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- Episode 565: Field Engineering is the YOLO team
This week, we discuss big bets gone wrong, OpenAI buying the Python toolchain, and Claude's favorite tools. Plus, how fast should AI agents ship bug fixes?
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 565
Runner-up Titles- Product Management Slot Machine
- We poisoned our own data
- As the resident hater of SDT
- I’m optimistic on this one
- I’ll check back when you call it Siri
- AI SEO
- The Ryan Gosling of Podcasts
Rundown- Big Bets, Past, Present and Future
- Meta decides not to shut down Horizon Worlds on VR after all
- OpenAI Will Shut Down Sora Video App; Disney Drops Plans for $1 Billion Investment
- Amazon's smartphone would be ill-timed: IDC analyst
- Jitterbug Smart4 Smartphone for Seniors
- Python and OpenAI
- Thoughts on OpenAI acquiring Astral and uv/ruff/ty
- OpenAI to acquire Astral | OpenAI
- Security
- TeamPCP Backdoors LiteLLM Versions 1.82.7–1.82.8 via Trivy CI/CD Compromise
- Three’s a Crowd: TeamPCP trojanizes LiteLLM in Continuation of Campaign
- KICS GitHub Action Compromised: TeamPCP Strikes Again in Supply Chain Attack
- Trivy Compromised: Everything You Need to Know about the Latest Supply Chain Attack
- Introducing Wiz AI Application Protection Platform (AI-APP)
- Introducing Wiz Agents & Workflows: Security at the Speed of AI
- AI Runtime Threat Detection: From Input to Real-World Impact
- Claude defaults
- Amplifying — AI Benchmark Research
Relevant to your Interests- Aakash Gupta (@aakashgupta) on X
- Meta is shutting down VR social platform Horizon Worlds in further pivot away from the metaverse
- Government Registers Aliens.Gov Domain
- Instagram to remove end-to-end encryption for private messages in May
- What Is the PARK Stack?
- Federal cyber experts called Microsoft's cloud a "pile of shit," approved it anyway
- Mark Zuckerberg builds AI CEO to help him run Meta
- FCC Updates Covered List to Include Foreign-Made Consumer Routers, Prohibiting Approval of New Models
- Future Casting the Modern Data Stack
- Anthropic says Claude can now use your computer to finish tasks for you in AI agent push
- Today’s layoffs, This note was sent to Epic employees today
- Your wireless router is now banned from sale in the US
- Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features
- Jury orders Meta and Google to pay woman $3 million in social media addiction trial
- Arm is releasing the first in-house chip in its 35-year history
- Arm Launches Own CPU, Arm’s Motivation, Constraints and Systems
- Feature Spotlight: Introducing the Fantastical Connector (MCP) for Claude
Conferences- DevOpsdays Atlanta 2026, April 21-22, 2026
- DevOpsDays Austin, May 5-6, 2026
- WeAreDevelopers, July 8-10, 2026 Berlin, Coté speaking.
- VMware User Groups (VMUGs):
- Minneapolis (April 7-9, 2026)
- Toronto (May 12-14, 2026)
- Dallas (June 9-11, 2026)
- Orlando (October 20-22, 2026)
SDT News & Community- Join our Slack community
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- Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
- Sponsor the show
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Recommendations- Brandon: Project Hail Mary, The Movie
- Matt: From Robert Mueller to Stringer Bell: How the Post-9/11 FBI Drove The Wire
1 hr 4 min - Episode 564: New Token Machines
This week, we discuss NVIDIA GTC, token machines, token budgets, and an AWS outage that may or may not involve AI. Plus, Matt reviews The Wizard of Oz at The Sphere.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 564
Runner-up Titles- Let's T this up.
- One Trillion Dollars
- Leader to laggard
- My terms of service
- Someone should come up with a term
- Networking FOMO
- Slide crimes
- It’s token machines all the way down.
- The Claude-ning
- So why Nemo Cloud?
- You’re just selling token machines
- Billionaire version of Gallagher
- I’ve seen too much
- Upward Replicability
Rundown- NVIDA GTC
- Nvidia bets on AI inference as chip revenue opportunity hits $1 trillion
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang: $1 trillion in chip sales coming
- Keynote at NVIDIA GTC San Jose 2026
- AI Roundup
- Amazon just called an emergency engineering meeting after AI coding tools caused multiple outages.
- 2 Ways to Correct the Financial Times at AWS (So Far)
- Amazon orders 90-day reset after code mishaps cause millions of lost orders
- Microsoft shakes up Copilot AI leadership team, freeing up Suleyman to build new models
- MCP vs. CLI for AI-native development - CircleCI
Relevant to your Interests- YouTube Lays Claim to Another Crown: The World’s Largest Media Company
- The Lobster That Moved $50 Billion
- Amazon is determined to use AI for everything – even when it slows down work
- Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company
- How to Do Code Reviews in the Agentic Era
- Elon Musk Says He's Epically Screwed Up at xAI, Is Rebuilding "From the Foundations"
- The ‘AI-Washing’ of Job Cuts Is Corrosive and Confusing
- Introducing Chainguard Commercial Builds: Secure-by-default containers
- Exclusive: Small publishers hit hardest by search traffic declines
- The State of AI in the Enterprise - 2026 AI report
- Agents Over Bubbles
- "Yes, AI Is a Bubble. There Is No Question."
Listener Feedback- Recap of SCALE 23x with Barton George
Conferences- KubeCon EU, March 23-26, 2026 - Coté will be there on a media pass.
- DevOpsdays Atlanta 2026, April 21-22, 2026
- DevOpsDays Austin, May 5-6, 2026
- WeAreDevelopers, July 8-10, 2026 Berlin, Coté speaking.
- VMware User Groups (VMUGs):
- Minneapolis (April 7-9, 2026)
- Toronto (May 12-14, 2026)
- Dallas (June 9-11, 2026)
- Orlando (October 20-22, 2026)
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:
- Failover Media Newsletter
- Stitch - Design with AI
- Milestone iOS App
- Claude Command: /insights
- Matt:
- Caleb Sasser XOXO 2024
- The McDonald’s Centralia Mural
- MPC app
- Coté:
- Dream Router 7
55 min - Episode 563: Claude Camp
This week, we discuss Claude Code for non-coders, automating newsletters and status reports, and AI tax prep. Plus, Coté finds unexpected joy in a coding assistant.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 563
Runner-up Titles- Upgraded to Max
- The only innovation I was talking about was hiring me.
- The Patrick Stewart of the Cubicles.
- Should we become the Claudecast?
- Matt Ray in Your Pocket.
- Come into the tent
- You have agency in your life
Rundown- Coté went to Claude Camp
- Microsoft and Anthropic team up to bring Claude Cowork to Microsoft 365
- Cursor is rolling out a new kind of agentic coding tool
- Hater Season: Corey Quinn — Better Offline
- Google completes acquisition of Wiz
Relevant to your Interests- I Worked for Block. Its A.I. Job Cuts Aren’t What They Seem.
- Iranian news claims AWS drone strikes were deliberate
- Anthropic Just Won the Enterprise. Here’s What Nobody’s Talking About
- Amazon's Bahrain data center targeted by Iran for support of U.S. military, state media says
- Startups.RIP - Dead YC Startups, Alive Ideas
- Kratix Anywhere: Cloud, On-Prem, and Hybrid Without Compromise
- Meta just bought Moltbook, the social network for AI bots - 9to5Mac
- Amazon holds engineering meeting following AI-related outages
- Oracle is building yesterday’s data centers with tomorrow’s debt
- SUSE Reportedly May Be For Sale Yet Again
- When Using AI Leads to “Brain Fry”
- Oracle is under pressure from more than $100 billion in debt and massive layoffs as it pushes ahead with Larry Ellison’s 3-step transformation
- Oracle is building yesterday’s data centers with tomorrow’s debt
- Oracle Job Cuts
- OpenAI bowed out of the Oracle
- MacBook Neo - Tech Specs
- Code Mode: give agents an entire API in 1,000 tokens
- MacBook Neo - Tech Specs
Nonsense- McDonald’s C.E.O. Takes a Big Bite Out of a Burger. Maybe Scratch ‘Big.’
Conferences- KubeCon EU, March 23-26, 2026 - Coté will be there on a media pass.
- DevOpsdays Atlanta 2026, April 21-22, 2026
- DevOpsDays Austin, May 5-6, 2026
- WeAreDevelopers, July 8-10, 2026 Berlin, Coté speaking.
- VMware User Groups (VMUGs):
- Amsterdam (March 17-19, 2026) - Coté speaking.
- Minneapolis (April 7-9, 2026)
- Toronto (May 12-14, 2026)
- Dallas (June 9-11, 2026)
- Orlando (October 20-22, 2026)
SDT News & Community- Join our Slack community
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- 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:
- Token management with RTK
- Usage for Claude App - App Store
- Coté: Anker MagGo 3-in-1 Wireless Charging Station
1 hr 10 min - Episode 562: Bureaucracy: Still Unsolved
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.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 562
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?
Conferences- Austin Meetup, March 10th, Listener Steve Anness speaking on Grafana
- KubeCon EU, March 23rd to 26th, 2026 - Coté will be there on a media pass.
- DevOpsdays Atlanta 2026, April 21-22, 2026
- DevOpsDays Austin, May 5-6, 2026
- WeAreDevelopers, July 8th to 10th, Berlin, Coté speaking.
- VMware User Groups (VMUGs):
- Amsterdam (March 17-19, 2026) - Coté speaking.
- Minneapolis (April 7-9, 2026)
- Toronto (May 12-14, 2026)
- Dallas (June 9-11, 2026)
- Orlando (October 20-22, 2026)
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:
- Failover Media Newsletter
- Milestone 1.1
- Ski Quiver
- Matt: IKEA MYGGSPRAY motion sensor, TRADFRI LED and RODRET
- Coté: The “Anime Wow” sound. And, related to Brandon’s modernization talk last week.
1 hr 7 min - Episode 561: Two Guys and Their Tokens
This week, we discuss AI-assisted COBOL migrations, the OpenClaw Foundation, and AI killing Office. Plus, is TSA PreCheck Touchless the peak of airport efficiency?
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 561
Runner-up Titles- New’s not good
- He knows how to be retired
- Let Matt Cook
- We don’t have to worry about that Brandon
- You’re that guy
- The stock market feels reactionary
- Siri-Claw
- Foundation Washing
- Give me life-changing money and I’ll have a better take
- Why do I need to pay for power usage?
Rundown- IBM is the latest AI casualty. Shares tank 13% on Anthropic programming language threat
- IBM Crashes 11% as Anthropic Threatens COBOL Empire
- Mechanical Orchard: Half Baked
- OpenClaw, OpenAI and the future
- This Is the Biggest Threat to Microsoft Office I've Ever Seen.
- LibreOffice Online: a fresh start - TDF Community Blog
- Linux 7.0-rc1 Released With Many New Features
Relevant to your Interests- Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway announces it sold 77% of its Amazon
- they hacked CSS
- The A.I. Disruption We’ve Been Waiting for Has Arrived
- YOLO Travel Bookings
- This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby
- The Death of Spotify: Why Streaming is Minutes Away From Being Obsolete
- OpenAI resets spending expectations, tells investors compute target is around $600 billion by 2030
- Cloud and AWS cost consultant Duckbill expands to software, raises $7.75M for new Skyway platform
- Man accidentally gains control of 7,000 robot vacuums
- My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker
Nonsense- GE Profile made a smaller version of its nugget ice maker that needs less counter space
- TSA PreCheck Touchless ID | Delta Air Lines
Listener Feedback- Introducing Agent Plugins for AWS
Conferences- DevOpsDay LA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA
- Use code: DEVOP for 50% off.
- Devnexus 2026, March 4th to 6th, Atlanta, GA.
- Use this 30% off discount code from your pals at Tanzu: DN26VMWARE30.
- Check out the Tanzu and Spring talks and trading cards on THE LANDING PAGE.
- Austin Meetup, March 10th, Listener Steve Anness speaking on Grafana
- KubeCon EU, March 23rd to 26th, 2026 - Coté will be there on a media pass.
- DevOpsdays Atlanta 2026, April 21-22, 2026
- DevOpsDays Austin, May 5 - 6, 2026
- WeAreDevelopers, July 8th to 10th, Berlin, Coté speaking.
- VMware User Groups (VMUGs):
- Amsterdam (March 17-19, 2026) - Coté speaking.
- Minneapolis (April 7-9, 2026)
- Toronto (May 12-14, 2026)
- Dallas (June 9-11, 2026)
- Orlando (October 20-22, 2026)
SDT News & Community- Join our Slack community
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- 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
Recommendations- Brandon: Milestone Birthdays (iOS App)
- Matt: Lupin on Netflix
1 hr 1 min - Episode 560: You Can Feel It Coming
This week, we discuss personal AI hype cycles, bottoms-up adoption, and "The Modern Stack" simplifying cloud. Plus, thoughts on new cars and the dogs that ride in them.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 560
Runner-up Titles- They only talk about AI
- I bet you have 5 shop vacs
- It’s all going into applesauce
- Live Claude Code It
- Good defaults and opinions, nobody wants that
- Give me 5 minutes, and I’ll give you fifty 6 page memos
- I know I just pulled off a Pivotal scab.
- Free Tier as a Service
Rundown- Something Big Is Happening
- OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI
- Modern Stack: Fly.io, Neon, Upstash and Cloudflare
Relevant to your Interests- An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me
- YouTube launches native app for Apple Vision Pro
- Not all cables are born equal, so test your USB cables with these cheap USB testers — these budget-priced tools help you protect your expensive gear from faulty or bad-quality leads
- The Lunduke Journal (@LundukeJournal)
- Video on Apple Podcasts - Apple Podcasts for Creators
- Temporal raises $300M Series D at a $5B valuation as AI drives demand for Durable Execution
- Amazon's Ring cancels Flock partnership amid Super Bowl ad backlash
- Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses
- Anthropic raises $30 billion in Series G funding at $380 billion post-money valuation
- Introducing Sonnet 4.6
Conferences- DevOpsDay LA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA
- Use code: DEVOP for 50% off.
- Devnexus 2026, March 4th to 6th, Atlanta, GA.
- Use this 30% off discount code from your pals at Tanzu: DN26VMWARE30.
- Check out the Tanzu and Spring talks and trading cards on THE LANDING PAGE.
- Shout out to the people who saw the trading cards and messaged me!
- Austin Meetup, March 10th, Listener Steve Anness speaking on Grafana
- KubeCon EU, March 23rd to 26th, 2026 - Coté will be there on a media pass.
- Devopsdays Atlanta 2026, April 21-22, 2026
- DevOpsDays Austin, May 5 - 6, 2026
- WeAreDevelopers, July 8th to 10th, Berlin, Coté speaking.
- VMware User Groups (VMUGs):
- Amsterdam (March 17-19, 2026) - Coté speaking.
- Minneapolis (April 7-9, 2026)
- Toronto (May 12-14, 2026)
- Dallas (June 9-11, 2026)
- Orlando (October 20-22, 2026)
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
Recommendations- Brandon: Ghostty pairs nicely with Claude Code
- Matt: Home Assistant Connect ZBT-2
- Coté: Iron Lung. ChatGPT for upscaling images, like this one.
1 hr 12 min - Episode 559: A series of OODA loops
This week, we discuss the future of SaaS, OpenAI vs. Anthropic strategies, and cloud capex. Plus, when will you let an AI book your flights?
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 559
Runner-up Titles- Do we get to eat Moon Pies?
- Some days it’s just me and the AI
- We have a LinkedIn page
- The state of the world has not gotten better, it’s just moved to Kubernetes
- Trained on the Corpse of Stack Overflow.
- We just have to get the files right
- It is all just files
- It’s all an OODA loop
- Rinse and reply.
- Is Software dead?
- Your margin is my yacht.
- claude-travel.md
- Vegans have morals though
Rundown- DriftlessAF: Introducing Chainguard Factory 2.0
- Is Software dead?
- Clouded Judgement 2.6.26 - Software Is Dead...Again...For Real this Time...Maybe?
- Anthropic’s breakout moment: how Claude won business and shook markets
- Besieged
- The $285 Billion 'SaaSpocalypse' Is the Wrong Panic
- The "whole product" is more relevant than ever
- Cloud Earnings
- Microsoft Q2 earnings beat on top and bottom lines as cloud revenue tops $50 billion, but stock falls
- Microsoft stock plunges as Wall Street questions AI investments
- A day of reckoning for the AI boom
- Oracle says it plans to raise up to $50 billion in debt and equity this year
- Google Earnings Beat. Cloud Computing Momentum Builds Amid Spending Boom
- Amazon stock falls 10% on $200 billion spending forecast, earnings miss
- Amazon’s $200 Billion Spending Plan Raises Stakes in A.I. Race
- [Follow the CAPEX: Cloud Table Stakes 2024 Retrospective](http://(https://platformonomics.com/2025/02/follow-the-capex-cloud-table-stakes-2024-retrospective/)
- Amazon Earnings, CapEx Concerns, Commodity AI
- Google's parent company raises billions of dollars in debt sale
- OpenAI Drama
- Amazon in Talks to Invest Up to $50 Billion in OpenAI
- The $100 Billion Megadeal Between OpenAI and Nvidia Is on Ice
- Sam Altman got exceptionally testy over Claude Super Bowl ads | TechCrunch
- OpenAI will reportedly start testing ads in ChatGPT today
Relevant to your Interests- Deploying Moltbot (Formerly Clawdbot)
- Apple tops Q1 earnings estimates on record-breaking iPhone sales
- Clouded Judgement 1.30.26 - Software is Dead...Again!
- Leaders, gainers, and unexpected winners in the Enterprise AI arms race
- All Enterprise software is dead
- The Dumbest Thing I’ve Seen This Week
- SpaceX acquires xAI in record-setting deal as Musk looks to unify AI and space ambitions
- AWS destiny: becoming the next Lumen
- CloudBees CEO: Why Migration Is a Mirage Costing You Millions
- Xcode 26.3 unlocks the power of agentic coding
- The world is trying to log off U.S. tech
- Anthropic's newest AI model uncovered 500 zero-day software flaws in testing
- DHH on OpenClaw
- Adam Jacob really likes AI code generation
- Cautionary Tales – The WOW Machine Stops (Part 2)
- Kyndryl Shares Halved Amid CFO Departure, Accounting Review
- Our $200M Series C / Oxide
- Presentations — Benedict Evans
- Matrix messaging gaining ground in government IT
- Hello Entire World · Entire Blog
- Former GitHub CEO raises record $60M dev tool seed round at $300M valuation
- From magic to malware: How OpenClaw's agent skills become an attack surface
Nonsense- What If the Sensors on Your Car Were Inspecting Potholes for the Government? Honda Found Out
- Superbowl Ad 404
Conferences- DevOpsDay LA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA
- Use code: DEVOP for 50% off.
- Devnexus 2026, March 4th to 6th, Atlanta, GA.
- Use this 30% off discount code from your pals at Tanzu: DN26VMWARE30.
- Check out the Tanzu and Spring talks and trading cards on THE LANDING PAGE.
- Austin Meetup, March 10th, Open Lakehouse and AI — Listener Steve Anness speaking
- KubeCon EU, March 23rd to 26th, 2026 - Coté will be there on a media pass.
- Devopsdays Atlanta 2026. April 21-22
- VMware User Groups (VMUGs):
- Amsterdam (March 17-19, 2026) - Coté speaking.
- Minneapolis (April 7-9, 2026)
- Toronto (May 12-14, 2026)
- Dallas (June 9-11, 2026)
- Orlando (October 20-22, 2026)
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
Recommendations- Brandon: YouTube TV plans launch this week
- Matt:
- Send Help
- Steal
- Coté:
- AI, open source, talent, and more, live at cfgmgmtcamp 2026, with Andrew Clay Shafer
- Tapistry
1 hr 11 min - Episode 558: Tara Raj on Amazon Nova Act
Brandon interviews Tara Raj, Senior Engineering Manager at the Amazon AGI Lab. They dive into her journey into the world of AGI, how Nova Act is streamlining complex workflows, and the steps to deploying your very own Normcore Agent. Plus, Tara finally settles the heated debate: Flat vs. Curved monitors.
Show Links- Amazon Nova Act
Contact Tara Raj- LinkedIn: Tara Raj
- Twitter: @tara_amzn
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Special Guest: Tara Raj.
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- Amazon: Accelerate UI workflow automation with Nova Act
47 min - Episode 557: Moltbot Maximists
This week, we discuss Moltbot (née Clawdbot) taking over, Apple’s new AirTags, and finding Enterprise AI ROI. Plus, the tragic demise of the TV dinner.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 557
Runner-up Titles- The Podcasters’ Choice
- I was biding my time
- I just want to sell something I believe in
- What if you didn’t get chard
- Chard as a Service
- Let’s be cool
- The Human League
- Spinning tapes talking to each other
- Artisanal tape dispensers
- Buying into the Panopticon
- Why should only Facebook know where I am?
- Root access to your life
- The AirTag Family Circus comic
- Jar of Airtags
- Hold my beer open source
- The Value of AI is intuitively obvious
- OK, we’re done. Talk to you guys next week.
Rundown- Clawdbot Rebrands to Moltbot After Trademark Request From Anthropic - Laravel News
- Clawdbot users are snapping up the Mac Mini — and it’s under $500 at Amazon
- Enterprise AI ROI is still elusive. What IT can do to fix it. It's not "culture."
- Apple Silicon machine learning code may become more easily portable to Nvidia hardware
- Apple introduces new AirTag with expanded range and improved findability
- MFi Program
- Cords, Cyborgs & Cold Cases: Grandpa Dancy’s Operating System for Life
- Anthropic launches interactive Claude apps, including Slack and other workplace tools
- AMD Quietly Funded A Drop-In CUDA Implementation Built On ROCm: It's Now Open-Source
Relevant to your Interests- On Running a Startup of Claude Code Agents: What You Get For a Billion Tokens a Month
- Hundreds of Millions of Audio Devices Need a Patch to Prevent Wireless Hacking and Tracking
- Guiding the future of Chainguard OS: Announcing the FUD Committee
- Andy Jassy on Healthcare
- Betting on Prediction Markets Is Their Job. They Make Millions.
- How Intel Came Crashing Back to Earth After Its Trump Bump
- Intel Shares Slide as Costs Pile Up in Bid to Meet AI Demand
- Querying and Ingest issues in EU
- The A.I. Start-Up Soap Opera Riveting Silicon Valley
Listener Feedback- Aaron Delp is hiring for a Technical Marketing Engineer in the EU. ,more in Slack
Conferences- cfgmgmtcamp 2026, February 2nd to 4th, Ghent, BE.
- Coté speaking, live SDI recording with Andrew Clay Shafer.
- DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA
- Use code: DEVOP for 50% off.
- Devnexus 2026, March 4th to 6th, Atlanta, GA.
- Use this 30% off discount code from your pals at Tanzu: DN26VMWARE30.
- I was going to moderate this panel, but now I’m not. Also, this one. They’ll be super-cool!
- KubeCon EU, March 23rd to 26th, 2026 - Coté will be there on a media pass.
- VMware User Groups (VMUGs):
- Amsterdam (March 17-19, 2026) - Coté speaking.
- Minneapolis (April 7-9, 2026)
- Toronto (May 12-14, 2026)
- Dallas (June 9-11, 2026)
- Orlando (October 20-22, 2026)
SDT News & Community- Join our Slack community
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- The Cloudpod
- Grizzlies Owner Robert Pera Linked to Russia's "Crimes Against Humanity"
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- Coté: CNCF Annual Survey for 2025, I finally read it closely-ish.
1 hr 4 min - Episode 556: This Conversation is Hardened
This week, we discuss the end of Cloud 1.0, AI agents fixing old apps, and Chainguard vs. Docker images. Plus, the mystery of Dutch broth is finally solved.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 556
Runner-up Titles- His overall deal
- Been there and done that
- been ignoring that shift key for years
- Cloud is just fine
- I’ll be back in Bartertown
- The “F” Word
- Hardened-washing
- We’ll never do this, but we should check back in in 3 months
- Libraries are the best
- Elves don’t belong in space
Rundown- Are we at the end of cloud or cloud 1.0
- It's the beginning of Cloud 2.0
- Spec-driven development system for Claude Code
- Anthropic and App Modernization
- A meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven development
- What comes next, if Claude Code is as good as people say.
- Microsoft Spending on Anthropic Approaches $500 Million a Year
- Claude Code Won't Fix Your Life
- Coté and Tony contemplate day two AI-generated apps, and an excerpt.
- Why We've Tried to Replace Developers Every Decade Since 1969
- Well, that escalated quickly: Zero CVEs, lots of vendors
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- Our approach to advertising and expanding access to ChatGPT
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- An Interview with United CEO Scott Kirby About Tech Transformation
Conferences- cfgmgmtcamp 2026, February 2nd to 4th, Ghent, BE.
- Coté speaking - anyone interested in being an SDI guest?
- DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA
- Use code: DEVOP for 50% off.
- Devnexus 2026, March 4th to 6th, Atlanta, GA.
- Use this 30% off discount code from your pals at Tanzu: DN26VMWARE30.
- KubeCon EU, March 23rd to 26th, 2026 - Coté will be there on a media pass.
- VMware User Groups (VMUGs):
- 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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Recommendations- Brandon: The Library will loan you a 5G hotspot
- Matt: Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor (rogue-like Vampire Hunters-type game)
- Coté: Streamyard shorts generation. Salesforce was inspired by dolphins.
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