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Our APIs Are Still Bad: Rethinking APIs for the Agent Era with Sterling Chin

Nov 6, 2026 1 hr 3 min

Brandon talks with Sterling Chin, founder of Sannr, about tribal knowledge for coding agents, MCP's growing pains, and agent-first APIs. Plus, does Houston out-culture San Francisco? SHOW LINKS Sannr Sannr Docs Sannr Findings: carrying API knowledge between agent sessions MARVIN: AI chief of staff for Claude Code SDT 523: Sterling's previous appearance Code TV episode with OpenAI and Twilio AGNTCon + MCPCon North America Agentic AI Foundation Code Mode: the better way to use MCP Varlock Contact Sterling Chin: LinkedIn: sterlingchin Twitter/X: @SilverJaw82 Bluesky: @sterlingchin.bsky.social GitHub: SterlingChin Website: sterlingchin.com SDT News & Community Join our Slack community Email the show: questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com Free stickers: Email your address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com 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 Edited and produced with PodEditor, the native Mac podcast editor. Special Guest: Sterling Chin.

So Much for the Embargo

Oct 30, 2026 55 min

This week, we discuss Chainguard breaking the PHP embargo, Anthropic's S-1, and betting AI gets exponentially better. Plus, when do kids age out of trick-or-treating? Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 596 Runner-up Titles That’s not my problem I’m here for the drama What is he, Mr. Peanut? Private equity Halloween Responsible Disclosure minus Chainguard The conspiracy theory is actually real Cursor ride or die They’re betting \$80B it’s got legs I’m long on bureaucracy Kicked out of the WhatsApp group Officially on the naughty list Wheres my bug bounty Going on vacation send money The most famous of last words Very bad at exponential thinking Nobody codes by hand anymore Putting it under a mattress Were not using the same software Human beings are not needed Rundown PHP2Shell and the Broken Embargo Today's PHP Security Release, and How We're Strengthening PHP Security PHP blames Chainguard for putting huge chunks of the web at risk Dan Lorenc on the PHP embargo and Chainguard shipping fixed builds early PHP2Shell: AI-discovered flaws put ~70% of websites at risk of takeover Cognition's open-source Devin plugin patches PHP2Shell, Node.js, GitLab flaws Linux kernel vulnerabilities accidentally posted to public mailing list CRA Reporting Obligations Start September 2026: What EOL Dependencies Mean It's OK not to embargo Anthropic's S-1 Anthropic Reveals 14-Fold Increase in Growth Ahead of I.P.O. Anthropic: Benchmarking the S-1 Data Anthropic S-1 Analysis: How 7 Key Metrics Stack Up Anthropic's IPO prospectus could go public as early as today Anthropic files its S-1 to IPO under ticker ANT Anthropic's draft IPO prospectus: ~\$450B in mostly noncancelable cloud deals OpenAI racing to raise ~\$30B at \$1.4T valuation ahead of Anthropic's IPO Cathedral's AI agents breached Anthropic's business systems in under 12 hours DeepSeek raises $15Bat~$74B, accelerates Shanghai listing to early 2027 AI Capex vs. AI Payoff Meta seeks ~\$95B for AI buildout; Nvidia...

The Silent Disco

Oct 23, 2026 1 hr 14 min

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...

The Bottom Fell Out Of The Software Industry

Oct 16, 2026 47 min

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 mar...

Markdown for the Masses

Oct 9, 2026 1 hr 6 min

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 stea...

Don't Think for Me

Oct 2, 2026 1 hr 0 min

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 Co...

Fall Down With the Ball

Sep 25, 2026 58 min

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, 20...

Transparency will save us

Sep 18, 2026 52 min

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 —...

He's the Heel

Sep 11, 2026 58 min

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 Ti...

Check Your Bank Accounts

Sep 4, 2026 55 min

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 Tic...

The Singularity Didn't Happen on the First

Aug 28, 2026 1 hr 7 min

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 con...

Watermark Away, Baby

Aug 21, 2026 1 hr 0 min

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 th...

I'm not a total AI hater, I'm a finance hater

Aug 14, 2026 1 hr 4 min

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 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....

It’s All God Throwing Dice

Aug 7, 2026 48 min

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...

HuggingFace make me gazpacho

Jul 31, 2026 1 hr 3 min

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 D...

Talking About Modernization

Jul 24, 2026 1 hr 6 min

This week, we discuss Bun's move to Rust, OpenAI hunting for revenue, and Stripe's bid for PayPal. Plus, Coté's Dad wisdom. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 582 Runner-up Titles Turn off my dog Dad Wisdom Amazon subscription and let it fly Dad box Talking about modernization Skin in the game The ivory tower of “Things Actually Work in the Real World” Business fortnight No SegwaysBanking works everywhere else in the world, not America Rundown Rewriting Bun in Rust OpenAI OpenAI's No. 2 Executive to Step Down in Latest Leadership Shake-up OpenAI's Chief Futurist Is Leaving the Company AI Devices Are Coming. Will Your Favorite Apps Be Along for the Ride? OpenAI Executive Kevin Weil Is Leaving the Company OpenAI power consolidates under co-founder Greg Brockman ahead of prospective IPO Barret Zoph is out at OpenAI again after just five months Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets OpenAI Appears to Be Missing Its Sales Goals by a Vast Margin Stripe, Advent make $53 billion takeover offer for PayPal, sending stock soaring Relevant to your Interests SpaceX, AI Bubble Fears, and The Age of the Trillion-Dollar, Zero-Profit Company Microsoft Frontier Company: AI engineering that amplifies and protects your intelligence Building a CLI for all of Cloudflare California founder fired for ignoring his company's own return-to-office mandate Samsung chip division's single-year profits beat its past 40 years of profits, combined Did a lottery winner become "the company of the future"? Power company hikes data center bills by 30%, cuts residential electricity costs by 1.3% Where AI Works: Slack is the Conversational Interface for Headless AI Salesforce MCP Servers: AI, Data & Analytics for Tableau & Data 360 in Slack IBM and Red Hat launch Lightwell to defend open-source code from AI attacks Infoblox acquires Kentik, adding network observability to its DNS and DDI platform Apple 'Hide My Email' Vulnerability Reveals Peoples' Real Email A...

Arjun Iyer on Shipping Faster with Ephemeral Environments and AI Agents

Jul 17, 2026 51 min

Brandon interviews Arjun Iyer, CEO & Co-founder of Signadot. They discuss how Ephemeral Environments eliminate developer toil by shifting validation earlier in the dev cycle, how Signadot's MCP server lets AI coding agents run end-to-end tests autonomously, and real-world results including Brex saving $2M in cloud spend. Plus, how Cisco bought AppDynamics for ~$4 billion the day before their IPO. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 581 Show Links Signadot Free Trial Brex Case Study Signadot Documentation Overview Contact Arjun Iyer LinkedIn: Arjun Iyer Twitter: @arjuniyer_ SDT News & Hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Special Guest: Arjun Iyer.

Varlock: Bringing Order to the Chaos of Environment Variables

Jul 10, 2026 54 min

Every project has environment variables. Almost nobody manages them well. This week Brandon talks with Phil Miller and Theo Ephraim, who built varlock to fix that — bringing structure and security to the humble .env file. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 580 Show Links: varlock.dev varlock on GitHub @env-spec Overview DMNO (corporate site) Varlock MCP Server (docs) howtostore.food — Theo's side project on the best way to store produce unsafeharbour.com — Phil's music label Nautical Artifacts on Bandcamp bumpy Contact Phil Miller: LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/themillman Email: phil@varlock.dev Music: unsafeharbour.com Contact Theo Ephraim: LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/theo-ephraim Website: theoephraim.com Twitter/X: @theozero Bluesky: @theozero.bsky.social Email: theo@varlock.dev General Contact: hello@varlock.dev hello@dmno.dev Varlock Community Varlock Discord — Chat with the team and other users GitHub Discussions — Suggestions, questions, and feature requests varlock on GitHub — Star the project and follow updates Varlock on X Varlock on Bluesky SDT News & Community Join our Slack community Email the show: questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com Free stickers: Email your address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com 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 Special Guests: Phil Miller and Theo Ephraim.

The Headless Lifestyle

Jul 3, 2026 1 hr 11 min

This week, we discuss Anthropic's 18-day Fable timeout, whether AI is actually killing jobs, and OpenAI's trillion-dollar IPO problem. Plus, SoftBank's golden goose slides. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 579 Runner-up Titles Everything is Files It’s just about meetings Did you do the pre-meet? Meetings Judgement Let it ride If it’s hot, turn on the AC I don’t have time for a towel. Headless HEB Rundown I was fired by Google for creating the Google Workspace CLI Fable is Back White House lifts export control on advanced AI model from Anthropic Trump administration lifts restrictions on Anthropic's Fable 5 OpenAI and Anthropic limit new AI models to Trump-approved customers during cybersecurity review AI News of the Month - June 2026 AI is NOT killing jobs Ford rehires ‘gray beard’ engineers after AI falls short AWS puts $1 billion into new AI unit to embed engineers with customers A New Look at AI’s Impact on Jobs The Unstoppable Force of A.I. Hype Is Meeting One Immovable Fact Cloudflare Acquires VoidZero to Build the Future of the AI-Native Web OpenAI Leans Toward Waiting Until Next Year for I.P.O. SoftBank’s slides are just trolling us The PDF of the Slides Relevant to your Interests The Australians fighting AI slop in open-source code Axios Future of Cybersecurity Thought Bubble SpaceX Is Getting Fast-Tracked Into Indexes. Ordinary Investors Could Lose Out. News Flash: You Are the Exit Liquidity for the SpaceX IPO Cerebras Systems Announces Strong First Quarter 2026 Results The AI Compass T-Mobile appears to be quitting VMware Listener Feedback Introducing Omnigent: A Meta-Harness to Combine, Control and Share Your Agents Conferences WeAreDevelopers Europe, July 8-10, 2026 Berlin, 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...

War for Talent

Jun 26, 2026 1 hr 4 min

This week, we discuss Fable follow-up, Gartner's AI Governance MQ, and the war for AI talent. Plus, Matt and Brandon review Disclosure Day. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 578 Runner-up Titles Ready to podcast from a sailboat It’s just people fighting Calculator budget Ask Siri to do your homework Software Defined Consulting: SDC The Magic Platform AI Curious I watched ALLLLL the keynotes. I don’t know that, but I know that You gotta stay to vest Brandon, remember Cursor? Educated Hater Rundown Gartner Magic Quadrant for AI Governance Platforms IBM recognized as a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for AI Governance Platforms  What is an "AI Governance Platform? AI Consolidates Talent Alphabet paces for worst day in a year on AI concerns after high-profile exits OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic's pre-training team Supercharge your cloud operations with the Kiro power for AWS DevOps Agent Relevant to your Interests Intel ex-CEO Pat Gelsinger joins faith-focused tech firm Gloo Explore more than a decade of survey data across markets Did Slate Accidentally Reveal Its Electric Truck Price? Shocking MSRP Apparently The Real Reason Anthropic’s Models Are Offline: A Six-Year-Old Trump Grudge Introducing Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS 'Fix this code.' The three words that led the U.S. government to ban … Hyundai takes full control of Boston Dynamics as SoftBank exits for $325 million Opinion | The Secret Reason Bosses Want Everyone Back in the Office, Every Day of the Week Meta Exposed Data Internally From Its Controversial Employee-Tracking Program Chevron to fuel massive Microsoft data center in Texas using natural gas Getty Images Soars 200% in Early Trading After OpenAI Deal U.S.-Backed Chipmaking Startup Chaired by Former Intel CEO Is Raising $350 Million OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control: AWS Lambda introduces MicroVMs Anthropic’s Claude Tag is learning yo...

Let’s go to Buc-ee’s

Jun 19, 2026 1 hr 0 min

This week, we discuss the Fable ban, SpaceX's $60B Cursor buy, and why Lovable wins when AI picks your stack. Plus, Europeans are at the World Cup and already drank Boston dry. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 577 Runner-up Titles Waited out the storm Maybe we should build some castles or something Years of lawsuits ahead of us The ultimate dream AI SEO I hope you’re paid by the hour Always be monitoring to me Rundown Anthropic How Amazon and the White House ended Anthropic's Fable Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 Dario Amodei — Policy on the AI Exponential Cursor Live Updates: Elon Musk Becomes World’s First Trillionaire as SpaceX Starts Trading SpaceX to acquire Cursor for $60B in stock, days after blockbuster IPO Vibe Coding Lovable says it has hit $500M in annualized revenue, with 1 million new projects a week Vibe-coding phenomenon lifts AI startup Supabase to $10.5 billion valuation Database startup Supabase raises $500 million $10.5 billion valuation curl summer of bliss Relevant to your Interests Grep this: Microsoft grafts (most) Linux commands onto Windows apple/container The Virtual OS Museum YouTube has eclipsed Netflix in viewership via (@lucas_shaw) OpenAI to acquire Ona Keycap Quarry – Artisan Keycaps for Mechanical Keyboards Mark Zuckerberg Orders His Employees to Start Having Fun Again Why is Meta destroying its engineering organization? VCs behaving badly Databricks Agrees to Acquire Panther Sponsors Sentry - Quit Buggin': use code sdt26 for $100 in credit for new customers Nonsense The AI coding agent that runs on stolen Chipotle compute Minesweeper 3D No Guess – Free 3D Browser Game | Logic Solver Fly around the world (Experimental) | Google Earth | Google for Developers Commodore’s newest gadget is a flip phone that blocks social media and browsers Conferences WeAreDevelopers Europe, July 8-10, 2026 Berlin, Coté speaking. DevOpsDays Graz, Sept 4-5, 2026 Cloud Foundry...

Observability's Next Phase

Jun 12, 2026 48 min

Brandon talks with OpenObserve's Prabhat Sharma and Shani Shoham: why observability is still broken, how they fixed it, and where AI takes it next. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 576 Show Links OpenObserve OpenObserve on GitHub Series A and Observability 3.0 announcement blog post Launching OpenObserve OpenObserve 2-Minute Demo Download OpenObserve Contact Prabhat Sharma LinkedIn: hiprabhat Twitter/X: @hiprabhat Contact Shani Shoham LinkedIn: shanishoham Twitter: @shohams SDT News & Hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Special Guests: Prabhat Sharma and Shani Shoham.

UI blizzard

Jun 5, 2026 1 hr 1 min

This week, we discuss NVIDIA going consumer, Microsoft Build, and the Anthropic/OpenAI IPO race. Plus, does credit card insurance work? Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 575 Runner-up Titles Who Wins AI? Models vs. Middleware Jensen After Dark Once again, robots Why is this something you talk about in a keynote? Could this have been an app? Defeating Apple, the sword in the stone Your tokens are my margin Prisons, schools and military - what is the Venn diagram? Every enterprise is unhappy in their own way Rundown Nvidia NVIDIA and Microsoft Reinvent Windows PCs for the Age of Personal AI Nvidia's N1X Apple Silicon rival is two years behind Nvidia, Microsoft, and Arm are all teasing Nvidia's new N1X laptop processors Blackstone and Google launch $5B TPU cloud venture with 500MW of AI capacity AI server demand drives staggering revenue growth for Dell and its stock soars Microsoft Build Microsoft Build 2026: Be yourself at work Microsoft Build Live Blog Microsoft admits its "infuriating" floating AI button was a mistake OpenAI and Anthropic Go Public Anthropic Files to Go Public, Setting Stage for Huge I.P.O. OpenAI Prepares to File to Go Public in Coming Weeks How Anthropic Got So Big, So Fast Anthropic and SpaceX compute OpenAI launches new Codex tools for white-collar work OpenAI Hires ServiceNow CMO Colin Fleming to Lead Business Marketing Push Wiz + Anthropic: Claude Enterprise Meets the Security Graph Relevant to your Interests Grafana breach caused by missed token rotation after TanStack attack GitHub Got Hacked. The AI Security Arms Race is Here Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked SpaceX not the behemoth everyone thought Spotify adds AI-powered Q&A and briefing generation features to podcasts Amazon Web Services - Four Years and Out + AWS Fired the One Employee Who Gave a Damn Introducing UniFi 5G Backup AI Generated Summaries WSJ: How I Choose Which Cloudflare Employees to Repla...

Nobody Wants to Be a Measurer

May 29, 2026 1 hr 1 min

This week, we discuss the Cloudflare CEO's op-ed, upcoming tech IPOs and GitHub getting breached. Plus, ranking our favorite manifestos. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 574 Runner-up Titles We’re not making money so we can’t put in place the enshitification strategy. Go easy on the AI I hope they’re not using PowerPoint in the Vatican I didn’t’ come here to talk about the Pope I should take more showers I came to measure and chew bubblegum Matt Ray Dalio is not a wave rider. Usability golf No dependencies, no problems Peak Software We are a safe haven for measures Tools and Rules Rundown Layoffs How do AI Layoffs Work? Some Speculation. How I Choose Which Cloudflare Employees to Replace With AI Revenue and IPO Anthropic is paying SpaceX $15 billion per year OpenAI Prepares to File to Go Public in Coming Weeks SpaceX TAM - $28.5 trillion. US GDP - $31 trillion. GitHub Got Hacked. The AI Security Arms Race is Here NHS Pulls OSS Wiz + Anthropic: Claude Enterprise Meets the Security Graph | Wiz Blog Relevant to your Interests Grafana breach caused by missed token rotation after TanStack attack Introducing UniFi 5G Backup SpaceX not the behemoth everyone thought Microsoft admits its "infuriating" floating AI button was a mistake Microsoft admits forcing the floating Copilot button on Office users was a mistake—but engagement went up anyway IBM and U.S. Department of Commerce Announce America’s First Purpose-Built Quantum Foundry, Supported by Proposed $1 Billion CHIPS Award Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code discovered to date" Blackstone and Google launch $5B TPU cloud venture with 500MW of AI capacity What It Takes to Preserve Floppy Disks U.S. companies have an AI problem. Indian IT wants to be the solution Audio-generation app Huxe, founded by former NotebookLM developers, shuts down Spotify adds AI-powered Q&A and briefing generation features to podcasts Sponsors Sentry - Quit Buggin': use code sdt26 for $100 in credit for...

How many quadrillions in a Googol?

May 22, 2026 1 hr 2 min

This week, we discuss Google I/O, the OpenAI soap opera, and ChatGPT going full financial advisor. Plus, thoughts on improving the conference hallway track. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 573 Runner-up Titles Stupid Macs I like my idea What was I thinking? Opt-in AI Kentucky Derby’s this Weekend It’s a low plateau There’s no vibe in X-Code Matt’s trading with AI Everyone’s watching Rundown Google I/O A new era for AI Search All the news from the Google I/O 2026 Developer keynote I/O 2026: Welcome to the agentic Gemini era AI Stuff Elon Musk lost his case against Sam Altman Greg Brockman Officially Takes Control of OpenAI’s Products in Latest Shake-Up OpenAI launches ChatGPT for personal finance, will let you connect bank accounts Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy, former Tesla AI leader Relevant to your Interests Datacenter NIMBYism: What Did You Think Was Going to Happen? Cerebras raises $5.5B, then stock pops $108%, in the first huge tech IPO of 2026 Andreessen Horowitz Is Spending on Politics Like No Other Cisco announces record revenue and 4,000 layoffs in the same day Amazon ditches Rufus chatbot, launches Alexa shopping agent in AI strategy pivot Open source tool maker Grafana Labs says hackers stole its code, refuses to pay ransom Anthropic has acquired the dev tools startup used by OpenAI, Google, and Cloudflare From Open Source Software to Open Source Strategy CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on Github Shai-Hulud Returns: npm Worm hits @antv in latest ongoing campaign Intel CEO says foundry business is gaining momentum as customer interest grows Removing the Modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 Hybrid Sponsors WebRTC.ventures – Real-time communication & Voice AI integration Sentry - use the code: sdt26 for $100 in Sentry credits for new users Nonsense "solutions architects" in 2026 Conferences WeAreDevelopers Europe, July 8-10, 2026 Berlin, Coté speaking. DevOpsDays Graz, Sept 4-5, 2026 DevOpsDays Rockies, Sept. 22...

The world isn’t curl

May 15, 2026 1 hr 0 min

This week, we discuss how security gets sold to execs, where agentic coding and security collide, and Cloudflare vs. Datadog's diverging paths. Plus, Coté weighs in on sugar cookies. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 572 Runner-up Titles Sugar Kingdom Bastard Sugar Choose butter It’s just AI now People don’t like paying for software It’s an exciting time to be writing software Are we going to start funding open source? Speaking of that, but not that, it’s totally unrelated We’re leaving the table Weird network stuff That box of cables on GitHub Rundown Security Mini Shai-Hulud Is Back: npm Worm Hits over 160 Packages Fedora Hummingbird Linux Brings Agentic Linux to Builders Red Hat Hardened Images Palo Alto Networks to Acquire Portkey to Secure the Rise of AI Agents Mythos finds a curl vulnerability Redis and the Cost of Ambition AI is restructuring the software industry — winners and losers Datadog's stock jumps 31% on crushing earnings beat Cloudflare stock sinks 24% after earnings as company cuts 1,100 employees Linear increases workforce Relevant to your Interests Laws, anecdotes, idioms, and other shit people say - cote.pizza The smart lock standard that could replace your keys is finally here dirtyfrag/README.md at master · V4bel/dirtyfrag · GitHub Red Hat Summit Newsroom Finally, texts between Android and iPhone users can be end-to-end encrypted Your Container Is Not a Sandbox OpenAI launches the OpenAI Deployment Company Corporate Card Startup Ramp Raising Funds at $40 Billion Valuation Cyberattack shutters Canvas learning platform for schools across the U.S. AWS warns of EC2 'impairment' as power loss hits notorious US-EAST-1 region AI and DevOps Maturity Anthropic raises Claude Code usage limits, credits new deal with SpaceX Announcing Agent Toolkit for AWS He's not wrong, but what can they do? How are those Microsoft foundation models going? Sponsors WebRTC.ventures – Real-time communication & Voice AI integration Conferences WeAre...

The Enterprise Dunbar number

May 8, 2026 58 min

This week, we discuss AI labs driving cloud revenue, hyperscalers laying off instead of building, and kids defeating age verification. Plus, Brandon has too many thoughts on Workday. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 571 Runner-up Titles The world is just paper. TODO debris pile Fancy countries you live in Enron Conspiracy Shredder. Cote’s mom’s gonna love this Brandon works out his Workday trauma. Cash money, hamburger, hamburger bang bang ChatGPT PS Edition Forward Deployed Engineer for Workday It’ll probably work, that’s the future Rundown Earnings Cloud Giants Update Amazon earnings beat expectations with strong cloud growth Microsoft calls for $190 billion in 2026 capital spending on soaring memory prices Alphabet ups 2026 capex to as much as $190 billion Meta stock drops on quarterly results Anthropic Commits to Spending $200 Billion on Google’s Cloud and Chips How children are getting creative and fooling age verification checks Services Anthropic launches enterprise AI firm with Blackstone, Goldman Sachs Anthropic and OpenAI are both launching joint ventures for enterprise AI services Relevant to your Interests Q1 2026 earnings call: Remarks from our CEO Microsoft says it has over 20M paid Copilot users, and they really are using it Sources: Anthropic could raise a new $50B round at a valuation of $900B Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code discovered to date" IBM Bob hits 80,000 developers with 45% productivity gains Shares of eBay take off on a $56 billion buyout bid from GameStop's Ryan Cohen Wall Street Rollup (@WallStRollup) on X The Venture-Capital Populist Cursor's $60 billion bet is on the harness, not the model What you're actually writing when you write a SKILL.md So Long Jeeves and Ask.com, Relics of Yesterday’s Internet No more Jeeves: Ask.com officially shuttered OpenAI locks GPT-5.5-Cyber behind velvet rope Workload Identity Federation AWS Cost Optimization Hub now supports CSV download - AWS IREN Announces Ac...

The Enterprisification of Agents

May 1, 2026 1 hr 10 min

This week, we discuss Google's enterprise agent stack, what makes an agent an agent, and AI's biggest critic. Plus, Coté wants better vision. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 570 Runner-up Titles You can’t win against time The Shining Path of Least Resistance The Burger Diagram You guys were talking about CORBA the other day. Is this just destiny Burger Diagram Aficionado Think like a computer Those are the fun agents. AI for None of Us Matt Ray, but verify Gen-X Stamp Collecting Rundown Google Cloud Next Google Cloud Next '26 Developer Keynote An Interview with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian About the Agentic Moment You can now easily generate files in Gemini. Google Internal AI Adoption via Steve Yegge Google builds elite team to close the coding gap with Anthropic AI's biggest critic has lost the plot From the GithubCopilot community on Reddit: Change to useage based billing An update on GitHub availability "Developer loyalty is at zero right now": Google doesn't care which AI coding tool you use Relevant to your Interests Former Google Employee Announces Silicon Valley Satire, ‘Paradox Inc.’ The base model $599 Mac mini is now completely out of stock Anthropic’s New A.I. Model Sets Off Global Alarms Microsoft plans first-ever voluntary employee buyout for up to 7% of U.S. workforce AI Coding Firm Cognition in Funding Talks at $25 Billion Value Clouded Judgement 4.24.26 - The AI-Driven Employment Explosion Nvidia stock closes at record, pushing market cap past $5 trillion Spotify Brings Music and Podcast Recommendations to Claude — Spotify Benedict Evans (@benedictevans) on Threads The Stanford freshmen who want to rule the world … will probably read this book and try even harder OpenAI Misses Key Revenue, User Targets in High-Stakes Sprint Toward IPO Ubuntu Linux Will Begin Landing AI Features Throughout The Next Year The future of AI in Ubuntu Amazon is already offering new OpenAI products on AWS Ghostty Is Leaving GitHub – Mitchell Hashim...

Agent Assimilation

Apr 24, 2026 1 hr 6 min

This week, we discuss agents taking over at Google Cloud Next, Apple's new CEO, and Cursor getting acquired (sort of). Plus, Coté's e-waste has no exit strategy. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 569 Runner-up Titles I love throwing stuff in the trash. Dillo dirt’s a thing. BurgerOps. Thomas opens for Richard. Department of “No” people Starfish Stomach Model Enterprise — come into me The Organization will Assimilate it Gold plaques all around He can let his freak flag fly Take the first billion dollar offer Rundown Google Next Welcome to Google Cloud Next26 Google's AI adoption — Steve Yegge X Post Tanzu Platform 10.4: a private cloud platform for AI harnesses (or, "agentic AI") Apple becomes a $4 Trillion under Tim Cook Cursor Watch Cursor in talks to raise $2B+ at $50B valuation as enterprise growth surges There’s No Time for SpaceX to Buy Cursor SpaceX says it can buy Cursor later this year for $60 billion or pay $10 billion for 'our work together' Relevant to your Interests Poland street sees humanoid robot chasing boars in unusual AI showcase Someone planted backdoors in dozens of WordPress plug-ins used in thousands of websites Snapchat owner cuts 16% of global staff in latest round of job cuts Email for agents - Cloudflare Email Service now in public beta DeployBar — Free CI monitoring. Unsolicited platypus included. Let them tinker - hacking developer resistance to sound enterprise architecture and platforms China's DeepSeek is raising funds at $10 billion valuation, The Information reports Sources: Cursor in talks to raise $2B+ at $50B valuation as enterprise growth surges AI chipmaker Cerebras files to go public after scrapping IPO plans last year Amazon to invest up to $25B in Anthropic as part of expanded cloud partnership - SiliconANGLE Amazon to invest up to $25 billion more in Anthropic; Claude developer to spend more than $100 billion on AWS AI technology Amazon and Anthropic expand strategic collaboration Anthropic CPO leaves Fig...

Claude Code, OpenAI Drama, and Is Anyone Still Using Backstage?

Apr 17, 2026 1 hr 6 min

This week, we discuss Claude's harness, OpenAI's ongoing drama, and whether Backstage is still a thing. Plus, Coté gives up on the green screen. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 568 Runner-up Titles It’s clearly an AI chair. I’ve given up on the green screen No animals, only buttholes I don’t know if I can think on my own Make your pecans really pop Did they shut it down? I wasn’t paying attention Always take the first offer for a billion dollars Bad Parking The Apple IIE had this problem I was paying attention but I might have had a mouthful of cereal. Rundown Anthropic Anthropic vs. OpenAI Revenue Why Anthropic’s new model has cybersecurity experts rattled Workday CTO Joins Anthropic Amid Startup’s Push to Build HR Apps Clouded Judgement 4.10.26 - Long Live the Harness (Wrapper?) ! Anthropic closes in on OpenAI as US business use surges Anthropic says Claude Code subscribers will need to pay extra for OpenClaw usage Anthropic Buys Stealth Dimension-Backed Coefficient Bio in $400M+ Stock Deal Claude Command /powerup Post-Mortem of Anthropic's Claude Code Leak OpenAI Palace Intrigue OpenAI's Fidji Simo takes medical leave, announces leadership changes OpenAI CEO and CFO Diverge on IPO Timing Industrial policy for the Intelligence Age OpenAI is getting weird again - Casey Newton OpenAI has bought AI personal finance startup Hiro Let Us Learn to Show Our Friendship for a Man When He Is Alive and Not After He Is Dead OpenAI buys TBPN Exclusive | OpenAI Buys Tech-Industry Talk Show TBPN OpenAI Buys Tech-Industry Talk Show TBPN OpenAI acquires TBPN | OpenAI OpenAI acquires TBPN, the buzzy founder-led business talk show OpenAI Buys Streaming Show ‘TBPN,’ Aiming to Change Narrative on A.I. Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted? Backstage Backstage is dead Observability Cisco to grab Galileo for AI observability supercharge - SDxCentral Dynatrace to Acquire Bindplane to Establish Telemetry Pipelines for AI and Cloud‑Native Observabilit...

Building Voice and Streaming Apps for the Enterprise with Alberto

Apr 10, 2026 55 min

Brandon interviews Alberto González, CTO of WebRTC.ventures, about building voice and streaming applications for the enterprise. They dig into how developers can integrate WebRTC into their apps, the unique challenges it presents, and where AI fits in. Plus, Alberto shares tips on kitesurfing and why you should visit Barcelona. Episode Links: WebRTC.ventures Choosing a Voice AI framework for Production On-Premise Voice AI: Creating Local Agents with Llama, Ollama, and Pipecat Real Time Voice AI: OpenAI vs. Open Source Solutions Building a Voice AI Agent with Policy Guardrails Using Twilio, Pipecat, and LangGraph Scaling Telehealth Video Infrastructure: Sessions Health Case Study Contact Alberto: LinkedIn: Alberto González Web: https://agonza1.github.io/ Special Guest: Alberto González.

The code is actually kinda useless

Apr 3, 2026 1 hr 0 min

The code is actually kinda useless This week, we discuss the Claude Code leak, locking down coding agents, and the Axios supply chain attack. Plus, Coté considers breaking up with his Gmail address of 20+ years. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 566 Runner-up Titles pawpatrol891@gmail.com I get that dude’s email Those turtles are dyslexic I’m just a space hyperchicken judge curl|bash is the debate Djikstra’s algorithm for calendaring Rundown Google Now Lets You Change Your Gmail Address. Here’s How Claude had a week He Rewrote Leaked Claude Code in Python, And Dodged Copyright Anthropic admits Claude Code quotas running out too fast Auto mode for Claude Code Anthropic leaked its own source Code Are sandboxes the future Docker Sandboxes: Run Agents in YOLO Mode, Safely Docker Sandboxes: Run Claude Code and More Safely Coder Raises $35M Axios NPM Distribution Compromised in Supply Chain Attack Relevant to your Interests Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy Juries Take the Lead in the Push for Child Online Safety Jensen Huang runs Nvidia with 60 direct reports — and no one-on-ones Report: Apple to Move a Part of its Embedded Cores to RISC-V, Stepping Away from Arm ISA A one-line Kubernetes fix that saved 600 hours a year Apple discontinues the Mac Pro with no plans for future hardware - 9to5Mac ‘Astound’ed. Google Flips Its Fiber To PE. Hacked Files of F.B.I. Director Kash Patel Circulate Online We Rewrote JSONata with AI in a Day, Saved $500K/Year I Decompiled the White House's New App Mistral secures $830 million in debt financing to fund AI data center The AI boom is a lie: Fake data centres and unused GPUs | Ed Zitron Microsoft Copilot is now injecting ads into pull requests on GitHub American Exchange Group Inks $39 Million Deal for Allbirds Assets OMG. Best back to back posts. Maintainer for Axios, before and after the supply chain breach. Historical GitHub Uptime Charts Reddit - The heart of the internet Bluesky's new AI...

Field Engineering is the YOLO team

Mar 27, 2026 1 hr 3 min

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...

New Token Machines

Mar 20, 2026 54 min

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...

Claude Camp

Mar 13, 2026 1 hr 10 min

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...

Bureaucracy: Still Unsolved

Mar 6, 2026 1 hr 6 min

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. Dev...

Two Guys and Their Tokens

Feb 27, 2026 1 hr 0 min

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 TH...

You Can Feel It Coming

Feb 20, 2026 1 hr 11 min

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 spe...

A series of OODA loops

Feb 13, 2026 1 hr 10 min

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 Dep...

Tara Raj on Amazon Nova Act

Feb 6, 2026 46 min

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 SDT News & Hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Special Guest: Tara Raj.

Moltbot Maximists

Jan 30, 2026 1 hr 3 min

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 Eng...

This Conversation is Hardened

Jan 23, 2026 1 hr 7 min

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 Relevant to your Interests Beijing tells Chinese firms to stop using US and Israeli cybersecurity software China blacklists VMware, Palo Alto Networks software over national security fears Kroger taps Google Gemini, announces more key AI moves Texas judge throws out second lawsuit over CrowdStrike outage Apple will pay billions for Gemini after OpenAI declined Dell wants £10m+ from VMware if Tesco case goes against it Tailscale: The Best Free App Most Mac Power Users Aren’t Using How WhatsApp Took Over the Global Conversation Our approach to advertising and expanding access to ChatGPT OpenAI’s ARR reached over $20 billion in 2025, CFO says Simon Willison’s take on Our approach to advertising and ChatGPT The AI lab revolving door spins ever faster | TechCrunch How Markdown took over the world An Interview with United CEO Scott Kirby About Tech Transformation Conferences cfgmgmtcamp 2026, February 2nd to 4th, Ghent, BE...

After the Dream

Jan 16, 2026 1 hr 9 min

This week, we discuss Gemini powering Siri, AWS’s biggest competitor, and AWS strategy choices. Plus, when should your next meeting actually start? Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 555 Runner-up Titles Swedish Death Cleaning Give it a best effort Trying it bad for profits. That pen better be really good You do all the nerd shit, we’ll be cool Looking at a hundred rabbits’ assholes. The Kremlinologist of AWS The aaSes of Cloud They’ll like our apples better Running on hopes and dreams until you’re sure they don’t exist What we have is a situation Rundown Apple gets AI from Google Joint statement from Google and Apple Kuo: Apple's AI Deal With Google Is Temporary and Buys It Time Google's Apple AI deal marks 'huge loss' for OpenAI AWS in 2026: The Year of Proving They Still Know How to Operate Relevant to your Interests Anthropic reportedly raising $10B at $350B valuation Dell Reverses Course, Brings Back XPS Laptops Google is unleashing Gemini AI features on Gmail. Users will have to opt out Bose is open-sourcing its old smart speakers instead of bricking them Google Guys Say Bye to California Amazon gives managers a new way to spot who's barely coming into the office A decade of open source in CNCF with 300,000+ contributors and counting CrowdStrike to Acquire SGNL to Transform Identity Security for the AI Era Snowflake Announces Intent to Acquire Observe to Deliver AI-Powered Observability Nvidia Hires Google Veteran as Its First Chief Marketing Officer The Fediverse Experiment RIP the metaverse Nonsense American Airlines rolls out free Wi-Fi to loyalty members Conferences cfgmgmtcamp 2026, February 2nd to 4th, Ghent, BE. Coté speaking - anyone interested in being a SDI guest? DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA Use code: DEVOP for 50% off. Devnexus 2026, March 4th to 6th, Atlanta, GA. Coté has a discount code, but he’s not sure if he can give it out. He’s asking! Send him a DM in the meantime. KubeCon EU, March 23rd to 26th...

The Alpha and The Omega

Jan 9, 2026 1 hr 12 min

This week, we discuss AI’s impact on Stack Overflow, Docker’s Hardened Images, and Nvidia buying Groq. Plus, thoughts on playing your own game and having fun. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 554 Please complete the Software Defined Talk Listener Survey! Runner-up Titles It’s all brisket after that. Exploring Fun Should I go build a snow man? Pets Innersourcing Two books Michael Lewis should write. Article IV is foundational. Freedom is options. Rundown Stack Overflow is dead. Hardened Images for Everyone Tanzu’s Bitnami stuff does this too. OpenAI OpenAI’s New Fundraising Round Could Value Startup at as Much as $830 Billion OpenAI Reportedly Planning to Make ChatGPT "Prioritize" Advertisers in Conversation OpenAI bets big on audio as Silicon Valley declares war on screens Sam Altman says: He has zero percent interest in remaining OpenAI CEO, once Nvidia buying AI chip startup Groq's assets for about $20 billion in its largest deal on record Relevant to your Interests Broadcom IT uses Tanzu Platform to host MCP Servers. A Brief History Of The Spreadsheet Databricks is raising over $4 billion in Series L funding at a $134 billion Amazon's big AGI reorg decoded by Corey Quinn “They burned millions but got nothing.” X sues to protect Twitter brand Musk has been trying to kill Mozilla's new CEO says AI is coming to Firefox, but will remain a choice | TechCrunch Why Oracle keeps sparking AI-bubble fears What's next for Threads Salesforce Executives Say Trust in Large Language Models Has Declined Akamai Technologies Announces Acquisition of Function-as-a-Service Company Fermyon Google Rolling Out Gmail Address Change Feature: Here Is How It Works The Enshittifinancial Crisis MongoBleed: Critical MongoDB Vulnerability CVE-2025-14847 | Wiz Blog Softbank to buy data center firm DigitalBridge for $4 billion in AI push The best tech announced at CES 2026 so far Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter Manus Joins Meta for Next Era...

2025 Year in Review

Jan 2, 2026 1 hr 9 min

This week, we review our 2025 predictions, discuss the big stories, and speculate on 2026. Plus, Coté dives deep into the EU broth market. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 553 Runner-up Titles I was up at 1am thinking, “are there any good billionaires.” Maybe you forgot your shoes Not just room temperature, but cold I thought Europe was known for its soups Ice, air conditioning, and, broth - we have solved those three problems. Sloppy search Cutlery, tupperware, COVID The Young People. The Automation Apologist. I’m disappointed in everything Models don’t matter anymore Shade-tree programmer An empty farm in Waco Rundown 2024 Year in Review Scaling Platform Engineering in the CNCF Community - Abby Bangser Syntaso’s Platform as a Product book Claude Skills are way under-rated “Agents are [just] models using tools in a loop. 2026 Predications Are we in an AI Bubble? Do Anthropic or OpenAI IPO? New AI use cases? Altman remain CEO? Do Apple or AWS make an AI acquisition? CFB Championship? Conferences cfgmgmtcamp 2026, February 2nd to 4th, Ghent, BE. Coté speaking and doing live SDI with John Willis. DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA Use code: DEVOP for 50% off. Devnexus 2026, March 4th to 6th, Atlanta, GA. Coté has a discount code, but he’s not sure if he can give it out. He’s asking! Send him a DM in the meantime. Whole bunch of VMUGs, mostly in the US. The CFPs are open, go speak at them! Coté speaking in Amsterdam. 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) SDT News & Community Join our Slack community Email the show: questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com Free stickers: Email your address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com 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: ads@softwared...

Tech Strategy: Past, Present, Future

Dec 26, 2025 1 hr 16 min

This week, Brian Gracely joins to dissect strategic choices made by Broadcom, Docker, Netflix and Intel. Plus: The AI Bifurcation—are models commodities or product pillars? Rundown Licensing in VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 Hardened Images for Everyone Introducing Chainguard EmeritOSS Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros. Anthropic reportedly preparing for one of the largest IPOs Conferences cfgmgmtcamp 2026, February 2nd to 4th, Ghent, BE. Coté speaking and doing live SDI with John Willis. DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA Use code: DEVOP for 50% off. Devnexus 2026, March 4th to 6th, Atlanta, GA. Whole bunch of VMUGs, mostly in the US. The CFPs are open, go speak at them! Coté speaking in Amsterdam. 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) SDT News & Community Join our Slack community Email the show: questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com Free stickers: Email your address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com 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: ads@softwaredefinedtalk.com Photo Credits Header Special Guest: Brian Gracely.

An Australian Documentary

Dec 19, 2025 1 hr 0 min

This week, we discuss Oracle’s AI vibes, Chainguard’s EmeritOSS, and GitHub’s pricing U-turn. Plus, a robust robot vacuum debate. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 551 Runner-up Titles It has CarPlay iPad Range Anxiety an Australian documentary Oracle got popped Intentions I don’t feel bad for them Open Source old folks home Spreadsheets love it Robots are going to take care of us The Median User Nobody feels bad for the whales I have a dog I have a Korean microwave We’re the Neal Stephenson of podcasts Rundown Ford pulls the plug on the all-electric F-150 Lightning pickup truck AI Investment Oracle plummets 11% on weak revenue, pushing down AI stocks like Nvidia and CoreWeave Oracle Shares Drop the Most Since 2001 on Mounting AI Spending OpenAI in Talks to Raise At Least $10 Billion From Amazon and Use Its AI Chips S&P 500 falls after nearing record as Oracle disappointment drags down AI stocks Inside The $1T AI Economy Introducing Chainguard EmeritOSS: Sustainable stewardship for mature open source Runners Announcing powerful upgrades & a new pricing model for self-hosted runners GitHub to charge for self-hosted runners from March 2026 GitHub postpones changes to self-hosted runners pricing plans Why GitHub Why? Coursera to buy Udemy, creating $2.5 billion firm to target AI training Roomba Maker iRobot Files for Bankruptcy, With Chinese Supplier Taking Control Relevant to your Interests Harness raises a $240M Series E at a $5.5B valuation A great platform as a product paper, and a fun platform philosophy thereof Google Launches Managed Remote MCP Servers for Its Cloud Services Fake Leonardo DiCaprio Movie Torrent Drops Agent Tesla Through Layered PowerShell Chain Useful patterns for building HTML tools Waymo Seeking Over $15 Billion Near $100 Billion Valuation Write your CV or resume as YAML, then run RenderCV, and get a PDF with perfect typography. No template wrestling. No broken layouts. Consistent spacing, every time Roomba Maker iRobot Fi...

Typeface Philosophy

Dec 12, 2025 1 hr 10 min

This week, we discuss how Netflix is disrupting media, IBM’s Confluent acquisition, and Anthropic buying Bun. Plus, an important discussion on fonts and typography. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 550 Runner-up Titles Blame the children I never liked that font No emojis, this is business time Mahalo You need a Chief Economist On the cutlery tray Rundown Rubio Deletes Calibri as the State Department’s Official Typeface Cartridge Source Code Pro It’s Official: Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros. in Deal Valued at $82.7 Billion Confluent stock soars 29% as IBM announces $11 billion acquisition deal Bun is joining Anthropic Claude Code is coming to Slack, and that's a bigger deal than it sounds OpenAI enterprise usage study. Relevant to your Interests Antigravity Is Google's New Agentic Development Platform Amazon CTO Werner Vogels' Predictions for 2026 ‘End-to-end encrypted’ smart toilet camera is not actually end-to-end encrypted AWS AI IDE, AgentCore throw down gauntlets for Microsoft Admins and defenders gird themselves against maximum-severity server vuln Andy Jassy says Amazon's Nvidia competitor chip is already a multibillion-dollar business 52 things I learned in 2025 State of AI | OpenRouter Microsoft has a problem: nobody wants its poor AI products DHH & Open Source Gruber: Apple employees 'giddy' about Alan Dye’s departure - 9to5Mac Apple announces the departure of general counsel and policy chief Nonsense All of the Men’s Clothing We Loved (and Didn’t) From Costco’s Kirkland Signature Conferences cfgmgmtcamp 2026, February 2nd to 4th, Ghent, BE. Coté speaking and doing live SDI with John Willis. DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA Use code: DEVOP for 50% off. Devnexus 2026, March 4th to 6th, Atlanta, GA. Whole bunch of VMUGs, mostly in the US. The CFPs are open, go speak at them! Coté speaking in Amsterdam. Amsterdam (March 17-19, 2026), Minneapolis (April 7-9, 2026), Toronto (May 12-14, 2026), Dallas (June 9-11, 2026),...

The Fermi Paradox of Agentic Development

Dec 5, 2025 1 hr 11 min

This week, we discuss AWS re:Invent announcements, Agentic Development, and OpenAI's Code Red. Plus, a Digital ID field test and more on silverware sorting. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 549 Runner-up Titles Did you order the Code Red? In the year 2000 Jane go swiftly Another day in the coal mine Goal Driven Development I want to believe Prove me wrong AI’s going to dig this hole faster Tornado of Innovation Revenue times Story Rundown SiteAngel - bonus press quote from Brandon AWS Amazon announces $50B investment to expand AI and supercomputing capabilities for US government Top announcements of AWS re:Invent 2025 All the biggest news from AWS’ big tech show re:Invent 2025 AWS announces preview of AWS Interconnect - multicloud The Future of AWS CodeCommit | Amazon Web Services Nova Act Code Red OpenAI CEO declares “code red” as Gemini gains 20 0 million users in 3 months Anthropic reportedly preparing for one of the largest IPOs ever in race with OpenAI: FT Microsoft stock sinks on report AI product sales are missing growth goals AI & Cloud Trends for November 2025 Relevant to your Interests Under My Roof Home Inventory + App - App Store Thoma Bravo invests in Azul Streamline Development with the Google Workspace Extension As its voice dictation app takes off, Wispr secures $25M from Notable Capital | TechCrunch Valve makes almost $50 million per employee HelixGuard What to know about a recent Mixpanel security incident ServiceNow to Expand Security Portfolio With Acquisition of Veza’s Leading AI-native Identity Security Platform Vista-Backed LogicMonitor Buys Monitoring Startup Catchpoint Google releases Nano Banana Pro, its latest image generation model Years of JSONFormatter and CodeBeautify Leaks Expose Thousands of Passwords and API Keys Netflix kills casting from phones Nonsense Victorian Name Generator Conferences cfgmgmtcamp 2026, February 2nd to 4th, Ghent, BE. Coté speaking and doing live SDI with John Willis. DevOpsDayLA at...

Household CMDB

Nov 28, 2025 1 hr 2 min

This week, we discuss the Cloudflare outage, their current business strategy, and paying OSS maintainers. Plus, thoughts on loading the dishwasher and managing your home. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 548 Runner-up Titles Mystery Knob Vegans are cursed vegetarians Skilled enough Defrag the dishwasher Design Intentions QR codes everywhere I don’t know where we draw the line, but I know where we start SDT IoT CMBD, Home Edition. SDT Open Source Money Maker Lead with Nagware Stocks go up, stocks go down Safari’s my naked browser Coté wanted to add periods to all of these but did not. Rundown FFmpeg to Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs Cloudflare blames massive internet outage on 'latent bug' Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 Replicate is joining Cloudflare Relevant to your Interests The Walt Disney Company Announces Multi-Year Distribution Agreement With YouTube TV Anthropic claims of Claude AI-automated cyberattacks met with doubt Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign Compact, human-readable serialization of JSON data for LLM prompts Outage Tracker | Updog By Datadog Jeff Bezos Creates A.I. Start-Up Where He Will Be Co-Chief Executive PowerPoint is your therapist, Gamma is your coach | Andreessen Horowitz Red Hat Introduces Project Hummingbird for “Zero-CVE” Strategies A new era of intelligence with Gemini 3 The platform that needs a platform The AI Coding Startup Favored by Tech CEOs Is Now Worth $29.3 Billion The Smartest Fliers Use This App to Survive America’s Travel Hell Oracle's Market Cap Decline: Analyzing the Impact on Finance OpenAI's Fidji Simo Plans to Make ChatGPT Way More Useful—and Have You Pay For It Europe’s cookie nightmare is crumbling Nonsense AI-Powered Teddy Bear Caught Talking About Sexual Fetishes and Instructing Kids How to Find Knives Whipped Cream Worth $80K Stolen in Ontario Conferences DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA Use code: DEVOP for 50% off. CFP open un...