Software Defined Talk

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

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VMware Explore London, Nov 18-19, 2006, Coté speaking.

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Build Stuff, Dec 2-4, 2026, Vilnius, Lithuania. Coté speaking.

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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

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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%

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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

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Special Guest: Aaron Delp.

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

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AWS to acquire DuckLabs, the Amsterdam-based company behind DuckDB

Historic first as Chinese robot beats Usain Bolt's 100m world record at Beijing games

Observability Revenue

Bill Gates Warns AI Is More Dangerous Than Big Tech Will Admit

Microsoft cracks down on employee AI use after one worker spent $28,000 in 28 days

Twitter - The Square Is Back

Inside Meta's Push to Put Robots to Work in Data Centers

Kara Swisher on Threads

Nvidia (NVDA) Q2 2027 earnings report: Live updates

Claudeforce: The AI Interface Salesforce Never Built

Salesforce, Anthropic expand partnership as Benioff responds to "SaaSpocalypse" concerns

Nonsense

Gwyneth Paltrow’s Hamptons Dinner for A.I. C.E.O. Is Postponed

Dyson CameraJet: The first toothbrush with a camera and a jet, to target the gaps and remove plaque between your teeth

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Explore videos are up

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

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Cursor Origin review: An engineer's perspective

Claude can now pull data from your browser tabs and keep working on your desktop

OTel Isn't Going Well (And I Made A Spreadsheet About It)

Walmart is finally launching Apple Pay support next week

Broadcom debt deal expected to reach upwards of $70 billion, sources say

Anthropic-Backed Ode Acquires Casper Studios to Expand Corporate AI Deployments

OpenAI 'will be a public company in 2027' or sooner, CFO Friar tells employees

Google Aims to Boost AI With Purchase of Spirit Airlines Data

The website that created an AI clone of its editor in chief

OpenAI Jalapeño: Better Than Nvidia Blackwell

An Inside Look at the Relay Market Powering Token Resellers and Fraud

Meta settles social media addiction case with California, other states for $16.7 billion

Hundreds of leaked AWS keys give full control over corporate accounts

Free Hardened Container Images | Minimus

Cyber startup Minimus shuts down, returns cash to investors

Nonsense

Apple Releases New Polishing Cloth

Jason Kelce promotes mailing pee to data centers, Liquid Death

Paradox Inc. Movie From Daniel Roher, Lord Miller, Universal In Works

Conferences

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DevOpsDays Dallas, Sept 28-29, 2026

DevOpsDays Vilnius, Sep 30 - Oct 1, 2006, Lithuania.

DevOpsDays Prague, Oct 5, 2026 - Coté speaking.

DevOpsDays Istanbul, Oct 24th, 2026, Coté keynoting.

VMware User Group, Orlando, Oct 20-22, 2026

Cloud Native Denmark, Nov 19th, 2026, Copenhagen, Coté keynoting.

Build Stuff, Dec 2-4, 2026, Vilnius, Lithuania.

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SCALE 24x Pasadena, CA, April 1-4, 2027

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