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- 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
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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]
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- Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky
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- 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
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- 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?
- 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.
Sponsored By:
- WeAreDevelopers US: WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America Sept 23–25, San José, CA
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
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
Sponsored By:
- WeAreDevelopers US: WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America Sept 23–25, San José, CA
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
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.
Sponsored By:
- WeAreDevelopers US: WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America Sept 23–25, San José, CA
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
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"
Sponsored By:
- WeAreDevelopers US: WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America Sept 23–25, San José, CA
Promo Code: DEVPOD501 hr 1 min - Episode 585: I'm not a total AI hater, I'm a finance hater
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
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- 25 Free Tickets
- AI Connect, Aug 22nd, 2026 - Riga, Latvia, Coté speaking.
- DevOpsDays Graz, Sept 4-5, 2026
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- 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
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- Reading Maps
- Infrastructure Frontiers podcast
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- WeAreDevelopers US: WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America Sept 23–25, San José, CA
Promo Code: DEVPOD501 hr 5 min - Episode 584: It’s All God Throwing Dice
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
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Recommendations- Brandon: Brooks GTS 25
- Matt: NearbyWiki
- Reading Maps
- Coté: Descript Underlord
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- WeAreDevelopers US: WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America Sept 23–25, San José, CA
Promo Code: DEVPOD5049 min - Episode 583: HuggingFace make me gazpacho
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
Sponsored By:
- Signadot: AI writes code. Signadot make sure it works.
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