

    Show Links

    OpenObserve

    OpenObserve on GitHub

    Series A and Observability 3.0 announcement blog post

    Launching OpenObserve

    OpenObserve 2-Minute Demo

    Download OpenObserve

    Contact Prabhat Sharma

    LinkedIn: hiprabhat

    Twitter/X: @hiprabhat

    Contact Shani Shoham

    LinkedIn: shanishoham

    Twitter: @shohams

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    Special Guests: Prabhat Sharma and Shani Shoham.

  22. Episode 575: UI blizzard

    5 juni 2026 · 1 uur 2 min

    Afspelen
    This week, we discuss NVIDIA going consumer, Microsoft Build, and the Anthropic/OpenAI IPO race. Plus, does credit card insurance work? Lees meer

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 575

    Runner-up Titles

    Who Wins AI?

    Models vs. Middleware

    Jensen After Dark

    Once again, robots

    Why is this something you talk about in a keynote?

    Could this have been an app?

    Defeating Apple, the sword in the stone

    Your tokens are my margin

    Prisons, schools and military - what is the Venn diagram?

    Every enterprise is unhappy in their own way

    Rundown

    Nvidia

    NVIDIA and Microsoft Reinvent Windows PCs for the Age of Personal AI

    Nvidia's N1X Apple Silicon rival is two years behind

    Nvidia, Microsoft, and Arm are all teasing Nvidia's new N1X laptop processors

    Blackstone and Google launch $5B TPU cloud venture with 500MW of AI capacity

    AI server demand drives staggering revenue growth for Dell and its stock soars

    Microsoft Build

    Microsoft Build 2026: Be yourself at work

    Microsoft Build Live Blog

    Microsoft admits its "infuriating" floating AI button was a mistake

    OpenAI and Anthropic Go Public

    Anthropic Files to Go Public, Setting Stage for Huge I.P.O.

    OpenAI Prepares to File to Go Public in Coming Weeks

    How Anthropic Got So Big, So Fast

    Anthropic and SpaceX compute

    OpenAI launches new Codex tools for white-collar work

    OpenAI Hires ServiceNow CMO Colin Fleming to Lead Business Marketing Push

    Wiz + Anthropic: Claude Enterprise Meets the Security Graph

    Relevant to your Interests

    Grafana breach caused by missed token rotation after TanStack attack

    GitHub Got Hacked. The AI Security Arms Race is Here

    Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked

    SpaceX not the behemoth everyone thought

    Spotify adds AI-powered Q&A and briefing generation features to podcasts

    Amazon Web Services - Four Years and Out + AWS Fired the One Employee Who Gave a Damn

    Introducing UniFi 5G Backup

    AI Generated Summaries

    WSJ: How I Choose Which…

  23. Episode 574: Nobody Wants to Be a Measurer

    29 mei 2026 · 1 uur 1 min

    Afspelen
    This week, we discuss the Cloudflare CEO's op-ed, upcoming tech IPOs and GitHub getting breached. Plus, ranking our favorite manifestos. Lees meer

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 574

    Runner-up Titles

    We’re not making money so we can’t put in place the enshitification strategy.

    Go easy on the AI

    I hope they’re not using PowerPoint in the Vatican

    I didn’t’ come here to talk about the Pope

    I should take more showers

    I came to measure and chew bubblegum

    Matt Ray Dalio is not a wave rider.

    Usability golf

    No dependencies, no problems

    Peak Software

    We are a safe haven for measures

    Tools and Rules

    Rundown

    Layoffs

    How do AI Layoffs Work? Some Speculation.

    How I Choose Which Cloudflare Employees to Replace With AI

    Revenue and IPO

    Anthropic is paying SpaceX $15 billion per year

    OpenAI Prepares to File to Go Public in Coming Weeks

    SpaceX TAM - $28.5 trillion. US GDP - $31 trillion.

    GitHub Got Hacked. The AI Security Arms Race is Here

    NHS Pulls OSS

    Wiz + Anthropic: Claude Enterprise Meets the Security Graph | Wiz Blog

    Relevant to your Interests

    Grafana breach caused by missed token rotation after TanStack attack

    Introducing UniFi 5G Backup

    SpaceX not the behemoth everyone thought

    Microsoft admits its "infuriating" floating AI button was a mistake

    Microsoft admits forcing the floating Copilot button on Office users was a mistake—but engagement went up anyway

    IBM and U.S. Department of Commerce Announce America’s First Purpose-Built Quantum Foundry, Supported by Proposed $1 Billion CHIPS Award

    Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code discovered to date"

    Blackstone and Google launch $5B TPU cloud venture with 500MW of AI capacity

    What It Takes to Preserve Floppy Disks

    U.S. companies have an AI problem. Indian IT wants to be the solution

    Audio-generation app Huxe, founded by former NotebookLM developers, shuts down

    Spotify adds AI-powered Q&A and briefing generation features to podcasts

    Sponsors

    Sentry - Quit Buggin': use code s…

  24. Episode 573: How many quadrillions in a Googol?

    22 mei 2026 · 1 uur 2 min

    Afspelen
    This week, we discuss Google I/O, the OpenAI soap opera, and ChatGPT going full financial advisor. Plus, thoughts on improving the conference hallway track. Lees meer

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 573

    Runner-up Titles

    Stupid Macs

    I like my idea

    What was I thinking?

    Opt-in AI

    Kentucky Derby’s this Weekend

    It’s a low plateau

    There’s no vibe in X-Code

    Matt’s trading with AI

    Everyone’s watching

    Rundown

    Google I/O

    A new era for AI Search

    All the news from the Google I/O 2026 Developer keynote

    I/O 2026: Welcome to the agentic Gemini era

    AI Stuff

    Elon Musk lost his case against Sam Altman

    Greg Brockman Officially Takes Control of OpenAI’s Products in Latest Shake-Up

    OpenAI launches ChatGPT for personal finance, will let you connect bank accounts

    Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy, former Tesla AI leader

    Relevant to your Interests

    Datacenter NIMBYism: What Did You Think Was Going to Happen?

    Cerebras raises $5.5B, then stock pops $108%, in the first huge tech IPO of 2026

    Andreessen Horowitz Is Spending on Politics Like No Other

    Cisco announces record revenue and 4,000 layoffs in the same day

    Amazon ditches Rufus chatbot, launches Alexa shopping agent in AI strategy pivot

    Open source tool maker Grafana Labs says hackers stole its code, refuses to pay ransom

    Anthropic has acquired the dev tools startup used by OpenAI, Google, and Cloudflare

    From Open Source Software to Open Source Strategy

    CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on Github

    Shai-Hulud Returns: npm Worm hits @antv in latest ongoing campaign

    Intel CEO says foundry business is gaining momentum as customer interest grows

    Removing the Modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 Hybrid

    Sponsors

    WebRTC.ventures – Real-time communication & Voice AI integration

    Sentry - use the code: sdt26 for $100 in Sentry credits for new users

    Nonsense

    "solutions architects" in 2026

    Conferences

    WeAreDevelopers Europe, July 8-10, 2026 Berlin, Coté speaking.

    DevOpsDays Graz, Sept 4-5, 2026

    …

  25. Episode 572: The world isn’t curl

    15 mei 2026 · 1 uur 1 min

    Afspelen
    This week, we discuss how security gets sold to execs, where agentic coding and security collide, and Cloudflare vs. Datadog's diverging paths. Plus, Coté weighs in on sugar cookies. Lees meer

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 572

    Runner-up Titles

    Sugar Kingdom

    Bastard Sugar

    Choose butter

    It’s just AI now

    People don’t like paying for software

    It’s an exciting time to be writing software

    Are we going to start funding open source?

    Speaking of that, but not that, it’s totally unrelated

    We’re leaving the table

    Weird network stuff

    That box of cables on GitHub

    Rundown

    Security

    Mini Shai-Hulud Is Back: npm Worm Hits over 160 Packages

    Fedora Hummingbird Linux Brings Agentic Linux to Builders

    Red Hat Hardened Images

    Palo Alto Networks to Acquire Portkey to Secure the Rise of AI Agents

    Mythos finds a curl vulnerability

    Redis and the Cost of Ambition

    AI is restructuring the software industry — winners and losers

    Datadog's stock jumps 31% on crushing earnings beat

    Cloudflare stock sinks 24% after earnings as company cuts 1,100 employees

    Linear increases workforce

    Relevant to your Interests

    Laws, anecdotes, idioms, and other shit people say - cote.pizza

    The smart lock standard that could replace your keys is finally here

    dirtyfrag/README.md at master · V4bel/dirtyfrag · GitHub

    Red Hat Summit Newsroom

    Finally, texts between Android and iPhone users can be end-to-end encrypted

    Your Container Is Not a Sandbox

    OpenAI launches the OpenAI Deployment Company

    Corporate Card Startup Ramp Raising Funds at $40 Billion Valuation

    Cyberattack shutters Canvas learning platform for schools across the U.S.

    AWS warns of EC2 'impairment' as power loss hits notorious US-EAST-1 region

    AI and DevOps Maturity

    Anthropic raises Claude Code usage limits, credits new deal with SpaceX

    Announcing Agent Toolkit for AWS

    He's not wrong, but what can they do? How are those Microsoft foundation models going?

    Sponsors

    WebRTC.ventures – Real-time communication & Voice AI …

  26. Episode 571: The Enterprise Dunbar number

    8 mei 2026 · 58 min

    Afspelen
    This week, we discuss AI labs driving cloud revenue, hyperscalers laying off instead of building, and kids defeating age verification. Plus, Brandon has too many thoughts on Workday. Lees meer

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 571

    Runner-up Titles

    The world is just paper.

    TODO debris pile

    Fancy countries you live in

    Enron Conspiracy Shredder.

    Cote’s mom’s gonna love this

    Brandon works out his Workday trauma.

    Cash money, hamburger, hamburger bang bang

    ChatGPT PS Edition

    Forward Deployed Engineer for Workday

    It’ll probably work, that’s the future

    Rundown

    Earnings

    Cloud Giants Update

    Amazon earnings beat expectations with strong cloud growth

    Microsoft calls for $190 billion in 2026 capital spending on soaring memory prices

    Alphabet ups 2026 capex to as much as $190 billion

    Meta stock drops on quarterly results

    Anthropic Commits to Spending $200 Billion on Google’s Cloud and Chips

    How children are getting creative and fooling age verification checks

    Services

    Anthropic launches enterprise AI firm with Blackstone, Goldman Sachs

    Anthropic and OpenAI are both launching joint ventures for enterprise AI services

    Relevant to your Interests

    Q1 2026 earnings call: Remarks from our CEO

    Microsoft says it has over 20M paid Copilot users, and they really are using it

    Sources: Anthropic could raise a new $50B round at a valuation of $900B

    Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code discovered to date"

    IBM Bob hits 80,000 developers with 45% productivity gains

    Shares of eBay take off on a $56 billion buyout bid from GameStop's Ryan Cohen

    Wall Street Rollup (@WallStRollup) on X

    The Venture-Capital Populist

    Cursor's $60 billion bet is on the harness, not the model

    What you're actually writing when you write a SKILL.md

    So Long Jeeves and Ask.com, Relics of Yesterday’s Internet

    No more Jeeves: Ask.com officially shuttered

    OpenAI locks GPT-5.5-Cyber behind velvet rope

    Workload Identity Federation

    AWS Cost Optimization Hub now supports CSV d…

  27. Episode 570: The Enterprisification of Agents

    1 mei 2026 · 1 uur 10 min

    Afspelen
    This week, we discuss Google's enterprise agent stack, what makes an agent an agent, and AI's biggest critic. Plus, Coté wants better vision. Lees meer

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 570

    Runner-up Titles

    You can’t win against time

    The Shining Path of Least Resistance

    The Burger Diagram

    You guys were talking about CORBA the other day.

    Is this just destiny

    Burger Diagram Aficionado

    Think like a computer

    Those are the fun agents.

    AI for None of Us

    Matt Ray, but verify

    Gen-X Stamp Collecting

    Rundown

    Google Cloud Next

    Google Cloud Next '26 Developer Keynote

    An Interview with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian About the Agentic Moment

    You can now easily generate files in Gemini.

    Google Internal AI Adoption via Steve Yegge

    Google builds elite team to close the coding gap with Anthropic

    AI's biggest critic has lost the plot

    From the GithubCopilot community on Reddit: Change to useage based billing

    An update on GitHub availability

    "Developer loyalty is at zero right now": Google doesn't care which AI coding tool you use

    Relevant to your Interests

    Former Google Employee Announces Silicon Valley Satire, ‘Paradox Inc.’

    The base model $599 Mac mini is now completely out of stock

    Anthropic’s New A.I. Model Sets Off Global Alarms

    Microsoft plans first-ever voluntary employee buyout for up to 7% of U.S. workforce

    AI Coding Firm Cognition in Funding Talks at $25 Billion Value

    Clouded Judgement 4.24.26 - The AI-Driven Employment Explosion

    Nvidia stock closes at record, pushing market cap past $5 trillion

    Spotify Brings Music and Podcast Recommendations to Claude — Spotify

    Benedict Evans (@benedictevans) on Threads

    The Stanford freshmen who want to rule the world … will probably read this book and try even harder

    OpenAI Misses Key Revenue, User Targets in High-Stakes Sprint Toward IPO

    Ubuntu Linux Will Begin Landing AI Features Throughout The Next Year

    The future of AI in Ubuntu

    Amazon is already offering new OpenAI products on AWS

    Ghostty Is Le…

  28. Episode 569: Agent Assimilation

    24 april 2026 · 1 uur 7 min

    Afspelen
    This week, we discuss agents taking over at Google Cloud Next, Apple's new CEO, and Cursor getting acquired (sort of). Plus, Coté's e-waste has no exit strategy. Lees meer

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 569

    Runner-up Titles

    I love throwing stuff in the trash.

    Dillo dirt’s a thing.

    BurgerOps.

    Thomas opens for Richard.

    Department of “No” people

    Starfish Stomach Model

    Enterprise — come into me

    The Organization will Assimilate it

    Gold plaques all around

    He can let his freak flag fly

    Take the first billion dollar offer

    Rundown

    Google Next

    Welcome to Google Cloud Next26

    Google's AI adoption — Steve Yegge X Post

    Tanzu Platform 10.4: a private cloud platform for AI harnesses (or, "agentic AI")

    Apple becomes a $4 Trillion under Tim Cook

    Cursor Watch

    Cursor in talks to raise $2B+ at $50B valuation as enterprise growth surges

    There’s No Time for SpaceX to Buy Cursor

    SpaceX says it can buy Cursor later this year for $60 billion or pay $10 billion for 'our work together'

    Relevant to your Interests

    Poland street sees humanoid robot chasing boars in unusual AI showcase

    Someone planted backdoors in dozens of WordPress plug-ins used in thousands of websites

    Snapchat owner cuts 16% of global staff in latest round of job cuts

    Email for agents - Cloudflare Email Service now in public beta

    DeployBar — Free CI monitoring. Unsolicited platypus included.

    Let them tinker - hacking developer resistance to sound enterprise architecture and platforms

    China's DeepSeek is raising funds at $10 billion valuation, The Information reports

    Sources: Cursor in talks to raise $2B+ at $50B valuation as enterprise growth surges

    AI chipmaker Cerebras files to go public after scrapping IPO plans last year

    Amazon to invest up to $25B in Anthropic as part of expanded cloud partnership - SiliconANGLE

    Amazon to invest up to $25 billion more in Anthropic; Claude developer to spend more than $100 billion on AWS AI technology

    Amazon and Anthropic expand strategic collaborati…

  29. Episode 568: Claude Code, OpenAI Drama, and Is Anyone Still Using Backstage?

    17 april 2026 · 1 uur 6 min

    Afspelen
    This week, we discuss Claude's harness, OpenAI's ongoing drama, and whether Backstage is still a thing. Plus, Coté gives up on the green screen. Lees meer

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 568

    Runner-up Titles

    It’s clearly an AI chair.

    I’ve given up on the green screen

    No animals, only buttholes

    I don’t know if I can think on my own

    Make your pecans really pop

    Did they shut it down? I wasn’t paying attention

    Always take the first offer for a billion dollars

    Bad Parking

    The Apple IIE had this problem

    I was paying attention but I might have had a mouthful of cereal.

    Rundown

    Anthropic

    Anthropic vs. OpenAI Revenue

    Why Anthropic’s new model has cybersecurity experts rattled

    Workday CTO Joins Anthropic Amid Startup’s Push to Build HR Apps

    Clouded Judgement 4.10.26 - Long Live the Harness (Wrapper?) !

    Anthropic closes in on OpenAI as US business use surges

    Anthropic says Claude Code subscribers will need to pay extra for OpenClaw usage

    Anthropic Buys Stealth Dimension-Backed Coefficient Bio in $400M+ Stock Deal

    Claude Command /powerup

    Post-Mortem of Anthropic's Claude Code Leak

    OpenAI Palace Intrigue

    OpenAI's Fidji Simo takes medical leave, announces leadership changes

    OpenAI CEO and CFO Diverge on IPO Timing

    Industrial policy for the Intelligence Age

    OpenAI is getting weird again - Casey Newton

    OpenAI has bought AI personal finance startup Hiro

    Let Us Learn to Show Our Friendship for a Man When He Is Alive and Not After He Is Dead

    OpenAI buys TBPN

    Exclusive | OpenAI Buys Tech-Industry Talk Show TBPN

    OpenAI Buys Tech-Industry Talk Show TBPN

    OpenAI acquires TBPN | OpenAI

    OpenAI acquires TBPN, the buzzy founder-led business talk show

    OpenAI Buys Streaming Show ‘TBPN,’ Aiming to Change Narrative on A.I.

    Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted?

    Backstage

    Backstage is dead

    Observability

    Cisco to grab Galileo for AI observability supercharge - SDxCentral

    Dynatrace to Acquire Bindplane to Establish Telemetry Pipelines for AI …

  30. Episode 567: Building Voice and Streaming Apps for the Enterprise with Alberto

    10 april 2026 · 56 min

    Afspelen
    Brandon interviews Alberto González, CTO of WebRTC.ventures, about building voice and streaming applications for the enterprise. They dig into how developers can integrate WebRTC into their apps, the unique challenges it presents, and where AI fits in. Plus, Alberto shares tips on kitesurfing and why you should visit Barcelona. Lees meer

    Episode Links:

    WebRTC.ventures

    Choosing a Voice AI framework for Production

    On-Premise Voice AI: Creating Local Agents with Llama, Ollama, and Pipecat

    Real Time Voice AI: OpenAI vs. Open Source Solutions

    Building a Voice AI Agent with Policy Guardrails Using Twilio, Pipecat, and LangGraph

    Scaling Telehealth Video Infrastructure: Sessions Health Case Study

    Contact Alberto:

    LinkedIn: Alberto González

    Web: https://agonza1.github.io/

    Special Guest: Alberto González.

  31. Episode 566: The code is actually kinda useless

    3 april 2026 · 1 uur 1 min

    Afspelen
    The code is actually kinda useless Lees meer

    This week, we discuss the Claude Code leak, locking down coding agents, and the Axios supply chain attack. Plus, Coté considers breaking up with his Gmail address of 20+ years.

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 566

    Runner-up Titles

    pawpatrol891@gmail.com

    I get that dude’s email

    Those turtles are dyslexic

    I’m just a space hyperchicken judge

    curl|bash is the debate

    Djikstra’s algorithm for calendaring

    Rundown

    Google Now Lets You Change Your Gmail Address. Here’s How

    Claude had a week

    He Rewrote Leaked Claude Code in Python, And Dodged Copyright

    Anthropic admits Claude Code quotas running out too fast

    Auto mode for Claude Code

    Anthropic leaked its own source Code

    Are sandboxes the future

    Docker Sandboxes: Run Agents in YOLO Mode, Safely

    Docker Sandboxes: Run Claude Code and More Safely

    Coder Raises $35M

    Axios NPM Distribution Compromised in Supply Chain Attack

    Relevant to your Interests

    Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy

    Juries Take the Lead in the Push for Child Online Safety

    Jensen Huang runs Nvidia with 60 direct reports — and no one-on-ones

    Report: Apple to Move a Part of its Embedded Cores to RISC-V, Stepping Away from Arm ISA

    A one-line Kubernetes fix that saved 600 hours a year

    Apple discontinues the Mac Pro with no plans for future hardware - 9to5Mac

    ‘Astound’ed. Google Flips Its Fiber To PE.

    Hacked Files of F.B.I. Director Kash Patel Circulate Online

    We Rewrote JSONata with AI in a Day, Saved $500K/Year

    I Decompiled the White House's New App

    Mistral secures $830 million in debt financing to fund AI data center

    The AI boom is a lie: Fake data centres and unused GPUs | Ed Zitron

    Microsoft Copilot is now injecting ads into pull requests on GitHub

    American Exchange Group Inks $39 Million Deal for Allbirds Assets

    OMG. Best back to back posts. Maintainer for Axios, before and after the supply chain breach.

    Historical GitHub Uptime Charts

    Reddit - The heart of th…

  32. Episode 565: Field Engineering is the YOLO team

    27 maart 2026 · 1 uur 3 min

    Afspelen
    This week, we discuss big bets gone wrong, OpenAI buying the Python toolchain, and Claude's favorite tools. Plus, how fast should AI agents ship bug fixes? Lees meer

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 565

    Runner-up Titles

    Product Management Slot Machine

    We poisoned our own data

    As the resident hater of SDT

    I’m optimistic on this one

    I’ll check back when you call it Siri

    AI SEO

    The Ryan Gosling of Podcasts

    Rundown

    Big Bets, Past, Present and Future

    Meta decides not to shut down Horizon Worlds on VR after all

    OpenAI Will Shut Down Sora Video App; Disney Drops Plans for $1 Billion Investment

    Amazon's smartphone would be ill-timed: IDC analyst

    Jitterbug Smart4 Smartphone for Seniors

    Python and OpenAI

    Thoughts on OpenAI acquiring Astral and uv/ruff/ty

    OpenAI to acquire Astral | OpenAI

    Security

    TeamPCP Backdoors LiteLLM Versions 1.82.7–1.82.8 via Trivy CI/CD Compromise

    Three’s a Crowd: TeamPCP trojanizes LiteLLM in Continuation of Campaign

    KICS GitHub Action Compromised: TeamPCP Strikes Again in Supply Chain Attack

    Trivy Compromised: Everything You Need to Know about the Latest Supply Chain Attack

    Introducing Wiz AI Application Protection Platform (AI-APP)

    Introducing Wiz Agents & Workflows: Security at the Speed of AI

    AI Runtime Threat Detection: From Input to Real-World Impact

    Claude defaults

    Amplifying — AI Benchmark Research

    Relevant to your Interests

    Aakash Gupta (@aakashgupta) on X

    Meta is shutting down VR social platform Horizon Worlds in further pivot away from the metaverse

    Government Registers Aliens.Gov Domain

    Instagram to remove end-to-end encryption for private messages in May

    What Is the PARK Stack?

    Federal cyber experts called Microsoft's cloud a "pile of shit," approved it anyway

    Mark Zuckerberg builds AI CEO to help him run Meta

    FCC Updates Covered List to Include Foreign-Made Consumer Routers, Prohibiting Approval of New Models

    Future Casting the Modern Data Stack

    Anthropic says Claude can now use your computer to f…

  33. Episode 564: New Token Machines

    20 maart 2026 · 55 min

    Afspelen
    This week, we discuss NVIDIA GTC, token machines, token budgets, and an AWS outage that may or may not involve AI. Plus, Matt reviews The Wizard of Oz at The Sphere. Lees meer

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 564

    Runner-up Titles

    Let's T this up.

    One Trillion Dollars

    Leader to laggard

    My terms of service

    Someone should come up with a term

    Networking FOMO

    Slide crimes

    It’s token machines all the way down.

    The Claude-ning

    So why Nemo Cloud?

    You’re just selling token machines

    Billionaire version of Gallagher

    I’ve seen too much

    Upward Replicability

    Rundown

    NVIDA GTC

    Nvidia bets on AI inference as chip revenue opportunity hits $1 trillion

    Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang: $1 trillion in chip sales coming

    Keynote at NVIDIA GTC San Jose 2026

    AI Roundup

    Amazon just called an emergency engineering meeting after AI coding tools caused multiple outages.

    2 Ways to Correct the Financial Times at AWS (So Far)

    Amazon orders 90-day reset after code mishaps cause millions of lost orders

    Microsoft shakes up Copilot AI leadership team, freeing up Suleyman to build new models

    MCP vs. CLI for AI-native development - CircleCI

    Relevant to your Interests

    YouTube Lays Claim to Another Crown: The World’s Largest Media Company

    The Lobster That Moved $50 Billion

    Amazon is determined to use AI for everything – even when it slows down work

    Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company

    How to Do Code Reviews in the Agentic Era

    Elon Musk Says He's Epically Screwed Up at xAI, Is Rebuilding "From the Foundations"

    The ‘AI-Washing’ of Job Cuts Is Corrosive and Confusing

    Introducing Chainguard Commercial Builds: Secure-by-default containers

    Exclusive: Small publishers hit hardest by search traffic declines

    The State of AI in the Enterprise - 2026 AI report

    Agents Over Bubbles

    "Yes, AI Is a Bubble. There Is No Question."

    Listener Feedback

    Recap of SCALE 23x with Barton George

    Conferences

    KubeCon EU, March 23-26, 2026 - Coté will be the…

  34. Episode 563: Claude Camp

    13 maart 2026 · 1 uur 10 min

    Afspelen
    This week, we discuss Claude Code for non-coders, automating newsletters and status reports, and AI tax prep. Plus, Coté finds unexpected joy in a coding assistant. Lees meer

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 563

    Runner-up Titles

    Upgraded to Max

    The only innovation I was talking about was hiring me.

    The Patrick Stewart of the Cubicles.

    Should we become the Claudecast?

    Matt Ray in Your Pocket.

    Come into the tent

    You have agency in your life

    Rundown

    Coté went to Claude Camp

    Microsoft and Anthropic team up to bring Claude Cowork to Microsoft 365

    Cursor is rolling out a new kind of agentic coding tool

    Hater Season: Corey Quinn — Better Offline

    Google completes acquisition of Wiz

    Relevant to your Interests

    I Worked for Block. Its A.I. Job Cuts Aren’t What They Seem.

    Iranian news claims AWS drone strikes were deliberate

    Anthropic Just Won the Enterprise. Here’s What Nobody’s Talking About

    Amazon's Bahrain data center targeted by Iran for support of U.S. military, state media says

    Startups.RIP - Dead YC Startups, Alive Ideas

    Kratix Anywhere: Cloud, On-Prem, and Hybrid Without Compromise

    Meta just bought Moltbook, the social network for AI bots - 9to5Mac

    Amazon holds engineering meeting following AI-related outages

    Oracle is building yesterday’s data centers with tomorrow’s debt

    SUSE Reportedly May Be For Sale Yet Again

    When Using AI Leads to “Brain Fry”

    Oracle is under pressure from more than $100 billion in debt and massive layoffs as it pushes ahead with Larry Ellison’s 3-step transformation

    Oracle is building yesterday’s data centers with tomorrow’s debt

    Oracle Job Cuts

    OpenAI bowed out of the Oracle

    MacBook Neo - Tech Specs

    Code Mode: give agents an entire API in 1,000 tokens

    MacBook Neo - Tech Specs

    Nonsense

    McDonald’s C.E.O. Takes a Big Bite Out of a Burger. Maybe Scratch ‘Big.’

    Conferences

    KubeCon EU, March 23-26, 2026 - Coté will be there on a media pass.

    DevOpsdays Atlanta 2026, April 21-22, 2026

    DevOpsDays Austin, May 5-6,…

  35. Episode 562: Bureaucracy: Still Unsolved

    6 maart 2026 · 1 uur 6 min

    Afspelen
    This week. we discuss Claude Code's momentum, Cursor's identity crisis, and the SDLC's uncertain future. Plus, Coté finally explains how Markdown is destroying the economy. Lees meer

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 562

    Runner-up Titles

    Demos over Memos

    Products over Prose

    Software written by the many for the few

    USB is flaky

    Do you get a Code of Conduct for prison?

    I thought I had typed it somewhere

    Markdown is taking down the economy

    Claude, Take the Wheel

    Sticking with month-to-month

    Precious Tokens

    Rip Van Winkle this whole AI thing

    The ants have won

    They have infinite tokens

    Is SLDC Dead?

    Rundown

    The SaaS-Apocalypse was based on markdown files

    The Software Development Lifecycle Is Dead

    The Third Era of Software Development

    Intelligence, Subtracted

    Anthropic rejects Pentagon’s AI demands

    Exclusive-Anthropic investors push to de-escalate Pentagon clash over AI safeguards

    ‘Incoherent’: Hegseth’s Anthropic ultimatum confounds AI policymaker

    Anthropic leads Enterprise AI Spend

    Anthropic took >50% of spend on enterprise AI subscriptions

    $110 Billion in Name Only

    OpenAI reveals more details about its agreement with the Pentagon

    OpenAI changes deal with US military after backlash

    Relevant to your Interests

    McKinsey and AWS launch Amazon McKinsey Group

    Polymarket defends its decision to allow betting on war as ‘invaluable’

    The Supreme Court doesn't care if you want to copyright your AI-generated art

    Distinguished Eng On Stack Ranking, Competing with Bezos, Regrets

    WIZ: My Personal AI Agent

    OpenAI changes deal with US military after backlash

    Tech Publications Lost 58% of Google Traffic Since 2024

    Ramp AI Index

    Nonsense

    Callers to Washington state hotline press 2 for Spanish and get accented AI English instead

    Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course?

    Conferences

    Austin Meetup, March 10th, Listener Steve Anness speaking on Grafana

    KubeCon EU, March 23rd to 26th, 2026 - Coté …

  36. Episode 561: Two Guys and Their Tokens

    27 februari 2026 · 1 uur

    Afspelen
    This week, we discuss AI-assisted COBOL migrations, the OpenClaw Foundation, and AI killing Office. Plus, is TSA PreCheck Touchless the peak of airport efficiency? Lees meer

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 561

    Runner-up Titles

    New’s not good

    He knows how to be retired

    Let Matt Cook

    We don’t have to worry about that Brandon

    You’re that guy

    The stock market feels reactionary

    Siri-Claw

    Foundation Washing

    Give me life-changing money and I’ll have a better take

    Why do I need to pay for power usage?

    Rundown

    IBM is the latest AI casualty. Shares tank 13% on Anthropic programming language threat

    IBM Crashes 11% as Anthropic Threatens COBOL Empire

    Mechanical Orchard: Half Baked

    OpenClaw, OpenAI and the future

    This Is the Biggest Threat to Microsoft Office I've Ever Seen.

    LibreOffice Online: a fresh start - TDF Community Blog

    Linux 7.0-rc1 Released With Many New Features

    Relevant to your Interests

    Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway announces it sold 77% of its Amazon

    they hacked CSS

    The A.I. Disruption We’ve Been Waiting for Has Arrived

    YOLO Travel Bookings

    This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby

    The Death of Spotify: Why Streaming is Minutes Away From Being Obsolete

    OpenAI resets spending expectations, tells investors compute target is around $600 billion by 2030

    Cloud and AWS cost consultant Duckbill expands to software, raises $7.75M for new Skyway platform

    Man accidentally gains control of 7,000 robot vacuums

    My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker

    Nonsense

    GE Profile made a smaller version of its nugget ice maker that needs less counter space

    TSA PreCheck Touchless ID | Delta Air Lines

    Listener Feedback

    Introducing Agent Plugins for AWS

    Conferences

    DevOpsDay LA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA

    Use code: DEVOP for 50% off.

    Devnexus 2026, March 4th to 6th, Atlanta, GA.

    Use this 30% off discount code from your pals at Tanzu: DN26VMWARE30.

    Check out the Tanzu and Spring ta…

  37. Episode 560: You Can Feel It Coming

    20 februari 2026 · 1 uur 12 min

    Afspelen
    This week, we discuss personal AI hype cycles, bottoms-up adoption, and "The Modern Stack" simplifying cloud. Plus, thoughts on new cars and the dogs that ride in them. Lees meer

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 560

    Runner-up Titles

    They only talk about AI

    I bet you have 5 shop vacs

    It’s all going into applesauce

    Live Claude Code It

    Good defaults and opinions, nobody wants that

    Give me 5 minutes, and I’ll give you fifty 6 page memos

    I know I just pulled off a Pivotal scab.

    Free Tier as a Service

    Rundown

    Something Big Is Happening

    OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI

    Modern Stack: Fly.io, Neon, Upstash and Cloudflare

    Relevant to your Interests

    An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me

    YouTube launches native app for Apple Vision Pro

    Not all cables are born equal, so test your USB cables with these cheap USB testers — these budget-priced tools help you protect your expensive gear from faulty or bad-quality leads

    The Lunduke Journal (@LundukeJournal)

    Video on Apple Podcasts - Apple Podcasts for Creators

    Temporal raises $300M Series D at a $5B valuation as AI drives demand for Durable Execution

    Amazon's Ring cancels Flock partnership amid Super Bowl ad backlash

    Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses

    Anthropic raises $30 billion in Series G funding at $380 billion post-money valuation

    Introducing Sonnet 4.6

    Conferences

    DevOpsDay LA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA

    Use code: DEVOP for 50% off.

    Devnexus 2026, March 4th to 6th, Atlanta, GA.

    Use this 30% off discount code from your pals at Tanzu: DN26VMWARE30.

    Check out the Tanzu and Spring talks and trading cards on THE LANDING PAGE.

    Shout out to the people who saw the trading cards and messaged me!

    Austin Meetup, March 10th, Listener Steve Anness speaking on Grafana

    KubeCon EU, March 23rd to 26th, 2026 - Coté will be there on a media pass.

    Devopsdays Atlanta 2026, April 21-22, 2026

    DevOpsDays Austin, May 5 - 6, 2026

    WeAreDevelopers, July 8th …

  38. Episode 559: A series of OODA loops

    13 februari 2026 · 1 uur 10 min

    Afspelen
    This week, we discuss the future of SaaS, OpenAI vs. Anthropic strategies, and cloud capex. Plus, when will you let an AI book your flights? Lees meer

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 559

    Runner-up Titles

    Do we get to eat Moon Pies?

    Some days it’s just me and the AI

    We have a LinkedIn page

    The state of the world has not gotten better, it’s just moved to Kubernetes

    Trained on the Corpse of Stack Overflow.

    We just have to get the files right

    It is all just files

    It’s all an OODA loop

    Rinse and reply.

    Is Software dead?

    Your margin is my yacht.

    claude-travel.md

    Vegans have morals though

    Rundown

    DriftlessAF: Introducing Chainguard Factory 2.0

    Is Software dead?

    Clouded Judgement 2.6.26 - Software Is Dead...Again...For Real this Time...Maybe?

    Anthropic’s breakout moment: how Claude won business and shook markets

    Besieged

    The $285 Billion 'SaaSpocalypse' Is the Wrong Panic

    The "whole product" is more relevant than ever

    Cloud Earnings

    Microsoft Q2 earnings beat on top and bottom lines as cloud revenue tops $50 billion, but stock falls

    Microsoft stock plunges as Wall Street questions AI investments

    A day of reckoning for the AI boom

    Oracle says it plans to raise up to $50 billion in debt and equity this year

    Google Earnings Beat. Cloud Computing Momentum Builds Amid Spending Boom

    Amazon stock falls 10% on $200 billion spending forecast, earnings miss

    Amazon’s $200 Billion Spending Plan Raises Stakes in A.I. Race

    [Follow the CAPEX: Cloud Table Stakes 2024 Retrospective](http://(https://platformonomics.com/2025/02/follow-the-capex-cloud-table-stakes-2024-retrospective/)

    Amazon Earnings, CapEx Concerns, Commodity AI

    Google's parent company raises billions of dollars in debt sale

    OpenAI Drama

    Amazon in Talks to Invest Up to $50 Billion in OpenAI

    The $100 Billion Megadeal Between OpenAI and Nvidia Is on Ice

    Sam Altman got exceptionally testy over Claude Super Bowl ads | TechCrunch

    OpenAI will reportedly start testing ads in ChatGPT today

    R…

  39. Episode 558: Tara Raj on Amazon Nova Act

    6 februari 2026 · 47 min

    Afspelen
    Brandon interviews Tara Raj, Senior Engineering Manager at the Amazon AGI Lab. They dive into her journey into the world of AGI, how Nova Act is streamlining complex workflows, and the steps to deploying your very own Normcore Agent. Plus, Tara finally settles the heated debate: Flat vs. Curved monitors. Lees meer

    Show Links

    Amazon Nova Act

    Contact Tara Raj

    LinkedIn: Tara Raj

    Twitter: @tara_amzn

    SDT News & Hype

    Join us in Slack.

    Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers!

    Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube.

    Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.

    Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk!

    Special Guest: Tara Raj.

  40. Episode 557: Moltbot Maximists

    30 januari 2026 · 1 uur 3 min

    Afspelen
    This week, we discuss Moltbot (née Clawdbot) taking over, Apple’s new AirTags, and finding Enterprise AI ROI. Plus, the tragic demise of the TV dinner. Lees meer

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 557

    Runner-up Titles

    The Podcasters’ Choice

    I was biding my time

    I just want to sell something I believe in

    What if you didn’t get chard

    Chard as a Service

    Let’s be cool

    The Human League

    Spinning tapes talking to each other

    Artisanal tape dispensers

    Buying into the Panopticon

    Why should only Facebook know where I am?

    Root access to your life

    The AirTag Family Circus comic

    Jar of Airtags

    Hold my beer open source

    The Value of AI is intuitively obvious

    OK, we’re done. Talk to you guys next week.

    Rundown

    Clawdbot Rebrands to Moltbot After Trademark Request From Anthropic - Laravel News

    Clawdbot users are snapping up the Mac Mini — and it’s under $500 at Amazon

    Enterprise AI ROI is still elusive. What IT can do to fix it. It's not "culture."

    Apple Silicon machine learning code may become more easily portable to Nvidia hardware

    Apple introduces new AirTag with expanded range and improved findability

    MFi Program

    Cords, Cyborgs & Cold Cases: Grandpa Dancy’s Operating System for Life

    Anthropic launches interactive Claude apps, including Slack and other workplace tools

    AMD Quietly Funded A Drop-In CUDA Implementation Built On ROCm: It's Now Open-Source

    Relevant to your Interests

    On Running a Startup of Claude Code Agents: What You Get For a Billion Tokens a Month

    Hundreds of Millions of Audio Devices Need a Patch to Prevent Wireless Hacking and Tracking

    Guiding the future of Chainguard OS: Announcing the FUD Committee

    Andy Jassy on Healthcare

    Betting on Prediction Markets Is Their Job. They Make Millions.

    How Intel Came Crashing Back to Earth After Its Trump Bump

    Intel Shares Slide as Costs Pile Up in Bid to Meet AI Demand

    Querying and Ingest issues in EU

    The A.I. Start-Up Soap Opera Riveting Silicon Valley

    Listener Feedback

    Aaron Delp is hir…

  41. Episode 556: This Conversation is Hardened

    23 januari 2026 · 1 uur 8 min

    Afspelen
    This week, we discuss the end of Cloud 1.0, AI agents fixing old apps, and Chainguard vs. Docker images. Plus, the mystery of Dutch broth is finally solved. Lees meer

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 556

    Runner-up Titles

    His overall deal

    Been there and done that

    been ignoring that shift key for years

    Cloud is just fine

    I’ll be back in Bartertown

    The “F” Word

    Hardened-washing

    We’ll never do this, but we should check back in in 3 months

    Libraries are the best

    Elves don’t belong in space

    Rundown

    Are we at the end of cloud or cloud 1.0

    It's the beginning of Cloud 2.0

    Spec-driven development system for Claude Code

    Anthropic and App Modernization

    A meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven development

    What comes next, if Claude Code is as good as people say.

    Microsoft Spending on Anthropic Approaches $500 Million a Year

    Claude Code Won't Fix Your Life

    Coté and Tony contemplate day two AI-generated apps, and an excerpt.

    Why We've Tried to Replace Developers Every Decade Since 1969

    Well, that escalated quickly: Zero CVEs, lots of vendors

    Relevant to your Interests

    Beijing tells Chinese firms to stop using US and Israeli cybersecurity software

    China blacklists VMware, Palo Alto Networks software over national security fears

    Kroger taps Google Gemini, announces more key AI moves

    Texas judge throws out second lawsuit over CrowdStrike outage

    Apple will pay billions for Gemini after OpenAI declined

    Dell wants £10m+ from VMware if Tesco case goes against it

    Tailscale: The Best Free App Most Mac Power Users Aren’t Using

    How WhatsApp Took Over the Global Conversation

    Our approach to advertising and expanding access to ChatGPT

    OpenAI’s ARR reached over $20 billion in 2025, CFO says

    Simon Willison’s take on Our approach to advertising and ChatGPT

    The AI lab revolving door spins ever faster | TechCrunch

    How Markdown took over the world

    An Interview with United CEO Scott Kirby About Tech Transformation

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  42. Episode 555: After the Dream

    16 januari 2026 · 1 uur 9 min

    Afspelen
    This week, we discuss Gemini powering Siri, AWS’s biggest competitor, and AWS strategy choices. Plus, when should your next meeting actually start? Lees meer

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    Runner-up Titles

    Swedish Death Cleaning

    Give it a best effort

    Trying it bad for profits.

    That pen better be really good

    You do all the nerd shit, we’ll be cool

    Looking at a hundred rabbits’ assholes.

    The Kremlinologist of AWS

    The aaSes of Cloud

    They’ll like our apples better

    Running on hopes and dreams until you’re sure they don’t exist

    What we have is a situation

    Rundown

    Apple gets AI from Google

    Joint statement from Google and Apple

    Kuo: Apple's AI Deal With Google Is Temporary and Buys It Time

    Google's Apple AI deal marks 'huge loss' for OpenAI

    AWS in 2026: The Year of Proving They Still Know How to Operate

    Relevant to your Interests

    Anthropic reportedly raising $10B at $350B valuation

    Dell Reverses Course, Brings Back XPS Laptops

    Google is unleashing Gemini AI features on Gmail. Users will have to opt out

    Bose is open-sourcing its old smart speakers instead of bricking them

    Google Guys Say Bye to California

    Amazon gives managers a new way to spot who's barely coming into the office

    A decade of open source in CNCF with 300,000+ contributors and counting

    CrowdStrike to Acquire SGNL to Transform Identity Security for the AI Era

    Snowflake Announces Intent to Acquire Observe to Deliver AI-Powered Observability

    Nvidia Hires Google Veteran as Its First Chief Marketing Officer

    The Fediverse Experiment

    RIP the metaverse

    Nonsense

    American Airlines rolls out free Wi-Fi to loyalty members

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  43. Episode 554: The Alpha and The Omega

    9 januari 2026 · 1 uur 12 min

    Afspelen
    This week, we discuss AI’s impact on Stack Overflow, Docker’s Hardened Images, and Nvidia buying Groq. Plus, thoughts on playing your own game and having fun. Lees meer

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    Runner-up Titles

    It’s all brisket after that.

    Exploring Fun

    Should I go build a snow man?

    Pets

    Innersourcing

    Two books Michael Lewis should write.

    Article IV is foundational.

    Freedom is options.

    Rundown

    Stack Overflow is dead.

    Hardened Images for Everyone

    Tanzu’s Bitnami stuff does this too.

    OpenAI

    OpenAI’s New Fundraising Round Could Value Startup at as Much as $830 Billion

    OpenAI Reportedly Planning to Make ChatGPT "Prioritize" Advertisers in Conversation

    OpenAI bets big on audio as Silicon Valley declares war on screens

    Sam Altman says: He has zero percent interest in remaining OpenAI CEO, once

    Nvidia buying AI chip startup Groq's assets for about $20 billion in its largest deal on record

    Relevant to your Interests

    Broadcom IT uses Tanzu Platform to host MCP Servers.

    A Brief History Of The Spreadsheet

    Databricks is raising over $4 billion in Series L funding at a $134 billion

    Amazon's big AGI reorg decoded by Corey Quinn

    “They burned millions but got nothing.”

    X sues to protect Twitter brand Musk has been trying to kill

    Mozilla's new CEO says AI is coming to Firefox, but will remain a choice | TechCrunch

    Why Oracle keeps sparking AI-bubble fears

    What's next for Threads

    Salesforce Executives Say Trust in Large Language Models Has Declined

    Akamai Technologies Announces Acquisition of Function-as-a-Service Company Fermyon

    Google Rolling Out Gmail Address Change Feature: Here Is How It Works

    The Enshittifinancial Crisis

    MongoBleed: Critical MongoDB Vulnerability CVE-2025-14847 | Wiz Blog

    Softbank to buy data center firm DigitalBridge for $4 billion in AI push

    The best tech announced at CES 2026 so far

    Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter

    …

  44. Episode 553: 2025 Year in Review

    2 januari 2026 · 1 uur 10 min

    Afspelen
    This week, we review our 2025 predictions, discuss the big stories, and speculate on 2026. Plus, Coté dives deep into the EU broth market. Lees meer

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    Runner-up Titles

    I was up at 1am thinking, “are there any good billionaires.”

    Maybe you forgot your shoes

    Not just room temperature, but cold

    I thought Europe was known for its soups

    Ice, air conditioning, and, broth - we have solved those three problems.

    Sloppy search

    Cutlery, tupperware, COVID

    The Young People.

    The Automation Apologist.

    I’m disappointed in everything

    Models don’t matter anymore

    Shade-tree programmer

    An empty farm in Waco

    Rundown

    2024 Year in Review

    Scaling Platform Engineering in the CNCF Community - Abby Bangser

    Syntaso’s Platform as a Product book

    Claude Skills are way under-rated

    “Agents are [just] models using tools in a loop.

    2026 Predications

    Are we in an AI Bubble?

    Do Anthropic or OpenAI IPO?

    New AI use cases?

    Altman remain CEO?

    Do Apple or AWS make an AI acquisition?

    CFB Championship?

    Conferences

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    Coté speaking and doing live SDI with John Willis.

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    Devnexus 2026, March 4th to 6th, Atlanta, GA. Coté has a discount code, but he’s not sure if he can give it out. He’s asking! Send him a DM in the meantime.

    Whole bunch of VMUGs, mostly in the US. The CFPs are open, go speak at them! Coté speaking in Amsterdam.

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  45. Episode 552: Tech Strategy: Past, Present, Future

    26 december 2025 · 1 uur 17 min

    Afspelen
    This week, Brian Gracely joins to dissect strategic choices made by Broadcom, Docker, Netflix and Intel. Plus: The AI Bifurcation—are models commodities or product pillars? Lees meer

    Rundown

    Licensing in VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0

    Hardened Images for Everyone

    Introducing Chainguard EmeritOSS

    Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros.

    Anthropic reportedly preparing for one of the largest IPOs

    Conferences

    cfgmgmtcamp 2026, February 2nd to 4th, Ghent, BE.

    Coté speaking and doing live SDI with John Willis.

    DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA

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    Devnexus 2026, March 4th to 6th, Atlanta, GA.

    Whole bunch of VMUGs, mostly in the US. The CFPs are open, go speak at them! Coté speaking in Amsterdam.

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  46. Episode 551: An Australian Documentary

    19 december 2025 · 1 uur 1 min

    Afspelen
    This week, we discuss Oracle’s AI vibes, Chainguard’s EmeritOSS, and GitHub’s pricing U-turn. Plus, a robust robot vacuum debate. Lees meer

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    Runner-up Titles

    It has CarPlay

    iPad Range Anxiety

    an Australian documentary

    Oracle got popped

    Intentions

    I don’t feel bad for them

    Open Source old folks home

    Spreadsheets love it

    Robots are going to take care of us

    The Median User

    Nobody feels bad for the whales

    I have a dog

    I have a Korean microwave

    We’re the Neal Stephenson of podcasts

    Rundown

    Ford pulls the plug on the all-electric F-150 Lightning pickup truck

    AI Investment

    Oracle plummets 11% on weak revenue, pushing down AI stocks like Nvidia and CoreWeave

    Oracle Shares Drop the Most Since 2001 on Mounting AI Spending

    OpenAI in Talks to Raise At Least $10 Billion From Amazon and Use Its AI Chips

    S&P 500 falls after nearing record as Oracle disappointment drags down AI stocks

    Inside The $1T AI Economy

    Introducing Chainguard EmeritOSS: Sustainable stewardship for mature open source

    Runners

    Announcing powerful upgrades & a new pricing model for self-hosted runners

    GitHub to charge for self-hosted runners from March 2026

    GitHub postpones changes to self-hosted runners pricing plans

    Why GitHub Why?

    Coursera to buy Udemy, creating $2.5 billion firm to target AI training

    Roomba Maker iRobot Files for Bankruptcy, With Chinese Supplier Taking Control

    Relevant to your Interests

    Harness raises a $240M Series E at a $5.5B valuation

    A great platform as a product paper, and a fun platform philosophy thereof

    Google Launches Managed Remote MCP Servers for Its Cloud Services

    Fake Leonardo DiCaprio Movie Torrent Drops Agent Tesla Through Layered PowerShell Chain

    Useful patterns for building HTML tools

    Waymo Seeking Over $15 Billion Near $100 Billion Valuation

    Write your CV or resume as YAML, then run RenderCV, and get a PDF with perfect typography. No template wrestling. No broken layouts. Consistent spacing, eve…

  47. Episode 550: Typeface Philosophy

    12 december 2025 · 1 uur 11 min

    Afspelen
    This week, we discuss how Netflix is disrupting media, IBM’s Confluent acquisition, and Anthropic buying Bun. Plus, an important discussion on fonts and typography. Lees meer

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    Runner-up Titles

    Blame the children

    I never liked that font

    No emojis, this is business time

    Mahalo

    You need a Chief Economist

    On the cutlery tray

    Rundown

    Rubio Deletes Calibri as the State Department’s Official Typeface

    Cartridge

    Source Code Pro

    It’s Official: Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros. in Deal Valued at $82.7 Billion

    Confluent stock soars 29% as IBM announces $11 billion acquisition deal

    Bun is joining Anthropic

    Claude Code is coming to Slack, and that's a bigger deal than it sounds

    OpenAI enterprise usage study.

    Relevant to your Interests

    Antigravity Is Google's New Agentic Development Platform

    Amazon CTO Werner Vogels' Predictions for 2026

    ‘End-to-end encrypted’ smart toilet camera is not actually end-to-end encrypted

    AWS AI IDE, AgentCore throw down gauntlets for Microsoft

    Admins and defenders gird themselves against maximum-severity server vuln

    Andy Jassy says Amazon's Nvidia competitor chip is already a multibillion-dollar business

    52 things I learned in 2025

    State of AI | OpenRouter

    Microsoft has a problem: nobody wants its poor AI products

    DHH & Open Source

    Gruber: Apple employees 'giddy' about Alan Dye’s departure - 9to5Mac

    Apple announces the departure of general counsel and policy chief

    Nonsense

    All of the Men’s Clothing We Loved (and Didn’t) From Costco’s Kirkland Signature

    Conferences

    cfgmgmtcamp 2026, February 2nd to 4th, Ghent, BE.

    Coté speaking and doing live SDI with John Willis.

    DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA

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    Devnexus 2026, March 4th to 6th, Atlanta, GA.

    Whole bunch of VMUGs, mostly in the US. The CFPs are open, go speak at them! Coté speaking in Amsterdam.

    Amsterdam (March 17-19, 2026), Minneapolis (April 7-9, 2026), Toronto (May 12-14, 2026), Da…

  48. Episode 549: The Fermi Paradox of Agentic Development

    5 december 2025 · 1 uur 11 min

    Afspelen
    This week, we discuss AWS re:Invent announcements, Agentic Development, and OpenAI's Code Red. Plus, a Digital ID field test and more on silverware sorting. Lees meer

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 549

    Runner-up Titles

    Did you order the Code Red?

    In the year 2000

    Jane go swiftly

    Another day in the coal mine

    Goal Driven Development

    I want to believe

    Prove me wrong

    AI’s going to dig this hole faster

    Tornado of Innovation

    Revenue times Story

    Rundown

    SiteAngel - bonus press quote from Brandon

    AWS

    Amazon announces $50B investment to expand AI and supercomputing capabilities for US government

    Top announcements of AWS re:Invent 2025

    All the biggest news from AWS’ big tech show re:Invent 2025

    AWS announces preview of AWS Interconnect - multicloud

    The Future of AWS CodeCommit | Amazon Web Services

    Nova Act

    Code Red

    OpenAI CEO declares “code red” as Gemini gains 20 0 million users in 3 months

    Anthropic reportedly preparing for one of the largest IPOs ever in race with OpenAI: FT

    Microsoft stock sinks on report AI product sales are missing growth goals

    AI & Cloud Trends for November 2025

    Relevant to your Interests

    Under My Roof Home Inventory + App - App Store

    Thoma Bravo invests in Azul

    Streamline Development with the Google Workspace Extension

    As its voice dictation app takes off, Wispr secures $25M from Notable Capital | TechCrunch

    Valve makes almost $50 million per employee

    HelixGuard

    What to know about a recent Mixpanel security incident

    ServiceNow to Expand Security Portfolio With Acquisition of Veza’s Leading AI-native Identity Security Platform

    Vista-Backed LogicMonitor Buys Monitoring Startup Catchpoint

    Google releases Nano Banana Pro, its latest image generation model

    Years of JSONFormatter and CodeBeautify Leaks Expose Thousands of Passwords and API Keys

    Netflix kills casting from phones

    Nonsense

    Victorian Name Generator

    Conferences

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  49. Episode 548: Household CMDB

    28 november 2025 · 1 uur 3 min

    Afspelen
    This week, we discuss the Cloudflare outage, their current business strategy, and paying OSS maintainers. Plus, thoughts on loading the dishwasher and managing your home. Lees meer

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    Runner-up Titles

    Mystery Knob

    Vegans are cursed vegetarians

    Skilled enough

    Defrag the dishwasher

    Design Intentions

    QR codes everywhere

    I don’t know where we draw the line, but I know where we start

    SDT IoT CMBD, Home Edition.

    SDT Open Source Money Maker

    Lead with Nagware

    Stocks go up, stocks go down

    Safari’s my naked browser

    Coté wanted to add periods to all of these but did not.

    Rundown

    FFmpeg to Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs

    Cloudflare blames massive internet outage on 'latent bug'

    Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025

    Replicate is joining Cloudflare

    Relevant to your Interests

    The Walt Disney Company Announces Multi-Year Distribution Agreement With YouTube TV

    Anthropic claims of Claude AI-automated cyberattacks met with doubt

    Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign

    Compact, human-readable serialization of JSON data for LLM prompts

    Outage Tracker | Updog By Datadog

    Jeff Bezos Creates A.I. Start-Up Where He Will Be Co-Chief Executive

    PowerPoint is your therapist, Gamma is your coach | Andreessen Horowitz

    Red Hat Introduces Project Hummingbird for “Zero-CVE” Strategies

    A new era of intelligence with Gemini 3

    The platform that needs a platform

    The AI Coding Startup Favored by Tech CEOs Is Now Worth $29.3 Billion

    The Smartest Fliers Use This App to Survive America’s Travel Hell

    Oracle's Market Cap Decline: Analyzing the Impact on Finance

    OpenAI's Fidji Simo Plans to Make ChatGPT Way More Useful—and Have You Pay For It

    Europe’s cookie nightmare is crumbling

    Nonsense

    AI-Powered Teddy Bear Caught Talking About Sexual Fetishes and Instructing Kids How to Find Knives

    Whipped Cream Worth $80K Stolen in Ontario

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  50. Episode 547: Whitney goes to KubeCon

    21 november 2025 · 1 uur 9 min

    Afspelen
    This week, Whitney Lee joins us to discuss KubeCon news, Coding Assistants, and conference tips. Plus, vegan food and note-taking recommendations. Lees meer

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 547

    Rundown

    Slutty Vegan

    Cloud Native Rejekts

    Maintainer Summit

    Conference Parties

    Ingress NGINX Retirement: What You Need to Know

    Linkerd Forever

    Migrating from Ingress Resources

    Conferences

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    Header

    Special Guest: Whitney Lee.