Software Defined Talk

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. 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 Leaving GitHub – Mitchell Hashimoto Musk vs. Altman: Tech CEOs head to court over the fate of OpenAI Meta to cut one in 10 jobs after spending billions on AI The week that Meta employees became training data In another wild turn for AI chips, Meta signs deal for millions of Amazon AI CPUs OpenAI ends Microsoft legal peril over its $50B Amazon deal | TechCrunch Google to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic as search giant spreads its AI bets An Interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and AWS CEO Matt Garman About Bedrock Managed Agents Sponsors WebRTC.ventures – Real-time communication & Voice AI integration WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America Sept 23–25, San José, CA Use Code DEVPOD26 — 15% off, stacks with group rates for 4+ Nonsense Your Name in Landsat Listener Feedback Light Bulb Info Can You Throw Light Bulbs in the Trash? A Type-by-Type Guide - BulbCycle: Fluorescent Bulb & Lamp Disposal Battery, mobile phone and light bulb recycling, light bulb, lightbulb - City of Sydney OpenAI is making its own phone to compete with the iPhone: report PROMOTE STICKER, FM Newsletter and why podcasts are the best for learning Conferences DevOpsDays Austin, May 5-6, 2026 DevOpsDays + AI Nashville, May 14-15, 2026 KCD Texas, May 15, 2026, use code MEDIA_THANK_YOU for free pass WeAreDevelopers Europe, July 8-10, 2026 Berlin, Coté speaking. DevOpsDays Graz, Sept 4-5, 2026 DevOpsDays Dallas, Sept 28-29, 2026 DevOpsDays Rockies, Sept. 22 – 23, 2026, Discount Code: 26DODSWEDEFTALK WeAreDevelopers NA, Sept 23-25, 2026, Discount Code: DEVPOD26 DevOpsDays Vilnius, Sep 30 - Oct 1. 2006 DevOpsDays Istanbul, October 24th, 2026 - Coté keynoting. VMware User Groups (VMUGs): Toronto (May 12-14, 2026) Dallas (June 9-11, 2026) Orlando (October 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: 1Password CLI Tool Matt: Summer Album/Winter Album Coté: AI's biggest critic has lost the plot

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. 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 collaboration Anthropic CPO leaves Figma's board after reports he will offer a competing product OpenAI loses multiple executives in latest leadership shakeup Scoop: NSA using Anthropic's Mythos despite Defense Department blacklist The scientific case for being nice to your chatbot Anthropic's redesigned Claude Code desktop app lets you burn through tokens even faster OpenAI’s Codex Mac app adds three key features that go beyond agentic coding Introducing Claude Opus 4.7 \ Anthropic Sponsors WebRTC.ventures – Real-time communication & Voice AI integration WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America Sept 23–25, San José, CA Use Code DEVPOD26 — 15% off, stacks with group rates for 4+ Listener Feedback Subscribe to Failover New Nonsense Struggling shoe retailer Allbirds makes bizarre pivot from shoes to AI, stock explodes more than 700% Allbirds Stock Now Crashing as Reality Sets in About Its Delusional AI Pivot Conferences DevOpsDays Austin, May 5-6, 2026 DevOpsDays + AI Nashville, May 14-15, 2026 KCD Texas, May 15, 2026, use code MEDIA_THANK_YOU for free pass WeAreDevelopers Europe, July 8-10, 2026 Berlin, Coté speaking. DevOpsDays Graz, Sept 4-5, 2026 DevOpsDays Dallas, Sept 28-29, 2026 DevOpsDays Rockies, Sept. 22 – 23, 2026, Discount Code: 26DODSWEDEFTALK WeAreDevelopers NA, Sept 23-25, 2026, Discount Code: DEVPOD26 DevOpsDays Vilnius, Sep 30 - Oct 1. 2006 DevOpsDays Istanbul, October 24th, 2026 - Coté keynoting. VMware User Groups (VMUGs): Toronto (May 12-14, 2026) Dallas (June 9-11, 2026) Orlando (October 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: Claude /team-onboarding The Junior Dev Crisis: Who Inherits the Code When AI Does the Work Matt: Resident Alien Coté: and

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. 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 and Cloud‑Native Observability Cursor and Coding Agents Cursor's $2 billion bet: The IDE is now a fallback, not the default Cursor's New Tool Lets Users Delegate to a Team of Coding Agents Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex are merging into one AI coding stack nobody planned Relevant to your Interests Here's what that Claude Code source leak reveals about Anthropic's plans Starlink satellite tracker A Secure Chat App’s Encryption Is So Bad It Is ‘Meaningless’ Coinbase’s AI payments system joins Linux Foundation Trump's AI framework targets state laws, shifts child safety burden to parents | TechCrunch TIME100 AI 2025: Chris Lehane Jack Dorsey says Block employees now bring prototypes — not slide decks — to meetings Post Mortem: axios npm supply chain compromise · Issue #10636 · axios/axios · GitHub Addressing GitHub’s recent availability issues Iran threatens ‘complete and utter annihilation’ of OpenAI's $30B Stargate AI data center Social media is turning into a freak show The Building Block Economy Giant Mac mini cluster powers Overcast podcast transcripts without the cloud How Amazon Dies: A Possible, Maybe Likely Future Maine Is About to Become the First State to Ban New Data Centers Introducing Muse Spark: Scaling Towards Personal Superintelligence SiFive raises $400 million from Atreides, Nvidia for data-center chip technology Amazon CEO takes aim at Nvidia, Intel, Starlink, more in annual shareholder letter Giving external agents access to Xcode | Apple Developer Documentation France orders all government ministries to ditch Windows for Linux in digital sovereignty push You can now easily call LLMs from your messaging engine. Should you? Microsoft exec suggests AI agents will need to buy software licenses, just like employees Meta creating AI version of Mark Zuckerberg so staff can talk to the boss Little Snitch for Linux — Because Nothing Else Came Close AI infrastructure budgets set to triple as demand soars: Deloitte Amazon jumps deeper into space race Amazon buying Globalstar, to rival SpaceX's Starlink Meta is making an AI Zuck to chat with employees Sponsors WebRTC.ventures – Real-time communication & Voice AI integration WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America Sept 23–25, San José, CA Use Code DEVPOD26 — 15% off, stacks with group rates for 4+ Nonsense NASA sends Outlook around Moon, immediately needs IT help Top FEMA Official Doubles Down on Claim He Teleported to Waffle House AI CEO vs Engineer (2026). Poor Blue Blob Paul McCartney Banned From Reddit After Promoting Himself in Paul McCartney Subreddit Listener Feedback Michael Neal: built mesh-llm — Decentralised LLM Inference Shaun built: workworkwork Brandon’s App: Milestone Birthday and Anniversary Tracker Conferences DevOpsdays Atlanta 2026, April 21-22, 2026 DevOpsDays Austin, May 5-6, 2026 DevOpsDays + AI Nashville, May 14-15, 2026 KCD Texas, May 15, 2026, use code MEDIA_THANK_YOU for free pass WeAreDevelopers Europe, July 8-10, 2026 Berlin, Coté speaking. DevOpsDays Graz, Sept 4-5, 2026 DevOpsDays Dallas, Sept 28-29, 202 WeAreDevelopers NA, Sept 23-25, 2026, Discount Code: Community_SoftwareDefined DevOpsDays Vilnius, Sep 30 - Oct 1. 2006 DevOpsDays Istanbul, October 24th, 2026 - Coté keynoting. 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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. 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.

The code is actually kinda useless 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 [email protected] 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 the internet Bluesky's new AI tool Attie is already the most blocked account other than J.D. Vance Steve Blank Your Startup Is Probably Dead On Arrival Nonsense The Untold Story of Wiz (ft. Wiz Khalifa) Conferences DevOpsdays Atlanta 2026, April 21-22, 2026 DevOpsDays Austin, May 5-6, 2026 DevOpsDays + AI Nashville, May 14-15, 2026 KCD Texas, May 15, 2026, use code MEDIA_THANK_YOU for free pass WeAreDevelopers Europe, July 8-10, 2026 Berlin, Coté speaking. DevOpsDays Dallas, Sep 28-29, 202 WeAreDevelopers NA, Sept 23-25, 2026, Discount Code: Community_SoftwareDefined DevOpsDays Vilnius, Sep 30 - Oct 1. 2006 VMware User Groups (VMUGs): Minneapolis (April 7-9, 2026) Toronto (May 12-14, 2026) Dallas (June 9-11, 2026) Orlando (October 20-22, 2026) Conference Partners 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: Claude Code /copy Matt: Search Engine: Are You a Good Driver? The Trial of the Driverless Car Coté: Abby Bangser’s KubeCon EU 2026 talk booWhoops

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? 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 finish tasks for you in AI agent push Today’s layoffs, This note was sent to Epic employees today Your wireless router is now banned from sale in the US Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features Jury orders Meta and Google to pay woman $3 million in social media addiction trial Arm is releasing the first in-house chip in its 35-year history Arm Launches Own CPU, Arm’s Motivation, Constraints and Systems Feature Spotlight: Introducing the Fantastical Connector (MCP) for Claude Conferences DevOpsdays Atlanta 2026, April 21-22, 2026 DevOpsDays Austin, May 5-6, 2026 WeAreDevelopers, July 8-10, 2026 Berlin, Coté speaking. VMware User Groups (VMUGs): Minneapolis (April 7-9, 2026) Toronto (May 12-14, 2026) Dallas (June 9-11, 2026) Orlando (October 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: Project Hail Mary, The Movie Matt: From Robert Mueller to Stringer Bell: How the Post-9/11 FBI Drove The Wire

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. 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 there on a media pass. DevOpsdays Atlanta 2026, April 21-22, 2026 DevOpsDays Austin, May 5-6, 2026 WeAreDevelopers, July 8-10, 2026 Berlin, Coté speaking. VMware User Groups (VMUGs): Minneapolis (April 7-9, 2026) Toronto (May 12-14, 2026) Dallas (June 9-11, 2026) Orlando (October 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: Failover Media Newsletter Stitch - Design with AI Milestone iOS App Claude Command: /insights Matt: Caleb Sasser XOXO 2024 The McDonald’s Centralia Mural MPC app Coté: Dream Router 7

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. 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, 2026 WeAreDevelopers, July 8-10, 2026 Berlin, Coté speaking. VMware User Groups (VMUGs): Amsterdam (March 17-19, 2026) - Coté speaking. Minneapolis (April 7-9, 2026) Toronto (May 12-14, 2026) Dallas (June 9-11, 2026) Orlando (October 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: Token management with RTK Usage for Claude App - App Store Coté: Anker MagGo 3-in-1 Wireless Charging Station

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. 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 will be there on a media pass. DevOpsdays Atlanta 2026, April 21-22, 2026 DevOpsDays Austin, May 5-6, 2026 WeAreDevelopers, July 8th to 10th, Berlin, Coté speaking. VMware User Groups (VMUGs): Amsterdam (March 17-19, 2026) - Coté speaking. Minneapolis (April 7-9, 2026) Toronto (May 12-14, 2026) Dallas (June 9-11, 2026) Orlando (October 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: Failover Media Newsletter Milestone 1.1 Ski Quiver Matt: IKEA MYGGSPRAY motion sensor, TRADFRI LED and RODRET Coté: The “Anime Wow” sound. And, related to Brandon’s modernization talk last week.

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? 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 talks and trading cards on THE LANDING PAGE. 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 to 10th, Berlin, Coté speaking. VMware User Groups (VMUGs): Amsterdam (March 17-19, 2026) - Coté speaking. Minneapolis (April 7-9, 2026) Toronto (May 12-14, 2026) Dallas (June 9-11, 2026) Orlando (October 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 Recommendations Brandon: Milestone Birthdays (iOS App) Matt: Lupin on Netflix

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. 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 to 10th, Berlin, Coté speaking. VMware User Groups (VMUGs): Amsterdam (March 17-19, 2026) - Coté speaking. Minneapolis (April 7-9, 2026) Toronto (May 12-14, 2026) Dallas (June 9-11, 2026) Orlando (October 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 Recommendations Brandon: Ghostty pairs nicely with Claude Code Matt: Home Assistant Connect ZBT-2 Coté: Iron Lung. ChatGPT for upscaling images, like this one.

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? 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 Relevant to your Interests Deploying Moltbot (Formerly Clawdbot) Apple tops Q1 earnings estimates on record-breaking iPhone sales Clouded Judgement 1.30.26 - Software is Dead...Again! Leaders, gainers, and unexpected winners in the Enterprise AI arms race All Enterprise software is dead The Dumbest Thing I’ve Seen This Week SpaceX acquires xAI in record-setting deal as Musk looks to unify AI and space ambitions AWS destiny: becoming the next Lumen CloudBees CEO: Why Migration Is a Mirage Costing You Millions Xcode 26.3 unlocks the power of agentic coding The world is trying to log off U.S. tech Anthropic's newest AI model uncovered 500 zero-day software flaws in testing DHH on OpenClaw Adam Jacob really likes AI code generation Cautionary Tales – The WOW Machine Stops (Part 2) Kyndryl Shares Halved Amid CFO Departure, Accounting Review Our $200M Series C / Oxide Presentations — Benedict Evans Matrix messaging gaining ground in government IT Hello Entire World · Entire Blog Former GitHub CEO raises record $60M dev tool seed round at $300M valuation From magic to malware: How OpenClaw's agent skills become an attack surface Nonsense What If the Sensors on Your Car Were Inspecting Potholes for the Government? Honda Found Out Superbowl Ad 404 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. Austin Meetup, March 10th, Open Lakehouse and AI — Listener Steve Anness speaking KubeCon EU, March 23rd to 26th, 2026 - Coté will be there on a media pass. Devopsdays Atlanta 2026. April 21-22 VMware User Groups (VMUGs): Amsterdam (March 17-19, 2026) - Coté speaking. Minneapolis (April 7-9, 2026) Toronto (May 12-14, 2026) Dallas (June 9-11, 2026) Orlando (October 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 Recommendations Brandon: YouTube TV plans launch this week Matt: Send Help Steal Coté: AI, open source, talent, and more, live at cfgmgmtcamp 2026, with Andrew Clay Shafer Tapistry

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. 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 [email protected] 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.

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. 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 hiring for a Technical Marketing Engineer in the EU. ,more in Slack Conferences cfgmgmtcamp 2026, February 2nd to 4th, Ghent, BE. Coté speaking, live SDI recording with Andrew Clay Shafer. DevOpsDayLA 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. I was going to moderate this panel, but now I’m not. Also, this one. They’ll be super-cool! KubeCon EU, March 23rd to 26th, 2026 - Coté will be there on a media pass. VMware User Groups (VMUGs): Amsterdam (March 17-19, 2026) - Coté speaking. Minneapolis (April 7-9, 2026) Toronto (May 12-14, 2026) Dallas (June 9-11, 2026) Orlando (October 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 Recommendations Brandon: The Cloudpod Grizzlies Owner Robert Pera Linked to Russia's "Crimes Against Humanity" Matt: Oxide & Friends 2026 Predictions - “Deep Blue” Coté: CNCF Annual Survey for 2025, I finally read it closely-ish.

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. 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 Conferences cfgmgmtcamp 2026, February 2nd to 4th, Ghent, BE. Coté speaking - anyone interested in being an SDI guest? DevOpsDayLA 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. KubeCon EU, March 23rd to 26th, 2026 - Coté will be there on a media pass. VMware User Groups (VMUGs): Amsterdam (March 17-19, 2026) Minneapolis (April 7-9, 2026) Toronto (May 12-14, 2026) Dallas (June 9-11, 2026) Orlando (October 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 Recommendations Brandon: The Library will loan you a 5G hotspot Matt: Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor (rogue-like Vampire Hunters-type game) Coté: Streamyard shorts generation. Salesforce was inspired by dolphins.

This week, we discuss Gemini powering Siri, AWS’s biggest competitor, and AWS strategy choices. Plus, when should your next meeting actually start? Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 555 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 Conferences cfgmgmtcamp 2026, February 2nd to 4th, Ghent, BE. Coté speaking - anyone interested in being a SDI guest? DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA Use code: DEVOP for 50% off. 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. KubeCon EU, March 23rd to 26th, 2026 - Coté will be there on a media pass. Whole bunch of VMUGs: Amsterdam (March 17-19, 2026), Minneapolis (April 7-9, 2026), Toronto (May 12-14, 2026), Dallas (June 9-11, 2026), Orlando (October 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 Recommendations Brandon: Google Nest Doorbell (Wired, 3rd Gen) Matt: MTV Rewind Coté: “These 36 Airlines Offer iPhone Feature That Helps Find Your Lost Bags.” Distroless, Helm Charts, & Hardened Images: Security That Ships (with William Jimenez) Photo Credits Header

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. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 554 Please complete the Software Defined Talk Listener Survey! 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 Manus Joins Meta for Next Era of Innovation The WELL: State of the World 2026 with Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky Virtual machines still run the world Databases in 2025: A Year in Review Chat Platform Discord Files Confidentially for IPO The DRAM shortage explained: AI, rising prices, and what’s next Nonsense Palantir CEO buys monastery in Old Snowmass for $120 million H-E-B gives free groceries to all customers after registers glitch today in Burleson, Texas. Conferences cfgmgmtcamp 2026, February 2nd to 4th, Ghent, BE. Coté speaking - anyone interested in being a SDI guest? DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA Use code: DEVOP for 50% off. 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. KubeCon EU, March 23rd to 26th, 2026 - Coté will be there on a media pass. 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), Dallas (June 9-11, 2026), Orlando (October 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: [email protected] Recommendations Brandon: Why Data Doesn't Always Win, with a Philosopher of Art (Apple Podcasts) Why Data Doesn't Always Win, with a Philosopher of Art (YouTube) Coté: “Databases in 2025: A Year in Review.” Photo Credits Header

This week, we review our 2025 predictions, discuss the big stories, and speculate on 2026. Plus, Coté dives deep into the EU broth market. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 553 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 cfgmgmtcamp 2026, February 2nd to 4th, Ghent, BE. Coté speaking and doing live SDI with John Willis. DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA Use code: DEVOP for 50% off. 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. Amsterdam (March 17-19, 2026), Minneapolis (April 7-9, 2026), Toronto (May 12-14, 2026), Dallas (June 9-11, 2026), Orlando (October 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: [email protected] Recommendations Brandon: Pluribus — slow but interesting Coté: AirPods Pro 3 Photo Credits Header

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? 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 Use code: DEVOP for 50% off. 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), Dallas (June 9-11, 2026), Orlando (October 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: [email protected] Photo Credits Header Special Guest: Brian Gracely.

This week, we discuss Oracle’s AI vibes, Chainguard’s EmeritOSS, and GitHub’s pricing U-turn. Plus, a robust robot vacuum debate. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 551 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, every time Roomba Maker iRobot Files for Bankruptcy, With Chinese Supplier Taking Control Nonsense The Full Text of Marco Rubio’s Directive on State Department Typography, Re-Establishing Times New Roman Listener Feedback Sent stickers to Jelle in Belgium 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 Use code: DEVOP for 50% off. 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), Dallas (June 9-11, 2026), Orlando (October 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: [email protected] Recommendations Brandon: Humble Audiobook Bundle: Shadows, Stars & Screams: Epic Audiobooks Matt: Termination Shock - Neal Stephenson Photo Credits Header

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. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 550 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 Use code: DEVOP for 50% off. 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), Dallas (June 9-11, 2026), Orlando (October 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: [email protected] Recommendations Brandon: Short Power Extension Cord Outlet Saver Matt: Everything is Tuberculosis Octopus Project - Music is Happiness Coté: The Octopus Organization. Photo Credits Header

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. 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 cfgmgmtcamp 2026, February 2nd to 4th, Ghent, BE. Coté speaking and doing live SDI with John Willis. DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA Use code: DEVOP for 50% off. CFP open until Dec. 1st. Devnexus 2026, March 4th to 6th, Atlanta, GA. 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: [email protected] Recommendations Brandon: Dampf Good BBQ Matt: UmamiPapi chilli oil Coté: Anta, slightly more in English. Also XdgBaseDirs. Photo Credits Header

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. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 548 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 Conferences DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA Use code: DEVOP for 50% off. CFP open until Dec. 1st. 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: [email protected] Recommendations Brandon: The Beast in Me Matt: The Prestige Coté: Fantastic 4 with that Boba Fett guy, “Winter’s Mourning,” from Uncaged Goddesses. Photo Credits Header

This week, Whitney Lee joins us to discuss KubeCon news, Coding Assistants, and conference tips. Plus, vegan food and note-taking recommendations. 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 DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA Use code: DEVOP for 50% off. CFP open until Dec. 1st. 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: [email protected] Recommendations Brandon: GE Attic Mount Digital TV Antenna Whitney: Obsidian, Wispr Flow Coté: MacWhisper Photo Credits Header Special Guest: Whitney Lee.

This week, we discuss Facebook scams, engineering management trends, and the past and present of curl. Plus, when’s the right time to put up the Christmas tree? Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 546 Runner-up Titles Matt has a lot of room tone. I shut the kitchen door . You gotta just reboot all of Australia every morning. Did you see my water dragons? Didn’t he die? I’m worried about the future. Quality of revenue. The spatula is higher than the plunger. This discussion has really raised my morale. I know what your API is. Rundown Meta estimates that it earns 10% of its revenue from scams, report says "Good engineering management" is a fad When CEO pay exploded Yes, really, curl is still developed Relevant to your Interests Apple Nears $1 Billion-a-Year Deal to Use Google AI for Siri Sam Altman on Trust, Persuasion, and the Future of Intelligence ‘Vibe coding’ named Collins Dictionary’s Word of the Year | CNN Business Automattic Inc. Claims It Owns the Word 'Automatic' IKEA Debuts 21 HomeKit-Compatible Smart Bulbs, Sensors, and Controls The wildest stuff Elon Musk said at Tesla’s shareholder meeting CNCF Launches Kubernetes AI Conformance Program Russia's grand reveal of humanoid robot couldn't have gone worse How AWS is losing the younger generation with complexity OpenAI Races to Quell Concerns Over Its Finances 'Big Short' investor Michael Burry accuses AI hyperscalers of artificially boosting earnings Here's How Much OpenAI Spends On Inference and Its Revenue Share With Microsoft Apple Announces Launch of U.S. Passport Feature in iPhone's Wallet App Nonsense Interview with Dying Company's VP As Seen on TV Conferences Wiz Wizdom Conferences, November 17-19, London The good hospitality from Keith Townsend. DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA Use code: DEVOP for 50% off. CFP open until Dec. 1st. 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: [email protected] Recommendations Brandon: Pluribus Matt: Hades 2 Coté: Camo Photo Credits Header

This week, we discuss cloud earnings, Siri teaming up with Gemini, and AI bottlenecks. Plus, is cloning your dog weird? Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 545 Runner-up Titles Stack the deck Pets and Chickens Blame it on Android They’re fungible Are they going to have to introduce a new principle? Managers of rocks The world we live in Marketing wins We’re the healthy skeptics Rundown Ex-NFL star QB Brady claims his dog is a clone Cloud Earnings AI & Cloud Trends for October 2025 Alphabet tops $100 billion quarterly revenue for first time, cloud grows 34% Google Cloud Q3 revenue surges 34% as backlog hits $155 billion Microsoft Azure sees 40% revenue growth in Q1 Meta stock drops 10% as heightened AI spending overshadows strong results Amazon revenues rise 13% on strength in cloud computing unit Clouded Judgement 10.31.25 - Cloud Giants Report Q3 7m OpenAI work users Amazon's culture went the wrong way Octoverse: A new developer joins GitHub every second as AI leads TypeScript to #1 What do we think of GitHub saying there are 180m developers in the world? AWS and OpenAI announce multi-year strategic partnership Amazon stock jumps on $38 billion deal with OpenAI to use hundreds of thousands of Nvidia chips Relevant to your Interests Azure outage: Microsoft still working on fix, says recovery expected in several hours Microsoft takes $3.1 billion hit from OpenAI investment Meta Stock Slides After Earnings. AWS to Bare Metal Two Years Later: Answering Your Toughest Questions Meta denies torrenting porn to train AI, says downloads were for “personal use” Shocker! Reversal in AI ROI slide-wisdom: AI does works well SaaS Monopoly | Khushi Lunkad The State of Developer Experience and Developer Productivity Why the “Free” Chef Version Could Be Your Most Expensive Mistake | Chef Nonsense Disney yanks channels from YouTube TV after media giants fail to resolve carriage dispute | CNN Business Traffic hits record high as commuters rewrite the rush hour - Texas A&M Transportation Institute Denny's to be acquired and taken private in a deal valued at $620 million Conferences SREDay Amsterdam, November 7th, Coté speaking. Wiz Wizdom Conferences, November 17-19, London DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA Use code: DEVOP for 50% off. CFP open until Dec. 1st. 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: [email protected] Recommendations Brandon: Liquid Glass Transparency Toggle Matt: The Other Two Coté: NØLSON shirts Photo Credits Header

This week, we discuss Claude’s new Excel skills, whether AI is augmenting or automating humans, and the latest developer surveys. Plus, AI making the command line cool again! Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 544 Runner-up Titles Cote’ shock jock mode Art with squids Command-Line Life Style AI isn’t for experts. The triumph of the command line The command line lifestyle is now available I don’t even know what sed is The Human Line Rundown Anthropic's Claude is learning Excel so you don't have to Amazon targets as many as 30,000 corporate job cuts: Reuters, citing sources The State of Developer Ecosystem in 2025 “The Pragmatic Engineer 2025 Survey: What’s in your tech stack? Part 3.” Relevant to your Interests ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web - Anil Dash OpenAI acquires Software Applications Incorporated, maker of Sky PayPal shares surge 13% after OpenAI deal to become the first payments wallet in ChatGPT Internet Pioneer AOL to Be Acquired by Italian Tech Company Bending Spoons What is Configuration as Data? RDEL #115: What are the 2025 benchmarks for the DORA 4 metrics? a16z Is Funding a 'Speedrun' to AI-Generated Hell on Earth An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ Removing Jeff Bezos From My Bed ◆ Truffle Security Co. Grammarly rebrands to 'Superhuman,' launches a new AI assistant Why the “Free” Chef Version Could Be Your Most Expensive Mistake The Wayback Machine’s snapshots of news homepages plummet after a “breakdown” in archiving projects Nonsense How Hacked Card Shufflers Allegedly Enabled a Mob-Fueled Poker Scam That Rocked the NBA Conferences Wiz Wizdom Conferences, NYC November 3-5, London November 17-19 SREDay Amsterdam, November 7th, Coté speaking DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA Uxse code: DEVOP for 50% off. CFP open until Dec. 1st. 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: [email protected] Recommendations Brandon: Who Is Michael Lombardi? Debunking the Myths of UNC's GM Matt: Shell Game podcast Coté: "What Grant Reviewers Actually Look For (and What They Ignore)." Photo Credits Header

This week, we discuss OpenAI’s new browser, AI trying to build spreadsheets, and when to use Claude skills. Plus, Coté explores the art of the perfect staycation. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 543 Runner-up Titles Firewire is dead USB, what are you going to do? It’s like I tell my son: you know what to do, you chose not to do it. I am just a guest. I don’t need helpful An amazing hole. Slides for nobody You closed the loop It’s pretty amazing, but does it need to exist? Slackhole Rundown OpenAI Introducing ChatGPT Atlas OpenAI Is Building a Banker OpenAI has five years to turn $13 billion into $1 trillion AI agents are not amazing, they are slop: says OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy as he strongly disagrees with CEO Sam Altman on AGI timeline - The Times of India OpenAI’s ChatGPT will soon allow ‘erotica’ for adults in major policy shift OpenAI Inks Deal With Broadcom to Design Its Own Chips for A.I. Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP OpenStack Flamingo pays down technical debt as adoption continues to climb Relevant to your Interests Elon Musk will settle $128 million Twitter execs lawsuit GitHub Will Prioritize Migrating to Azure Over Feature Development The Discord Hack is Every User’s Worst Nightmare Cursor-Maker Anysphere Considers Investment Offers at $30 Billion Valuation Rubygems.org AWS Root Access Event – September 2025 This Discord Zendesk compromise has gotten more silly WP Engine Vs Automattic & Mullenweg Is Back In Play Windows 11 removes all bypass methods for Microsoft account setup, removing local accounts Introducing the React Foundation: The New Home for React & React Native Wiz Finds Critical Redis RCE Vulnerability: CVE‑2025‑49844 | Wiz Blog DevRel is -Unbelievably- Back The Ruby community has a DHH problem YouTube rolls out its redesigned video player globally Oracle stock rises as company confirms Meta cloud deal Adiós, AirPods NVIDIA shows off its first Blackwell wafer manufactured in the US This Is How Much Anthropic and Cursor Spend On Amazon Web Services Automattic CEO calls Tumblr his 'biggest failure' so far Marc Benioff says Salesforce is saving about $100M a year by using AI tools in its customer service operations Amazon cloud computing outage disrupts Snapchat, Ring and many other online services Amazon Outage Forces Hundreds of Websites Offline for Hours Today is when Amazon brain drain finally caught up with AWS AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright - Dexerto Nonsense Streetlights Are Mysteriously Turning Purple. Here's Why Buc-ee's is not America's top convenience store; Midwest chain takes No. 1 spot French post office rolls out croissant-scented stamp Listener Feedback Jeffrey is looking for college interns. Conferences Wiz Wizdom Conferences, NYC November 3-5, London November 17-19 SREDay Amsterdam, Coté speaking, November 7th. 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: [email protected] Recommendations Brandon: The PR Guy Who Says the AI Boom Is a Bust Matt: Comfort Ear Grip Hooks Coté: MSG on popcorn, Claude Skills, Masman Curry, Sora? Photo Credits Header

Matt Ray talks to Yuriy Shyyan, the Director of Cloud Systems Architecture for OpenMetal. They discuss the cost of running your enterprise in the public cloud, high school hacking, building a business on OpenStack, and recognizing that cloud credits are an invitation to purchase a timeshare. Show Links OpenMetal.io Contact Yuriy Shyyan LinkedIn: Yuriy Shyyan Sponsor OpenMetal — Cloud Native IaaS. Fixed Cost. SDT News & Hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] 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: Yuriy Shyyan.

This week, we discuss Apps in ChatGPT, OpenAI’s Agent SDK and Codex. Plus, Matt has a possum problem down under. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 541 Runner-up Titles Living in the dark ages of Sequoia He’s the racoon remover of the neighborhood Don’t say we don’t cover everything They’re hoping someone’s going to unlock a lot of value here, because I’m not seeing it The Low Code Trap Use the code “SDT150” and we’ll send you money Rundown Open AI DevDay The Next Great Distribution Shift AMD stock skyrockets 30% as OpenAI looks to take stake in AI chipmaker OpenAI’s Golden Touch Spreads as Stocks Soar OpenAI Is Good at Deals ## Relevant to your Interests Your Meta AI Chats Will Soon Influence the Ads You See AWS API MCP Server v1.0.0 release - AWS Inside the cybersecurity boom, strong team, and bold gamble that helped Wiz CEO Assaf Rappaport win a $32 billion deal with Google Linus Torvalds Lashes Out At RISC-V Big Endian Plans Open Printer Have we passed peak social media? Apple working on MCP support on Mac, iPhone, and iPad A cartoonist's review of AI art GitHub leads the enterprise, Claude leads the pack—Cursor’s speed can’t close Cursor CLI Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.5 GitHub Copilot CLI is now in public preview Meet Jules Tools: A Command Line Companion for Google’s Async Coding Agent Announcing The Gem Cooperative Qualcomm Buys Arduino, Will Bring AI Tools to Your DIY Tech Projects Listener Feedback Join the Boulder AWS - Amazon Web Services | Meetup Conferences AI for the Rest of Us, Coté speaking, October 15th-16th, London. Use code SDT20 for 20% off. Wiz Wizdom Conferences, NYC November 3-5, London November 17-19 SREDay Amsterdam, Coté speaking, November 7th. 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: [email protected] Recommendations Brandon: Shark NV352 Navigator Lift Away Upright Vacuum Matt: Murderbot Photo Credits Header

This week, we dig into the latest DORA report and OpenAI’s big product updates. Plus, some hot takes on airline status and the Eurostar. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 540 Runner-up Titles Just plug in an iPhone Be helpful, not helpless Rundown Announcing the 2025 DORA Report | Google Cloud Blog OpenAI Agentic Commerce The New Sora App Introducing ChatGPT Pulse Relevant to your Interests Intel and Apple hold investment talks, no deal in sight - 9to5Mac Ed Zitron is mad as hell TikTok will stay: Trump signs executive order to keep app in the US 10+ Hidden Features in iOS 26 Splunk .conf25: Forging a Data Foundation for Cisco's AgenticOps Vision JFrog SwampUp 2025: The Agentic Development Era Emerges From The Swamp RIP, AOL dial-up: Take a walk down memory lane to 5 other now-defunct tech icons that defined millennials' youths Logitech launches MX Master 4 flagship productivity mouse – the best mouse we've tested adds haptic feedback, circular Action Ring shortcuts Charlie Javice Sentenced to 85 Months in Prison for Fraud Spotify CEO Daniel Ek to step aside Cloudscape - Cloudscape Design System Cursor CLI Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.5 Cursor CLI Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.5 GitHub Copilot CLI is now in public preview Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover How Ruby Went Off the Rails Open source to closed doors: RubyGems control fight erupts Platform Engineering and AI - Two Buzzwords Finally Meet! | Michael Cote Nonsense Build-A-Bear Stock Outperforms Nvidia (The Onion) Conferences CF Day EU, Coté speaking, Frankfurt, October 7th, 2025. AI for the Rest of Us, Coté speaking, October 15th-16th, London. Use code SDT20 for 20% off. Wiz Wizdom Conferences, NYC November 3-5, London November 17-19 SREDay Amsterdam, Coté speaking, November 7th. 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: [email protected] Recommendations Brandon: Black Rabbit Coté: Sune, Hackney, London. Photo Credits Header

This week, we cover Oracle’s OpenAI deal, the RubyGems drama, and Atlassian buying DX. Plus, does anyone still use widgets? Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 539 Runner-up Titles It’s a two knob problem The healthy jaundice of success My homework is to go home Are you enjoying the widgets? I get you on the Ponzi Scheme Hanlon’s Razor strikes again Blogging: Hardest form of social media Rundown Oracle Exclusive | Oracle, OpenAI Sign Massive $300 Billion Cloud Computing Deal Oracle and OpenAI are full of crap OpenAI doesn’t have the cash to pay Oracle $300 billion — raising it will test the very limits of private markets Nvidia stock jumps on $100 billion OpenAI investment as Huang touts 'biggest AI infrastructure project in history Ruby Central Takes Over RubyGems Atlassian Atlassian acquires DX, a developer productivity platform, for $1B Atlassian acquires developer productivity startup DX for $1B The AI Shift: Static Software vs. Living AI Systems RSS co-creator launches new protocol for AI data licensing Nvidia to Invest $5 Billion in Intel, Furthering Trump’s Turnaround Plan Relevant to your Interests Tesla Wants Out of the Car Business Google is shutting down Tables, its Airtable rival | TechCrunch Oracle's stock pump, Meta's $600B, Bronny Ellison and Warner Bros, European stereotypes Atlassian goes cloud-only, customers face integration issues Getting a slice of the Kubernete$ management pie Cote on Multicloud ServiceNow Says Windsurf Gave Its Engineers a 10% Productivity Boost Most Work is Translation Microsoft warns users that Windows 10 is in its final days How to use Tahoe's new Use Model shortcut to summarize articles Credit scores drop at fastest pace since the Great Recession | CNN Business Workday to buy AI firm Sana for $1.1 billion as HR software deal-making heats up Wasm 3.0 Completed - WebAssembly Exclusive: AI's ability to displace jobs is advancing quickly, Anthropic CEO says From the facepalm community on Reddit: Meta's live AI cooking demo fails spectacularly Meta CTO explains the cause of its embarrassing smart glasses demo failures New H-1B rules sparked weekend chaos The Man Calling Bullshit on the AI Boom Trump’s H-1B visa fee isn’t just about immigration, it’s about fealty Vivaldi takes a stand: keep browsing human | Vivaldi Browser Zoom Bets on Agentic AI With AI Companion 3.0 Amid Sluggish Growth The Secret Service has dismantled a telecom threat near the UN. It could have disabled cell service in NYC Enterprise AI Looks Bleak, But Employee AI Looks Bright Obot AI Secures $35M Seed to Build Enterprise MCP Gateway - obot Announcing the 2025 DORA Report | Google Cloud Blog Conferences Civo Navigate London, Coté speaking, September 30th. Texas Linux Fest, Austin, October 3rd to 4th. CF Day EU, Coté speaking, Frankfurt, October 7th, 2025. AI for the Rest of Us, Coté speaking, October 15th-16th, London. Use code SDT20 for 20% off. Wiz Wizdom Conferences, NYC November 3-5, London November 17-19 SREDay Amsterdam, Coté speaking, November 7th. 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: [email protected] Recommendations Brandon: Task Matt: OpenCore Legacy Patcher Photo Credits Header

Brandon interviews Michael Irwin, Principal Engineer at Docker. They cover Docker’s evolution, why hardened images matter, and how AI fits in. Plus, Michael shares stories from teaching computer science. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 538 Show Links Docker Docker Hub Contact Michael LinkedIn: mikesir87 Github: mikesir87 Twitter: mikesir87 Blog: https://blog.mikesir87.io/ Sponsor Docker: Your foundation for secure, intelligent development SDT News & Hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] 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: Michael Irwin.

This week, we dig into Atlassian buying The Browser Company, whether Pay Per Crawl makes sense, and Oracle’s cloud jackpot. Plus, a quick lesson in Aussie slang. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 537 Runner-up Titles "I have a plan to make things slightly better.” Matt Ray comes off the top rope We are in that demographic Flip-flops, thongs, and slides. No Translation Needed Do we have a fashion channel? Why not us too? Let’s just try it Hooters adjacent tech story Pay-per-crawl. I don’t know how DNS works, nobody does Cool, copyright, I love it Just lots of weird stuff going on. Y’all are weird Rundown Final thought on Australia Atlassian agrees to acquire The Browser Company for $610 million VMware buying Slide Rocket in 2011, which is now ClearSlide An Interview with Cloudflare Founder and CEO Matthew Prince About Internet History and Pay-per-crawl Anthropic Agrees to Pay $1.5 Billion to Settle Lawsuit With Book Authors Apple unveils iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max Catch up quick | Apple September event highlights Apple introduces AirPods Pro 3 with live translation feature Nvidia's top two mystery customers made up 39% of the chipmaker's Q2 revenue Oracle Financial's US parent jumps 27% in extended trading on Tuesday; Here's why - CNBC TV18 Relevant to your Interests Google, Apple, and Mozilla Win in the Antitrust Case Google Lost Privacy Nightmare: Your Doorbell Camera Is Snitching to Insurance Companies Broadcom Stock Soars as AI Demand Drives Strong Earnings—Crucial Price Levels to Monitor Addressing the unauthorized issuance of multiple TLS certificates for 1.1.1.1 Exclusive | Databricks Crosses $4 Billion in Annual Revenue Rate SpaceX strikes $17B deal to buy EchoStar's spectrum for Starlink's direct-to-phone service Google Cloud CEO sees sunny prospects thanks to AI demand Apple unveils iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max Catch up quick | Apple September event highlights Apple introduces AirPods Pro 3 with live translation feature Claude can now create and use files The $69 Billion Domino Effect: How VMware’s Debt-Fueled Acquisition Is Killing Open Source, One Repository at a Time Nonsense 2025 AI Darwin Award Nominees - Worst AI Failures of the Year Ground staff strike: KLM cancels over 100 flights on Wednesday - DutchNews.nl Listener Feedback Carless People What We’ve Learned About the Kawhi Leonard Situation—and What We Haven’t Conferences VMUG London, Coté speaking, September 18th. SREDay London, Coté speaking, September 18th and 19th. Civo Navigate London, Coté speaking, September 30th. Texas Linux Fest, Austin, October 3rd to 4th. CF Day EU, Coté speaking, Frankfurt, October 7th, 2025. AI for the Rest of Us, Coté speaking, October 15th-16th, London. Use code SDT20 for 20% off. Wiz Wizdom Conferences, NYC November 3-5, London November 17-19 SREDay Amsterdam, Coté speaking, November 7th. 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: [email protected] Recommendations Brandon: Python: The Documentary | An origin story Matt: macOS - Sound Output → another computer beats using a headphone switcher Coté: back to Obsidian. Marriott lifetime platinum luggage tags, check out this deep dive. Photo Credits Header

This week, we discuss the effectiveness of reorgs, Meta’s new AI team, and the Google antitrust ruling. Plus, some strong thoughts on cold brew and bathtubs. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 536 Runner-up Titles Buy once, cry once Annual Recurring Regrets The Bathtub Problem Bathtime is My Time Your Daily Stoic No one cares about open source cold brew Once you have it pick up the phone and call someone, the dream of the Internet is dead. The Chrome ecoverse. Rundown The VC who married Paris Hilton uses his cryochamber twice a day and launches an AI agent before bed OpenAI starts building out its app team OpenAI shuffles executive roles, acquires Statsig for $1.1 billion Reorganizations Zuckerberg’s AI hires disrupt Meta with swift exits and threats to leave No Amount of Money Can Make People Want to Work for Zuck Inside Amazon's 'hardcore' culture reset New Research Debunks Open Source Business Model Myths Google gets to keep Chrome but is barred from exclusive search deals, judge rules Relevant to your Interests Opinion | A.I. May Be Just Kind of Ordinary Anthropic Settles High-Profile AI Copyright Lawsuit Brought by Book Authors Zen Browser — What Mozilla Firefox Should Be? Asahi Linux Lead Developer Steps Down How to prepare for the Bitnami Changes coming soon Metal³ - Metal Kubed How This A.I. Company Collapsed Amid Silicon Valley’s Biggest Boom AI Experts No Longer Saving for Retirement Because They Assume AI Will Kill Us All by Then Unix Co-Creator Brian Kernighan on Rust, Distros and NixOS Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters Tanzu having nothing to do with Kubernetes anymore There is no Tanzu Kubenetes, only VKS. Nvidia stock turns positive in premarket trading as investors buy dip following earnings report MongoDB Soars: Analyzing the Recent Surge NVIDIA Q2 Profit Soars 59% as Blackwell AI Surge Fuels Record Revenue Nvidia, $NVDA, has reported that a single customer accounted for 23% of its total quarterly revenue of $46.7 billion, per Bloomberg Nonsense The Dutch are quietly shifting towards a four-day work week Conferences VMUG London, Coté speaking, September 18th. SREDay London, Coté speaking, September 18th and 19th. Civo Navigate London, Coté speaking, September 30th. Texas Linux Fest, Austin, October 3rd to 4th. CF Day EU, Coté speaking, Frankfurt, October 7th, 2025. AI for the Rest of Us, Coté speaking, October 15th-16th, London. Use code SDT20 for 20% off. Wiz Wizdom Conferences, NYC November 3-5, London November 17-19 SREDay Amsterdam, Coté speaking, November 7th. 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: [email protected] Recommendations Brandon: GFiber Matt: Zen web browser Coté: Apple-brand woven USB cables (1 meter and 2 meter). Tenshi Sushi Duivendrecht Photo Credits Header

This week, we discuss AI disillusionment, the good and bad of AI use cases, and VMware news. Plus, we compare tech mergers to Taylor Swift’s engagement. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 534 Runner-up Titles I’m going to turn off the Roomba Spider Patrol My old office had a door The dog was up all night Exiting our bubble The child’s name is Steve We don’t want to anger the Swifties It’s fine isn’t good enough I am leaving my wife for Google Search It’s all made-up anyway Anything you see, CSV just pops out Stop digging Rundown Trough of Disillusionment? OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Concedes GPT-5 Was a Misfire, Bets on GPT-6 - Decrypt Suddenly, Silicon Valley Is Lowering AI Expectations — New York Magazine It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes The Search for Product Market Fit Clouded Judgement 8.22.25 - Workflows Are the New Databases AWS CEO says AI replacing junior staff is 'dumbest idea' Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately VMware Modern Private Cloud: The Data Center’s Next Chapter - Broadcom News and Stories Broadcom calls for tech to go back where it belongs: On-prem Feds: Critical Software Must Drop C/C++ by 2026 or Face Risk Relevant to your Interests Microsoft says U.S. law takes precedence over Canadian data sovereignty Removing XSLT From the Web Platform Walmart Fires VP for Taking Daily Kickbacks Starting from $30K YouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos. The results could bend reality Bye-bye barrel jack: Framework brings 240W USB-C charging to laptops Google scores six-year Meta cloud deal worth over $10 billion Nonsense Nerd! How the word popularized by Dr. Seuss went from geeky insult to mainstream K-Pop Demon Hunters os recommend in the Slack Python Package Management tool “uv” PROMOTE STICKERS Conferences SREDay London, Coté speaking, September 18th and 19th. Civo Navigate London, Coté speaking, September 30th. Texas Linux Fest, Austin, October 3rd to 4th. CF Day EU, Coté speaking, Frankfurt, October 7th, 2025. AI for the Rest of Us, Coté speaking, October 15th-16th, London. Use code SDT20 for 20% off. Wiz Wizdom Conferences, NYC November 3-5, London November 17-19 SREDay Amsterdam, Coté speaking, November 7th. 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: [email protected] Recommendations Brandon: Gmail Manage Subscriptions Matt: Deskflow Search Engine: A Dubai Chocolate Theory of the Internet Photo Credits Header

This week, we discuss the US backing Intel, SaaS staying power, and AI’s impact on deep work. Plus, Matt Ray’s moving tips and more kolache talk in the after show. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 534 Runner-up Titles It’s all in your head Little brother podcasting Chaos Monkey Inspections “Let’s face it, everything runs on computers now.” AI - Army of Interns Rundown Intel SoftBank Group and Intel Corporation Sign $2B Investment Agreement Lutnick says Intel has to give government equity in return for CHIPS Act funds Trump Administration Discusses Taking 10% Stake in Intel The Return of Software Prompting is easy, people are hard. Just updating your Java version gets people’s hearts racing. Deep Thinking Will AI Usher In the End of Deep Thinking? — Plain English with Derek Thompson Will AI Usher In the End of Deep Thinking? - The Ringer AI coding tools may not speed up every developer, study shows Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity Relevant to your Interests Apple returns blood oxygen monitoring to the latest Apple Watches The AI Investor Apple’s Wallet app just made Amazon returns easy, and more is coming Cognition Cinches About $500 Million to Advance AI Code-Generation Business Three weeks after acquiring Windsurf, Cognition offers staff the exit door Nonsense Interview with Senior DevOps engineer 2025 Conferences SpringOne, Las Vegas, August 25th to 28th, 2025. See Coté’s pitch. Explore 2025 US, Las Vegas, August 25th to 28th, 2025. See Coté’s pitch. Wiz Capture the Flag, Brisbane, August 26. SREDay London, Coté speaking, September 18th and 19th. Civo Navigate London, Coté speaking, September 30th. Texas Linux Fest, Austin, October 3rd to 4th. CF Day EU, Coté speaking, Frankfurt, October 7th, 2025. AI for the Rest of Us, Coté speaking, October 15th to 16th, London. SREDay Amsterdam, Coté speaking, November 7th. 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: [email protected] Recommendations Brandon: America's Team: The Gambler and His Cowboys Matt: IKEA delivery Coté: Patagonia Nomad Volleyball shorts, Terravia Tote Pack 24L. Photo Credits Header

This week, we discuss GPT 5.0, the emerging AI ecosystem, and why TAM is basically a bedtime story for investors. Plus, Coté serves up a masterclass on kolaches. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 533 Runner-up Titles Yeehaw Buns Bush Turkey Pigs in Blanket The Czech Stop "The Central Texas Kolache Corridor" “I’m over here in Gemini-land.” What if this is as good as it gets? How smart are humans? You’re Tony Randall! Is this the dystopian future we signed up for? Extreme in Hungary (Tilberg, actually) I don’t think there’s a honey-badger outcome. All the porridge A bedtime story for investors Rundown OpenAI OpenAI Finally Launched GPT-5. Here's Everything You Need to Know OpenAI launches new GPT-5 model for all ChatGPT users GPT-5 is alive OpenAI is raising money at a $300 billion valuation Sam Altman says Gen Z are the ‘luckiest’ kids in history thanks to AI, despite mounting job displacement dread Three big lessons from the GPT-5 backlash Mr. Short-Term Memory The AI Ecosystem Apps are growing Your AI workloads still need a service mesh AI Security Company | Manage GenAI Risks & Secure LLM Apps Requesty - Unified LLM Platform The latest AI news we announced in July Oxide and Friends | Oxide's $100M Series B Relevant to Your Interests Google Pixel 10 | Soon The Man Who Beat IBM Linus Torvalds Rejects RISC-V Changes For Linux 6.17: "Garbage" Zuckerberg’s Compound Had Something That Violated City Code: A Private School The 20-Year David Ellison Plan AOL Will End Its Dial-Up Internet Service (Yes, It’s Still Operating) Ford's cheaper, simpler $30K electric vehicles are how 'we can make money on EVs,' CEO says Goodbye API Keys: Gemini CLI GitHub Actions with Workload Identity Federation I Tried Every Todo App and Ended Up With a .txt File Intel shares drop after Trump calls for CEO to resign immediately Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub GitHub will join Microsoft’s CoreAI division with departure of CEO Thomas Dohmke Nonsense The FDA Wants to Change the Definition of Orange Juice for the First Time in 60 Years Conferences SpringOne, Las Vegas, August 25th to 28th, 2025. See Coté’s pitch. Explore 2025 US, Las Vegas, August 25th to 28th, 2025. See Coté’s pitch. Wiz Capture the Flag, Brisbane, August 26. Matt will be there. SREDay London, Coté speaking, September 18th and 19th. Civo Navigate London, Coté speaking, September 30th. Texas Linux Fest, Austin, October 3rd to 4th. CF Day EU, Frankfurt, October 7th, 2025. AI for the Rest of Us, Coté speaking, October 15th to 16th, London. 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: [email protected] Recommendations Brandon: AirPods Max Matt: Devolutionary Times Coté: “Connaissais de Face,” “Evan Finds The Third Room.” Live performance of the song “People Everywhere” Photo Credits Header

This week, we discuss cloud earnings, what’s driving valuations, and why AWS says it’s still early innings for cloud. Plus, Coté does a deep dive on Shipley Donuts. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 532 Runner-up Titles Dangerous to do things in bed Free Donut Holes Dark Fiber BET A man can not believe anything that devalues their index funds. They just open sourced last year’s homework. It doesn’t use as many emdashes Anchorman Vibes Rundown AI & Cloud Trends for July 2025 Cloud Earnings Microsoft posts Q4 beat on top and bottom line on cloud, AI strength Clouded Judgement 8.1.25 - The AI Operating Model Richard Seroter's Architecture Musings AI OpenAI’s new waited model whatever Simon Willson says local tool calling might be better Exclusive: OpenAI Secures Another Giant Funding Deal OpenAI has made $5.25 billion in 2025 so far, and Anthropic $1.5bn. In both cases, I have found a pattern of deceptive leaks of annualized revenues to suggest they're making far more. Relevant to your Interests How Olipop is sweetening the PTO deal for employees Anaconda Secures $150M Funding, Hits $1.5B Valuation Figma raises $1.2 billion, creating new playbook for going public in the summer AI vs. AI: Prophet Security raises $30M to replace human analysts with autonomous defenders API Simulation Reduces MCP Server, Microservices Overload Google loses appeal in antitrust battle with Fortnite maker Exclusive: More details emerge on how Windsurf’s VCs and founders got paid from the Google deal OpenAI is teasing a GPT-5 release. Cloud Software Group to Acquire Arctera For the first time, OpenAI models are available on AWS | TechCrunch Agents or Bots? Making Sense of AI on the Open Web Three weeks after acquiring Windsurf, Cognition offers staff the exit door Apple has now shipped 3 billion iPhones Apple Growth Rebounds on Strength of iPhone 16 Line, China Apple Earnings; Cook’s AI Comments; Apple’s AI Strategy, Redux Nonsense Microsoft’s Windows XP Crocs are no joke Listener Feedback JD recommends Charm Conferences SpringOne, Las Vegas, August 25th to 28th, 2025. See Coté’s pitch. Explore 2025 US, Las Vegas, August 25th to 28th, 2025. See Coté’s pitch. Wiz Capture the Flag, Brisbane, August 26. Matt will be there. SREDay London, Coté speaking, September 18th and 19th. Civo Navigate London, Coté speaking, September 30th. Texas Linux Fest, Austin, October 3rd to 4th. CF Day EU, Frankfurt, October 7th, 2025. AI for the Rest of Us, Coté speaking, October 15th to 16th, London. 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: [email protected] Recommendations Brandon: CalDigit TS4. Coté: Sunday roast at Mount St. Restaurant, London. Internal developer platform marketing series: part one, part two, and part three. Photo Credits Header

This week, we discuss the AI hype cycle, Astronomer’s viral moment, and yet another YAML flavor — KYAML. Plus, private equity is coming for your donuts. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 531 Runner-up Titles Sometimes it’s hard to make money I’ve given into Big Donut Maybe you can fake your way through life At some point you have to have some expertise AI has no taste Can you fix my PowerPoint? There is a chance we’re all going to be naked soon Gobbling up the dark fiber WHYAML Waymo for Babies Rundown Beloved Texas doughnut chain sold to California equity firm AI Mid-Year Hype-Cycle Check-in Gartner hype cycle Betting on AI: The Delusion Driving Big Tech - Last Week in AWS Podcast Clouded Judgement 7.25.25 - TAMs Lie Microsoft’s AI CEO thinks Copilot will age and ‘have a room that it lives in’ Flaw in Gemini CLI coding tool could allow hackers to run nasty commands Claude Code is a slot machine The Hater’s Guide to the AI Bubble 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2025 Stack Overflow sentiment and usage section Astronomer Data Pipelines with Apache Airflow Astronomer (@astronomerio) on X Ryan Reynolds' ad agency, was behind the Gwyneth Paltrow Astronomer ad Introducing KYAML, a safer, less ambiguous YAML subset / encoding Palo Alto Networks to acquire CyberArk in $25 billion deal Relevant to your Interests Microsoft's Satya Nadella says job cuts have been 'weighing heavily' on him IBM shares drop as software revenue misses MSFT Teams in your car? Y2K38 bug? Debian switching to 64-bit time for everything A.I.-Driven Education: Founded in Texas and Coming to a School Near You How Anthropic teams use Claude Code Anthropic unveils new rate limits to curb Claude Code power users Alphabet's Q2 revenue beats estimates as cloud computing surges Listener Feedback Steve recommends Lessons from Production Podcast Conferences Sydney Wizdom Meet-Up, Sydney, August 7. Matt will be there. SpringOne, Las Vegas, August 25th to 28th, 2025. See Coté’s pitch. Explore 2025 US, Las Vegas, August 25th to 28th, 2025. See Coté’s pitch. Wiz Capture the Flag, Brisbane, August 26. Matt will be there. SREDay London, Coté speaking, September 18th and 19th. Civo Navigate London, Coté speaking, September 30th. Texas Linux Fest, Austin, October 3rd to 4th. CFP closes August 3rd. CF Day EU, Frankfurt, October 7th, 2025. AI for the Rest of Us, Coté speaking, October 15th to 16th, London. 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: [email protected] Recommendations Brandon: Uber Teen Matt: Software Defined Interviews - Chris Dancy Photo Credits Header

This week, we cover AI going rogue, Cloudflare declaring independence, and the secure container craze. Plus, Matt bravely judges 9 new emoji. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 530 Runner-up Titles VP of getting it on Neutral trombone Good Margin Independent from what? The New Benevolence I have plenty of cynicism for other things Rundown Emojis Australian Bigfoot Unicode's new emoji refuses to put respect on Bigfoot's name Matt’s Rankings: Hairy Creature Trombone Treasure Chest Fight Cloud Orca Landslide Apple Core Ballet Dancers Distorted Face AI coding platform goes rogue during code freeze and deletes entire company database — Replit CEO apologizes after AI engine says it 'made a catastrophic error in judgment' and 'destroyed all production data' Cloudflare Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025 Content Independence Day: no AI crawl without compensation! Accidental Tech Podcast: 649: Prove It With Cameras Anubis Web AI Firewall Announcing Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server for AWS Price List Chainguard builds a market, everyone else wants in. Bitnami Secure Images Relevant to your Interests Browser extensions turn Trojan and infect 2.3 million Chrome and Edge users Code was the least interesting part of my multi-agent app, and here’s what that means to me Dell employees are not OK How Uber Became A Cash-Generating Machine Clouded Judgement 7.18.25 - The Return of the Point Solution Mid-Year 2025 CNCF Open Source Project Velocity new Date("wtf") Intel axes Clear Linux, the fastest distribution on the market — company ends support, effective immediately The Epic Battle for AI Talent—With Exploding Offers, Secret Deals and Tears Cursor snaps up enterprise startup Koala in challenge to GitHub Copilot Lovable becomes a unicorn with $200M Series A just 8 months after launch Apple details how it trained its new AI models, see highlights Instacart’s former CEO is taking the reins of a big chunk of OpenAI The Enshittification of American Power Customer guidance for SharePoint vulnerability CVE-2025-53770 Mike Lynch’s Estate Ordered to Pay Hewlett Packard $945 Million OpenAI announces ChatGPT agent for web browsing OpenAI’s new ChatGPT Agent can control an entire computer and do tasks for you ChatGPT Numbers Move Mesos to the Attic Anthropic hired back two of its employees — just two weeks after they left for a competitor. Investors Float Deal Valuing Anthropic at More Than $100 Billion Nonsense Coldplay’s Kiss Cam Exposes Astronomer’s CEO Andy Byron Alleged Affair With HR Chief Kristin Cabot Unicode's new emoji refuses to put respect on Bigfoot's name Atari Is Re-Releasing Its 2600+ To Celebrate Pac-Man's 45th Birthday Conferences Sydney Wizdom Meet-Up, Sydney, August 7. Matt will be there. SpringOne, Las Vegas, August 25th to 28th, 2025. See Coté’s pitch. Explore 2025 US, Las Vegas, August 25th to 28th, 2025. See Coté’s pitch. Wiz Capture the Flag, Brisbane, August 26. Matt will be there. SREDay London, Coté speaking, September 18th and 19th. Civo Navigate London, Coté speaking, September 30th. Texas Linux Fest, Austin, October 3rd to 4th. CFP closes August 3rd. CF Day EU, Frankfurt, October 7th, 2025. AI for the Rest of Us, Coté speaking, October 15th to 16th, London. 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: [email protected] Recommendations Brandon: Magic Keyboard with Touch ID and Numeric Keypad for Mac Matt: Spirited Photo Credits Header

This week, we discuss Windsurf being acquired (again), how much AI agents really help with coding, and AWS launching Kiro. Plus, Matt attempts to design a new closet. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 529 Runner-up Titles "The backlog will always be with you." The things I dream about… Closet debt It’s about the money They call it business for a reason The children are the future The best and brightest are going to be making better advertising Ghost Developers are Architects TaskRabbit LLM Crabs in a pot You’re on a temporary plateau on your way to Product Management Rundown Windsurf and Coding Agents Is Cursor having their Docker moment? OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off — and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google Windsurf's CEO goes to Google; OpenAI's acquisition falls apart Cognition, maker of the AI coding agent Devin, acquires Windsurf It’s about the research. Ignore the money. How much does AI impact development speed? Measuring the actual impact of AI coding with Abi Noda, CEO of DX Introducing Kiro Relevant to your Interests How much money has Linda Yaccarino made as X´s CEO during her tenure? NLWeb: Tapping MCP for natural language web search Introducing Comet: Browse at the speed of thought AWS reportedly set to launch agentic AI marketplace with Anthropic next week New Smart Glasses Block Out All Real-Life Advertising Exclusive | SpaceX to Invest $2 Billion Into Elon Musk’s xAI Figma's $300k Daily AWS Bill Isn't the Scandal You Think It Is DraftGPT: The Brave New World of AI Hits the NBA Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab is worth $12B in seed round AI Tooling, Evolution and The Promiscuity of Modern Developers Sponsor Subscribe to the Fork Around and Find Out Podcast Listener Feedback Wes recommends reMarkable eReader Jeroen recommends BooX Conferences Sydney Wizdom Meet-Up, Sydney, August 7. Matt will be there. SpringOne, Las Vegas, August 25th to 28th, 2025. See Coté’s pitch. Explore 2025 US, Las Vegas, August 25th to 28th, 2025. See Coté’s pitch. SREDay London, Coté speaking, September 18th and 19th. Civo Navigate London, Coté speaking, September 30th. Texas Linux Fest, Austin, October 3rd to 4th. CFP closes August 3rd. CF Day EU, Frankfurt, October 7th, 2025. AI for the Rest of Us, Coté speaking, October 15th to 16th, London. 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: [email protected] Recommendations Brandon: F1 The Movie Matt: Dune Prophecy Photo Credits Header

This week, we discuss the return of command line tools, Kubernetes embracing VMs, and the steady march of Windows. Plus, thoughts on TSA, boots, and the “old country." Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 528 Runner-up Titles Pool Problems Stockholm Pool Syndrome The Old Country VMs aren’t going anywhere Vaya con Dios This is why we have milk Why’s he talking about forks? Commander Claude The Columbia Music House business plan Beat this horse into glue Reinvent Command Line “Man falls in love with CLI” Windows is always giving you the middle button CBT - Claude Behavioral Therapy. Rundown TSA tests security lines allowing passengers to keep their shoes on KubeCon Is Starting To Sound a Lot Like VMCon Claude Code and the CLI Gemini CLI: your open-source AI agent Cursor launches a web app to manage AI coding agents AI Tooling, Evolution and The Promiscuity of Modern Developers Introducing OpenCLI Windows Windows 11 has finally overtaken Windows 10 as the most used desktop OS Microsoft quietly implies Windows has LOST millions of users since Windows 11 debut — are people really abandoning ship? [UPDATE] Relevant to your Interests Public cloud becomes a commodity Nvidia Ruffles Tech Giants With Move Into Cloud Computing Which Coding Assistants Retain Their Customers and Which Ones Don’t Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models Sam Altman upstages the critics The Ultimate Cloud Security Championship | 12 Months × 12 Challenges Denmark to tackle deepfakes by giving people copyright to their own features Why Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg went to war over WordPress How Nintendo locked down the Switch 2’s USB-C port and broke third-party docking CoreWeave to acquire Core Scientific in $9 billion all-stock deal Valve conquered PC gaming. What comes next? Datadog stock jumps 10% on tech company’s inclusion in S&P 500 index Jack Dorsey just released a Bluetooth messaging app that doesn't need the internet Unlock the Full Chainguard Containers Catalog – Now with a Catalog Pricing Option Oracle stock jumps after $30 billion annual cloud deal revealed in filing Docker State of App Dev: AI X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform Meta's recruiting blitz claims three OpenAI researchers OpenAI Reportedly Shuts Down for a Week as Zuck Poaches Its Top Talent OpenAI Leadership Responds to Meta Offers: ‘Someone Has Broken Into Our Home’ Sam Altman Slams Meta’s AI Talent-Poaching Spree: ‘Missionaries Will Beat Mercenaries’ Report: Apple looked into building its own AWS competitor Cloudflare launches a marketplace that lets websites charge AI bots for scraping The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers Nonsense After 8 years of playing D&D nonstop, I’ve finally tried its biggest alternative TSA tests security lines allowing passengers to keep their shoes on Conferences Sydney Wizdom Meet-Up, Sydney, August 7. Matt will be there. SpringOne, Las Vegas, August 25th to 28th, 2025. See Coté’s pitch. Explore 2025 US, Las Vegas, August 25th to 28th, 2025. See Coté’s pitch. SREDay London, Coté speaking, September 18th and 19th. Civo Navigate London, Coté speaking, September 30th. Texas Linux Fest, Austin, October 3rd to 4th. CFP closes August 3rd. CF Day EU, Frankfurt, October 7th, 2025. AI for the Rest of Us, Coté speaking, October 15th to 16th, London. 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: [email protected] Recommendations Brandon: Park ATX Free Parking Codes: FREE15ATX1 and FREE15ATX2 Matt: Careless People Coté: Wizard Zines bundle, Julia Evans. Photo Credits Header

Brandon interviews Victor Adossi, an engineer at Cosmonic. They discuss the state of WebAssembly, wasmCloud, and why Wasm is poised for growth. Plus, Victor shares what it’s like to live as an expat in Japan. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 526 Show Links Cosmonic Bytecode Alliance WebAssembly Specifications The WebAssembly Component Model Emscripten wasmCloud wasmCloud Examples Jco (Javascript ecosystem) Examples FFmpeg Contact Victor Github: t3hmrman and vados-cosmonic Twitter: @vadosware Web: vadosware.io SDT News & Hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] 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: Victor Adossi.

This week, we unpack The Optimist, the new Sam Altman biography; revisit OpenAI’s early days; and break down Coatue’s AI strategy deck. Plus, tips for squeezing in side projects between thought leadership presentations. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 526 Runner-up Titles Flow State Altman and AI Day 2 Thinking Growth Mindset Less of you You don't need a Harvard Business Review subscription to know that Running unnecessary hardware in your house Lifelong Costco member here. Pre-populate Everything There’s no ROI on a good hotdog Rundown AI Native vs. AI Add-on AI Frenzy The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab valued at $10bn after $2bn fundraising ChatGPT's Enterprise Success Against Copilot Fuels OpenAI and Microsoft's Rivalry Iyo vs. Io — OpenAI and Jony Ive get sued Zuckerberg Leads AI Recruitment Blitz Armed With $100 Million Pay Packages After trying to buy Ilya Sutskever's $32B AI startup, Meta looks to hire its CEO Message from CEO Andy Jassy: Some thoughts on Generative AI Clouded Judgement 6.19.25 - The Dropping Cost of Intelligence Coatue's 2025 EMW Keynote Replay Slides in online PDF Coatue’s Laffont Brothers. AI, Public & VC Mkts, Macro, US Debt, Crypto, IPO's, & more Agents and the Web Remote MCP support in Claude Code Agentforce 3, it's agents all the way down. Google Cloud donates A2A to Linux Foundation- Google Developers Blog Linux Foundation Appoints Jonathan Bryce as Executive Director, Cloud & Infrastructure and Chris Aniszczyk as CTO, Cloud & Infrastructure to Oversee Major Open Source Initiatives Relevant to your Interests Amazon orders employees to relocate to Seattle and other hubs Microsoft announces advancement in quantum error correction Datadog DASH: A Revolving Door Of Operations And Security Announcements the six-month recap: closing talk on AI at Web Directions, Melbourne, June 2025 Snap acquires Saturn, a social calendar app for high school and college students Frequent reauth doesn't make you more secure Checking In on AI and the Big Five U.S. House tells staffers not to use Meta’s WhatsApp How AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux Have Diverged Since CentOS AI search finds publishers starved of referral traffic 10 years of platform engineering at SIXT: Lessons in scaling and innovation - Boyan Dimitrov What Would a Kubernetes 2.0 Look Like kubectl-ai Nonsense Costco Executive Members get extended hours Listener Feedback Warp Conferences CF Day EU, Frankfurt, October 7th, 2025. SpringOne, Las Vegas, August 25th to 28th, 2025. See Coté’s pitch. Explore 2025 US, Las Vegas, August 25th to 28th, 2025. See Coté’s pitch. Texas Linux Fest, Austin, October 3rd to 4th. CFP closes August 3rd. 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: [email protected] Recommendations Brandon: Discount Tire Coté: Brimstone Angels Rebels of Reason: The Long Road from Aristotle to ChatGPT and AI's Heroes Who Kept the Faith Photo Credits Header

This week, we try a shorter format inspired by the Dithering podcast. The conversation digs into the difference between apps built with AI from the ground up and those with AI bolted on after the fact. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 525 Rundown Format inspired by Dithering An Interview with Cursor Co-Founder and CEO Michael Truell 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: [email protected] Photo Credits Header

This week, we cover Apple’s WWDC updates—from containerization to Foundation Models—and the Linux Foundation’s new FAIR Package Manager. Plus, we crown the best SDT Uber rider. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 524 Runner-up Titles Infinite Workday. No more Eudora Revealed productivity. I threw up a tarp over my desk. We agreed to not talk about it It’s a box in a box alias docker=containerization When does systemd get an MCP server? All the AIs are above-average We’re not going to do anything and Apple’s going to make our podcast better I should go read it again, but I won’t Don’t make the Linux Foundation clean up your mess The Internet Foundation Option (Alt) + Shift + 2 == € Rundown Breaking down the infinite workday WWDC Enterprise Recap Containerization Mac containers Meet Containerization - WWDC25 - Videos - Apple Developer Apple updates Spotlight to take actions on your Mac Apple Supercharges Spotlight in macOS Tahoe With Quick Keys and More Foundation Models Foundation Models adapter training Apple brings ChatGPT and other AI models to Xcode Apple services deliver powerful features and intelligent updates to users this fall tvOS 26 Introduces Automatic Sign-In Feature for Apple TV Apps Welcome to WWDC25 One Year Left: Apple’s Long Goodbye For Intel Macs Apple is shipping through it WordPress must play FAIR Linux Foundation Announces the FAIR Package Manager Project for Open Source Content Management System Stability WordPress veterans launch FAIR project to tackle security and control concerns FAIR Package Manager project Relevant to your Interests Door Dash delivery at O’Hare exposes hole in airport security Cursor's Anysphere nabs $9.9B valuation, soars past $500M ARR Ensh*ttification, Live! Micah and Cory Doctorow in Conversation Quant Firm’s $1 Billion Code Is Focus of Rare Criminal Case BYD Unleashes an EV Industry Reckoning That Alarms Beijing No Yapping Apple supercharges its tools and technologies for developers Starbucks to roll out Microsoft Azure OpenAI assistant for baristas The Modern Observability Roundtable: AI, Rising Costs and OpenTelemetry Python's Security Savior: Chainguard Battles Supply Chain Risk A Look Back at Q1 '25 Public Cloud Software Earnings Amazon’s Jassy Says AI Will Reduce Company’s Corporate Workforce Message from CEO Andy Jassy: Some thoughts on Generative AI The changing landscape for news podcasts across countries FAA to eliminate floppy disks used in air traffic control systems - Windows 95 also being phased out Incremental AI is better than civilization changing AI Message from CEO Andy Jassy: Some thoughts on Generative AI Meta in Talks for Scale AI Investment That Could Top $10 Billion Remote MCP support in Claude Code Sam Altman says Meta tried and failed to poach OpenAI's talent with $100M offers Nonsense TSA urges people to stop trying to use a Costco card as a sufficient REAL ID Buc-ee’s, a Pit Stop to Refuel Cars, Stomachs and Souls, Spreads Beyond Texas 201 ways to say ‘fuck’: what 1.7 billion words of online text shows about how the world swears Are you a loudcaster? Listener Feedback Wes recommends iSH — Linux shell of the iPhone Conferences CF Day EU, Frankfurt, October 7th, 2025. 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: [email protected] Recommendations Brandon: Watch Dept. Q Matt: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered Coté: INFILTRATE. SURVEY. PERCEIVE by Reyes Makes Games. Photo Credits Header

Brandon talks with Sterling Chin, Senior Developer Advocate at Postman, about building great APIs, why AI needs APIs, and what’s new at Postman. Plus, hear how he made the leap from 3rd-grade teacher to dev advocate. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 523 Episode Links Postman POST/CON Keynote Recap Postman Agent Mode Postman API Network Postman MCP Servers Directory Postman Learn Postman Academy Join Postman Discord Contact Sterling Chin Web: www.sterlingchin.com LinkedIn: @sterlingchin Twitter: @SilverJaw82 BlueSky: @sterlingchin.bsky.social TikTok: @sterlingtalkstech YouTube: @SterlingChin Run MCP T-Shirt SDT News & Hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] 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: Sterling Chin.

This week, we discuss Apple reversioning macOS, the steady state of private cloud, and Snowflake’s acquisition of CrunchyData. Plus, the eternal quest for a 5-star Uber rating. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 522 Runner-up Titles Saudi crypto money You know what humans like? Buses I think we need 10 stars Snow lion Maslow’s hierarchy of enterprise needs The Alexandria datacenter for French Telecom Always be cobbling 20-plus years of Internetting Rundown Apple is reportedly going to rename all of its operating systems Private Cloud Still a lot - private cloud check-in, Spring 2025 Private cloud still matters—but it doesn’t matter most Re: Still a lot of private cloud, numbers of cloud repatriation (higher than I thought) Cloud Repatriation is Getting Complicated Snowflake to Buy Crunchy Data for $250 Million The AI browser wars are about to begin An Interview with Cursor Co-Founder and CEO Michael Truell About Coding With AI After Klarna, Zoom's CEO also uses an AI avatar on quarterly call The OpenAI board drama is reportedly turning into a movie Lonny Ross from 30 Rock Relevant to your Interests Exclusive: Meta splits AI team to move faster The Monster-Slaying Game You Can Play Almost Anywhere DOGE Days Thanks to AI, Gen Z is replacing pitch decks with pitchforks Mark Zuckerberg says Meta AI has 1 billion monthly active users The Future of Comments is Lies, I Guess Walmart Enters the Cloud Wars and Challenges Microsoft, Salesforce, Oracle, and SAP It’s Waymo’s World. We’re All Just Riding in It. Exclusive | Meta Aims to Fully Automate Ad Creation Using AI Space Forge raises $30M Series A to make chip materials in space AI company files for bankruptcy after being exposed as 700 Indian engineers Clouded Judgement 5.30.25 - Moats in the Age of AI Reddit Sues Anthropic, Alleges Unauthorized Use of Site’s Data Ciroos.AI Emerges From Stealth, Raises $21M To Scale Agentic AI Tool For Operations Teams IBM Said to Have Pursued Informatica Ahead of Salesforce Deal Gemini will now automatically summarize your long emails unless you opt out Nonsense WeatherStar 4000+ Conferences SREDay Cologne, June 12th, 2025 - Coté speaking, discount: CLG10, 10% off. 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: [email protected] Recommendations Brandon: Snapware Pyrex 18-piece Glass Food Storage Set Matt: Rick Rubin: Vibe Coding is the Punk Rock of Software (A16Z podcast) Photo Credits Header

This week, we discuss OpenAI acquiring io, Salesforce buying Informatica, and the future of AI agents. Plus, Coté shares details about a sensitive procedure and ceiling puzzles. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 521 Runner-up Titles Don’t ride a bike for a week You’ve got to focus on the important things What’s your NPS score? It all comes back to CSV THIS IS MY AI. THERE ARE MANY LIKE IT BUT THIS ONE'S MINE. You need an MCP.Factory Crimp and Hope Rundown Sam & Jony introduce io Salesforce to acquire data management company Informatica in $8 billion deal Agentic New capabilities for building agents on the Anthropic API Highlights from the Claude 4 system prompt Anthropic brings web search to free Claude users SWE Agents Too Cheap To Meter, The Token Data War, and the rise of Tiny Teams Google CEO Sundar Pichai on the next AI platform shift MCP Registry Anil Dash thoughts on MCP Servers If AI Can Play Dungeons & Dragons, It Can Run Your ERP MCP is the RSS of AI Relevant to your Interests Mistral's new Devstral AI model was designed for coding | TechCrunch “Microsoft has simply given us no other option,” Signal says as it blocks Windows Recall From the ExperiencedDevs community on Reddit: My new hobby: watching AI slowly drive Microsoft employees insane KrebsOnSecurity Hit With Near-Record 6.3 Tbps DDoS Microsoft Build 2025 Keynote: Everything Revealed, in 14 Minutes Once worth over $1B, Microsoft-backed Builder.ai is running out of money Meta launches program to encourage startups to use its Llama AI models Digg founder Kevin Rose offers to buy Pocket from Mozilla AWS Breaking Changes Cloud computing is too important to be left to the Big Three How to Lead an All-Hands After Delivering Bad News Matt Hicks: CentOS move not popular, but better for open source How tech workers really feel about work right now Exposed: How ransom gang Lockbit negotiates payments Behind the Curtain: Top AI CEO foresees white-collar bloodbath U.S. public wants business to move slower on AI: Axios Harris 100 poll Musk’s xAI signs Telegram tie-up as billionaire ‘bromance’ blooms In 3.5 years, Notepad.exe has gone from “barely maintained” to “it writes for you” After 15 years, WhatsApp is finally ready for the iPad Nonsense Good Fortune Burger renamed its menu items to sound like office supplies Conferences POST/CON 25, June 3-4, Los Angeles, CA, Brandon representing SDT. Register here for free pass using code BRANDON (limited to first 20 People) Contract-Driven Development: Unite Your Teams and Accelerate Delivery by Chris Chandler SREDay Cologne, June 12th, 2025 - Coté speaking, discount: CLG10, 10% off. 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: [email protected] Recommendations Brandon: Cable Matters 100-Pack Cat 6 Pass Through RJ45 Connectors Matt: Electric Foot Massager Coté: Big Mac, inspired by Kenji’s home brew.