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October 23Episode 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?
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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
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1 hr 15 min
October 16Episode 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
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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
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Matt: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
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BrowserFairy
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48 min
October 09Episode 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
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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
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Email the show: [email protected]
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Brandon: PodEditor in beta
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Coté: Libation.
1 hr 7 min
October 02Episode 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
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Recommendations
Brandon: Take a screenshot of a window on Mac
Matt: Sydney Marathon
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1 hr 1 min
September 25Episode 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
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59 min
September 18Episode 590: Transparency will save us
Transparency 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
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53 min
September 11Episode 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
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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.
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September 04Episode 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.
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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
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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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August 28Episode 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.
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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
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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
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August 21Episode 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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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
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