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

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• 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

• WeAreDevelopers Europe, July 8-10, 2026 Berlin, Coté speaking.
• DevOpsDays Graz, Sept 4-5, 2026
• DevOpsDays Rockies, Sept. 22 – 23, 2026, Discount Code: 26DODSWEDEFTALK
• WeAreDevelopers NA, Sept 23-25, 2026, Discount Code: DEVPOD26
• DevOpsDays Dallas, Sept 28-29, 2026
• DevOpsDays Vilnius, Sep 30 - Oct 1. 2006
• DevOpsDays Istanbul, October 24th, 2026 - Coté keynoting.
• VMware User Groups (VMUGs):
  • Dallas (June 9-11, 2026)
  • Orlando (October 20-22, 2026)

SDT News & Community

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• Brandon: Xcode MCP
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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 Acquisition of Mirantis to Strengthen AI Cloud Delivery Capabilities

Sponsors

• WebRTC.ventures – Real-time communication & Voice AI integration
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Nonsense

• Your Name in Landsat

Listener Feedback

• JD recommends varlock

Conferences

• DevOpsDays + AI Nashville, May 14-15, 2026
• KCD Texas, May 15, 2026, use code MEDIA_THANK_YOU for free pass
• WeAreDevelopers Europe, July 8-10, 2026 Berlin, Coté speaking.
• DevOpsDays Graz, Sept 4-5, 2026
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• DevOpsDays Vilnius, Sep 30 - Oct 1. 2006
• DevOpsDays Istanbul, October 24th, 2026 - Coté keynoting.
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• Brandon:
  • Overcast Upload CLI utility
  • The 2026 AI Draft
  • Epson 400 II
• Matt: Casablanca.
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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 Hashimoto
• Musk vs. Altman: Tech CEOs head to court over the fate of OpenAI
• Meta to cut one in 10 jobs after spending billions on AI
• The week that Meta employees became training data
• In another wild turn for AI chips, Meta signs deal for millions of Amazon AI CPUs
• OpenAI ends Microsoft legal peril over its $50B Amazon deal | TechCrunch
• Google to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic as search giant spreads its AI bets
• An Interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and AWS CEO Matt Garman About Bedrock Managed Agents

Sponsors

• WebRTC.ventures – Real-time communication & Voice AI integration
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Nonsense

• Your Name in Landsat

Listener Feedback

• Light Bulb Info
  • Can You Throw Light Bulbs in the Trash? A Type-by-Type Guide - BulbCycle: Fluorescent Bulb & Lamp Disposal
  • Battery, mobile phone and light bulb recycling, light bulb, lightbulb - City of Sydney
• OpenAI is making its own phone to compete with the iPhone: report
• PROMOTE STICKER, FM Newsletter and why podcasts are the best for learning

Conferences

• DevOpsDays Austin, May 5-6, 2026
• DevOpsDays + AI Nashville, May 14-15, 2026
• KCD Texas, May 15, 2026, use code MEDIA_THANK_YOU for free pass
• WeAreDevelopers Europe, July 8-10, 2026 Berlin, Coté speaking.
• DevOpsDays Graz, Sept 4-5, 2026
• DevOpsDays Dallas, Sept 28-29, 2026
• DevOpsDays Rockies, Sept. 22 – 23, 2026, Discount Code: 26DODSWEDEFTALK
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• Brandon: 1Password CLI Tool
• Matt: Summer Album/Winter Album
• Coté: AI's biggest critic has lost the plot

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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 Figma's board after reports he will offer a competing product
• OpenAI loses multiple executives in latest leadership shakeup
• Scoop: NSA using Anthropic's Mythos despite Defense Department blacklist
• The scientific case for being nice to your chatbot
  • Anthropic's redesigned Claude Code desktop app lets you burn through tokens even faster
  • OpenAI’s Codex Mac app adds three key features that go beyond agentic coding
  • Introducing Claude Opus 4.7 \ Anthropic

Sponsors

• WebRTC.ventures – Real-time communication & Voice AI integration
• WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America Sept 23–25, San José, CA
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Listener Feedback

• Subscribe to Failover New

Nonsense

• Struggling shoe retailer Allbirds makes bizarre pivot from shoes to AI, stock explodes more than 700%
• Allbirds Stock Now Crashing as Reality Sets in About Its Delusional AI Pivot

Conferences

• DevOpsDays Austin, May 5-6, 2026
• DevOpsDays + AI Nashville, May 14-15, 2026
• KCD Texas, May 15, 2026, use code MEDIA_THANK_YOU for free pass
• WeAreDevelopers Europe, July 8-10, 2026 Berlin, Coté speaking.
• DevOpsDays Graz, Sept 4-5, 2026
• DevOpsDays Dallas, Sept 28-29, 2026
• DevOpsDays Rockies, Sept. 22 – 23, 2026, Discount Code: 26DODSWEDEFTALK
• WeAreDevelopers NA, Sept 23-25, 2026, Discount Code: DEVPOD26
• DevOpsDays Vilnius, Sep 30 - Oct 1. 2006
• DevOpsDays Istanbul, October 24th, 2026 - Coté keynoting.
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SDT News & Community

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• Brandon:
  • Claude /team-onboarding
  • The Junior Dev Crisis: Who Inherits the Code When AI Does the Work
• Matt: Resident Alien
• Coté: and

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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 Observability
• Cursor and Coding Agents
  • Cursor's $2 billion bet: The IDE is now a fallback, not the default
  • Cursor's New Tool Lets Users Delegate to a Team of Coding Agents
  • Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex are merging into one AI coding stack nobody planned

Relevant to your Interests

• Here's what that Claude Code source leak reveals about Anthropic's plans
• Starlink satellite tracker
• A Secure Chat App’s Encryption Is So Bad It Is ‘Meaningless’
• Coinbase’s AI payments system joins Linux Foundation
• Trump's AI framework targets state laws, shifts child safety burden to parents | TechCrunch
• TIME100 AI 2025: Chris Lehane
• Jack Dorsey says Block employees now bring prototypes — not slide decks — to meetings
• Post Mortem: axios npm supply chain compromise · Issue #10636 · axios/axios · GitHub
• Addressing GitHub’s recent availability issues
• Iran threatens ‘complete and utter annihilation’ of OpenAI's $30B Stargate AI data center
• Social media is turning into a freak show
• The Building Block Economy
• Giant Mac mini cluster powers Overcast podcast transcripts without the cloud
• How Amazon Dies: A Possible, Maybe Likely Future
• Maine Is About to Become the First State to Ban New Data Centers
• Introducing Muse Spark: Scaling Towards Personal Superintelligence
• SiFive raises $400 million from Atreides, Nvidia for data-center chip technology
• Amazon CEO takes aim at Nvidia, Intel, Starlink, more in annual shareholder letter
• Giving external agents access to Xcode | Apple Developer Documentation
• France orders all government ministries to ditch Windows for Linux in digital sovereignty push
• You can now easily call LLMs from your messaging engine. Should you?
• Microsoft exec suggests AI agents will need to buy software licenses, just like employees
• Meta creating AI version of Mark Zuckerberg so staff can talk to the boss
• Little Snitch for Linux — Because Nothing Else Came Close
• AI infrastructure budgets set to triple as demand soars: Deloitte
• Amazon jumps deeper into space race
• Amazon buying Globalstar, to rival SpaceX's Starlink
• Meta is making an AI Zuck to chat with employees

Sponsors

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Nonsense

• NASA sends Outlook around Moon, immediately needs IT help
• Top FEMA Official Doubles Down on Claim He Teleported to Waffle House
• AI CEO vs Engineer (2026).
• Poor Blue Blob
• Paul McCartney Banned From Reddit After Promoting Himself in Paul McCartney Subreddit

Listener Feedback

• Michael Neal: built mesh-llm — Decentralised LLM Inference
• Shaun built: workworkwork
• Brandon’s App: Milestone Birthday and Anniversary Tracker

Conferences

• DevOpsdays Atlanta 2026, April 21-22, 2026
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• KCD Texas, May 15, 2026, use code MEDIA_THANK_YOU for free pass
• WeAreDevelopers Europe, July 8-10, 2026 Berlin, Coté speaking.
• DevOpsDays Graz, Sept 4-5, 2026
• DevOpsDays Dallas, Sept 28-29, 202
• WeAreDevelopers NA, Sept 23-25, 2026, Discount Code: Community_SoftwareDefined
• DevOpsDays Vilnius, Sep 30 - Oct 1. 2006
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• Brandon: macOS Video Effects
• Matt:
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  • IKEA Klippbok water sensor
• Coté: AutoMounter

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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/

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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

• [email protected]
• 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 tool Attie is already the most blocked account other than J.D. Vance
• Steve Blank Your Startup Is Probably Dead On Arrival

Nonsense

• The Untold Story of Wiz (ft. Wiz Khalifa)

Conferences

• DevOpsdays Atlanta 2026, April 21-22, 2026
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• DevOpsDays + AI Nashville, May 14-15, 2026
• KCD Texas, May 15, 2026, use code MEDIA_THANK_YOU for free pass
• WeAreDevelopers Europe, July 8-10, 2026 Berlin, Coté speaking.
• DevOpsDays Dallas, Sep 28-29, 202
• WeAreDevelopers NA, Sept 23-25, 2026, Discount Code: Community_SoftwareDefined
• DevOpsDays Vilnius, Sep 30 - Oct 1. 2006
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• Conference Partners

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• Brandon: Claude Code /copy
• Matt: Search Engine:
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  • The Trial of the Driverless Car
• Coté:
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  • booWhoops

This week, we discuss big bets gone wrong, OpenAI buying the Python toolchain, and Claude's favorite tools. Plus, how fast should AI agents ship bug fixes?

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 565

Runner-up Titles

• Product Management Slot Machine
• We poisoned our own data
• As the resident hater of SDT
• I’m optimistic on this one
• I’ll check back when you call it Siri
• AI SEO
• The Ryan Gosling of Podcasts

Rundown

• Big Bets, Past, Present and Future
  • Meta decides not to shut down Horizon Worlds on VR after all
  • OpenAI Will Shut Down Sora Video App; Disney Drops Plans for $1 Billion Investment
  • Amazon's smartphone would be ill-timed: IDC analyst
  • Jitterbug Smart4 Smartphone for Seniors
• Python and OpenAI
  • Thoughts on OpenAI acquiring Astral and uv/ruff/ty
  • OpenAI to acquire Astral | OpenAI
• Security
  • TeamPCP Backdoors LiteLLM Versions 1.82.7–1.82.8 via Trivy CI/CD Compromise
  • Three’s a Crowd: TeamPCP trojanizes LiteLLM in Continuation of Campaign
  • KICS GitHub Action Compromised: TeamPCP Strikes Again in Supply Chain Attack
  • Trivy Compromised: Everything You Need to Know about the Latest Supply Chain Attack
  • Introducing Wiz AI Application Protection Platform (AI-APP)
  • Introducing Wiz Agents & Workflows: Security at the Speed of AI
  • AI Runtime Threat Detection: From Input to Real-World Impact
• Claude defaults
  • Amplifying — AI Benchmark Research

Relevant to your Interests

• Aakash Gupta (@aakashgupta) on X
• Meta is shutting down VR social platform Horizon Worlds in further pivot away from the metaverse
• Government Registers Aliens.Gov Domain
• Instagram to remove end-to-end encryption for private messages in May
• What Is the PARK Stack?
• Federal cyber experts called Microsoft's cloud a "pile of shit," approved it anyway
• Mark Zuckerberg builds AI CEO to help him run Meta
• FCC Updates Covered List to Include Foreign-Made Consumer Routers, Prohibiting Approval of New Models
• Future Casting the Modern Data Stack
• Anthropic says Claude can now use your computer to finish tasks for you in AI agent push
• Today’s layoffs, This note was sent to Epic employees today
• Your wireless router is now banned from sale in the US
• Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features
• Jury orders Meta and Google to pay woman $3 million in social media addiction trial
• Arm is releasing the first in-house chip in its 35-year history
• Arm Launches Own CPU, Arm’s Motivation, Constraints and Systems
• Feature Spotlight: Introducing the Fantastical Connector (MCP) for Claude

Conferences

• DevOpsdays Atlanta 2026, April 21-22, 2026
• DevOpsDays Austin, May 5-6, 2026
• WeAreDevelopers, July 8-10, 2026 Berlin, Coté speaking.
• VMware User Groups (VMUGs):
  • Minneapolis (April 7-9, 2026)
  • Toronto (May 12-14, 2026)
  • Dallas (June 9-11, 2026)
  • Orlando (October 20-22, 2026)

SDT News & Community

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• Brandon: Project Hail Mary, The Movie
• Matt: From Robert Mueller to Stringer Bell: How the Post-9/11 FBI Drove The Wire

This week, we discuss NVIDIA GTC, token machines, token budgets, and an AWS outage that may or may not involve AI. Plus, Matt reviews The Wizard of Oz at The Sphere.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 564

Runner-up Titles

• Let's T this up.
• One Trillion Dollars
• Leader to laggard
• My terms of service
• Someone should come up with a term
• Networking FOMO
• Slide crimes
• It’s token machines all the way down.
• The Claude-ning
• So why Nemo Cloud?
• You’re just selling token machines
• Billionaire version of Gallagher
• I’ve seen too much
• Upward Replicability

Rundown

• NVIDA GTC
  • Nvidia bets on AI inference as chip revenue opportunity hits $1 trillion
  • Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang: $1 trillion in chip sales coming
  • Keynote at NVIDIA GTC San Jose 2026
• AI Roundup
  • Amazon just called an emergency engineering meeting after AI coding tools caused multiple outages.
  • 2 Ways to Correct the Financial Times at AWS (So Far)
  • Amazon orders 90-day reset after code mishaps cause millions of lost orders
  • Microsoft shakes up Copilot AI leadership team, freeing up Suleyman to build new models
  • MCP vs. CLI for AI-native development - CircleCI

Relevant to your Interests

• YouTube Lays Claim to Another Crown: The World’s Largest Media Company
• The Lobster That Moved $50 Billion
• Amazon is determined to use AI for everything – even when it slows down work
• Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company
• How to Do Code Reviews in the Agentic Era
• Elon Musk Says He's Epically Screwed Up at xAI, Is Rebuilding "From the Foundations"
• The ‘AI-Washing’ of Job Cuts Is Corrosive and Confusing
• Introducing Chainguard Commercial Builds: Secure-by-default containers
• Exclusive: Small publishers hit hardest by search traffic declines
• The State of AI in the Enterprise - 2026 AI report
• Agents Over Bubbles
• "Yes, AI Is a Bubble. There Is No Question."

Listener Feedback

• Recap of SCALE 23x with Barton George

Conferences

• KubeCon EU, March 23-26, 2026 - Coté will be there on a media pass.
• DevOpsdays Atlanta 2026, April 21-22, 2026
• DevOpsDays Austin, May 5-6, 2026
• WeAreDevelopers, July 8-10, 2026 Berlin, Coté speaking.
• VMware User Groups (VMUGs):
  • Minneapolis (April 7-9, 2026)
  • Toronto (May 12-14, 2026)
  • Dallas (June 9-11, 2026)
  • Orlando (October 20-22, 2026)

SDT News & Community

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• Brandon:
  • Failover Media Newsletter
  • Stitch - Design with AI
  • Milestone iOS App
  • Claude Command: /insights
• Matt:
  • Caleb Sasser XOXO 2024
  • The McDonald’s Centralia Mural
  • MPC app
• Coté:
  • Dream Router 7

This week, we discuss Claude Code for non-coders, automating newsletters and status reports, and AI tax prep. Plus, Coté finds unexpected joy in a coding assistant.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 563

Runner-up Titles

• Upgraded to Max
• The only innovation I was talking about was hiring me.
• The Patrick Stewart of the Cubicles.
• Should we become the Claudecast?
• Matt Ray in Your Pocket.
• Come into the tent
• You have agency in your life

Rundown

• Coté went to Claude Camp
  • Microsoft and Anthropic team up to bring Claude Cowork to Microsoft 365
  • Cursor is rolling out a new kind of agentic coding tool
  • Hater Season: Corey Quinn — Better Offline
• Google completes acquisition of Wiz

Relevant to your Interests

• I Worked for Block. Its A.I. Job Cuts Aren’t What They Seem.
• Iranian news claims AWS drone strikes were deliberate
• Anthropic Just Won the Enterprise. Here’s What Nobody’s Talking About
• Amazon's Bahrain data center targeted by Iran for support of U.S. military, state media says
• Startups.RIP - Dead YC Startups, Alive Ideas
• Kratix Anywhere: Cloud, On-Prem, and Hybrid Without Compromise
• Meta just bought Moltbook, the social network for AI bots - 9to5Mac
• Amazon holds engineering meeting following AI-related outages
• Oracle is building yesterday’s data centers with tomorrow’s debt
• SUSE Reportedly May Be For Sale Yet Again
• When Using AI Leads to “Brain Fry”
• Oracle is under pressure from more than $100 billion in debt and massive layoffs as it pushes ahead with Larry Ellison’s 3-step transformation
• Oracle is building yesterday’s data centers with tomorrow’s debt
• Oracle Job Cuts
• OpenAI bowed out of the Oracle
• MacBook Neo - Tech Specs
• Code Mode: give agents an entire API in 1,000 tokens
• MacBook Neo - Tech Specs

Nonsense

• McDonald’s C.E.O. Takes a Big Bite Out of a Burger. Maybe Scratch ‘Big.’

Conferences

• KubeCon EU, March 23-26, 2026 - Coté will be there on a media pass.
• DevOpsdays Atlanta 2026, April 21-22, 2026
• DevOpsDays Austin, May 5-6, 2026
• WeAreDevelopers, July 8-10, 2026 Berlin, Coté speaking.
• VMware User Groups (VMUGs):
  • Amsterdam (March 17-19, 2026) - Coté speaking.
  • Minneapolis (April 7-9, 2026)
  • Toronto (May 12-14, 2026)
  • Dallas (June 9-11, 2026)
  • Orlando (October 20-22, 2026)

SDT News & Community

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Recommendations

• Brandon:
  • Token management with RTK
  • Usage for Claude App - App Store
• Coté: Anker MagGo 3-in-1 Wireless Charging Station

This week. we discuss Claude Code's momentum, Cursor's identity crisis, and the SDLC's uncertain future. Plus, Coté finally explains how Markdown is destroying the economy.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 562

Runner-up Titles

• Demos over Memos
• Products over Prose
• Software written by the many for the few
• USB is flaky
• Do you get a Code of Conduct for prison?
• I thought I had typed it somewhere
• Markdown is taking down the economy
• Claude, Take the Wheel
• Sticking with month-to-month
• Precious Tokens
• Rip Van Winkle this whole AI thing
• The ants have won
• They have infinite tokens
• Is SLDC Dead?

Rundown

• The SaaS-Apocalypse was based on markdown files
• The Software Development Lifecycle Is Dead
• The Third Era of Software Development
• Intelligence, Subtracted
• Anthropic rejects Pentagon’s AI demands
• Exclusive-Anthropic investors push to de-escalate Pentagon clash over AI safeguards
• ‘Incoherent’: Hegseth’s Anthropic ultimatum confounds AI policymaker
• Anthropic leads Enterprise AI Spend
• Anthropic took >50% of spend on enterprise AI subscriptions
• $110 Billion in Name Only
• OpenAI reveals more details about its agreement with the Pentagon
• OpenAI changes deal with US military after backlash

Relevant to your Interests

• McKinsey and AWS launch Amazon McKinsey Group
• Polymarket defends its decision to allow betting on war as ‘invaluable’
• The Supreme Court doesn't care if you want to copyright your AI-generated art
• Distinguished Eng On Stack Ranking, Competing with Bezos, Regrets
• WIZ: My Personal AI Agent
• OpenAI changes deal with US military after backlash
• Tech Publications Lost 58% of Google Traffic Since 2024
• Ramp AI Index

Nonsense

• Callers to Washington state hotline press 2 for Spanish and get accented AI English instead
• Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course?

Conferences

• Austin Meetup, March 10th, Listener Steve Anness speaking on Grafana
• KubeCon EU, March 23rd to 26th, 2026 - Coté will be there on a media pass.
• DevOpsdays Atlanta 2026, April 21-22, 2026
• DevOpsDays Austin, May 5-6, 2026
• WeAreDevelopers, July 8th to 10th, Berlin, Coté speaking.
• VMware User Groups (VMUGs):
  • Amsterdam (March 17-19, 2026) - Coté speaking.
  • Minneapolis (April 7-9, 2026)
  • Toronto (May 12-14, 2026)
  • Dallas (June 9-11, 2026)
  • Orlando (October 20-22, 2026)

SDT News & Community

• Join our Slack community
• Email the show: [email protected]
• Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected]
• Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky
• Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
• Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
• Sponsor the show
• Sponsor more podcasts with Failover Media

Recommendations

• Brandon:
  • Failover Media Newsletter
  • Milestone 1.1
  • Ski Quiver
• Matt: IKEA MYGGSPRAY motion sensor, TRADFRI LED and RODRET
• Coté: The “Anime Wow” sound. And, related to Brandon’s modernization talk last week.