- 1 hour 1 minuteEpisode 575: UI blizzard
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
- 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 Replace with AI
- Microsoft open-sources the earliest DOS source code discovered to date
- Audio-generation app Huxe, founded by former NotebookLM developers, shuts down
- Bill Gates Spent Years Crafting His Image. Now It's Cracking.
- How do AI Layoffs Work? Some Speculation.
- Snowflake to Acquire Natoma to Bring Governed Agentic Access to the Enterprise
- U.S. companies have an AI problem. Indian IT wants to be the solution
- Meta to start testing AI subscription services, cheapest plan at $7.99/month
Sponsors
- Sentry - Quit Buggin': use code sdt26 for $100 in credit for new customers
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Listener Feedback
- Henning corrects Coté’s pronunciation of León.
Conferences
- VMware User Group, Dallas, June 9-11, 2026
- 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, Oct 24th, 2026, Coté keynoting.
- VMware User Group, Orlando, Oct 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: The spelled-out intro to neural networks and backpropagation: building micrograd
- Matt:
- Coté: ElevenLabs, for example Coté’s learning Dutch podcast.
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5 June 2026, 5:30 am - 1 hour 1 minuteEpisode 574: Nobody Wants to Be a Measurer
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 573
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
- Revenue and IPO
- GitHub Got Hacked. The AI Security Arms Race is Here
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 new customers
Nonsense
- GE’s nugget ice maker is nearly half off if you buy it refurbished
- Watch: Drones crash into water after Sydney light show malfunction
- America the Tasty: The Best Breakfast in Every State
Listener Feedback
- Jason built the DepartTime App iPhone App
Conferences
- VMware User Group, Dallas, June 9-11, 2026
- 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, Oct 24th, 2026 , Coté keynoting.
- VMware User Group, Orlando, Oct 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: Trek Austin
- Matt: VESA
- Coté:
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29 May 2026, 5:30 am - 1 hour 2 minutesEpisode 573: How many quadrillions in a Googol?
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
- AI Stuff
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
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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
- Join our Slack community
- Email the show: [email protected]
- Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected]
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- Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
- Sponsor the show
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Recommendations
- Brandon: Varlock
- Matt: Sheep Detectives
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22 May 2026, 5:30 am - 1 hour 53 secondsEpisode 572: The world isn’t curl
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
- AI is restructuring the software industry — winners and losers
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
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
- Join our Slack community
- Email the show: [email protected]
- Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected]
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- Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
- Sponsor the show
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15 May 2026, 5:30 am - 58 minutes 9 secondsEpisode 571: The Enterprise Dunbar number
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
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
- WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America Sept 23–25, San José, CA
- Use Code DEVPOD26 — 15% off, stacks with group rates for 4+
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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
- 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.
- VMware User Groups (VMUGs):
- Toronto (May 12-14, 2026)
- Dallas (June 9-11, 2026)
- Orlando (October 20-22, 2026)
SDT News & Community
- Join our Slack community
- Email the show: [email protected]
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- Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky
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- Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
- Sponsor the show
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Recommendations
- Brandon:
- Matt: Casablanca.
- Coté: iA Writer.
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8 May 2026, 5:30 am - 1 hour 10 minutesEpisode 570: The Enterprisification of Agents
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
- AI's biggest critic has lost the plot
- "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
- WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America Sept 23–25, San José, CA
- Use Code DEVPOD26 — 15% off, stacks with group rates for 4+
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Listener Feedback
- Light Bulb Info
- 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
- WeAreDevelopers NA, Sept 23-25, 2026, Discount Code: DEVPOD26
- DevOpsDays Vilnius, Sep 30 - Oct 1. 2006
- DevOpsDays Istanbul, October 24th, 2026 - Coté keynoting.
- VMware User Groups (VMUGs):
- 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: 1Password CLI Tool
- Matt: Summer Album/Winter Album
- Coté: AI's biggest critic has lost the plot
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1 May 2026, 5:30 am - 1 hour 6 minutesEpisode 569: Agent Assimilation
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
- Tanzu Platform 10.4: a private cloud platform for AI harnesses (or, "agentic AI")
- Apple becomes a $4 Trillion under Tim Cook
- Cursor Watch
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
Sponsors
- WebRTC.ventures – Real-time communication & Voice AI integration
- WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America Sept 23–25, San José, CA
- Use Code DEVPOD26 — 15% off, stacks with group rates for 4+
Listener Feedback
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.
- VMware User Groups (VMUGs):
- 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
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- Brandon:
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- Coté: and
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24 April 2026, 5:30 am - 1 hour 6 minutesEpisode 568: Claude Code, OpenAI Drama, and Is Anyone Still Using Backstage?
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
- Observability
- Cursor and Coding Agents
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- 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
- WebRTC.ventures – Real-time communication & Voice AI integration
- WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America Sept 23–25, San José, CA
- Use Code DEVPOD26 — 15% off, stacks with group rates for 4+
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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- 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
- DevOpsDays Istanbul, October 24th, 2026 - Coté keynoting.
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17 April 2026, 5:30 am - 55 minutes 59 secondsEpisode 567: Building Voice and Streaming Apps for the Enterprise with Alberto
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.
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10 April 2026, 5:30 am - 1 hour 31 secondsEpisode 566: The code is actually kinda uselessThe 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
- Are sandboxes the future
- Axios NPM Distribution Compromised in Supply Chain Attack
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- 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
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Conferences
- DevOpsdays Atlanta 2026, April 21-22, 2026
- 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 Dallas, Sep 28-29, 202
- WeAreDevelopers NA, Sept 23-25, 2026, Discount Code: Community_SoftwareDefined
- DevOpsDays Vilnius, Sep 30 - Oct 1. 2006
- VMware User Groups (VMUGs):
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- Orlando (October 20-22, 2026)
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- Brandon: Claude Code /copy
- Matt: Search Engine:
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3 April 2026, 5:30 am - 1 hour 3 minutesEpisode 565: Field Engineering is the YOLO team
This week, we discuss big bets gone wrong, OpenAI buying the Python toolchain, and Claude's favorite tools. Plus, how fast should AI agents ship bug fixes?
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 565
Runner-up Titles
- Product Management Slot Machine
- We poisoned our own data
- As the resident hater of SDT
- I’m optimistic on this one
- I’ll check back when you call it Siri
- AI SEO
- The Ryan Gosling of Podcasts
Rundown
- Big Bets, Past, Present and Future
- Python and 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
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- Meta is shutting down VR social platform Horizon Worlds in further pivot away from the metaverse
- Government Registers Aliens.Gov Domain
- Instagram to remove end-to-end encryption for private messages in May
- What Is the PARK Stack?
- Federal cyber experts called Microsoft's cloud a "pile of shit," approved it anyway
- Mark Zuckerberg builds AI CEO to help him run Meta
- FCC Updates Covered List to Include Foreign-Made Consumer Routers, Prohibiting Approval of New Models
- Future Casting the Modern Data Stack
- Anthropic says Claude can now use your computer to finish tasks for you in AI agent push
- Today’s layoffs, This note was sent to Epic employees today
- Your wireless router is now banned from sale in the US
- Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features
- Jury orders Meta and Google to pay woman $3 million in social media addiction trial
- Arm is releasing the first in-house chip in its 35-year history
- Arm Launches Own CPU, Arm’s Motivation, Constraints and Systems
- Feature Spotlight: Introducing the Fantastical Connector (MCP) for Claude
Conferences
- DevOpsdays Atlanta 2026, April 21-22, 2026
- DevOpsDays Austin, May 5-6, 2026
- WeAreDevelopers, July 8-10, 2026 Berlin, Coté speaking.
- VMware User Groups (VMUGs):
- Minneapolis (April 7-9, 2026)
- Toronto (May 12-14, 2026)
- Dallas (June 9-11, 2026)
- Orlando (October 20-22, 2026)
SDT News & Community
- Join our Slack community
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- 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
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