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Episode 562: Bureaucracy: Still Unsolved

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This week. we discuss Claude Code's momentum, Cursor's identity crisis, and the SDLC's uncertain future. Plus, Coté finally explains how Markdown is destroying the economy.

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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?
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