Episode 574: Nobody Wants to Be a Measurer

What this episode covers

This week, we discuss the Cloudflare CEO's op-ed, upcoming tech IPOs and GitHub getting breached. Plus, ranking our favorite manifestos. 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 sdt26 for $100 in credit for new customers Nonsense GE’s nugget ice maker is nearly half off if you buy it refurbished Watch: Drones crash into water after Sydney light show malfunction America the Tasty: The Best Breakfast in Every State Listener Feedback Jason built the DepartTime App iPhone App Conferences VMware User Group, Dallas, June 9-11, 2026 WeAreDevelopers Europe, July 8-10, 2026 Berlin, Coté speaking. DevOpsDays Graz, Sept 4-5, 2026 DevOpsDays Rockies, Sept. 22 – 23, 2026, Discount Code: 26DODSWEDEFTALK WeAreDevelopers NA, Sept 23-25, 2026, Discount Code: DEVPOD26 25 Free Tickets DevOpsDays Dallas, Sept 28-29, 2026 DevOpsDays Vilnius, Sep 30 - Oct 1, 2006 DevOpsDays Istanbul, Oct 24th, 2026 , Coté keynoting. VMware User Group, Orlando, Oct 20-22, 2026 SDT News & Community Join our Slack community Email the show: [email protected] Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected] Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté Sponsor the show Sponsor more podcasts with Failover Media Recommendations Brandon: Trek Austin Matt: VESA Coté: AI-Generated Summaries Table for Two Slim Daddy’s Repair Sponsored By:Sentry: Use the code: sdt26 for $100 in Sentry credits for new users