Software Defined Talk

Episode 516: Vibe Strategy


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This week, we discuss Google being found to be a monopoly, OpenAI’s “offer” to buy Chrome, and some hot takes on JSON. Plus, is it better to wait on hold or ask for a callback?

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Runner-up Titles
  • Just Fine
  • The SDT “Fine” Scale
  • Callback
  • Asynchronous Friendship
  • I would love to get to know you better…over text
  • Send you Jams to the dry cleaners.
  • JSON
  • Take it xslt-easy!
  • Rundown
    • OpenAI
      • OpenAI in talks to pay about $3 billion to acquire AI coding startup Windsurf
      • The Cursor Mirage
      • AI is for Tinkerers
      • Vibe Coding is for PMs
      • OpenAI releases new simulated reasoning models with full tool access
      • Clouded Judgement 4.18.25 - The Hidden Value in the AI Application Layer
      • OpenAI tells judge it would buy Chrome from Google
      • The Creators of Model Context Protocol
      • Judge finds Google holds illegal online ad tech monopolies
      • Intuit, Owner of TurboTax, Wins Battle Against America’s Taxpayers
      • Relevant to your Interests
        • Switch 2 Carts Still Taste Bad, Designed Purposefully To Be Spat Out
        • CEO Andy Jassy’s 2024 Letter to Shareholders
        • Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says AI costs will come down
        • Happy 18th Birthday CUDA!
        • Honeycomb Acquires Grit: A Strategic Investment in Pragmatic AI and Customer Value
        • Everything Announced at Google Cloud Next in 12 Minutes
        • GitLab vs GitHub : Key Differences in 2025
        • Old Fashioned Function Keys
        • Fake job seekers are flooding U.S. companies that are hiring for remote positions,
        • NetRise raises $10M to expand software supply chain security platform
        • Mark Zuckerberg’s antitrust testimony aired his wildest ideas from Meta’s history
        • How Much Should I Be Spending On Observability?
        • Did we just make platform engineering much easier by shipping a cloud IDP?
        • Google Cloud Next 2025: Agentic AI Stack, Multimodality, And Sovereignty
        • iPhone Shipments Down 9% in China's Q1 Smartphone Boom
        • Exclusive: Anthropic warns fully AI employees are a year away
        • Synology requires self-branded drives for some consumer NAS systems, drops full functionality and support for third-party HDDs
        • Porting Tailscale to Plan 9
        • CVE Foundation
        • The Cursor Mirage
        • There's a Lot of Bad Telemetry Out There
        • Gee Wiz
        • Nonsense
          • Silicon Valley crosswalk buttons hacked to imitate Musk, Zuckerberg's voices
          • A Visit to Costco in France
          • No sweat: Humanoid robots run a Chinese half-marathon
          • Metre, a consistent measurement of the world
          • Conferences
            • DevOps Days Atlanta, April 29th-30th.
            • KCD Texas Austin 2025, May 15th, Whitney Lee Speaking.
            • Cloud Foundry Day US, May 14th, Palo Alto, CA, Coté speaking.
            • Free AI workshop, May 13th. day before Cloud Foundry Day.
            • NDC Oslo, May 21st-23th, Coté speaking.
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              • Recommendations
                • Brandon: Dope Thief on Apple TV
                • Coté: Check out the recording of the Tanzu Annual update, all about Tanzu’s private AI platform. Next, watch Coté’s new MCP for D&D video (#4) figures out something cool to do with MCP Prompts, they make sense now. And, a regret-a-mmendation: Fields Notes annual subscription.
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