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Episode 553: 2025 Year in Review

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This week, we review our 2025 predictions, discuss the big stories, and speculate on 2026. Plus, Coté dives deep into the EU broth market.

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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.
              • 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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                  • Coté: AirPods Pro 3

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