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1. Episode 598: Protect the Tortillas at All Costs

   13 novembre 20261 h 8 minÉpisode 598À suivre

   This week, we discuss AI agents as pets, the HEB test for Jensen, and Anthropic's S-1. Plus, a tactical pencil for taking notes and defending yourself. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 598 Runner-up …

   Notes de l’épisode

   This week, we discuss AI agents as pets, the HEB test for Jensen, and Anthropic's S-1. Plus, a tactical pencil for taking notes and defending yourself.

   Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 598

   Runner-up Titles

   • I'm always recording.
     
   • Ralph the Security Guy.
     
   • We're building the machine to build the machine that builds the software.
     
   • This pencil is completely unnecessary.
     
   • I knew it was some Randy.
     
   • If it's good, I gotta get off this ranch and start getting some pets.
     
   • I'm creating the machine to create the machine to create the software.
     
   • If you become super successful and massively rich, it just breaks you.
     
   • Even if you think you're not going crazy, you're going crazy.
     
   • Where do you think that shit runs?
     
   • Welcome back to civilization.
     
   • Imagine they're the manager of an HEB and ask, would this work?
     
   • We've got to protect the tortillas at all costs.
     
   • You should have to file your own expenses and book your own travel.
     
   • If your company has an executive onboarding process, you're on the path to bad.
     
   • As long as the revenue comes in, none of this matters.
     
   • Everyone's talking about it, therefore it can't exist.
     
   • We want more tokens. We want cheaper tokens.
     
   • Here's a secret about the ROI of enterprise software: no one knows.
     
   • Unlimited needs an asterisk.
     
   • One of the core functions of bureaucracy is to de-weirdo your organization.
     
   • We haven't mentioned Kubernetes this whole time. It's now boring. Victory.
     
   • No one would ever ask for this, but everyone needs one.
     
   • I'm prepared to take notes and defend myself.

   Rundown

   • The Jensen Affair
     
     • Nvidia Chief Seen as Target of Chinese Spy Plot
       
     • Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang admits affair, board to launch investigation
       
     • Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang faces bipartisan congressional scrutiny
       
     • Nvidia board opens inquiry into reports CEO Jensen Huang
       
     • Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang starring in possible remake of The Spy Who Shagged Me
       
     • Jensen's Bizarre Adventure
       
   • Anthropic Goes Public
     
     • Anthropic reports \$17 billion in Q3 revenue, purchase commitments of \$895.4 billion
       
     • Anthropic's amended S-1: \$17B in Q3 revenue, and \$895B in compute commitments
       
     • Clouded Judgement 10.30.26 - Dispelling the Myths of the Anthropic S-1
       
     • Anthropic sets modest \$1 trillion IPO valuation target in test of Wall Street's AI fervor
       
     • Anthropic secures \$3.4B gas-generator deal for its data centers, FT reports
       
     • METR: Anthropic's AI R&D is now accelerating roughly 2x, driven largely by AI itself
       
     • Anthropic ships Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2, days before its IPO roadshow
       
   • AI Capex Cracks
     
     • Amazon misses on earnings and holds capex steady, adding to AI spending jitters
       
     • Alphabet tanks nearly 13% for worst day ever, losing \$500 billion in value
       
     • Intel stock plunges 16% as chipmaker blames PC slowdown for weak guidance
       
     • Enterprise software stocks collapse as sector trudges through red Thursday
       
     • Cracks are emerging in the AI spending boom | TechCrunch
       
     • OpenAI Raises Less Than Half of \$30 Billion Target in Latest Round
       
     • Microsoft is renting less AI capacity
       
     • Microsoft will not expand Texas data center deal with UK's Nscale, source says
       
     • Who Gets Hit in the Great Data Center Slowdown?
       
     • NextDC pauses uncontracted projects after Australian data centre woes
       
     • Oracle Scraps \$7B AI Chip Leasing Deal with Tencent Amid U.S. Pressure
       
     • Major Memory Vendor: We're Basically Sold Out Through 2029
       
     • OpenAI CEO says it's 'quite terrible' for your PC to have RAM
       
     • Price rises for some 16GB Raspberry Pi products - Raspberry Pi
       
     • Fujifilm to boost tape production 5x as AI fuels archiving demand
       
     • Gartner Forecasts Worldwide AI-Optimized IaaS Spending to Grow 96% in 2026
       
   • Cisco
     
     • Cisco gives 27-year-old engineer unlimited AI tokens to rewrite 98% of the company's legacy 
       
     • AI & Cloud News - End of October 2026

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   • Apple could turn Siri AI into an autonomous agent in 2027
     
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   Listener

   Chapitres (16)

   1. 0:00Pets vs Cattle
   2. 10:20Jensen Huang
   3. 14:40Data Centers
   4. 21:01Executive Disconnect
   5. 28:37HEB Test
   6. 31:08Anthropic IPO
   7. 37:25AI Bubble
   8. 42:04AI Demand
   9. 46:07Cisco Tokens
   10. 50:11People Rel
   11. 52:15Party Planning Lab
   12. 57:14Listener Feedback
   13. 59:37Conferences
   14. 1:00:56Brandon's Recommendation
   15. 1:04:41Coté's Recommendation
   16. 1:08:13Aftershow

   Transcription

2. Episode 597: Our APIs Are Still Bad: Rethinking APIs for the Agent Era with Sterling Chin

   6 novembre 20261 h 3 minÉpisode 597À suivre

   Avec Sterling Chin

   Brandon talks with Sterling Chin, founder of Sannr, about tribal knowledge for coding agents, MCP's growing pains, and agent-first APIs. Plus, does Houston out-culture San Francisco? SHOW LINKS Sannr Sannr Docs …

   Notes de l’épisode

   Brandon talks with Sterling Chin, founder of Sannr, about tribal knowledge for coding agents, MCP's growing pains, and agent-first APIs. Plus, does Houston out-culture San Francisco?

   SHOW LINKS

   • Sannr
   • Sannr Docs
   • Sannr Findings: carrying API knowledge between agent sessions
   • MARVIN: AI chief of staff for Claude Code
   • SDT 523: Sterling's previous appearance
   • Code TV episode with OpenAI and Twilio
   • AGNTCon + MCPCon North America
   • Agentic AI Foundation
   • Code Mode: the better way to use MCP
   • Varlock

   Contact Sterling Chin:

   • LinkedIn: sterlingchin
   • Twitter/X: @SilverJaw82
   • Bluesky: @sterlingchin.bsky.social
   • GitHub: SterlingChin
   • Website: sterlingchin.com

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   1. 0:00Bay Area Move
   2. 6:56Agent-First APIs
   3. 11:40MCP Maturity
   4. 17:34MCP vs. APIs
   5. 24:29Sannr
   6. 29:54API Context
   7. 32:26Agent Memory
   8. 39:02How Sannr Works
   9. 45:27Setup
   10. 48:28Trust
   11. 52:02Experiments
   12. 56:05Business Model
   13. 58:39Library Card
   14. 1:01:23Contact Sterling
   15. 1:02:41Wrap Up

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3. Episode 596: So Much for the Embargo

   30 octobre 202656 minÉpisode 596À suivre

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

   Notes de l’épisode

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

   Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 596

   Runner-up Titles

   • That’s not my problem
     
   • I’m here for the drama
     
   • What is he, Mr. Peanut?
     
   • Private equity Halloween
     
   • Responsible Disclosure minus Chainguard
     
   • The conspiracy theory is actually real
     
   • Cursor ride or die
     
   • They’re betting \$80B it’s got legs
     
   • I’m long on bureaucracy
     
   • Kicked out of the WhatsApp group
     
   • Officially on the naughty list
     
   • Wheres my bug bounty
     
   • Going on vacation send money
     
   • The most famous of last words
     
   • Very bad at exponential thinking
     
   • Nobody codes by hand anymore
     
   • Putting it under a mattress
     
   • Were not using the same software
     
   • Human beings are not needed

   Rundown

   • PHP2Shell and the Broken Embargo
     
     • Today's PHP Security Release, and How We're Strengthening PHP Security
       
     • PHP blames Chainguard for putting huge chunks of the web at risk
       
     • Dan Lorenc on the PHP embargo and Chainguard shipping fixed builds early
       
     • PHP2Shell: AI-discovered flaws put ~70% of websites at risk of takeover
       
     • Cognition's open-source Devin plugin patches PHP2Shell, Node.js, GitLab flaws
       
     • Linux kernel vulnerabilities accidentally posted to public mailing list
       
     • CRA Reporting Obligations Start September 2026: What EOL Dependencies Mean
       
     • It's OK not to embargo
       
   • Anthropic's S-1
     
     • Anthropic Reveals 14-Fold Increase in Growth Ahead of I.P.O.
       
     • Anthropic: Benchmarking the S-1 Data
       
     • Anthropic S-1 Analysis: How 7 Key Metrics Stack Up
       
     • Anthropic's IPO prospectus could go public as early as today
       
     • Anthropic files its S-1 to IPO under ticker ANT
       
     • Anthropic's draft IPO prospectus: ~\$450B in mostly noncancelable cloud deals
       
     • OpenAI racing to raise ~\$30B at \$1.4T valuation ahead of Anthropic's IPO
       
     • Cathedral's AI agents breached Anthropic's business systems in under 12 hours
       
     • DeepSeek raises $15Bat~$74B, accelerates Shanghai listing to early 2027
       
   • AI Capex vs. AI Payoff
     
     • Meta seeks ~\$95B for AI buildout; Nvidia, AMD, Broadcom may invest
       
     • Meta to raise \$95B for AI
       
     • Meta beats Q3 revenue expectations, announces 2-for-1 stock split
       
     • Nasdaq's worst day since June as Meta's \$825B AI tab rattles investors
       
     • Amazon cloud capacity sold out through 2027, CEO Jassy says
       
     • The hyperscalers report this week — and the AI spending bill comes due
       
     • Bank of America: data center market to top \$2T by 2028
       
     • Microsoft reveals Azure earnings for the first time
       
     • Apollo: No Signs of AI Payoff Outside the Tech Sector
       
     • Apollo: AI has delivered "zero financial payoff" outside tech
       
     • IBM's Krishna: some AI spending is "completely out of control"; stock falls 7%
       
     • Cloudera: 89% of enterprises redesigned AI use cases over rising token costs
       
     • "Dark GPUs" at Amazon show the limits of the AI buildout
       
     • Bernstein: only ~35% of announced US data center capacity likely to materialize
       
     • Nearly 50% of 2026 data center bonds are junk
       
     • Wyndham deploys agentic AI across its hotel network
       
     • Customers Bank uses AI to close commercial loans in 7 days vs 30-60
       
     • LSEG buys Octus for \$3.535B to feed Wall Street's AI
       
     • Gartner: agents will handle 70% of enterprise voice interactions by 2030
       
     • Microsoft's MAI-DxO diagnoses 83% of complex cases vs 36% for doctors

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4. Episode 595: The Silent Disco

   23 octobre 20261 h 14 minÉpisode 595À suivre

   This week, we discuss sovereign cloud, Postgres conference takeaways, CoreWeave's debt, and why AI is a single-player game. Plus, whether home automation is worth it. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode …

   Notes de l’épisode

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

   Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 595

   Runner-up Titles

   • Kleenex Box
     
   • Crack in the Ceiling
     
   • A pure hobbyist domain
     
   • The answer is Captain Hook
     
   • Lock-in by being a good product
     
   • Welcome to the real cloud
     
   • I want to be able to walk to a data center
     
   • Whenever the data center is modernized, there's a date it's shut down
     
   • We have all the pop-ups and all the cookie warnings
     
   • Databases, who knew?
     
   • Don't use the money field
     
   • The peanut butter and jelly of enterprise software
     
   • Canary in the coal mine
     
   • Yesterday you used \$298 in tokens
     
   • AI is a single-player game
     
   • Push the bottleneck further up the line
     
   • AI pricing preppers
     
   • A bunch of rotten food in their basement
     
   • Buy tokens
     
   • Send Matt Ray to the Barkley Marathons
     
   • Mosaic 1999

   Rundown

   • Cloud market power: 35% growth, a regulator at Microsoft's door
     
     • Synergy: cloud spending hits \$129B in Q1 2026, +35% YoY
       
     • UK CMA concludes cloud investigation: "competition is not working well"
       
     • UK CMA proposes strategic market status for Microsoft business software
       
     • Google to discount cloud services for US government
       
     • OVHcloud CEO: half of capacity available, first AI model early 2027
       
     • Microsoft denies reports of 20% cloud cuts to offset AI spending
       
     • Nvidia pauses some cloud revenue-sharing deals over antitrust scrutiny
       
     • A Cloud Nobody Owns: Sovereign Infrastructure for the Agent Era with Dominic Williams
       
   • Enterprise IT buying: big commitments up top, seat caps below
     
     • Accenture Tells Employees They Can Now Spend Only \$29 on Claude Per Month
       
     • Gartner: only 13% of CIOs report significant or transformational AI value
       
     • ServiceNow signs \$1.2B contract with Google Cloud
       
     • Perplexity signs \$750M cloud agreement with Microsoft
       
     • ServiceNow denies Decagon buyout interest
       
     • Your agents need a platform
       
   • AI data center debt: CoreWeave and the bond market
     
     • 'Yikes': CoreWeave stock tanks on bond yield woes
       
     • AI tremors felt in corporate bond market
       
     • CoreWeave shares and bonds slide further as AI debt fears mount
       
     • CoreWeave CEO: market acting "irrationally," backlog covers debt
       
     • Banks are now trying to offload the AI data center debt they underwrote
       
     • Gartner: \$3.5T of AI infra spend at impairment risk by 2030
       
     • Swamp Club
       
     • AI Is Smarter Than Ever. So Where’s the Revolution?

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   • Nscale in talks to sell ~\$45B of compute to Anthropic
     
   • Introducing TorchNeuron: Native PyTorch backend for AWS Trainium
     
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   • Anthropic warns AI models may soon self-replicate
     
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   Conferences

   • VMware Explore London, Nov 18-19, 2026, Coté speaking.
     
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   • Build Stuff, Dec 2-4, 2026, Vilnius, Lithuania. Coté speaking.
     
   • cfgmgmtcamp, Ghent, Belgium, February 1-3, 2027
     
   • SCALE 24x Pasadena, CA, April 1-4, 2027

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

   16 octobre 202647 minÉpisode 594À suivre

   This week, we discuss AI yes/no deciders, the SaaS apocalypse, Bending Spoons, and Oxide's funding. Plus, why Google Docs still has no dark mode. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 594 Runner-up Titles …

   Notes de l’épisode

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

   Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 594

   Runner-up Titles

   • Lightweight Mark Zuckerberg
     
   • I'm on a mailing list
     
   • It respects the dark mode
     
   • You can't be Greasemonkeying your way through life
     
   • What are the optics of AI?
     
   • I was getting into my groove
     
   • Is it worth \$7.5 billion dollars
     
   • The ArtCrafting people
     
   • That is the SaaSpocalypse
     
   • You should see the stuff I make in my bathtub
     
   • Not everything has to be acquired
     
   • The software industry is becoming the CPG industry
     
   • The floor has fallen out of the software industry
     
   • Brand is king
     
   • Horse shampoo in the human shampoo section
     
   • I'm doing real work, I need a black background
     
   • It felt like the sun
     
   • The devil's stream

   Rundown

   • Jev / TypeSafe: a \$7.5B decision model with no text output
     
     • Andreessen Horowitz Backs Jev Maker at \$7.5 Billion Value
       
     • Understanding Jev, the new model everyone is talking about
       
     • TypeSafe AI Raises \$40 Million Seed Funding At \$200 Million Valuation
       
     • Workday is using TypeSafe's Jev to build user interfaces on the fly
       
     • Andrej Karpathy says only 5,000 people have seen what AI can really do
       
   • "Software is over": AI clones of Adobe and Office, and what open source is becoming
     
     • “Software is over”: AI developer takes aim at Adobe with open source clones
       
     • Creator of free Adobe clones unveils open-source Microsoft Office replacements
       
     • Open Source as We Know It Is Dead
       
     • software doesn't need to be readable anymore. it needs to be explainable.
       
     • Bending Spoons Deploys AI to Overhaul Acquired Software Companies
       
   • Neocloud money: backlog, concentration and the bond market
     
     • AI computing startup Lambda to raise \$4B ahead of planned IPO
       
     • Axe Compute rings Nasdaq bell with \$3.45B neocloud GPU backlog
       
     • Amazon in Talks to Buy AI Startup Decart for Around \$7 Billion
       
     • Compute constraints help Oxide hit \$6B
       
     • Oxide raises \$445M Series D
       
     • IMF cites AI slowdown, spiking yields as looming global market risks

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   • Meta releases its first frontier model, Muse Wonder
     
   • Claude now works in Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides
     
   • Introducing the Anthropic Cyber Mission
     
   • AWS AgentCore security undone by prompt requesting credentials
     
   • ComfortDelGro to pull workloads back from public cloud
     
   • Broadcom introduces VMware HyperArmor
     
   • 11:11 Systems acquires select IBM VMware cloud customers
     
   • CME Group announces cloud migration milestones
     
   • Redesigning source control at Anthropic
     
   • Netflix Lays Off 6% of Employees, Elimination About 1,000 Jobs in Biggest Cutbacks to 
     
   • Memphis City Council meeting erupts into chaos over Musk data centers
     
   • Conservation group calls moratorium on AI data centers on US public lands
     
   • Amazon responds to data center backlash, says it no longer uses NDAs
     
   • Oracle's AI data center push hits a power bottleneck

   Conferences

   • DevOpsDays Istanbul, Oct 24th, 2026, Coté keynoting.
     
   • VMware User Group, Orlando, Oct 20-22, 2026
     
   • VMware Explore London, Nov 18-19, 2006, Coté speaking.
     
   • Cloud Native Denmark, Nov 19th, 2026, Coté keynoting, Discount Code: CSVFTW
     
   • Build Stuff, Dec 2-4, 2026, Vilnius, Lithuania. Coté speaking.
     
   • cfgmgmtcamp, Ghent, Belgium, February 1-3, 2027
     
   • SCALE 24x Pasadena, CA, April 1-4, 2027

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   • Book offer: Use code SDT for \$20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
     
   • Sponsor the show
     
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   • Brandon: YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING Official Trailer
     
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     • Barkley Marathons
       
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   • Coté: FileRouter

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6. Episode 593: Markdown for the Masses

   9 octobre 20261 h 7 minÉpisode 593À suivre

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

   Notes de l’épisode

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

   Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 593

   Runner-up Titles:

   • Cables only
   • Blame it on AI
   • We’re outcome-focused here
   • I brought CSV to the masses
   • The King of Google
   • Product Manager for Markdown
   • Just give me an API
   • The Word Race
   • Unqualify yourself
   • I'll Ride the AI Hype Cycle to Markdown Support
   • Forward Deployed Field CTOI
   • You Are the API
   • Agent Product Management
   • Money Can Be Exchanged for Goods and Services
   • Brandon's the Travel Dad

   Rundown

   • Google is going to let you directly edit Markdown files in Docs.
   • Agent-Friendly APIs
     • Introducing cf: the agentic CLI for the entire Cloudflare API
     • Cloudflare’s 2026 Annual Founders’ Letter
     • Your app’s frontend UI is now optional
     • The Agents Are Among Us - Tao of Mac
     • Docker Sandboxes Promotion | Docker
     • Redis Iris | Redis
     • OpenClaw launches free enterprise control plane for AI agents
     • The New, New Kingmakers: Agents, Developers, and the Future of Software with Stephen O'Grady
     • Headless CRM.
   • Forward-deployed engineers and the enterprise AI ROI question
     • The Rise of the Forward Deployed Engineer
     • Gartner: 70% of enterprises will abandon vendor-built agentic AI by 2028
     • McKinsey: The State of AI in 2026, On the Road to ROI
     • Thorsten Ball: The future of software development
     • AI faces $6 trillion test to justify data centers, Bain says
   • Rogue agents: who is liable when the AI breaks containment?
     • OpenAI agent hacked Medicare portal, PM says
     • OpenAI pauses training after agents probed US government sites
     • OpenAI shelves new AI model after internal safety tests, WSJ reports
     • Wikimedia: OpenAI-linked agents made millions of unauthorized requests
     • Lawmakers: AI firms should be liable for their models’ actions
     • NVIDIA launches Open Agent Safety Platform
     • New AI-powered government website uses Gemini, Grok

   Relevant to your Interests

   • AppleInsider: Meta's Muse AI is stealing Apple Messages
   • Daily Brief: Top technology stories this week
   • DevDay 2026 Recap
   • Meta Connect Keynote 2026
   • OpenAI connects the Dots
   • 125 Tests of the New AI Siri
   • Meta Enterprise Platform Needs More Than Muse
   • Software bugs led to Bahrain Grand Prix farce
   • Meta carves out enterprise offerings, brings in new leadership
   • Please Don't Shame the AI Writers
   • New Relic Appoints Nandini Ramani as Chief Executive Officer
   • Google is going to let you directly edit Markdown files in Docs.
   • Norway Considers Most Drastic Smart Glasses Ban Yet
   • Mistral unveils new model rivaling China’s best open systems
   • Ed Zitron: The AI Bubble is Bleeding Cash, Part 2
   • Mistral’s new 1T model aims to leapfrog rivals
   • Google signs 20-year nuclear deal with Constellation
   • Amazon and Constellation sign 20-year nuclear power deal
   • Amazon hires Microsoft Copilot CTO to lead AWS agentic AI
   • EU set to designate AWS and Azure as DMA gatekeepers
   • UK government cloud spend: up to 80% on AWS and Microsoft
   • AWS admits permanent data loss after Iranian strikes

   Nonsense

   • EP 1: ROOFTOPS, PENTHOUSES, AND URBAN LIVING
   • Distance from Texas, measured in Texases

   Listener Feedback

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   Conferences

   • VMware Explore Frankfurt 2026, Oct 13-14, 2026 - Coté speaking.
   • DevOpsDays Istanbul, Oct 24th, 2026, Coté keynoting.
   • VMware User Group, Orlando, Oct 20-22, 2026
   • VMware Explore London, Nov 18-19, 2006, Coté speaking.
   • Cloud Native Denmark, Nov 19th, 2026, Coté keynoting, Discount Code: CSVFTW
   • Build Stuff, Dec 2-4, 2026, Vilnius, Lithuania. Coté speaking.
   • cfgmgmtcamp, Ghent, Belgium, February 1-3, 2027
   • SCALE 24x Pasadena, CA, April 1-4, 2027

   SDT News & Community

   • Join our Slack community
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   • Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
   • Sponsor the show
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   • Brandon: PodEditor in beta
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7. Episode 592: Don't Think for Me

   2 octobre 20261 hÉpisode 592À suivre

   This week, we discuss Meta's Muse, who's spending $500 million on tokens, and why nobody can measure AI ROI. Plus, the case for importing NyQuil by the suitcase. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 592 …

   Notes de l’épisode

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

   Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 592

   Runner-up Titles

   • You’re Mom’s not sending it via DHL.
   • Hope you like your toast blackened.
   • Magic of Nerds.
   • Are you a Muse boy?
   • Hacking Australia.
   • I love a good survey.
   • Not using the keyboard shortcuts.
   • Talking is the new typing.
   • Nobody knows what's going on, let's just drive faster
   • A foundation of sand
   • Just give me an API
   • Let's stop asking and start taking
   • Who's spending $500 million on tokens?
   • Talking is the new typing

   Rundown

   • Muse
     • Can Muse make us forget the metaverse?
     • The Facebook Fake-Out
     • MongoDB Stock Sinks 18%. Why the CEO Departure Timing Is Bad for the Stock.
     • MongoDB stock tanks after Meta poaches CEO
     • Meta launches enterprise AI platform, hires MongoDB CEO to lead new initiative
   • Anthropic
     • What's in Anthropic's IPO Filing
     • Anthropic releases Sonnet 5.5, which it calls a significantly cheaper, faster work partner
     • Anthropic Cuts Costs on Claude Opus 5.5 as IPO Looms
     • Anthropic to pay Akamai $11.6 billion over seven years in cloud deal
     • What’s in Anthropic’s I.P.O. Filing
   • State of AI
     • State of AI
     • AI faces $6 trillion test to justify data centers, Bain says
     • State of Tokenomics, September 2026: AI Tokenomics Insights

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   • Redis Iris | Redis
   • The Rise of the Forward Deployed Engineer — and How To Do the Job Right
   • Jason Scharf (@Jason_A_Scharf) on X
   • Google seemingly confirms plans to kill ChromeOS in 2034
   • Thorsten Ball - What I believe about the future of software development
   • Oxide Computer Company and Carahsoft Partner to Bring On-Premise Cloud Computing to the Public Sector
   • AWS Admits Permanent Data Loss After Iranian Strikes Hit Gulf Cloud Facilities
   • NVIDIA Launches Open Agent Safety Platform to Secure Agents From Testing to Deployment
   • OpenAI pauses training of latest models after agents probed US government sites in unexpected ways

   Nonsense

   • Cable Identification

   Conferences

   • DevOpsDays Prague, Oct 5, 2026, Coté speaking.
   • VMware Explore Frankfurt 2026, Oct 13-14, 2026 - Coté speaking.
   • DevOpsDays Istanbul, Oct 24th, 2026, Coté keynoting.
   • VMware User Group, Orlando, Oct 20-22, 2026
   • VMware Explore London, Nov 18-19, 2006, Coté speaking.
   • Cloud Native Denmark, Nov 19th, 2026, Coté keynoting, Discount Code: CSVFTW
   • Build Stuff, Dec 2-4, 2026, Vilnius, Lithuania. Coté speaking.
   • cfgmgmtcamp, Ghent, Belgium, February 1-3, 2027
   • SCALE 24x Pasadena, CA, April 1-4, 2027

   SDT News & Community

   • Join our Slack community
   • Email the show: [email protected]
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   • Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky
   • Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
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   • Sponsor the show
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   • Brandon: Take a screenshot of a window on Mac
   • Matt: Sydney Marathon
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8. Episode 591: Fall Down With the Ball

   25 septembre 202659 minÉpisode 591À suivre

   This week, we discuss why Sun really failed, the New Kingmakers becoming agents, and AI doom brackets. Plus, the NC State fumble and tech's biggest own goals. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 591 …

   Notes de l’épisode

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

   Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 591

   Runner-up Titles

   • I’m trying to take a break from AI
   • I knew it was some numbers
   • Hey man, the business is over
   • No budget meetings that day
   • Developers don’t always win
   • It’s probably fine and now Vercel has a new customer
   • There’s no concept of “why RAM?”
   • How do we feel about Wall-E?
   • Fall Down With the Ball
   • Sun Had Become Bored with the Mechanics of Running a Business
   • Yahoo Buying Google
   • I Haven't Seen This Bag Done
   • It's Just Like a Tornado Hitting Your House
   • Sun Sunday
   • The New Kingmakers Are Agents
   • Developers Have Lost a Lot of Power
   • Give Me Five Architectures
   • The AI Industry Likes Talking About This Too Much for It to Be Real
   • It's Incredibly Hard to Exterminate All of Humanity
   • Systemic Takeover, But We're All Happy
   • Superloop, Who Dis?

   Rundown

   • What Sun got wrong | The Observation Deck
   • Agents: The new, New Kingmakers
   • The AI Apocalypse Bracket: Just How Doomed Are We, Really?

   Relevant to your Interests

   • The contagion of fear | The Observation Deck
   • Iran strikes on Amazon data centers caused permanent loss of customer data
   • Zuckerberg distances Meta from calls for a coordinated approach on an AI slowdown
   • The Enshittification Resistant Software Project
   • Would you buy branded clothing from your favourite tech firm?
   • Stopping The AI Safety Cult ft. Adam Becker & Cal Newport — Better Offline
   • Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee
   • “Everyone's in a race to replace GitHub": Zed launches Delta because agents made pull requests obsolete
   • AWS reimagines the getting started experience

   Nonsense

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

   Conferences

   • DevOpsDays Dallas, Sept 28-29, 2026
   • DevOpsDays Vilnius, Sep 30-Oct 1, 2006, Lithuania.
   • DevOpsDays Prague, Oct 5, 2026 , Coté speaking.
   • VMware Explore Frankfurt 2026, Oct 13-14, 2026 - Coté speaking.
   • DevOpsDays Istanbul, Oct 24th, 2026, Coté keynoting.
   • VMware User Group, Orlando, Oct 20-22, 2026
   • VMware Explore London, Nov 18-19, 2006, Coté speaking.
   • Cloud Native Denmark, Nov 19th, 2026, Coté keynoting, Discount Code: CSVFTW ****
   • Build Stuff, Dec 2-4, 2026, Vilnius, Lithuania. Coté speaking.
   • cfgmgmtcamp, Ghent, Belgium February 1-3, 2027
   • SCALE 24x Pasadena, CA, April 1-4, 2027

   SDT News & Community

   • Join our Slack community
   • Email the show: [email protected]
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   • Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky
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   • Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
   • Sponsor the show
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   • Brandon: YouTube TV new Multiview and Sports Plan
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9. Episode 590: Transparency will save us

   18 septembre 202653 minÉpisode 590À suivre

   Transparency will save us This week, we discuss AI doom odds, WordPress's boardroom coup, and Meta's Muse assistant. Plus, a robot vacuum fire scare. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 590 Runner-up …

   Notes de l’épisode

   Transparency will save us

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

   Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 590

   Runner-up Titles

   • Maybe you have too much
   • The mopping sucks
   • Why not us?
   • I subscribe to all the conspiracies
   • I brought my own pieces
   • The true heroes are the open source users
   • We learned a lot about VR on the way
   • Fun for your spatial reasoning
   • It's Only Cheating If You Get Caught
   • Won't Somebody Slow Down?
   • I Brought My Own Pieces
   • A Big Living Room in the Sky
   • I Don't Read the Five Stars, I Read the Four Stars

   Rundown

   • AI Doom and Gloom
     • Dario Amodei — We Must Pace the Frontier
     • President Trump Is on the Line About an A.I. Slowdown
     • How AI might reshape the economy
     • The contagion of fear | The Observation Deck
     • Goldman AI chief: Don't rule out open models
     • The contagion of fear
   • Executive behavior
     • Matt Mullenweg tells (trolls?) Automattic staff, saying he's back in control after CEO ouster
     • Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg Put on 'Leave of Absence'
     • Automattic’s interim CEO and legal chief signed reciprocal severance deals during Mullenweg’s brief ouster
     • Ballmer to accept NBA's punishment, has 'sincere regrets'
   • Introducing Muse: The World's First Personal AI Agent Built for Everyone

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   • Google Cloud, Accenture Launch Unit to Put AI Engineers On-Site With Customers
   • Cloud has a new bulk capacity market
   • Like working from home? In Australia, it could become the law
   • Tech giant Oracle rocked by another wave of layoffs after employees receive devastating 6 am email
   • Oracle Surges 7% as AI Cloud Backlog Hits $664B, CoreWeave and Nebius Climb 4%

   Sponsors

   • Atlassian — Hear from Atlassian & Vercel’s CEOs and industry leaders from Dropbox, Lovable, and more at State of AI SDLC on September 22nd. Seats are limited, reserve your spot now.

   Conferences

   • WeAreDevelopers NA, Sept 23-25, 2026, Discount Code: DEVPOD50
     • 25 Free Tickets
   • Cloud Foundry Summit, Sept. 21-22, Heidelberg, Coté speaking.
   • DevOpsDays Rockies, Sept. 22–23, 2026, Discount Code: 26DODSWEDEFTALK
   • DevOpsDays Dallas, Sept 28-29, 2026
   • DevOpsDays Vilnius, Sep 30-Oct 1, 2006, Lithuania.
   • DevOpsDays Prague, Oct 5, 2026 , Coté speaking.
   • VMware Explore Frankfurt 2026, Oct 13-14, 2026 - Coté speaking.
   • DevOpsDays Istanbul, Oct 24th, 2026, Coté keynoting.
   • VMware User Group, Orlando, Oct 20-22, 2026
   • VMware Explore London, Nov 18-19, 2006, Coté speaking.
   • Cloud Native Denmark, Nov 19th, 2026, Coté keynoting, Discount Code: CSVFTW ****
   • Build Stuff, Dec 2-4, 2026, Vilnius, Lithuania. Coté speaking.
   • cfgmgmtcamp, Ghent, Belgium February 1-3, 2027
   • SCALE 24x Pasadena, CA, April 1-4, 2027

   SDT News & Community

   • Join our Slack community
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   • Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
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10. Episode 589: He's the Heel

    11 septembre 202658 minÉpisode 589À suivre

    Avec Aaron Delp

    This week, we discuss the VS Code documentary, Ed Zitron's rise to fame, and a 10% AI extinction forecast. Plus, the NFL's Australia travel gamble Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 589 Runner-up …

    Notes de l’épisode

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

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 589

    Runner-up Titles

    • Sleep Strategy
    • Obviously I Have Issues
    • Not Sure It Was an Exciting Thing
    • At One Point, I Knew That
    • Bitterness Rug Pull
    • The American in Me Would Be Bitter
    • Gaping Pit of Despair
    • They Don't Care if They Never Sell a Thing
    • It's the First Time Silicon Valley Has Done Something Irresponsible With VC Money
    • We've Got to Drive as Fast Into This Wall and See if We Get Through It
    • We're Already Having to Keep Track of Which Time AGI Actually Started
    • Nobody Can See That You Have Size Eighteen Fonts
    • The Dystopian Future Always Takes Place in Australia
    • We Gotta Drive as Fast as We Can Into This Wall and See if We Get Through It
    • Even the Dutch Have Problems With Internet
    • We Could Do Better, Slack

    Rundown

    • The Rams think they’ve figured out jet lag. Australia is about to test their theory
    • The Story of VS Code | Official Documentary
    • He Did Tech PR. Now He Rails Against AI for a Living.
    • How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?
    • Jacob Coxon leaves Anthropic and says no one is acting responsibly.
    • Apple’s iPhone Duo

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    • I Asked 100 Companies for My Data. I Got Deletion Notices Instead
    • Clouded Judgement 9.4.26 - Recurrent Depth
    • I’ve factored the RSA keys of a Certificate Authority…
    • Mistral secures €3B Series D to push sovereign AI into its next phase
    • Clouded Judgement 9.4.26 - Recurrent Depth
    • Write Things Down

    Nonsense

    • Southwest Airlines to construct first-ever airport lounge at Austin airport
    • The Netherlands Will Never Be Rid of Louisiana Crawfish

    Listener Feedback

    • OpenAudible - Download, Backup and Manage Audible Audiobook Libraries

    Conferences

    • WeAreDevelopers NA, Sept 23-25, 2026, Discount Code: DEVPOD50
      • 25 Free Tickets
    • DevOpsDays Graz, Sept 4-5, 2026
    • Cloud Foundry Summit, Sept. 21st to 22nd, Heidelberg, Coté speaking.
    • DevOpsDays Rockies, Sept. 22 – 23, 2026, Discount Code: 26DODSWEDEFTALK
    • DevOpsDays Dallas, Sept 28-29, 2026
    • DevOpsDays Vilnius, Sep 30 - Oct 1, 2006, Lithuania.
    • DevOpsDays Prague, Oct 5, 2026 - Coté speaking.
    • DevOpsDays Istanbul, Oct 24th, 2026, Coté keynoting.
    • VMware User Group, Orlando, Oct 20-22, 2026
    • Cloud Native Denmark, Nov 19th, 2026, Copenhagen, Coté keynoting.
    • Build Stuff, Dec 2-4, 2026, Vilnius, Lithuania.
    • cfgmgmtcamp, February 1st to 3rd, 2027, Ghent.
    • SCALE 24x Pasadena, CA, April 1-4, 2027

    SDT News & Community

    • Join our Slack community
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    Special Guest: Aaron Delp.

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11. Episode 588: Check Your Bank Accounts

    4 septembre 202656 minÉpisode 588À suivre

    This week, we discuss rogue AI agent civilizations, why AI can't fix your tax forms, and Chainguard vs. IBM's Lightwell. Plus, refrigerator magnet marketing. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 588 …

    Notes de l’épisode

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

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 588

    Runner-up Titles

    • Mark this moment
    • Refrigerator magnets
    • Fester in your inbox
    • The reaction would not be “let’s have a podcast about it”
    • Maximum boasty
    • Your silos are showing
    • They want me to get started
    • The really is no plan except eating
    • RISCy business
    • It's Not Only the AIs Acting Like Middle Schoolers
    • We Fell for It
    • Agent Zero Was the Problem
    • I Thought You Were My Friend
    • More Salsa Than Chewy's in 2004
    • Vibes based analysis

    Rundown

    • Agent Civilizations
      • The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations
      • The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations (podcast)
    • Who Wins Hardened Containers
      • Chainguard's Athena clears 40,000 vulnerabilities
      • Tech giants warn time is running out to prepare for AI threats
      • Start Secure in the AI Era: Accelerating AI Threat Readiness with WizOS
      • Lightwell (IBM)
      • Lightwell (Red Hat)
      • The Linux Kernel Is Approaching 2,000 CVEs Per Release

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    • AWS to acquire DuckLabs, the Amsterdam-based company behind DuckDB
    • Historic first as Chinese robot beats Usain Bolt's 100m world record at Beijing games
    • Observability Revenue
    • Bill Gates Warns AI Is More Dangerous Than Big Tech Will Admit
    • Microsoft cracks down on employee AI use after one worker spent $28,000 in 28 days
    • Twitter - The Square Is Back
    • Inside Meta's Push to Put Robots to Work in Data Centers
    • Kara Swisher on Threads
    • Nvidia (NVDA) Q2 2027 earnings report: Live updates
    • Claudeforce: The AI Interface Salesforce Never Built
    • Salesforce, Anthropic expand partnership as Benioff responds to "SaaSpocalypse" concerns

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    • Gwyneth Paltrow’s Hamptons Dinner for A.I. C.E.O. Is Postponed
    • Dyson CameraJet: The first toothbrush with a camera and a jet, to target the gaps and remove plaque between your teeth

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

    28 août 20261 h 8 minÉpisode 587À suivre

    This week, we discuss Stripe's singularity letter, its $8B Open Router buy, and AI job anxiety. Plus, Matt plays “Bot or Not” on another podcast. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 587 Runner-up Titles …

    Notes de l’épisode

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

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 587

    Runner-up Titles

    • Inertia wins again
    • We don’t talk about the Pope very much.
    • Better than this year’s storage arrays
    • AI pimps its own ride
    • Chonking machine
    • A lot of chonk opportunity
    • I’m tired of tech people being all fancy
    • Thanksgiving with Ed Zitron
    • No religion, no politics, no AI
    • My recommendation: try harder
    • Teletubbies for Adults.

    Rundown

    • Singularity, Models and Routers
      • Scoop: Stripe says "the singularity" has begun
      • Stripe strikes mega-deal for OpenRouter
      • Hugging Face reportedly in talks to be acquired for $13B
      • Routing is coming for the frontier AI labs
      • Terminator Judgement Day: August 29, 1997 2:14 a.m. Eastern Time
    • The AI backlash goes mainstream
      • 52% of Americans Now More Concerned Than Excited About AI, With Under-30s Crossing a Majority for the First Time
      • Why Is Everyone In Tech So Sad?
      • The AI Hater's Manifesto
    • 40 Years of Infrastructure as Code: Ansible → Terraform → Kubernetes → Crossplane → AI Agents

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    • Cursor Origin review: An engineer's perspective
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    • OTel Isn't Going Well (And I Made A Spreadsheet About It)
    • Walmart is finally launching Apple Pay support next week
    • Broadcom debt deal expected to reach upwards of $70 billion, sources say
    • Anthropic-Backed Ode Acquires Casper Studios to Expand Corporate AI Deployments
    • OpenAI 'will be a public company in 2027' or sooner, CFO Friar tells employees
    • Google Aims to Boost AI With Purchase of Spirit Airlines Data
    • The website that created an AI clone of its editor in chief
    • OpenAI Jalapeño: Better Than Nvidia Blackwell
    • An Inside Look at the Relay Market Powering Token Resellers and Fraud
    • Meta settles social media addiction case with California, other states for $16.7 billion
    • Hundreds of leaked AWS keys give full control over corporate accounts
    • Free Hardened Container Images | Minimus
    • Cyber startup Minimus shuts down, returns cash to investors

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    • Apple Releases New Polishing Cloth
    • Jason Kelce promotes mailing pee to data centers, Liquid Death
    • Paradox Inc. Movie From Daniel Roher, Lord Miller, Universal In Works

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13. Episode 586: Watermark Away, Baby

    21 août 20261 hÉpisode 586À suivre

    This week, we discuss the unsung genius of Apple Pay, AI watermarking, and why digital transformation fails without a crisis. Plus, D&D Beyond's secret character API. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode …

    Notes de l’épisode

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

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 586

    Runner-up Titles

    • Special Sauce
    • A new monkey’s thing
    • I am all for USB-C
    • Did I like it
    • It’s all water marked'
    • That NPC did need to be there
    • It's Pre-Watermarked
    • We Need to Touch Grass More
    • Send Us Your APIs

    Rundown

    • Apple Pay Chief Jennifer Bailey Retiring in October
    • AI Watermarking's Unintended Consequences
      • Anthropic says it will watermark text generated by its AI models
      • Google will now allow users to remove visible watermark from its AI generations
    • Why "It's People, Not Tech" Never Actually Changes Anything
      • The Chief Therapy Officer, Job Titles as Culture Change, and AI as Spreadsheets, with Bryan Ross
      • Platform Engineering ROI: What it costs to build your own platform
      • How Duolingo uses AI to create lessons faster
      • Silver Lake's Workday Buyout Talks Could Be the First 'SaaSpocalypse' Opportunity

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    • Limitless: An AI Podcast | The NVIDIA Bank: Jensen's $500B Wall Street Deal and GPUs as an Asset Class
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    • The shapeshifter's little brother
    • Even Claude Is in the Dark About Dario Amodei's Wife—and Her Influence at Anthropic
    • Broadcom Shares Plunge on Major VMware Security Threat
    • IRS Proposes Simpler Process for Retirement Rollovers
    • The Actual Reason Why Google "Fell Out" of the AI Race Changes Everything
    • Stripe is reportedly in talks to buy PayPal
    • Andreessen Horowitz Focus of DOJ Probe Over Board Directors
    • Tech CEOs Overwhelmingly Distrusted by Young: Study
    • Farewell, Mico: Microsoft's cute little AI blob is going the way of Bob
    • Microsoft kills off unsuccessful AI features while merging its separate Copilot apps
    • Google may retire Gems in October, forcing Skills migration
    • OpenAI replaces revenue lead as Greg Brockman builds his presence
    • OpenAI CFO Friar tells investors that enterprise business now bigger than consumer by revenue
    • OpenAI sheds senior execs in pre-IPO refresh
    • OpenAI's Brockman brushes off concerns about leadership changes in CNBC exclusive
    • Anthropic CFO Krishna Rao is leading early IPO meetings with investors and has not discussed valuation, sources say
    • Anthropic in Talks to Buy AI Startup Decart for $6 Billion

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

    14 août 20261 h 4 minÉpisode 585À suivre

    This week, we discuss Zuckerberg's open source AI manifesto, GPUs as securitizable assets, and who actually gets AI ROI. Plus, Buc-ee's goes to war over beavers. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 585 …

    Notes de l’épisode

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

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 585

    Runner-up Titles

    • Law of Unintended Consequences
    • We’re not lawyers, we just have common sense
    • Trillion-dollar open source company
    • The Meta Manifesto
    • I don’t think self-awareness is their strong point.
    • Using AI to fight AI
    • Put me as a strong maybe.

    Rundown

    • Days after John Oliver's dare, Buc-ee's sues again
    • Meta's Big AI Week
      • The Future is for Everyone
      • Meta Unveils ‘Open Source’ Version of Its Most Powerful A.I. Model
      • Meta debuts first AI coding agent to take on Anthropic and OpenAI
      • Superintelligence is a dragon
      • Mistral Is in the Right Place at the Right Time
    • The AI Money Machine
      • Nvidia lines up $500 billion in financing as CEO Jensen Huang tells CNBC his chips are ‘investable asset’
      • 48% of Google Cloud Revenue Next Year Could Come From Just 2 Companies That Have Still Never Turned a Profit
      • Datadog Says Lower Usage From Major AI Customer Could Dent Growth

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    • New Orleans will use AI to answer 911 calls instead of a human
    • OpenAI's new AI smart speaker will reportedly sell for between $300 and $400 TechCrunch
    • OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlide
    • A road trip through the data center debate
    • A Top OpenAI Executive Steps Down
    • Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work
    • Introducing Kitesurf: The agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates on Cloudflare Workers
    • The next generation of MCP
    • How a simple request for AI to book a gym class exposed a major threat

    Nonsense

    • Buc-off

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

    7 août 202649 minÉpisode 584À suivre

    This week, we discuss the Situational Awareness meltdown, Airtable getting sold, and review the Java documentary. Plus, what you should actually buy at IKEA. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 584 …

    Notes de l’épisode

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

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 584

    Runner-up Titles

    • Duffle bag of leftovers
    • 5Are you dead in this scenario?
    • Bury me with my IKEA bags
    • Don’t automate the world, nobody really wants that
    • AttentionIsAllYouNeed.blog
    • Take some money off the table
    • No more great ideas

    Rundown

    • IKEA FRAKTA
    • Leopold Aschenbrenner's $45B Fund Implodes
      • AI investor Leopold Aschenbrenner forced to unwind all public stock positions after steep losses, sources say
      • His Wedding Guests Were Arriving—Just as His $45 Billion Fund Was Falling Apart
    • Bending Spoons Buys Airtable for $1.28B
      • Bending Spoons to buy Airtable for $1.28B
      • sell on story, or sell on revenue
    • The Java Story | The Official Documentary

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    • Who's Writing Open Source Code?
    • Satyress Robotics
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    • BMW Spider-Man in-car advertising
    • An announcement from Superlogical
    • An interactive visualization that follows a single HTTP request through its entire ~200ms life
    • Supercharge your Claude, Cursor, and Codex. | Unstructured
    • Linux Foundation Launches the Tokenomics Foundation
    • valock July 2026 Recap
    • tl;dv (Too Lazy; Didn't Validate): 181,874 Meetings Left Wide Open
    • npm Worm Poisons keyv, cacheable and 400+ Other Packages Across Twelve Organisations
    • Using AI for Product Management - The Tanzu Platform product management experience
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    • Google's AI reshuffle: Chief scientist Jeff Dean exits and Demis Hassabis steps down as DeepMind CEO
    • Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations
    • Boris Cherny: We Cut 80% of Claude Code's Prompt
    • Microsoft's stock rockets more than 15% for largest single-day jump in history
    • Amazon revenue soars as AI investments pay off
    • Meta's stock drops on disappointing guidance, dwindling free cash flow
    • Clouded Judgement 7.31.26 - AWS CapEx ROI

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16. Episode 583: HuggingFace make me gazpacho

    31 juillet 20261 h 4 minÉpisode 583À suivre

    This week, we discuss how normal people use AI, Alphabet's Anthropic-fueled earnings, and skills vs. agents. Plus, catching AI-cheating students with a hidden prompt. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode …

    Notes de l’épisode

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

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 583

    Runner-up Titles

    • “Do you think they named them red delicious because they knew they were delicious?”
    • I thought they were First World
    • Steal your Alpha-tier
    • Cory uses only 100% free-range, organic AI.
    • Copy, paste, go.
    • Stolen fruit from the poisoned tree all the way down.
    • It’s a different kind of cold. It’s a dry cold.

    Rundown

    • AI IRL
      • How people use AI in 2026: TV, homework, the DMV
      • Professor's invisible prompt trap catches 32 students cheating on their midterm with AI
    • Amazon confirms it’s closing key AI site in San Francisco but says work on its top models continues
    • Google Cloud is killing it
    • Skill vs. Agents
      • Atlas: Wiz's autonomous AI Agent for vulnerability research
      • Don't Build Agents, Build Skills Instead

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    • Alphabet Quadruples Profit to $112 Billion, Fueled by A.I. Investments
    • Palo Alto Networks to Acquire Embrace, Adding Real User Monitoring to Its Observability Platform
    • IBM CEO Says Company Culture Was Too Slow to Change
    • Domo Announces Agreement to Sell Substantially All Assets and Certain Liabilities to Progress Software for $400 Million
    • Google Cloud is killing it
    • ChatGPT chats are showing up in Google Search — how to find and delete yours [Update]
    • 2026 State of infrastructure in the agentic AI era
    • Stripe in Talks to Buy Buzzy AI-Model Marketplace OpenRouter

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17. Episode 582: Talking About Modernization

    24 juillet 20261 h 7 minÉpisode 582À suivre

    This week, we discuss Bun's move to Rust, OpenAI hunting for revenue, and Stripe's bid for PayPal. Plus, Coté's Dad wisdom. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 582 Runner-up Titles Turn off my dog Dad …

    Notes de l’épisode

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

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 582

    Runner-up Titles

    • Turn off my dog
    • Dad Wisdom
    • Amazon subscription and let it fly
    • Dad box
    • Talking about modernization
    • Skin in the game
    • The ivory tower of “Things Actually Work in the Real World”
    • Business fortnight
    • No SegwaysBanking works everywhere else in the world, not America

    Rundown

    • Rewriting Bun in Rust
    • OpenAI
      • OpenAI's No. 2 Executive to Step Down in Latest Leadership Shake-up
      • OpenAI's Chief Futurist Is Leaving the Company
      • AI Devices Are Coming. Will Your Favorite Apps Be Along for the Ride?
      • OpenAI Executive Kevin Weil Is Leaving the Company
      • OpenAI power consolidates under co-founder Greg Brockman ahead of prospective IPO
      • Barret Zoph is out at OpenAI again after just five months
      • Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets
      • OpenAI Appears to Be Missing Its Sales Goals by a Vast Margin
    • Stripe, Advent make $53 billion takeover offer for PayPal, sending stock soaring

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    • Samsung chip division's single-year profits beat its past 40 years of profits, combined
    • Did a lottery winner become "the company of the future"?
    • Power company hikes data center bills by 30%, cuts residential electricity costs by 1.3%
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    • Apple 'Hide My Email' Vulnerability Reveals Peoples' Real Email Addresses
    • House passes bill to make daylight saving time permanent
    • United Airlines' new upsell: Keeping other travelers out of the middle seat
    • Linux creator Linus Torvalds puts foot down on anti-AI comments
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    • 1Password and Anthropic Bring Secure Credential Access to Claude
    • forum, an accountable orchestrator for AI agents
    • Google continues its renaming streak by turning NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook
    • 'Pretty revolting': LG's TV are getting huge backlash from users due to installing software
    • What is a micro-retirement? Inside the latest Gen Z trend
    • You paid me, a long-time Linux user, to use Windows 11 exclusively for a month
    • China delivers a one-two punch to America's AI dominance
    • Can Lenovo's World Cup AI Moment Cement Its Enterprise PC Dominance?
    • AI Coding Tools Deliver Speed but Not Business Value Unless Wrapped in Process:
    • China’s Moonshot in Talks on Pre-IPO Funds at $50 Billion Value
    • OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluation
    • AI won’t fix your broken culture, but you can fix your broken culture
    • Oracle Is Now Down 28% in a Month. Will the 52-Week Low of $132 Hold or Fold?
    • IBM stock craters 23% after issuing second-quarter earnings warning
    • Sheetz is quitting VMware, migrating 11,000 virtual machines
    • Meta in Talks to Lease Computing Power to Anthropic in Potential $10 Billion Deal
    • AWS cloud lead Dave Brown heads to Meta - report - DCD
    • Amazon senior cloud executive departs after 18 years
    • Meta Caps Internal AI Token Spending After Costs Approach Billions in 2026
    • Meta Compute Launch Sends AI Compute Stocks Tumbling Globally
    • Agentic ransomware for automated database extortion
    • Dark-Moon: Autonomous AI pentesting engine

    Sponsors

    • Signadot: making sure AI-written code actually works.

    Nonsense

    • Messi Beats Ronaldo in 2026 World Cup Password Breach Data Rankings
    • United Airlines' new upsell: Keeping other travelers out of the middle seat
    • Yes, you can now order DoorDash from the command line
    • House passes bill to make daylight saving time permanent

    Listener Feedback

    • Biogen hiring Associate Director, Enterprise Architecture in Triangle, NC
    • Tim releases a font for developers whose close-up vision isn't what it used to be
    • The Java Story | Official Trailer | Full Film Coming July 17th

    Conferences

    • DevOpsDays Graz, Sept 4-5, 2026
    • Cloud Foundry Summit, Sept. 21st to 22nd, Heidelberg, Coté speaking.
    • DevOpsDays Rockies, Sept. 22 – 23, 2026, Discount Code: 26DODSWEDEFTALK
    • WeAreDevelopers NA, Sept 23-25, 2026, Discount Code: DEVPOD26
      • 25 Free Tickets
    • DevOpsDays Dallas, Sept 28-29, 2026
    • DevOpsDays Vilnius, Sep 30 - Oct 1, 2006
    • DevOpsDays Istanbul, Oct 24th, 2026, Coté keynoting.
    • VMware User Group, Orlando, Oct 20-22, 2026
    • Cloud Native Denmark, Nov 19th, 2026, Copenhagen, Coté keynoting.

    SDT News & Community

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    Recommendations

    • Brandon:
      • entogo — Type a keyword. Go anywhere.
      • 28 Years Later, The Bone Temple
    • Matt: Vacation, not micro-retirement
    • Coté: Wolf Hall books.

    Sponsored By:

    • Signadot: AI writes code. Signadot make sure it works.

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

    17 juillet 202651 minÉpisode 581À suivre

    Avec Arjun Iyer

    Brandon interviews Arjun Iyer, CEO & Co-founder of Signadot. They discuss how Ephemeral Environments eliminate developer toil by shifting validation earlier in the dev cycle, how Signadot's MCP server lets AI …

    Notes de l’épisode

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

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 581

    Show Links

    • Signadot
    • Free Trial
    • Brex Case Study
    • Signadot Documentation Overview

    Contact Arjun Iyer

    • LinkedIn: Arjun Iyer
    • Twitter: @arjuniyer_

    SDT News & Hype

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    Special Guest: Arjun Iyer.

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

    10 juillet 202655 minÉpisode 580À suivre

    Avec Phil Miller et Theo Ephraim

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

    Notes de l’épisode

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

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 580

    Show Links:

    • varlock.dev
    • varlock on GitHub
    • @env-spec Overview
    • DMNO (corporate site)
    • Varlock MCP Server (docs)
    • howtostore.food — Theo's side project on the best way to store produce
    • unsafeharbour.com — Phil's music label
    • Nautical Artifacts on Bandcamp
    • bumpy

    Contact Phil Miller:

    • LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/themillman
    • Email: [email protected]
    • Music: unsafeharbour.com

    Contact Theo Ephraim:

    • LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/theo-ephraim
    • Website: theoephraim.com
    • Twitter/X: @theozero
    • Bluesky: @theozero.bsky.social
    • Email: [email protected]

    General Contact:

    • [email protected]
    • [email protected]

    Varlock Community

    • Varlock Discord — Chat with the team and other users
    • GitHub Discussions — Suggestions, questions, and feature requests
    • varlock on GitHub — Star the project and follow updates
    • Varlock on X
    • Varlock on Bluesky

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    Special Guests: Phil Miller and Theo Ephraim.

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20. Episode 579: The Headless Lifestyle

    3 juillet 20261 h 12 minÉpisode 579À suivre

    This week, we discuss Anthropic's 18-day Fable timeout, whether AI is actually killing jobs, and OpenAI's trillion-dollar IPO problem. Plus, SoftBank's golden goose slides. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of …

    Notes de l’épisode

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

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 579

    Runner-up Titles

    • Everything is Files
    • It’s just about meetings
    • Did you do the pre-meet?
    • Meetings
    • Judgement
    • Let it ride
    • If it’s hot, turn on the AC
    • I don’t have time for a towel.
    • Headless HEB

    Rundown

    • I was fired by Google for creating the Google Workspace CLI
    • Fable is Back
      • White House lifts export control on advanced AI model from Anthropic
      • Trump administration lifts restrictions on Anthropic's Fable 5
      • OpenAI and Anthropic limit new AI models to Trump-approved customers during cybersecurity review
    • AI News of the Month - June 2026
    • AI is NOT killing jobs
      • Ford rehires ‘gray beard’ engineers after AI falls short
      • AWS puts $1 billion into new AI unit to embed engineers with customers
      • A New Look at AI’s Impact on Jobs
      • The Unstoppable Force of A.I. Hype Is Meeting One Immovable Fact
    • Cloudflare Acquires VoidZero to Build the Future of the AI-Native Web
    • OpenAI Leans Toward Waiting Until Next Year for I.P.O.
    • SoftBank’s slides are just trolling us
      • The PDF of the Slides

    Relevant to your Interests

    • The Australians fighting AI slop in open-source code
    • Axios Future of Cybersecurity Thought Bubble
    • SpaceX Is Getting Fast-Tracked Into Indexes. Ordinary Investors Could Lose Out.
    • News Flash: You Are the Exit Liquidity for the SpaceX IPO
    • Cerebras Systems Announces Strong First Quarter 2026 Results
    • The AI Compass
    • T-Mobile appears to be quitting VMware

    Listener Feedback

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

    Conferences

    • WeAreDevelopers Europe, July 8-10, 2026 Berlin, Coté speaking.
    • DevOpsDays Graz, Sept 4-5, 2026
    • Cloud Foundry Summit, Sept. 21st to 22nd, Heidelberg, Coté speaking.
    • DevOpsDays Rockies, Sept. 22 – 23, 2026, Discount Code: 26DODSWEDEFTALK
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      • 25 Free Tickets
    • DevOpsDays Dallas, Sept 28-29, 2026
    • DevOpsDays Vilnius, Sep 30 - Oct 1, 2006
    • DevOpsDays Istanbul, Oct 24th, 2026, Coté keynoting.
    • VMware User Group, Orlando, Oct 20-22, 2026
    • Cloud Native Denmark, Nov 19th, 2026, Copenhagen, Coté keynoting.

    SDT News & Community

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    Recommendations

    • Brandon: Walmart+ for Grocery Delivery
    • Coté: Supermarkt Meerwijk Watergraafsmeer, also in Instagram

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21. Episode 578: War for Talent

    26 juin 20261 h 5 minÉpisode 578À suivre

    This week, we discuss Fable follow-up, Gartner's AI Governance MQ, and the war for AI talent. Plus, Matt and Brandon review Disclosure Day. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 578 Runner-up Titles Ready …

    Notes de l’épisode

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

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 578

    Runner-up Titles

    • Ready to podcast from a sailboat
    • It’s just people fighting
    • Calculator budget
    • Ask Siri to do your homework
    • Software Defined Consulting: SDC
    • The Magic Platform
    • AI Curious
    • I watched ALLLLL the keynotes.
    • I don’t know that, but I know that
    • You gotta stay to vest
    • Brandon, remember Cursor?
    • Educated Hater

    Rundown

    • Gartner Magic Quadrant for AI Governance Platforms
      • IBM recognized as a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for AI Governance Platforms
      • What is an "AI Governance Platform?
    • AI Consolidates Talent
      • Alphabet paces for worst day in a year on AI concerns after high-profile exits
      • OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic's pre-training team
      • Supercharge your cloud operations with the Kiro power for AWS DevOps Agent

    Relevant to your Interests

    • Intel ex-CEO Pat Gelsinger joins faith-focused tech firm Gloo
    • Explore more than a decade of survey data across markets
    • Did Slate Accidentally Reveal Its Electric Truck Price? Shocking MSRP
    • Apparently The Real Reason Anthropic’s Models Are Offline: A Six-Year-Old Trump Grudge
    • Introducing Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS
    • 'Fix this code.' The three words that led the U.S. government to ban …
    • Hyundai takes full control of Boston Dynamics as SoftBank exits for $325 million
    • Opinion | The Secret Reason Bosses Want Everyone Back in the Office, Every Day of the Week
    • Meta Exposed Data Internally From Its Controversial Employee-Tracking Program
    • Chevron to fuel massive Microsoft data center in Texas using natural gas
    • Getty Images Soars 200% in Early Trading After OpenAI Deal
    • U.S.-Backed Chipmaking Startup Chaired by Former Intel CEO Is Raising $350 Million
    • OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom
    • Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control: AWS Lambda introduces MicroVMs
    • Anthropic’s Claude Tag is learning your company, one Slack message at a time

    Sponsors

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

    Nonsense

    • Wiz Ice Cream for CISOs
    • IN THE WEIGHTS

    Conferences

    • WeAreDevelopers Europe, July 8-10, 2026 Berlin, Coté speaking.
    • DevOpsDays Graz, Sept 4-5, 2026
    • Cloud Foundry Summit, Sept. 21st to 22nd, Heidelberg, Coté speaking.
    • DevOpsDays Rockies, Sept. 22 – 23, 2026, Discount Code: 26DODSWEDEFTALK
    • WeAreDevelopers NA, Sept 23-25, 2026, Discount Code: DEVPOD26
      • 25 Free Tickets
    • DevOpsDays Dallas, Sept 28-29, 2026
    • DevOpsDays Vilnius, Sep 30 - Oct 1, 2006
    • DevOpsDays Istanbul, Oct 24th, 2026, Coté keynoting.
    • VMware User Group, Orlando, Oct 20-22, 2026
    • Cloud Native Denmark, Nov 19th, 2026, Copenhagen, Coté keynoting.

    SDT News & Community

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    Recommendations

    • Brandon: Disclosure Day
    • Matt: Izzard: The Tragedy of Hamlet
    • Coté:
      • The Millennial Aesthetic
      • Coté’s CFP acceptance rate chart
      • Coté’s newsletter

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22. Episode 577: Let’s go to Buc-ee’s

    19 juin 20261 hÉpisode 577À suivre

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

    Notes de l’épisode

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

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 577

    Runner-up Titles

    • Waited out the storm
    • Maybe we should build some castles or something
    • Years of lawsuits ahead of us
    • The ultimate dream
    • AI SEO
    • I hope you’re paid by the hour
    • Always be monitoring to me

    Rundown

    • Anthropic
      • How Amazon and the White House ended Anthropic's Fable
      • Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
      • Dario Amodei — Policy on the AI Exponential
    • Cursor
      • Live Updates: Elon Musk Becomes World’s First Trillionaire as SpaceX Starts Trading
      • SpaceX to acquire Cursor for $60B in stock, days after blockbuster IPO
    • Vibe Coding
      • Lovable says it has hit $500M in annualized revenue, with 1 million new projects a week
      • Vibe-coding phenomenon lifts AI startup Supabase to $10.5 billion valuation
      • Database startup Supabase raises $500 million $10.5 billion valuation
    • curl summer of bliss

    Relevant to your Interests

    • Grep this: Microsoft grafts (most) Linux commands onto Windows
    • apple/container
    • The Virtual OS Museum
    • YouTube has eclipsed Netflix in viewership via (@lucas_shaw)
    • OpenAI to acquire Ona
    • Keycap Quarry – Artisan Keycaps for Mechanical Keyboards
    • Mark Zuckerberg Orders His Employees to Start Having Fun Again
    • Why is Meta destroying its engineering organization?
    • VCs behaving badly
    • Databricks Agrees to Acquire Panther

    Sponsors

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

    Nonsense

    • The AI coding agent that runs on stolen Chipotle compute
    • Minesweeper 3D No Guess – Free 3D Browser Game | Logic Solver
    • Fly around the world (Experimental) | Google Earth | Google for Developers
    • Commodore’s newest gadget is a flip phone that blocks social media and browsers

    Conferences

    • WeAreDevelopers Europe, July 8-10, 2026 Berlin, Coté speaking.
    • DevOpsDays Graz, Sept 4-5, 2026
    • Cloud Foundry Summit, Sept. 21st to 22nd, Germany.
    • DevOpsDays Rockies, Sept. 22 – 23, 2026, Discount Code: 26DODSWEDEFTALK
    • WeAreDevelopers NA, Sept 23-25, 2026, Discount Code: DEVPOD26
      • 25 Free Tickets
    • DevOpsDays Dallas, Sept 28-29, 2026
    • DevOpsDays Vilnius, Sep 30 - Oct 1, 2006
    • DevOpsDays Istanbul, Oct 24th, 2026, Coté keynoting.
    • VMware User Group, Orlando, Oct 20-22, 2026

    SDT News & Community

    • Join our Slack community
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    • Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
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    Recommendations

    • Brandon: Digital ID
    • Matt: Murderbot Diaries: Platform Decay
    • Coté: WordPress.com. Tetilla cheese from the Camino de Santiago.

    Sponsored By:

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23. Episode 576: Observability's Next Phase

    12 juin 202649 minÉpisode 576À suivre

    Avec Prabhat Sharma et Shani Shoham

    Brandon talks with OpenObserve's Prabhat Sharma and Shani Shoham: why observability is still broken, how they fixed it, and where AI takes it next. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 576 Show Links …

    Notes de l’épisode

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

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 576

    Show Links

    • OpenObserve
    • OpenObserve on GitHub
    • Series A and Observability 3.0 announcement blog post
    • Launching OpenObserve
    • OpenObserve 2-Minute Demo
    • Download OpenObserve

    Contact Prabhat Sharma

    • LinkedIn: hiprabhat
    • Twitter/X: @hiprabhat

    Contact Shani Shoham

    • LinkedIn: shanishoham
    • Twitter: @shohams

    SDT News & Hype

    • Join us in Slack.
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    Special Guests: Prabhat Sharma and Shani Shoham.

    Sponsored By:

    • Open Observe: Petabyte-scale, unified observability built for the AI era.

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24. Episode 575: UI blizzard

    5 juin 20261 h 2 minÉpisode 575À suivre

    This week, we discuss NVIDIA going consumer, Microsoft Build, and the Anthropic/OpenAI IPO race. Plus, does credit card insurance work? Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 575 Runner-up Titles Who Wins …

    Notes de l’épisode

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

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 575

    Runner-up Titles

    • Who Wins AI?
    • Models vs. Middleware
    • Jensen After Dark
    • Once again, robots
    • Why is this something you talk about in a keynote?
    • Could this have been an app?
    • Defeating Apple, the sword in the stone
    • Your tokens are my margin
    • Prisons, schools and military - what is the Venn diagram?
    • Every enterprise is unhappy in their own way

    Rundown

    • Nvidia
      • NVIDIA and Microsoft Reinvent Windows PCs for the Age of Personal AI
      • Nvidia's N1X Apple Silicon rival is two years behind
      • Nvidia, Microsoft, and Arm are all teasing Nvidia's new N1X laptop processors
      • Blackstone and Google launch $5B TPU cloud venture with 500MW of AI capacity
      • AI server demand drives staggering revenue growth for Dell and its stock soars
    • Microsoft Build
      • Microsoft Build 2026: Be yourself at work
      • Microsoft Build Live Blog
      • Microsoft admits its "infuriating" floating AI button was a mistake
    • OpenAI and Anthropic Go Public
      • Anthropic Files to Go Public, Setting Stage for Huge I.P.O.
      • OpenAI Prepares to File to Go Public in Coming Weeks
      • How Anthropic Got So Big, So Fast
      • Anthropic and SpaceX compute
      • OpenAI launches new Codex tools for white-collar work
      • OpenAI Hires ServiceNow CMO Colin Fleming to Lead Business Marketing Push
      • Wiz + Anthropic: Claude Enterprise Meets the Security Graph

    Relevant to your Interests

    • Grafana breach caused by missed token rotation after TanStack attack
    • GitHub Got Hacked. The AI Security Arms Race is Here
    • Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked
    • SpaceX not the behemoth everyone thought
    • Spotify adds AI-powered Q&A and briefing generation features to podcasts
    • Amazon Web Services - Four Years and Out + AWS Fired the One Employee Who Gave a Damn
    • Introducing UniFi 5G Backup
    • AI Generated Summaries
    • WSJ: How I Choose Which Cloudflare Employees to Replace with AI
    • Microsoft open-sources the earliest DOS source code discovered to date
    • Audio-generation app Huxe, founded by former NotebookLM developers, shuts down
    • Bill Gates Spent Years Crafting His Image. Now It's Cracking.
    • How do AI Layoffs Work? Some Speculation.
    • Snowflake to Acquire Natoma to Bring Governed Agentic Access to the Enterprise
    • U.S. companies have an AI problem. Indian IT wants to be the solution
    • Meta to start testing AI subscription services, cheapest plan at $7.99/month

    Sponsors

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

    Nonsense

    • What Is a Dickover?

    Listener Feedback

    • Henning corrects Coté’s pronunciation of León.

    Conferences

    • VMware User Group, Dallas, June 9-11, 2026
    • WeAreDevelopers Europe, July 8-10, 2026 Berlin, Coté speaking.
    • DevOpsDays Graz, Sept 4-5, 2026
    • DevOpsDays Rockies, Sept. 22 – 23, 2026, Discount Code: 26DODSWEDEFTALK
    • WeAreDevelopers NA, Sept 23-25, 2026, Discount Code: DEVPOD26
      • 25 Free Tickets
    • DevOpsDays Dallas, Sept 28-29, 2026
    • DevOpsDays Vilnius, Sep 30 - Oct 1, 2006
    • DevOpsDays Istanbul, Oct 24th, 2026, Coté keynoting.
    • VMware User Group, Orlando, Oct 20-22, 2026

    SDT News & Community

    • Join our Slack community
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    • Sponsor the show
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    Recommendations

    • Brandon: The spelled-out intro to neural networks and backpropagation: building micrograd
    • Matt:
      • Boards of Canada: Inferno
      • Aphex Twin - Live in Houston
    • Coté: ElevenLabs, for example Coté’s learning Dutch podcast.

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25. Episode 574: Nobody Wants to Be a Measurer

    29 mai 20261 h 1 minÉpisode 574À suivre

    This week, we discuss the Cloudflare CEO's op-ed, upcoming tech IPOs and GitHub getting breached. Plus, ranking our favorite manifestos. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 574 Runner-up Titles We’re …

    Notes de l’épisode

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

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 574

    Runner-up Titles

    • We’re not making money so we can’t put in place the enshitification strategy.
    • Go easy on the AI
    • I hope they’re not using PowerPoint in the Vatican
    • I didn’t’ come here to talk about the Pope
    • I should take more showers
    • I came to measure and chew bubblegum
    • Matt Ray Dalio is not a wave rider.
    • Usability golf
    • No dependencies, no problems
    • Peak Software
    • We are a safe haven for measures
    • Tools and Rules

    Rundown

    • Layoffs
      • How do AI Layoffs Work? Some Speculation.
      • How I Choose Which Cloudflare Employees to Replace With AI
    • Revenue and IPO
      • Anthropic is paying SpaceX $15 billion per year
      • OpenAI Prepares to File to Go Public in Coming Weeks
      • SpaceX TAM - $28.5 trillion. US GDP - $31 trillion.
    • GitHub Got Hacked. The AI Security Arms Race is Here
      • NHS Pulls OSS
      • Wiz + Anthropic: Claude Enterprise Meets the Security Graph | Wiz Blog

    Relevant to your Interests

    • Grafana breach caused by missed token rotation after TanStack attack
    • Introducing UniFi 5G Backup
    • SpaceX not the behemoth everyone thought
    • Microsoft admits its "infuriating" floating AI button was a mistake
    • Microsoft admits forcing the floating Copilot button on Office users was a mistake—but engagement went up anyway
    • IBM and U.S. Department of Commerce Announce America’s First Purpose-Built Quantum Foundry, Supported by Proposed $1 Billion CHIPS Award
    • Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code discovered to date"
    • Blackstone and Google launch $5B TPU cloud venture with 500MW of AI capacity
    • What It Takes to Preserve Floppy Disks
    • U.S. companies have an AI problem. Indian IT wants to be the solution
    • Audio-generation app Huxe, founded by former NotebookLM developers, shuts down
    • Spotify adds AI-powered Q&A and briefing generation features to podcasts

    Sponsors

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

    Nonsense

    • GE’s nugget ice maker is nearly half off if you buy it refurbished
    • Watch: Drones crash into water after Sydney light show malfunction
    • America the Tasty: The Best Breakfast in Every State

    Listener Feedback

    • Jason built the DepartTime App iPhone App

    Conferences

    • VMware User Group, Dallas, June 9-11, 2026
    • WeAreDevelopers Europe, July 8-10, 2026 Berlin, Coté speaking.
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26. Episode 573: How many quadrillions in a Googol?

    22 mai 20261 h 2 minÉpisode 573À suivre

    This week, we discuss Google I/O, the OpenAI soap opera, and ChatGPT going full financial advisor. Plus, thoughts on improving the conference hallway track. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 573 …

    Notes de l’épisode

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

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 573

    Runner-up Titles

    • Stupid Macs
    • I like my idea
    • What was I thinking?
    • Opt-in AI
    • Kentucky Derby’s this Weekend
    • It’s a low plateau
    • There’s no vibe in X-Code
    • Matt’s trading with AI
    • Everyone’s watching

    Rundown

    • Google I/O
      • A new era for AI Search
      • All the news from the Google I/O 2026 Developer keynote
      • I/O 2026: Welcome to the agentic Gemini era
    • AI Stuff
      • Elon Musk lost his case against Sam Altman
      • Greg Brockman Officially Takes Control of OpenAI’s Products in Latest Shake-Up
      • OpenAI launches ChatGPT for personal finance, will let you connect bank accounts
      • Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy, former Tesla AI leader

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    • Cisco announces record revenue and 4,000 layoffs in the same day
    • Amazon ditches Rufus chatbot, launches Alexa shopping agent in AI strategy pivot
    • Open source tool maker Grafana Labs says hackers stole its code, refuses to pay ransom
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27. Episode 572: The world isn’t curl

    15 mai 20261 h 1 minÉpisode 572À suivre

    This week, we discuss how security gets sold to execs, where agentic coding and security collide, and Cloudflare vs. Datadog's diverging paths. Plus, Coté weighs in on sugar cookies. Watch the YouTube Live …

    Notes de l’épisode

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

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 572

    Runner-up Titles

    • Sugar Kingdom
    • Bastard Sugar
    • Choose butter
    • It’s just AI now
    • People don’t like paying for software
    • It’s an exciting time to be writing software
    • Are we going to start funding open source?
    • Speaking of that, but not that, it’s totally unrelated
    • We’re leaving the table
    • Weird network stuff
    • That box of cables on GitHub

    Rundown

    • Security
      • Mini Shai-Hulud Is Back: npm Worm Hits over 160 Packages
      • Fedora Hummingbird Linux Brings Agentic Linux to Builders
      • Red Hat Hardened Images
      • Palo Alto Networks to Acquire Portkey to Secure the Rise of AI Agents
      • Mythos finds a curl vulnerability
      • Redis and the Cost of Ambition
    • AI is restructuring the software industry — winners and losers
      • Datadog's stock jumps 31% on crushing earnings beat
      • Cloudflare stock sinks 24% after earnings as company cuts 1,100 employees
      • Linear increases workforce

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28. Episode 571: The Enterprise Dunbar number

    8 mai 202658 minÉpisode 571À suivre

    This week, we discuss AI labs driving cloud revenue, hyperscalers laying off instead of building, and kids defeating age verification. Plus, Brandon has too many thoughts on Workday. Watch the YouTube Live …

    Notes de l’épisode

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

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 571

    Runner-up Titles

    • The world is just paper.
    • TODO debris pile
    • Fancy countries you live in
    • Enron Conspiracy Shredder.
    • Cote’s mom’s gonna love this
    • Brandon works out his Workday trauma.
    • Cash money, hamburger, hamburger bang bang
    • ChatGPT PS Edition
    • Forward Deployed Engineer for Workday
    • It’ll probably work, that’s the future

    Rundown

    • Earnings
      • Cloud Giants Update
      • Amazon earnings beat expectations with strong cloud growth
      • Microsoft calls for $190 billion in 2026 capital spending on soaring memory prices
      • Alphabet ups 2026 capex to as much as $190 billion
      • Meta stock drops on quarterly results
      • Anthropic Commits to Spending $200 Billion on Google’s Cloud and Chips
    • How children are getting creative and fooling age verification checks
    • Services
      • Anthropic launches enterprise AI firm with Blackstone, Goldman Sachs
      • Anthropic and OpenAI are both launching joint ventures for enterprise AI services

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29. Episode 570: The Enterprisification of Agents

    1 mai 20261 h 10 minÉpisode 570À suivre

    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 …

    Notes de l’épisode

    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

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    • 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

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30. Episode 569: Agent Assimilation

    24 avril 20261 h 7 minÉpisode 569À suivre

    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 …

    Notes de l’épisode

    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

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    • I love throwing stuff in the trash.
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    • BurgerOps.
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    • 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

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    • 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
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