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
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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

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• 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

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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

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• 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

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

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• 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

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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

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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

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• Beijing tells Chinese firms to stop using US and Israeli cybersecurity software
• China blacklists VMware, Palo Alto Networks software over national security fears
• Kroger taps Google Gemini, announces more key AI moves
• Texas judge throws out second lawsuit over CrowdStrike outage
• Apple will pay billions for Gemini after OpenAI declined
• Dell wants £10m+ from VMware if Tesco case goes against it
• Tailscale: The Best Free App Most Mac Power Users Aren’t Using
• How WhatsApp Took Over the Global Conversation
• Our approach to advertising and expanding access to ChatGPT
• OpenAI’s ARR reached over $20 billion in 2025, CFO says
• Simon Willison’s take on Our approach to advertising and ChatGPT
• The AI lab revolving door spins ever faster | TechCrunch
• How Markdown took over the world
• An Interview with United CEO Scott Kirby About Tech Transformation

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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

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• Anthropic reportedly raising $10B at $350B valuation
• Dell Reverses Course, Brings Back XPS Laptops
• Google is unleashing Gemini AI features on Gmail. Users will have to opt out
• Bose is open-sourcing its old smart speakers instead of bricking them
• Google Guys Say Bye to California
• Amazon gives managers a new way to spot who's barely coming into the office
• A decade of open source in CNCF with 300,000+ contributors and counting
• CrowdStrike to Acquire SGNL to Transform Identity Security for the AI Era
• Snowflake Announces Intent to Acquire Observe to Deliver AI-Powered Observability
• Nvidia Hires Google Veteran as Its First Chief Marketing Officer
• The Fediverse Experiment
• RIP the metaverse

Nonsense

• American Airlines rolls out free Wi-Fi to loyalty members

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• 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.
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Runner-up Titles

• It’s all brisket after that.
• Exploring Fun
• Should I go build a snow man?
• Pets
• Innersourcing
• Two books Michael Lewis should write.
• Article IV is foundational.
• Freedom is options.

Rundown

• Stack Overflow is dead.
• Hardened Images for Everyone
  • Tanzu’s Bitnami stuff does this too.
• OpenAI
  • OpenAI’s New Fundraising Round Could Value Startup at as Much as $830 Billion
  • OpenAI Reportedly Planning to Make ChatGPT "Prioritize" Advertisers in Conversation
  • OpenAI bets big on audio as Silicon Valley declares war on screens
  • Sam Altman says: He has zero percent interest in remaining OpenAI CEO, once
• Nvidia buying AI chip startup Groq's assets for about $20 billion in its largest deal on record

Relevant to your Interests

• Broadcom IT uses Tanzu Platform to host MCP Servers.
• A Brief History Of The Spreadsheet
• Databricks is raising over $4 billion in Series L funding at a $134 billion
• Amazon's big AGI reorg decoded by Corey Quinn
• “They burned millions but got nothing.”
• X sues to protect Twitter brand Musk has been trying to kill
• Mozilla's new CEO says AI is coming to Firefox, but will remain a choice | TechCrunch
• Why Oracle keeps sparking AI-bubble fears
• What's next for Threads
• Salesforce Executives Say Trust in Large Language Models Has Declined
• Akamai Technologies Announces Acquisition of Function-as-a-Service Company Fermyon
• Google Rolling Out Gmail Address Change Feature: Here Is How It Works
• The Enshittifinancial Crisis
• MongoBleed: Critical MongoDB Vulnerability CVE-2025-14847 | Wiz Blog
• Softbank to buy data center firm DigitalBridge for $4 billion in AI push
• The best tech announced at CES 2026 so far
• Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter
• 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.

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• DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA
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• 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.
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Runner-up Titles

• I was up at 1am thinking, “are there any good billionaires.”
• Maybe you forgot your shoes
• Not just room temperature, but cold
• I thought Europe was known for its soups
• Ice, air conditioning, and, broth - we have solved those three problems.
• Sloppy search
• Cutlery, tupperware, COVID
• The Young People.
• The Automation Apologist.
• I’m disappointed in everything
• Models don’t matter anymore
• Shade-tree programmer
• An empty farm in Waco

Rundown

• 2024 Year in Review
• Scaling Platform Engineering in the CNCF Community - Abby Bangser
• Syntaso’s Platform as a Product book
• Claude Skills are way under-rated
• “Agents are [just] models using tools in a loop.
• 2026 Predications
  • Are we in an AI Bubble?
  • Do Anthropic or OpenAI IPO?
  • New AI use cases?
  • Altman remain CEO?
  • Do Apple or AWS make an AI acquisition?
  • CFB Championship?

Conferences

• 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.
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• Brandon: Pluribus — slow but interesting
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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.
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Runner-up Titles

• It has CarPlay
• iPad Range Anxiety
• an Australian documentary
• Oracle got popped
• Intentions
• I don’t feel bad for them
• Open Source old folks home
• Spreadsheets love it
• Robots are going to take care of us
• The Median User
• Nobody feels bad for the whales
• I have a dog
• I have a Korean microwave
• We’re the Neal Stephenson of podcasts

Rundown

• Ford pulls the plug on the all-electric F-150 Lightning pickup truck
• AI Investment
  • Oracle plummets 11% on weak revenue, pushing down AI stocks like Nvidia and CoreWeave
  • Oracle Shares Drop the Most Since 2001 on Mounting AI Spending
  • OpenAI in Talks to Raise At Least $10 Billion From Amazon and Use Its AI Chips
  • S&P 500 falls after nearing record as Oracle disappointment drags down AI stocks
  • Inside The $1T AI Economy
• Introducing Chainguard EmeritOSS: Sustainable stewardship for mature open source
• Runners
  • Announcing powerful upgrades & a new pricing model for self-hosted runners
  • GitHub to charge for self-hosted runners from March 2026
  • GitHub postpones changes to self-hosted runners pricing plans
  • Why GitHub Why?
• Coursera to buy Udemy, creating $2.5 billion firm to target AI training
• Roomba Maker iRobot Files for Bankruptcy, With Chinese Supplier Taking Control

Relevant to your Interests

• Harness raises a $240M Series E at a $5.5B valuation
• A great platform as a product paper, and a fun platform philosophy thereof
• Google Launches Managed Remote MCP Servers for Its Cloud Services
• Fake Leonardo DiCaprio Movie Torrent Drops Agent Tesla Through Layered PowerShell Chain
• Useful patterns for building HTML tools
• Waymo Seeking Over $15 Billion Near $100 Billion Valuation
• Write your CV or resume as YAML, then run RenderCV, and get a PDF with perfect typography. No template wrestling. No broken layouts. Consistent spacing, 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)

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Recommendations

• Brandon: Humble Audiobook Bundle: Shadows, Stars & Screams: Epic Audiobooks
• Matt: Termination Shock - Neal Stephenson

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Runner-up Titles

• Blame the children
• I never liked that font
• No emojis, this is business time
• Mahalo
• You need a Chief Economist
• On the cutlery tray

Rundown

• Rubio Deletes Calibri as the State Department’s Official Typeface
  • Cartridge
  • Source Code Pro
• It’s Official: Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros. in Deal Valued at $82.7 Billion
• Confluent stock soars 29% as IBM announces $11 billion acquisition deal
• Bun is joining Anthropic
• Claude Code is coming to Slack, and that's a bigger deal than it sounds
• OpenAI enterprise usage study.

Relevant to your Interests

• Antigravity Is Google's New Agentic Development Platform
• Amazon CTO Werner Vogels' Predictions for 2026
• ‘End-to-end encrypted’ smart toilet camera is not actually end-to-end encrypted
• AWS AI IDE, AgentCore throw down gauntlets for Microsoft
• Admins and defenders gird themselves against maximum-severity server vuln
• Andy Jassy says Amazon's Nvidia competitor chip is already a multibillion-dollar business
• 52 things I learned in 2025
• State of AI | OpenRouter
• Microsoft has a problem: nobody wants its poor AI products
• DHH & Open Source
• Gruber: Apple employees 'giddy' about Alan Dye’s departure - 9to5Mac
• Apple announces the departure of general counsel and policy chief

Nonsense

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

Conferences

• cfgmgmtcamp 2026, February 2nd to 4th, Ghent, BE.
  • Coté speaking and doing live SDI with John Willis.
• DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA
  • 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)

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Recommendations

• Brandon: Short Power Extension Cord Outlet Saver
• Matt: Everything is Tuberculosis
  • Octopus Project - Music is Happiness
• Coté: The Octopus Organization.

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

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• Brandon: Dampf Good BBQ
• Matt: UmamiPapi chilli oil
• Coté: Anta, slightly more in English. Also XdgBaseDirs.

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Runner-up Titles

• Mystery Knob
• Vegans are cursed vegetarians
• Skilled enough
• Defrag the dishwasher
• Design Intentions
• QR codes everywhere
• I don’t know where we draw the line, but I know where we start
• SDT IoT CMBD, Home Edition.
• SDT Open Source Money Maker
• Lead with Nagware
• Stocks go up, stocks go down
• Safari’s my naked browser
• Coté wanted to add periods to all of these but did not.

Rundown

• FFmpeg to Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs
• Cloudflare blames massive internet outage on 'latent bug'
• Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025
• Replicate is joining Cloudflare

Relevant to your Interests

• The Walt Disney Company Announces Multi-Year Distribution Agreement With YouTube TV
• Anthropic claims of Claude AI-automated cyberattacks met with doubt
• Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign
• Compact, human-readable serialization of JSON data for LLM prompts
• Outage Tracker | Updog By Datadog
• Jeff Bezos Creates A.I. Start-Up Where He Will Be Co-Chief Executive
• PowerPoint is your therapist, Gamma is your coach | Andreessen Horowitz
• Red Hat Introduces Project Hummingbird for “Zero-CVE” Strategies
• A new era of intelligence with Gemini 3
• The platform that needs a platform
• The AI Coding Startup Favored by Tech CEOs Is Now Worth $29.3 Billion
• The Smartest Fliers Use This App to Survive America’s Travel Hell
• Oracle's Market Cap Decline: Analyzing the Impact on Finance
• OpenAI's Fidji Simo Plans to Make ChatGPT Way More Useful—and Have You Pay For It
• Europe’s cookie nightmare is crumbling

Nonsense

• AI-Powered Teddy Bear Caught Talking About Sexual Fetishes and Instructing Kids How to Find Knives
• Whipped Cream Worth $80K Stolen in Ontario

Conferences

• DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA
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Recommendations

• Brandon: The Beast in Me
• Matt: The Prestige
• Coté: Fantastic 4 with that Boba Fett guy, “Winter’s Mourning,” from Uncaged Goddesses.

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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
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Recommendations

• Brandon: GE Attic Mount Digital TV Antenna
• Whitney: Obsidian, Wispr Flow
• Coté: MacWhisper

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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
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Recommendations

• Brandon: Pluribus
• Matt: Hades 2
• Coté: Camo

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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
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Recommendations

• Brandon: Liquid Glass Transparency Toggle
• Matt: The Other Two
• Coté: NØLSON shirts

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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
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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)."

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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.

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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?
  

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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: questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com
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Recommendations

• Brandon: Shark NV352 Navigator Lift Away Upright Vacuum
• Matt: Murderbot

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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: questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com
• Free stickers: Email your address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com
• 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: ads@softwaredefinedtalk.com

Recommendations

• Brandon: Black Rabbit
• Coté: Sune, Hackney, London.

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