August 24th, 2026
Notas del episodio
Industry Experts run down all the AI news for Infrastructure Engineers. Adam Jacob, Paul Stack, and Nick Stinemates are joined by James Governor of RedMonk fame.
In this episode:
* Scott Tolinski of Syntax.fm puts up a great podcast about the mental health crisis nobody is talking about in AI
* Stripe acquires OpenRouter for $7 billion, while Ramp launches their own router
* Dev Ittycheria talks to Chamath about the build vs buy dynamics changing
* Omarchy Quattro is released, a desktop with AI at the center of personalization
* Google buys Spirit Airlines data for $10 million, should call Adam
* Wiz writes a blog post about a common vulnerability
* Vercel launches Fx, a minimal coding harness written in Zig, designed for embedding
* Dynatrace buys Arize, as observability expands into AI
* Soundslice adds a feature that AI hallucinated first
* Slack launches a coding agent
* Adam's talk about software factories, and numbers about their performance
For links and more, visit https://swamp-club.com/podcast/2026-08-24