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Industry experts run down all the AI news for engineers. Adam Jacob, Paul Stack, and Nick Stinemates are joined by longtime friend, DevOps legend, video game director, pinball wizard, entrepreneur, CTO, and CEO, Jamie Stormbreaker. In this episode: Postgres 19 is late, and AI gets the blameEurope's supermarket freezers are hit againThe AI cost of JavaScript frameworksOpenAI shrinks its raise and its valuationDeepSeek's super agent wants as little of your attention as possibleIs the software factory just cope?Goldman Sachs takes Claude Code back from the tradersJensen Huang's affair with a Chinese spyOccupy SaaS rebuilds SaaS with the engineers it laid offOpenAI buys Pierre Computer CompanyYou can get all of the links and have them delivered straight to you every week at https://swamp-club.com/podcast

Industry experts run down all the AI news for engineers. Adam Jacob, Paul Stack, and Nick Stinemates are joined by longtime friend, operations legend, entrepreneur, and head of engineering at Railway, Mark Imbriaco. In this episode: r/opensource bans AI projectsNo AI payoff outside the Magnificent 7Anthropic files its S-1Multi-agent architecture creates new problemsGoogle announces Gemini 4 CarbonLe Chonk goes open weightsQwenputer runs a CPU inside an LLMDoorDash buys Instacart\A Chinese spy cozies up to Jensen HuangBinance is hacked for $6.3 billion in 20 minutesFor all the links, head over to https://swamp-club.com/podcast.

Industry experts run down all the AI news for engineers. Adam Jacob, Paul Stack, and Nick Stinemates are joined by our first returning guest, leaderboard grinder and engineering leader Sean Escriva. In this episode: Cloudflare launches Clairic, a typed extraction modelAWS cancels Cloudflare's re:Invent boothCloudflare ports TypeScript to RustAnthropic launches Claude Duet10 million people have used Meta MuseCode is clay nowPingCAP's production data leakseMudhra's CA keys get crackedPHP zero days, and Chainguard breaks the embargoRailway is compromisedYou can get all the links and sign up to get the news straight in your inbox at https://swamp-club.com/podcast

Industry experts run down all the AI news for engineers. Adam Jacob, Paul Stack, and Nick Stinemates are joined by engineering leader, ops nerd, former mechanical engineer, and carpenter, Matthew Dean Furlo. In this episode: Anthropic redesigns source controlGoogle's Gemini 4 ArgonMeta opens Muse SparkMeta's Muse Wonder joins the frontierAnthropic's growth slows ahead of its IPOCoreWeave drops on debt fearsHackers defrost supermarket fridges across EuropeThe Dutch tax authority cancels Microsoft 365Cookie Monster gets an AI mandateAccenture caps Claude at $29 a monthOpenAI finds a bug in its officeSwamp Club raises $7 millionYou can get all the links and sign up to get the news straight in your inbox at https://swamp-club.com/podcast

Industry Experts run down all the AI news for Infrastructure Engineers. Adam Jacob, Paul Stack, and Nick Stinemates are joined by longtime business partner, Swamp co-founder, behind the scenes dynamo, and COO of Swamp Club, Mahir Lupinacci. In this episode: Ghost AI puts an AI computer in your houseArtcraft clones the Adobe Creative Suite, then the Office suiteMistral launches Large 4, "Le Chonk"Anthropic ships Haiku 5.5Microsoft launches a decision modelTypesafe raises $870 millionDeno goes to CloudflareOpenAI's ARR is $50 billion, not $68 billionOxide raises a $445 million Series DSatya Nadella on models as insider riskGet all the links, or the news delivered straight to your inbox, at https://swamp-club.com/podcast/2026-10-12

Industry Experts run down all the AI news. Adam Jacob, Paul Stack, and Nick Stinemates are joined by data scientist before that was cool, former VP of Engineering at Chef, Prisma, BlaBlaCar and Calmwave, and now principal product engineer at Swamp Club, Seth Falcon. In this episode: Cal Newport says it's time to investigate the AI labsEvery major lab signs an accord on super intelligenceMongoDB's CEO quits with two weeks' notice to join MetaFactory AI's CEO takes on a former board observer, in publicOpenAI nerfs the $200 Codex subscriptionOpenAI's Dev DayGoogle's Gemini 4 ArgonKolibri, a German sovereign model that says "I don't know"World Labs joins AMDOpenClaw Enterprise from Red Hat, OpenAI and NVIDIAYour brain is not a computerAnthropic's IPO prospectus leaksYou can get links to all the stories and sign up to have the news delivered straight to your inbox every Monday at https://swamp-club.com/podcast

Industry Experts run down all the AI news. Adam Jacob, Paul Stack, and John Watson are joined by principal engineer at Microsoft, lead architect for Azure Incubations, and chair of the Rust Foundation, Nell Shamrell-Harrington. In this episode: Colin Breck doesn't want to read what you didn't writeAnthropic drops Opus 5.5, OpenAI drops 6-Luna and 6-SolAlibaba becomes a corporate patron of OmarchyDHH retires from programming at Rails WorldAdam Wathan says framework fan bases are deadGeocodio declares the year of internal toolsClaude Code moves plan mode into a modThe Dutch government builds a sovereign Nix distroMicrosoft ships Autopilot, Meta ships MuseYou can find all the links and get the show summary delivered right to your inbox at https://swamp-club.com/podcast

Industry Experts run down all the AI news for Infrastructure Engineers. Adam Jacob, Paul Stack, and Nick Stinemates are joined by Swamp Club new hire, engineer, philosopher, and man of the world - Zach Hamm. In this episode: * OpenAI's agents attacked RubyGems * Dario Amodei wants to pace the frontier * Bryan Cantrill on the contagion of fear * Microsoft AI publishes ten rules for humanist superintelligence * Laurie Voss says we are all product engineers now * Temporal raises $550 million for durable execution * Zed launches Delta * TypeSafe launches Jev You can get all the links, and subscribe to get the news delivered straight to your inbox, at https://swamp-club.com/podcast!

Industry Experts run down all the AI news for Infrastructure Engineers. Adam Jacob, Paul Stack, and Nick Stinemates are joined by DevOps engineer and downtempo DJ Don O'Neill. In this episode: OpenAI claims a Millennium Prize problem, but not without controversyTailwind joins Shopify Apple unveils the iPhone Duo Anthropic syas DeepSeek, Xiaomi, and Moonshot fed conversations to Claude Bending Spoons buys MiroJacob Coxon quits AnthropicShopify goes back to native apps You can get Infrastructure Frontiers in your inbox, and see all the links, at https://swamp-club.com/podcast!

Industry Experts run down all the AI news for Infrastructure Engineers. Adam Jacob, Paul Stack, and Nick Stinemates are joined by Swamp co-founder and platform engineering wizard John Watson. OpenAI ends access through Cursor due to the SpaceX acquisitionDebian adopts the most sensible AI policy possibleOpenClaw releases version 2Nvidia licenses Poolside's technology, and absorbs a bunch of their workforceClaude Fable 5.1, OpenAIs GPT-6-Astra, Gemini 3.8 and Meta Spark 1.3World Labs launches Atlas, a world model for spatial intelligenceThe AI model security concerns continuecdleary writes about AI as a stochastic optimizer, and the AI built MLA kernel in OpenAI Jalapeno For all the links and to receive Infrastructure Frontiers in your inbox, visit: https://swamp-club.com/podcast

Industry Experts run down all the AI news for Infrastructure Engineers. Adam Jacob, Paul Stack, and Nick Stinemates are joined by amazing infrastructure engineer Jason Powell. In this episode: * Semianalysis says OpenAI's Jalapeno chip is industry leading * DuckLabs joins AWS, DuckDB remains in an open foundation * Z.ai launches GLM-5.3-Flash in stealth as Ox Alpha * Nvidia buys Hugging Face for $12.9 billion dollars * Bill Gates writes about the turbulent AI era * Paul moves our CI into the agent loop * Gary Marcus writes about Anthropic's $30 Trillion TAM * SourceHut bans code written by AI Visit Swamp Club for all the links and to get Infrastructure Frontiers in your inbox every monday!

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

Industry Experts run down all the AI news for Infrastructure Engineers. Adam Jacob, Paul Stack, and Nick Stinemates are joined by one of the longest serving sages of operations, old friend, advisor, and wonderful human John Willis. In this episode: * The Ars Notoria gives a preview of AI Psychosis * Ankur Sethi types all the LLM code by hand * Martin Alderson is picking LLMs based on speed * Simon Willison breaks down all the competing open letters about frontier models * Steve Yegge goes all in on bespoke software factories being the way * David Crawshaw thinks all devtools must be open source because the era of personal software is upon us * Niklas Gruhn says: "Don't be a meat proxy!" * Bending Spoons acquires Airtable * Cloudflare launches Cloudflare OS * Pulumi embraces HCL and Terraform State * Bret Stephens begs you not to write with AI * Confighub goes generally available Get all the links and summaries of our thoughts at https://swamp-club.com/podcast

Industry Experts run down all the AI news for Infrastructure Engineers. Adam Jacob, Paul Stack, and Nick Stinemates are joined by infrastructure engineering legend Sean Escriva. In this episode: Dan Lorenc phases out code review at ChainguardGithub launches stacked PRsOpenAI reduces the price of 5.6 Luna and TerraPaul Stack explains that best practices come and go, but architecture is foreverOpenAI releases Codex SecurityKimi K3 on Hugging Face & Dario Amodei gets mad about distillationTobi Knaup thinks Open Weight models is AIs Kubernetes MomentKeith Townsend explains deterministic AI is an architecture problem, not a model problemMitchell Hashimoto starts a new company, Superlogical