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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? Relevant to your Interests Swamp Ushers in the Second AI Frontier with Behavior-Centric Design Polymarket (@Polymarket) on X Berkshire invests another \$330M in Bending Spoons after \$600M IPO stake Anthropic Says Revenue Jumped 45% to \$16.8 Billion in Third Quarter The Information: Anthropic's Slowing Growth Could Weigh on IPO Valuation Meta launches an open-weight AI model that runs on Macs | TechCrunch Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy) on X Annual Reviews: Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, 2026 article Knowable Magazine: Can Science Save Meetings? Void Deploy with Void Hunterbrook Muse Growth Slows as Downloads Fall Chrome 155 + Firefox 158 patch 114 vulns; Firefox Enterprise launches Anthropic seeks rehearing of Pentagon 'security risk' case AMD introduces Helion rack-scale agentic AI platform Tensormesh launches platform to cut LLM inference costs by reusing KV cache Microsoft scaling Maia custom silicon to multi-gigawatt for own inference DataDome Q3: AI agent traffic hit 25B requests, up 41.5% QoQ SpaceX's \$29B Google compute pact faces early tests Sharon AI signs \$950M five-year cloud deal IMF: AI-exposed occupations saw ~10% drop in employer labor demand since ChatGPT Germany and Nvidia announce industrial AI partnership Santander teams with Nvidia for AI banking lab Volvo expands Nvidia deal after Luminar collapse Nscale in talks to sell ~\$45B of compute to Anthropic Introducing TorchNeuron: Native PyTorch backend for AWS Trainium OpenAI engineer federally charged over hidden recording device Anthropic warns AI models may soon self-replicate Anthropic pre-IPO investor day today Judge orders OpenAI to hand over device images in Apple trade-secret suit Google opens latest AI models to 200 European researchers Google releases Gemini 4 Argon for long-running agent tasks Kansas joins 7 states in suing OpenAI for alleged child harm Grace Hopper Celebration Canceled: A Big Loss For Women In Tech This Year Report: AI Safety Groups Put \$48 Million Into '26 Races AstraZeneca strikes \$40 million AI drug discovery deal with insitro New court filing in SEC-LSU lawsuit includes artificial intelligence disclosure FTC subpoenas OpenAI and Anthropic in escalating AI safety probe India CERT-In: rogue AI agents broke into Indian firms' live systems China proposes 40 AI/biotech/solar techs for export control Germany to unveil Nvidia industrial/physical AI agreement next week Super Intelligence Force first meeting, no new regs yet Microsoft's MAI-Base-2 matches DeepSeek V4 Pro with 12x less compute Apple Intelligence comes to China in December on Alibaba Qwen, without Siri AI Sergey Brin says Google is on the "RSI treadmill" Nvidia unveils 2.8T-token Indic pretraining corpus and open pipeline OpenAI confirms humanoid robot, demo expected 2027 NYC Comptroller urges Anthropic to pause November IPO over safety White House taps FTC's Ferguson to lead AI law-enforcement coordination MIT CSAIL stranded an AI agent on a virtual island for 30 hours NHS: Annalise.ai chest X-ray triage caught Stage 1 lung cancer within 48 hours Anthropic quietly pitches its own AI safety bill to Congress DeepSeek deploys V4.1-Flash-1017 World debuts World ID verification for AI agents Anthropic consulting law firms to teach AI agents negotiation norms One hacker's AI agents breached 100+ websites Microsoft calls for continuous security oversight of enterprise AI agents Anthropic floats draft AEGIS Act for federal AI safety Trump administration bars DeepSeek from federal agencies Dell'Oro: data center physical infra +27% to \$14B Schneider Electric raises 2026 targets on data center demand Microsoft abandons UK AI supercomputer as grid struggles to keep up Why Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Stock Is Trading Lower Today Nutanix + NetApp decouple virtualization refresh from storage Conferences VMware Explore London, Nov 18-19, 2026, 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] Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected] Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok Book offer: Use code SDT for \$20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté Sponsor the show Sponsor more podcasts with Failover Media Recommendations Brandon: You Can See Everything Edited and produced with PodEditor, the native Mac podcast editor.

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 Relevant to your Interests 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 SDT News & Community Join our Slack community Email the show: [email protected] Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected] Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok Book offer: Use code SDT for \$20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté Sponsor the show Sponsor more podcasts with Failover Media Recommendations Brandon: YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING Official Trailer Matt: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running Barkley Marathons BrowserFairy Coté: FileRouter Edited and produced with PodEditor, the native Mac podcast editor.

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 Prash recommends: Handy - Open source voice transcription, similar to Openwhisper but free. Clop - Clipboard media compression. Open source with a paid tier. Mos - Smooth scrolling for third-party mice. Open source. Heynote - Scratchpad for temporary notes. Open source. BetterDisplay - Makes external displays look sharper (Retina-ish) on a Mac. Closed source. HyperKey - Makes keyboard shortcuts easier to use. Closed source. Tinycast - Replaced Raycast and Spotlight. Open source. Alter - Captures meeting notes and action items. Free tier works with local models. Logseq - Second brain and knowledge base. Open source. Brandon built and recommends: entogo - Type a keyword. Go anywhere. Bookmarks without the browsing. 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 Email the show: [email protected] Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected] Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté Sponsor the show Sponsor more podcasts with Failover Media Recommendations Brandon: PodEditor in beta Matt: Fall of Hyperion Coté: Libation.

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 Relevant to your Interests Introducing System One Models & Jev - TypeSafe AI Blog Infinidash: AWS's New Observability Play Has Great Bones and a Terrible Bedside Manner Docker Sandboxes Promotion | Docker How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month 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] Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected] Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté Sponsor the show Sponsor more podcasts with Failover Media Recommendations Brandon: Take a screenshot of a window on Mac Matt: Sydney Marathon Coté: Spacebar in Claude code: run [/voice](https://support.claude.com/en/articles/14554000-claude-code-power-user-) then hold the space bar

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] Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected] Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté Sponsor the show Sponsor more podcasts with Failover Media Recommendations Brandon: YouTube TV new Multiview and Sports Plan Matt: SuperLoop

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 Relevant to your Interests Ferrari on Miro acquisition: 'no small responsibility' Anemo Labs lands £700K to give AI a sense of smell Kenyan Startup Makes Robotic Hands That Translate Teacher's Voice into Signs for Deaf Students New Zuckoff app detects nearby Meta 'perv glasses': 'right to at least know that someone is recording' 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 Email the show: [email protected] Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected] Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté Sponsor the show Sponsor more podcasts with Failover Media Recommendations Brandon: Claude Code Remote Control (rc) command Matt: Mitre saw

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 Relevant to your Interests The AI Engine That Re-Accelerated Snowflake 1Password wades into a right-wing mess after funding a Linux project 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 Email the show: [email protected] Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected] Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté Sponsor the show Sponsor more podcasts with Failover Media Recommendations Brandon: Base Power Matt: Ubiquiti UniFi Express 7 Pole: Wald Aaron: World Summit, Amsterdam Dungeon Crawler Carl YINYOO KBEAR Storm Professional in Ear Monitor Special Guest: Aaron Delp.

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 Relevant to your Interests 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 Nonsense 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 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 Email the show: [email protected] Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected] Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté Sponsor the show Sponsor more podcasts with Failover Media Recommendations Brandon: Violent Ends entogo — Type a keyword. Go anywhere Matt: MeetingBar Futurama - Parasites Lost Coté: NØLSON clothes. Explore videos are up

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 Relevant to your Interests Cursor Origin review: An engineer's perspective Claude can now pull data from your browser tabs and keep working on your desktop 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 Nonsense 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 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 Email the show: [email protected] Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected] Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté Sponsor the show Sponsor more podcasts with Failover Media Recommendations Brandon: Tuner ** Your AI Project Doesn't Need More Agents Matt: Tech, Texas & What It Takes to Run a Podcast with Matt Ray | Cyber Chat Ep. 5 Line of Duty Anti-pick: Roku’s New Slop Channel Coté: Mini MLC, 30L.

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 Relevant to Your Interests Limitless: An AI Podcast | The NVIDIA Bank: Jensen's $500B Wall Street Deal and GPUs as an Asset Class Inside North Korea's Operation to Conquer the American Job Market 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 Listener Feedback Milestone iOS App 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 DevOpsDays Istanbul, Oct 24th, 2026, Coté keynoting. VMware User Group, Orlando, Oct 20-22, 2026 Cloud Native Denmark, Nov 19th, 2026, Copenhagen, Coté keynoting. SCALE 24x Pasadena, CA, April 1-4, 2027 SDT News & Community Join our Slack community Email the show: [email protected] Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected] Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté Sponsor the show Sponsor more podcasts with Failover Media Recommendations Brandon: TextSniper Coté: the dndbeyond.com API for AI: curl -s "https://character-service.dndbeyond.com/character/v5/character/145972701"

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 Relevant to your Interests 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 Sponsors Signadot: making sure AI-written code actually works. Conferences WeAreDevelopers NA, Sept 23-25, 2026, Discount Code: DEVPOD50 25 Free Tickets AI Connect, Aug 22nd, 2026 - Riga, Latvia, 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 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. SCALE 24x Pasadena, CA, April 1-4, 2027 SDT News & Community Join our Slack community Email the show: [email protected] Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected] Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté Sponsor the show Sponsor more podcasts with Failover Media Recommendations Brandon: Furious on Hulu Matt: NearbyWiki Reading Maps Infrastructure Frontiers podcast Coté: IncomphrensibleMedia.com Elgato Teleprompter TelepromterPro+

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 Relevant to your Interests Who's Writing Open Source Code? Satyress Robotics GitHub - mgwalkerjr95/texas-grocery-mcp: MCP server for HEB grocery shopping 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 Is the future of data centers portable? Runware builds a pod to find out 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 Sponsors Signadot: making sure AI-written code actually works. Conferences WeAreDevelopers NA, Sept 23-25, 2026, Discount Code: DEVPOD50 25 Free Tickets AI Connect, Aug 22nd, 2026 - Riga, Latvia, 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 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 Join our Slack community Email the show: [email protected] Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected] Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté Sponsor the show Sponsor more podcasts with Failover Media Recommendations Brandon: Brooks GTS 25 Matt: NearbyWiki Reading Maps Coté: Descript Underlord

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 Relevant to your Interests 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 Sponsors Signadot: making sure AI-written code actually works. Conferences AI Connect, Aug 22nd, 2026 - Riga, Latvia, 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 Join our Slack community Email the show: [email protected] Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected] Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté Sponsor the show Sponsor more podcasts with Failover Media Recommendations Brandon: Silo Season 3 Matt: Hyperion Coté: Cooking with Claude

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 Relevant to your Interests SpaceX, AI Bubble Fears, and The Age of the Trillion-Dollar, Zero-Profit Company Microsoft Frontier Company: AI engineering that amplifies and protects your intelligence Building a CLI for all of Cloudflare California founder fired for ignoring his company's own return-to-office mandate 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% Where AI Works: Slack is the Conversational Interface for Headless AI Salesforce MCP Servers: AI, Data & Analytics for Tableau & Data 360 in Slack IBM and Red Hat launch Lightwell to defend open-source code from AI attacks Infoblox acquires Kentik, adding network observability to its DNS and DDI platform 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 1Password now lets Claude sign in to websites without seeing your passwords 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. 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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 Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Special Guest: Arjun Iyer.