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- Episode 595: The Silent Disco
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
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1 hr 15 min - Kleenex Box
- Episode 594: The Bottom Fell Out Of The Software Industry
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
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48 min - Lightweight Mark Zuckerberg
- Episode 593: Markdown for the Masses
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.
1 hr 7 min - Episode 592: Don't Think for Me
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
1 hr 1 min - Episode 591: Fall Down With the Ball
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
59 min - Episode 590: Transparency will save usTransparency 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
Sponsored By:
- 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
53 min - Episode 589: He's the Heel
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?
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- Apple’s iPhone Duo
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- 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
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Promo Code: DEVPOD5059 min - Episode 588: Check Your Bank Accounts
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
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Promo Code: DEVPOD5056 min - Episode 587: The Singularity Didn't Happen on the First
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
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Promo Code: DEVPOD501 hr 8 min - Episode 586: Watermark Away, Baby
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
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- 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
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Promo Code: DEVPOD501 hr 1 min
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