This week, we discuss Claude’s new Excel skills, whether AI is augmenting or automating humans, and the latest developer surveys. Plus, AI making the command line cool again!

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 544

Runner-up Titles

• Cote’ shock jock mode
• Art with squids
• Command-Line Life Style
• AI isn’t for experts.
• The triumph of the command line
• The command line lifestyle is now available
• I don’t even know what sed is
• The Human Line

Rundown

• Anthropic's Claude is learning Excel so you don't have to
• Amazon targets as many as 30,000 corporate job cuts: Reuters, citing sources
• The State of Developer Ecosystem in 2025
• “The Pragmatic Engineer 2025 Survey: What’s in your tech stack? Part 3.”

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• ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web - Anil Dash
• OpenAI acquires Software Applications Incorporated, maker of Sky
• PayPal shares surge 13% after OpenAI deal to become the first payments wallet in ChatGPT
• Internet Pioneer AOL to Be Acquired by Italian Tech Company Bending Spoons
• What is Configuration as Data?
• RDEL #115: What are the 2025 benchmarks for the DORA 4 metrics?
• a16z Is Funding a 'Speedrun' to AI-Generated Hell on Earth
• An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’
• Removing Jeff Bezos From My Bed ◆ Truffle Security Co.
• Grammarly rebrands to 'Superhuman,' launches a new AI assistant
• Why the “Free” Chef Version Could Be Your Most Expensive Mistake
• The Wayback Machine’s snapshots of news homepages plummet after a “breakdown” in archiving projects

Nonsense

• How Hacked Card Shufflers Allegedly Enabled a Mob-Fueled Poker Scam That Rocked the NBA

Conferences

• Wiz Wizdom Conferences, NYC November 3-5, London November 17-19
• SREDay Amsterdam, November 7th, Coté speaking
• DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA
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This week, we discuss OpenAI’s new browser, AI trying to build spreadsheets, and when to use Claude skills. Plus, Coté explores the art of the perfect staycation.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 543

Runner-up Titles

• Firewire is dead
• USB, what are you going to do?
• It’s like I tell my son: you know what to do, you chose not to do it.
• I am just a guest.
• I don’t need helpful
• An amazing hole.
• Slides for nobody
• You closed the loop
• It’s pretty amazing, but does it need to exist?
• Slackhole

Rundown

• OpenAI
  • Introducing ChatGPT Atlas
  • OpenAI Is Building a Banker
  • OpenAI has five years to turn $13 billion into $1 trillion
  • AI agents are not amazing, they are slop: says OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy as he strongly disagrees with CEO Sam Altman on AGI timeline - The Times of India
  • OpenAI’s ChatGPT will soon allow ‘erotica’ for adults in major policy shift
  • OpenAI Inks Deal With Broadcom to Design Its Own Chips for A.I.
• Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP
• OpenStack Flamingo pays down technical debt as adoption continues to climb

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• Elon Musk will settle $128 million Twitter execs lawsuit
• GitHub Will Prioritize Migrating to Azure Over Feature Development
• The Discord Hack is Every User’s Worst Nightmare
• Cursor-Maker Anysphere Considers Investment Offers at $30 Billion Valuation
• Rubygems.org AWS Root Access Event – September 2025
• This Discord Zendesk compromise has gotten more silly
• WP Engine Vs Automattic & Mullenweg Is Back In Play
• Windows 11 removes all bypass methods for Microsoft account setup, removing local accounts
• Introducing the React Foundation: The New Home for React & React Native
• Wiz Finds Critical Redis RCE Vulnerability: CVE‑2025‑49844 | Wiz Blog
• DevRel is -Unbelievably- Back
• The Ruby community has a DHH problem
• YouTube rolls out its redesigned video player globally
• Oracle stock rises as company confirms Meta cloud deal
• Adiós, AirPods
• NVIDIA shows off its first Blackwell wafer manufactured in the US
• This Is How Much Anthropic and Cursor Spend On Amazon Web Services
• Automattic CEO calls Tumblr his 'biggest failure' so far
• Marc Benioff says Salesforce is saving about $100M a year by using AI tools in its customer service operations
• Amazon cloud computing outage disrupts Snapchat, Ring and many other online services
• Amazon Outage Forces Hundreds of Websites Offline for Hours
• Today is when Amazon brain drain finally caught up with AWS
• AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright - Dexerto

Nonsense

• Streetlights Are Mysteriously Turning Purple. Here's Why
• Buc-ee's is not America's top convenience store; Midwest chain takes No. 1 spot
• French post office rolls out croissant-scented stamp

Listener Feedback

• Jeffrey is looking for college interns.

Conferences

• Wiz Wizdom Conferences, NYC November 3-5, London November 17-19
• SREDay Amsterdam, Coté speaking, November 7th.

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Matt Ray talks to Yuriy Shyyan, the Director of Cloud Systems Architecture for OpenMetal. They discuss the cost of running your enterprise in the public cloud, high school hacking, building a business on OpenStack, and recognizing that cloud credits are an invitation to purchase a timeshare.

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This week, we discuss Apps in ChatGPT, OpenAI’s Agent SDK and Codex. Plus, Matt has a possum problem down under.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 541

Runner-up Titles

• Living in the dark ages of Sequoia
• He’s the racoon remover of the neighborhood
• Don’t say we don’t cover everything
• They’re hoping someone’s going to unlock a lot of value here, because I’m not seeing it
• The Low Code Trap
• Use the code “SDT150” and we’ll send you money

Rundown

• Open AI DevDay
• The Next Great Distribution Shift
• AMD stock skyrockets 30% as OpenAI looks to take stake in AI chipmaker
• OpenAI’s Golden Touch Spreads as Stocks Soar
• OpenAI Is Good at Deals ## Relevant to your Interests
• Your Meta AI Chats Will Soon Influence the Ads You See
• AWS API MCP Server v1.0.0 release - AWS
• Inside the cybersecurity boom, strong team, and bold gamble that helped Wiz CEO Assaf Rappaport win a $32 billion deal with Google
• Linus Torvalds Lashes Out At RISC-V Big Endian Plans
• Open Printer
• Have we passed peak social media?
• Apple working on MCP support on Mac, iPhone, and iPad
• A cartoonist's review of AI art
• GitHub leads the enterprise, Claude leads the pack—Cursor’s speed can’t close
• Cursor CLI
• Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.5
• GitHub Copilot CLI is now in public preview
• Meet Jules Tools: A Command Line Companion for Google’s Async Coding Agent
• Announcing The Gem Cooperative
• Qualcomm Buys Arduino, Will Bring AI Tools to Your DIY Tech Projects

Listener Feedback

• Join the Boulder AWS - Amazon Web Services | Meetup

Conferences

• AI for the Rest of Us, Coté speaking, October 15th-16th, London. Use code SDT20 for 20% off.
• Wiz Wizdom Conferences, NYC November 3-5, London November 17-19
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This week, we dig into the latest DORA report and OpenAI’s big product updates. Plus, some hot takes on airline status and the Eurostar.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 540

Runner-up Titles

• Just plug in an iPhone
• Be helpful, not helpless

Rundown

• Announcing the 2025 DORA Report | Google Cloud Blog
• OpenAI
  • Agentic Commerce
  • The New Sora App
  • Introducing ChatGPT Pulse

Relevant to your Interests

• Intel and Apple hold investment talks, no deal in sight - 9to5Mac
• Ed Zitron is mad as hell
• TikTok will stay: Trump signs executive order to keep app in the US
• 10+ Hidden Features in iOS 26
• Splunk .conf25: Forging a Data Foundation for Cisco's AgenticOps Vision
• JFrog SwampUp 2025: The Agentic Development Era Emerges From The Swamp
• RIP, AOL dial-up: Take a walk down memory lane to 5 other now-defunct tech icons that defined millennials' youths
• Logitech launches MX Master 4 flagship productivity mouse – the best mouse we've tested adds haptic feedback, circular Action Ring shortcuts
• Charlie Javice Sentenced to 85 Months in Prison for Fraud
• Spotify CEO Daniel Ek to step aside
• Cloudscape - Cloudscape Design System
• Cursor CLI
• Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.5
• Cursor CLI
• Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.5
• GitHub Copilot CLI is now in public preview
• Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover
• How Ruby Went Off the Rails
• Open source to closed doors: RubyGems control fight erupts
• Platform Engineering and AI - Two Buzzwords Finally Meet! | Michael Cote

Nonsense

• Build-A-Bear Stock Outperforms Nvidia (The Onion)

Conferences

• CF Day EU, Coté speaking, Frankfurt, October 7th, 2025.
• AI for the Rest of Us, Coté speaking, October 15th-16th, London. Use code SDT20 for 20% off.
• Wiz Wizdom Conferences, NYC November 3-5, London November 17-19
• SREDay Amsterdam, Coté speaking, November 7th.

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This week, we cover Oracle’s OpenAI deal, the RubyGems drama, and Atlassian buying DX. Plus, does anyone still use widgets?

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 539

Runner-up Titles

• It’s a two knob problem
• The healthy jaundice of success
• My homework is to go home
• Are you enjoying the widgets?
• I get you on the Ponzi Scheme
• Hanlon’s Razor strikes again
• Blogging: Hardest form of social media

Rundown

• Oracle
  • Exclusive | Oracle, OpenAI Sign Massive $300 Billion Cloud Computing Deal
  • Oracle and OpenAI are full of crap
  • OpenAI doesn’t have the cash to pay Oracle $300 billion — raising it will test the very limits of private markets
  • Nvidia stock jumps on $100 billion OpenAI investment as Huang touts 'biggest AI infrastructure project in history
• Ruby Central Takes Over RubyGems
• Atlassian
  • Atlassian acquires DX, a developer productivity platform, for $1B
  • Atlassian acquires developer productivity startup DX for $1B
  • The AI Shift: Static Software vs. Living AI Systems
• RSS co-creator launches new protocol for AI data licensing
• Nvidia to Invest $5 Billion in Intel, Furthering Trump’s Turnaround Plan

Relevant to your Interests

• Tesla Wants Out of the Car Business
• Google is shutting down Tables, its Airtable rival | TechCrunch
• Oracle's stock pump, Meta's $600B, Bronny Ellison and Warner Bros, European stereotypes
• Atlassian goes cloud-only, customers face integration issues
• Getting a slice of the Kubernete$ management pie
• Cote on Multicloud
• ServiceNow Says Windsurf Gave Its Engineers a 10% Productivity Boost
• Most Work is Translation
• Microsoft warns users that Windows 10 is in its final days
• How to use Tahoe's new Use Model shortcut to summarize articles
• Credit scores drop at fastest pace since the Great Recession | CNN Business
• Workday to buy AI firm Sana for $1.1 billion as HR software deal-making heats up
• Wasm 3.0 Completed - WebAssembly
• Exclusive: AI's ability to displace jobs is advancing quickly, Anthropic CEO says
• From the facepalm community on Reddit: Meta's live AI cooking demo fails spectacularly
• Meta CTO explains the cause of its embarrassing smart glasses demo failures
• New H-1B rules sparked weekend chaos
• The Man Calling Bullshit on the AI Boom
• Trump’s H-1B visa fee isn’t just about immigration, it’s about fealty
• Vivaldi takes a stand: keep browsing human | Vivaldi Browser
• Zoom Bets on Agentic AI With AI Companion 3.0 Amid Sluggish Growth
• The Secret Service has dismantled a telecom threat near the UN. It could have disabled cell service in NYC
• Enterprise AI Looks Bleak, But Employee AI Looks Bright
• Obot AI Secures $35M Seed to Build Enterprise MCP Gateway - obot
• Announcing the 2025 DORA Report | Google Cloud Blog

Conferences

• Civo Navigate London, Coté speaking, September 30th.
• Texas Linux Fest, Austin, October 3rd to 4th.
• CF Day EU, Coté speaking, Frankfurt, October 7th, 2025.
• AI for the Rest of Us, Coté speaking, October 15th-16th, London. Use code SDT20 for 20% off.
• Wiz Wizdom Conferences, NYC November 3-5, London November 17-19
• SREDay Amsterdam, Coté speaking, November 7th.

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Brandon interviews Michael Irwin, Principal Engineer at Docker. They cover Docker’s evolution, why hardened images matter, and how AI fits in. Plus, Michael shares stories from teaching computer science.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 538

Show Links

• Docker
• Docker Hub

Contact Michael

• LinkedIn: mikesir87
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• Blog: https://blog.mikesir87.io/

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This week, we dig into Atlassian buying The Browser Company, whether Pay Per Crawl makes sense, and Oracle’s cloud jackpot. Plus, a quick lesson in Aussie slang.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 537

Runner-up Titles

• "I have a plan to make things slightly better.”
• Matt Ray comes off the top rope
• We are in that demographic
• Flip-flops, thongs, and slides.
• No Translation Needed
• Do we have a fashion channel?
• Why not us too?
• Let’s just try it
• Hooters adjacent tech story
• Pay-per-crawl.
• I don’t know how DNS works, nobody does
• Cool, copyright, I love it
• Just lots of weird stuff going on.
• Y’all are weird

Rundown

• Final thought on Australia
• Atlassian agrees to acquire The Browser Company for $610 million
• VMware buying Slide Rocket in 2011, which is now ClearSlide
• An Interview with Cloudflare Founder and CEO Matthew Prince About Internet History and Pay-per-crawl
• Anthropic Agrees to Pay $1.5 Billion to Settle Lawsuit With Book Authors
• Apple unveils iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max
• Catch up quick | Apple September event highlights
• Apple introduces AirPods Pro 3 with live translation feature
• Nvidia's top two mystery customers made up 39% of the chipmaker's Q2 revenue
• Oracle Financial's US parent jumps 27% in extended trading on Tuesday; Here's why - CNBC TV18

Relevant to your Interests

• Google, Apple, and Mozilla Win in the Antitrust Case Google Lost
• Privacy Nightmare: Your Doorbell Camera Is Snitching to Insurance Companies
• Broadcom Stock Soars as AI Demand Drives Strong Earnings—Crucial Price Levels to Monitor
• Addressing the unauthorized issuance of multiple TLS certificates for 1.1.1.1
• Exclusive | Databricks Crosses $4 Billion in Annual Revenue Rate
• SpaceX strikes $17B deal to buy EchoStar's spectrum for Starlink's direct-to-phone service
• Google Cloud CEO sees sunny prospects thanks to AI demand
• Apple unveils iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max
• Catch up quick | Apple September event highlights
• Apple introduces AirPods Pro 3 with live translation feature
• Claude can now create and use files
• The $69 Billion Domino Effect: How VMware’s Debt-Fueled Acquisition Is Killing Open Source, One Repository at a Time

Nonsense

• 2025 AI Darwin Award Nominees - Worst AI Failures of the Year
• Ground staff strike: KLM cancels over 100 flights on Wednesday - DutchNews.nl

Listener Feedback

• Carless People
• What We’ve Learned About the Kawhi Leonard Situation—and What We Haven’t

Conferences

• VMUG London, Coté speaking, September 18th.
• SREDay London, Coté speaking, September 18th and 19th.
• Civo Navigate London, Coté speaking, September 30th.
• Texas Linux Fest, Austin, October 3rd to 4th.
• CF Day EU, Coté speaking, Frankfurt, October 7th, 2025.
• AI for the Rest of Us, Coté speaking, October 15th-16th, London. Use code SDT20 for 20% off.
• Wiz Wizdom Conferences, NYC November 3-5, London November 17-19
• SREDay Amsterdam, Coté speaking, November 7th.

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This week, we discuss the effectiveness of reorgs, Meta’s new AI team, and the Google antitrust ruling. Plus, some strong thoughts on cold brew and bathtubs.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 536

Runner-up Titles

• Buy once, cry once
• Annual Recurring Regrets
• The Bathtub Problem
• Bathtime is My Time
• Your Daily Stoic
• No one cares about open source cold brew
• Once you have it pick up the phone and call someone, the dream of the Internet is dead.
• The Chrome ecoverse.

Rundown

• The VC who married Paris Hilton uses his cryochamber twice a day and launches an AI agent before bed
• OpenAI starts building out its app team
• OpenAI shuffles executive roles, acquires Statsig for $1.1 billion
• Reorganizations
  • Zuckerberg’s AI hires disrupt Meta with swift exits and threats to leave
  • No Amount of Money Can Make People Want to Work for Zuck
  • Inside Amazon's 'hardcore' culture reset
• New Research Debunks Open Source Business Model Myths
• Google gets to keep Chrome but is barred from exclusive search deals, judge rules

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• Opinion | A.I. May Be Just Kind of Ordinary
• Anthropic Settles High-Profile AI Copyright Lawsuit Brought by Book Authors
• Zen Browser — What Mozilla Firefox Should Be?
• Asahi Linux Lead Developer Steps Down
• How to prepare for the Bitnami Changes coming soon
• Metal³ - Metal Kubed
• How This A.I. Company Collapsed Amid Silicon Valley’s Biggest Boom
• AI Experts No Longer Saving for Retirement Because They Assume AI Will Kill Us All by Then
• Unix Co-Creator Brian Kernighan on Rust, Distros and NixOS
• Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters
• Tanzu having nothing to do with Kubernetes anymore
• There is no Tanzu Kubenetes, only VKS.
• Nvidia stock turns positive in premarket trading as investors buy dip following earnings report
• MongoDB Soars: Analyzing the Recent Surge
• NVIDIA Q2 Profit Soars 59% as Blackwell AI Surge Fuels Record Revenue
• Nvidia, $NVDA, has reported that a single customer accounted for 23% of its total quarterly revenue of $46.7 billion, per Bloomberg

Nonsense

• The Dutch are quietly shifting towards a four-day work week

Conferences

• VMUG London, Coté speaking, September 18th.
• SREDay London, Coté speaking, September 18th and 19th.
• Civo Navigate London, Coté speaking, September 30th.
• Texas Linux Fest, Austin, October 3rd to 4th.
• CF Day EU, Coté speaking, Frankfurt, October 7th, 2025.
• AI for the Rest of Us, Coté speaking, October 15th-16th, London. Use code SDT20 for 20% off.
• Wiz Wizdom Conferences, NYC November 3-5, London November 17-19
• SREDay Amsterdam, Coté speaking, November 7th.

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This week, we discuss AI disillusionment, the good and bad of AI use cases, and VMware news. Plus, we compare tech mergers to Taylor Swift’s engagement.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 534

Runner-up Titles

• I’m going to turn off the Roomba
• Spider Patrol
• My old office had a door
• The dog was up all night
• Exiting our bubble
• The child’s name is Steve
• We don’t want to anger the Swifties
• It’s fine isn’t good enough
• I am leaving my wife for Google Search
• It’s all made-up anyway
• Anything you see, CSV just pops out
• Stop digging

Rundown

• Trough of Disillusionment?
  • OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Concedes GPT-5 Was a Misfire, Bets on GPT-6 - Decrypt
  • Suddenly, Silicon Valley Is Lowering AI Expectations — New York Magazine
  • It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes
• The Search for Product Market Fit
  • Clouded Judgement 8.22.25 - Workflows Are the New Databases
  • AWS CEO says AI replacing junior staff is 'dumbest idea'
  • Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately
• VMware
  • Modern Private Cloud: The Data Center’s Next Chapter - Broadcom News and Stories
  • Broadcom calls for tech to go back where it belongs: On-prem
• Feds: Critical Software Must Drop C/C++ by 2026 or Face Risk

Relevant to your Interests

• Microsoft says U.S. law takes precedence over Canadian data sovereignty
• Removing XSLT From the Web Platform
• Walmart Fires VP for Taking Daily Kickbacks Starting from $30K
• YouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos. The results could bend reality
• Bye-bye barrel jack: Framework brings 240W USB-C charging to laptops
• Google scores six-year Meta cloud deal worth over $10 billion

Nonsense

• Nerd! How the word popularized by Dr. Seuss went from geeky insult to mainstream
• K-Pop Demon Hunters os recommend in the Slack
• Python Package Management tool “uv”
• PROMOTE STICKERS

Conferences

• SREDay London, Coté speaking, September 18th and 19th.
• Civo Navigate London, Coté speaking, September 30th.
• Texas Linux Fest, Austin, October 3rd to 4th.
• CF Day EU, Coté speaking, Frankfurt, October 7th, 2025.
• AI for the Rest of Us, Coté speaking, October 15th-16th, London. Use code SDT20 for 20% off.
• Wiz Wizdom Conferences, NYC November 3-5, London November 17-19
• SREDay Amsterdam, Coté speaking, November 7th.

SDT News & Community

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This week, we discuss the US backing Intel, SaaS staying power, and AI’s impact on deep work. Plus, Matt Ray’s moving tips and more kolache talk in the after show.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 534

Runner-up Titles

• It’s all in your head
• Little brother podcasting
• Chaos Monkey Inspections
• “Let’s face it, everything runs on computers now.”
• AI - Army of Interns

Rundown

• Intel
  • SoftBank Group and Intel Corporation Sign $2B Investment Agreement
  • Lutnick says Intel has to give government equity in return for CHIPS Act funds
  • Trump Administration Discusses Taking 10% Stake in Intel
• The Return of Software
  • Prompting is easy, people are hard.
  • Just updating your Java version gets people’s hearts racing.
• Deep Thinking
  • Will AI Usher In the End of Deep Thinking? — Plain English with Derek Thompson
  • Will AI Usher In the End of Deep Thinking? - The Ringer
  • AI coding tools may not speed up every developer, study shows
  • Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity

Relevant to your Interests

• Apple returns blood oxygen monitoring to the latest Apple Watches
• The AI Investor
• Apple’s Wallet app just made Amazon returns easy, and more is coming
• Cognition Cinches About $500 Million to Advance AI Code-Generation Business
• Three weeks after acquiring Windsurf, Cognition offers staff the exit door

Nonsense

• Interview with Senior DevOps engineer 2025

Conferences

• SpringOne, Las Vegas, August 25th to 28th, 2025. See Coté’s pitch.
• Explore 2025 US, Las Vegas, August 25th to 28th, 2025. See Coté’s pitch.
• Wiz Capture the Flag, Brisbane, August 26.
• SREDay London, Coté speaking, September 18th and 19th.
• Civo Navigate London, Coté speaking, September 30th.
• Texas Linux Fest, Austin, October 3rd to 4th.
• CF Day EU, Coté speaking, Frankfurt, October 7th, 2025.
• AI for the Rest of Us, Coté speaking, October 15th to 16th, London.
• SREDay Amsterdam, Coté speaking, November 7th.

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• Brandon: America's Team: The Gambler and His Cowboys
• Matt: IKEA delivery
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This week, we discuss GPT 5.0, the emerging AI ecosystem, and why TAM is basically a bedtime story for investors. Plus, Coté serves up a masterclass on kolaches.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 533

Runner-up Titles

• Yeehaw Buns
• Bush Turkey
• Pigs in Blanket
• The Czech Stop
• "The Central Texas Kolache Corridor"
• “I’m over here in Gemini-land.”
• What if this is as good as it gets?
• How smart are humans?
• You’re Tony Randall!
• Is this the dystopian future we signed up for?
• Extreme in Hungary (Tilberg, actually)
• I don’t think there’s a honey-badger outcome.
• All the porridge
• A bedtime story for investors

Rundown

• OpenAI
  • OpenAI Finally Launched GPT-5. Here's Everything You Need to Know
  • OpenAI launches new GPT-5 model for all ChatGPT users
  • GPT-5 is alive
  • OpenAI is raising money at a $300 billion valuation
  • Sam Altman says Gen Z are the ‘luckiest’ kids in history thanks to AI, despite mounting job displacement dread
  • Three big lessons from the GPT-5 backlash
  • Mr. Short-Term Memory
• The AI Ecosystem Apps are growing
  • Your AI workloads still need a service mesh
  • AI Security Company | Manage GenAI Risks & Secure LLM Apps
  • Requesty - Unified LLM Platform
  • The latest AI news we announced in July
• Oxide and Friends | Oxide's $100M Series B

Relevant to Your Interests

• Google Pixel 10 | Soon
• The Man Who Beat IBM
• Linus Torvalds Rejects RISC-V Changes For Linux 6.17: "Garbage"
• Zuckerberg’s Compound Had Something That Violated City Code: A Private School
• The 20-Year David Ellison Plan
• AOL Will End Its Dial-Up Internet Service (Yes, It’s Still Operating)
• Ford's cheaper, simpler $30K electric vehicles are how 'we can make money on EVs,' CEO says
• Goodbye API Keys: Gemini CLI GitHub Actions with Workload Identity Federation
• I Tried Every Todo App and Ended Up With a .txt File
• Intel shares drop after Trump calls for CEO to resign immediately
• Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub
• GitHub will join Microsoft’s CoreAI division with departure of CEO Thomas Dohmke

Nonsense

• The FDA Wants to Change the Definition of Orange Juice for the First Time in 60 Years

Conferences

• SpringOne, Las Vegas, August 25th to 28th, 2025. See Coté’s pitch.
• Explore 2025 US, Las Vegas, August 25th to 28th, 2025. See Coté’s pitch.
• Wiz Capture the Flag, Brisbane, August 26. Matt will be there.
• SREDay London, Coté speaking, September 18th and 19th.
• Civo Navigate London, Coté speaking, September 30th.
• Texas Linux Fest, Austin, October 3rd to 4th.
• CF Day EU, Frankfurt, October 7th, 2025.
• AI for the Rest of Us, Coté speaking, October 15th to 16th, London.

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Recommendations

• Brandon: AirPods Max
• Matt: Devolutionary Times
• Coté:
  • “Connaissais de Face,”
  • “Evan Finds The Third Room.”
  • Live performance of the song “People Everywhere”

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This week, we discuss cloud earnings, what’s driving valuations, and why AWS says it’s still early innings for cloud. Plus, Coté does a deep dive on Shipley Donuts.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 532

Runner-up Titles

• Dangerous to do things in bed
• Free Donut Holes
• Dark Fiber
• BET
• A man can not believe anything that devalues their index funds.
• They just open sourced last year’s homework.
• It doesn’t use as many emdashes
• Anchorman Vibes

Rundown

• AI & Cloud Trends for July 2025
• Cloud Earnings
  • Microsoft posts Q4 beat on top and bottom line on cloud, AI strength
  • Clouded Judgement 8.1.25 - The AI Operating Model
  • Richard Seroter's Architecture Musings
• AI
  • OpenAI’s new waited model whatever
  • Simon Willson says local tool calling might be better
  • Exclusive: OpenAI Secures Another Giant Funding Deal
  • OpenAI has made $5.25 billion in 2025 so far, and Anthropic $1.5bn. In both cases, I have found a pattern of deceptive leaks of annualized revenues to suggest they're making far more.

Relevant to your Interests

• How Olipop is sweetening the PTO deal for employees
• Anaconda Secures $150M Funding, Hits $1.5B Valuation
• Figma raises $1.2 billion, creating new playbook for going public in the summer
• AI vs. AI: Prophet Security raises $30M to replace human analysts with autonomous defenders
• API Simulation Reduces MCP Server, Microservices Overload
• Google loses appeal in antitrust battle with Fortnite maker
• Exclusive: More details emerge on how Windsurf’s VCs and founders got paid from the Google deal
• OpenAI is teasing a GPT-5 release.
• Cloud Software Group to Acquire Arctera
• For the first time, OpenAI models are available on AWS | TechCrunch
• Agents or Bots? Making Sense of AI on the Open Web
• Three weeks after acquiring Windsurf, Cognition offers staff the exit door
• Apple has now shipped 3 billion iPhones
• Apple Growth Rebounds on Strength of iPhone 16 Line, China
• Apple Earnings; Cook’s AI Comments; Apple’s AI Strategy, Redux

Nonsense

• Microsoft’s Windows XP Crocs are no joke

Listener Feedback

• JD recommends Charm

Conferences

• SpringOne, Las Vegas, August 25th to 28th, 2025. See Coté’s pitch.
• Explore 2025 US, Las Vegas, August 25th to 28th, 2025. See Coté’s pitch.
• Wiz Capture the Flag, Brisbane, August 26. Matt will be there.
• SREDay London, Coté speaking, September 18th and 19th.
• Civo Navigate London, Coté speaking, September 30th.
• Texas Linux Fest, Austin, October 3rd to 4th.
• CF Day EU, Frankfurt, October 7th, 2025.
• AI for the Rest of Us, Coté speaking, October 15th to 16th, London.

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Recommendations

• Brandon: CalDigit TS4.
• Coté:
  • Sunday roast at Mount St. Restaurant, London.
  • Internal developer platform marketing series: part one, part two, and part three.

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This week, we discuss the AI hype cycle, Astronomer’s viral moment, and yet another YAML flavor — KYAML. Plus, private equity is coming for your donuts.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 531

Runner-up Titles

• Sometimes it’s hard to make money
• I’ve given into Big Donut
• Maybe you can fake your way through life
• At some point you have to have some expertise
• AI has no taste
• Can you fix my PowerPoint?
• There is a chance we’re all going to be naked soon
• Gobbling up the dark fiber
• WHYAML
• Waymo for Babies

Rundown

• Beloved Texas doughnut chain sold to California equity firm
• AI Mid-Year Hype-Cycle Check-in
  • Gartner hype cycle
  • Betting on AI: The Delusion Driving Big Tech - Last Week in AWS Podcast
  • Clouded Judgement 7.25.25 - TAMs Lie
  • Microsoft’s AI CEO thinks Copilot will age and ‘have a room that it lives in’
  • Flaw in Gemini CLI coding tool could allow hackers to run nasty commands
  • Claude Code is a slot machine
  • The Hater’s Guide to the AI Bubble
  • 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey
  • 2025 Stack Overflow sentiment and usage section
• Astronomer
  • Data Pipelines with Apache Airflow
  • Astronomer (@astronomerio) on X
  • Ryan Reynolds' ad agency, was behind the Gwyneth Paltrow Astronomer ad
• Introducing KYAML, a safer, less ambiguous YAML subset / encoding
• Palo Alto Networks to acquire CyberArk in $25 billion deal

Relevant to your Interests

• Microsoft's Satya Nadella says job cuts have been 'weighing heavily' on him
• IBM shares drop as software revenue misses
• MSFT Teams in your car?
• Y2K38 bug? Debian switching to 64-bit time for everything
• A.I.-Driven Education: Founded in Texas and Coming to a School Near You
• How Anthropic teams use Claude Code
• Anthropic unveils new rate limits to curb Claude Code power users
• Alphabet's Q2 revenue beats estimates as cloud computing surges

Listener Feedback

• Steve recommends Lessons from Production Podcast

Conferences

• Sydney Wizdom Meet-Up, Sydney, August 7. Matt will be there.
• SpringOne, Las Vegas, August 25th to 28th, 2025. See Coté’s pitch.
• Explore 2025 US, Las Vegas, August 25th to 28th, 2025. See Coté’s pitch.
• Wiz Capture the Flag, Brisbane, August 26. Matt will be there.
• SREDay London, Coté speaking, September 18th and 19th.
• Civo Navigate London, Coté speaking, September 30th.
• Texas Linux Fest, Austin, October 3rd to 4th. CFP closes August 3rd.
• CF Day EU, Frankfurt, October 7th, 2025.
• AI for the Rest of Us, Coté speaking, October 15th to 16th, London.

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• Brandon: Uber Teen
• Matt: Software Defined Interviews - Chris Dancy

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This week, we cover AI going rogue, Cloudflare declaring independence, and the secure container craze. Plus, Matt bravely judges 9 new emoji.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 530

Runner-up Titles

• VP of getting it on
• Neutral trombone
• Good Margin
• Independent from what?
• The New Benevolence
• I have plenty of cynicism for other things

Rundown

• Emojis
  • Australian Bigfoot
  • Unicode's new emoji refuses to put respect on Bigfoot's name
  • Matt’s Rankings:
    1. Hairy Creature
    2. Trombone
    3. Treasure Chest
    4. Fight Cloud
    5. Orca
    6. Landslide
    7. Apple Core
    8. Ballet Dancers
    9. Distorted Face
• AI coding platform goes rogue during code freeze and deletes entire company database — Replit CEO apologizes after AI engine says it 'made a catastrophic error in judgment' and 'destroyed all production data'
• Cloudflare
  • Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025
  • Content Independence Day: no AI crawl without compensation!
  • Accidental Tech Podcast: 649: Prove It With Cameras
  • Anubis Web AI Firewall
• Announcing Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server for AWS Price List
• Chainguard builds a market, everyone else wants in.
• Bitnami Secure Images

Relevant to your Interests

• Browser extensions turn Trojan and infect 2.3 million Chrome and Edge users
• Code was the least interesting part of my multi-agent app, and here’s what that means to me
• Dell employees are not OK
• How Uber Became A Cash-Generating Machine
• Clouded Judgement 7.18.25 - The Return of the Point Solution
• Mid-Year 2025 CNCF Open Source Project Velocity
• new Date("wtf")
• Intel axes Clear Linux, the fastest distribution on the market — company ends support, effective immediately
• The Epic Battle for AI Talent—With Exploding Offers, Secret Deals and Tears
• Cursor snaps up enterprise startup Koala in challenge to GitHub Copilot
• Lovable becomes a unicorn with $200M Series A just 8 months after launch
• Apple details how it trained its new AI models, see highlights
• Instacart’s former CEO is taking the reins of a big chunk of OpenAI
• The Enshittification of American Power
• Customer guidance for SharePoint vulnerability CVE-2025-53770
• Mike Lynch’s Estate Ordered to Pay Hewlett Packard $945 Million
• OpenAI announces ChatGPT agent for web browsing
• OpenAI’s new ChatGPT Agent can control an entire computer and do tasks for you
• ChatGPT Numbers
• Move Mesos to the Attic
• Anthropic hired back two of its employees — just two weeks after they left for a competitor.
• Investors Float Deal Valuing Anthropic at More Than $100 Billion

Nonsense

• Coldplay’s Kiss Cam Exposes Astronomer’s CEO Andy Byron Alleged Affair With HR Chief Kristin Cabot
• Unicode's new emoji refuses to put respect on Bigfoot's name
• Atari Is Re-Releasing Its 2600+ To Celebrate Pac-Man's 45th Birthday

Conferences

• Sydney Wizdom Meet-Up, Sydney, August 7. Matt will be there.
• SpringOne, Las Vegas, August 25th to 28th, 2025. See Coté’s pitch.
• Explore 2025 US, Las Vegas, August 25th to 28th, 2025. See Coté’s pitch.
• Wiz Capture the Flag, Brisbane, August 26. Matt will be there.
• SREDay London, Coté speaking, September 18th and 19th.
• Civo Navigate London, Coté speaking, September 30th.
• Texas Linux Fest, Austin, October 3rd to 4th. CFP closes August 3rd.
• CF Day EU, Frankfurt, October 7th, 2025.
• AI for the Rest of Us, Coté speaking, October 15th to 16th, London.

SDT News & Community

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• Matt: Spirited

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This week, we discuss Windsurf being acquired (again), how much AI agents really help with coding, and AWS launching Kiro. Plus, Matt attempts to design a new closet.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 529

Runner-up Titles

• "The backlog will always be with you."
• The things I dream about…
• Closet debt
• It’s about the money
• They call it business for a reason
• The children are the future
• The best and brightest are going to be making better advertising
• Ghost Developers are Architects
• TaskRabbit LLM
• Crabs in a pot
• You’re on a temporary plateau on your way to Product Management

Rundown

• Windsurf and Coding Agents
  • Is Cursor having their Docker moment?
  • OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off — and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google
  • Windsurf's CEO goes to Google; OpenAI's acquisition falls apart
  • Cognition, maker of the AI coding agent Devin, acquires Windsurf
  • It’s about the research. Ignore the money.
• How much does AI impact development speed?
• Measuring the actual impact of AI coding with Abi Noda, CEO of DX
• Introducing Kiro

Relevant to your Interests

• How much money has Linda Yaccarino made as X´s CEO during her tenure?
• NLWeb: Tapping MCP for natural language web search
• Introducing Comet: Browse at the speed of thought
• AWS reportedly set to launch agentic AI marketplace with Anthropic next week
• New Smart Glasses Block Out All Real-Life Advertising
• Exclusive | SpaceX to Invest $2 Billion Into Elon Musk’s xAI
• Figma's $300k Daily AWS Bill Isn't the Scandal You Think It Is
• DraftGPT: The Brave New World of AI Hits the NBA
• Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab is worth $12B in seed round
• AI Tooling, Evolution and The Promiscuity of Modern Developers

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Listener Feedback

• Wes recommends reMarkable eReader
• Jeroen recommends BooX

Conferences

• Sydney Wizdom Meet-Up, Sydney, August 7. Matt will be there.
• SpringOne, Las Vegas, August 25th to 28th, 2025. See Coté’s pitch.
• Explore 2025 US, Las Vegas, August 25th to 28th, 2025. See Coté’s pitch.
• SREDay London, Coté speaking, September 18th and 19th.
• Civo Navigate London, Coté speaking, September 30th.
• Texas Linux Fest, Austin, October 3rd to 4th. CFP closes August 3rd.
• CF Day EU, Frankfurt, October 7th, 2025.
• AI for the Rest of Us, Coté speaking, October 15th to 16th, London.

SDT News & Community

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• Matt: Dune Prophecy

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This week, we discuss the return of command line tools, Kubernetes embracing VMs, and the steady march of Windows. Plus, thoughts on TSA, boots, and the “old country."

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 528

Runner-up Titles

• Pool Problems
• Stockholm Pool Syndrome
• The Old Country
• VMs aren’t going anywhere
• Vaya con Dios
• This is why we have milk
• Why’s he talking about forks?
• Commander Claude
• The Columbia Music House business plan
• Beat this horse into glue
• Reinvent Command Line
• “Man falls in love with CLI”
• Windows is always giving you the middle button
• CBT - Claude Behavioral Therapy.

Rundown

• TSA tests security lines allowing passengers to keep their shoes on
• KubeCon Is Starting To Sound a Lot Like VMCon
• Claude Code and the CLI
  • Gemini CLI: your open-source AI agent
  • Cursor launches a web app to manage AI coding agents
  • AI Tooling, Evolution and The Promiscuity of Modern Developers
  • Introducing OpenCLI
• Windows
  • Windows 11 has finally overtaken Windows 10 as the most used desktop OS
  • Microsoft quietly implies Windows has LOST millions of users since Windows 11 debut — are people really abandoning ship? [UPDATE]

Relevant to your Interests

• Public cloud becomes a commodity
• Nvidia Ruffles Tech Giants With Move Into Cloud Computing
• Which Coding Assistants Retain Their Customers and Which Ones Don’t
• Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models
• Sam Altman upstages the critics
• The Ultimate Cloud Security Championship | 12 Months × 12 Challenges
• Denmark to tackle deepfakes by giving people copyright to their own features
• Why Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg went to war over WordPress
• How Nintendo locked down the Switch 2’s USB-C port and broke third-party docking
• CoreWeave to acquire Core Scientific in $9 billion all-stock deal
• Valve conquered PC gaming. What comes next?
• Datadog stock jumps 10% on tech company’s inclusion in S&P 500 index
• Jack Dorsey just released a Bluetooth messaging app that doesn't need the internet
• Unlock the Full Chainguard Containers Catalog – Now with a Catalog Pricing Option
• Oracle stock jumps after $30 billion annual cloud deal revealed in filing
• Docker State of App Dev: AI
• X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform
• Meta's recruiting blitz claims three OpenAI researchers
• OpenAI Reportedly Shuts Down for a Week as Zuck Poaches Its Top Talent
• OpenAI Leadership Responds to Meta Offers: ‘Someone Has Broken Into Our Home’
• Sam Altman Slams Meta’s AI Talent-Poaching Spree: ‘Missionaries Will Beat Mercenaries’
• Report: Apple looked into building its own AWS competitor
• Cloudflare launches a marketplace that lets websites charge AI bots for scraping
• The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers

Nonsense

• After 8 years of playing D&D nonstop, I’ve finally tried its biggest alternative
• TSA tests security lines allowing passengers to keep their shoes on

Conferences

• Sydney Wizdom Meet-Up, Sydney, August 7. Matt will be there.
• SpringOne, Las Vegas, August 25th to 28th, 2025. See Coté’s pitch.
• Explore 2025 US, Las Vegas, August 25th to 28th, 2025. See Coté’s pitch.
• SREDay London, Coté speaking, September 18th and 19th.
• Civo Navigate London, Coté speaking, September 30th.
• Texas Linux Fest, Austin, October 3rd to 4th. CFP closes August 3rd.
• CF Day EU, Frankfurt, October 7th, 2025.
• AI for the Rest of Us, Coté speaking, October 15th to 16th, London.

SDT News & Community

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• Brandon: Park ATX Free Parking Codes: FREE15ATX1 and FREE15ATX2
• Matt: Careless People
• Coté: Wizard Zines bundle, Julia Evans.

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Brandon interviews Victor Adossi, an engineer at Cosmonic. They discuss the state of WebAssembly, wasmCloud, and why Wasm is poised for growth. Plus, Victor shares what it’s like to live as an expat in Japan.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 526

Show Links

• Cosmonic
• Bytecode Alliance
• WebAssembly Specifications
• The WebAssembly Component Model
• Emscripten
• wasmCloud
• wasmCloud Examples
• Jco (Javascript ecosystem) Examples
• FFmpeg

Contact Victor

• Github: t3hmrman and vados-cosmonic
• Twitter: @vadosware
• Web: vadosware.io

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This week, we unpack The Optimist, the new Sam Altman biography; revisit OpenAI’s early days; and break down Coatue’s AI strategy deck. Plus, tips for squeezing in side projects between thought leadership presentations.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 526

Runner-up Titles

• Flow State
• Altman and AI
• Day 2 Thinking
• Growth Mindset
• Less of you
• You don't need a Harvard Business Review subscription to know that
• Running unnecessary hardware in your house
• Lifelong Costco member here.
• Pre-populate Everything
• There’s no ROI on a good hotdog

Rundown

• AI Native vs. AI Add-on
• AI Frenzy
  • The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future
  • Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab valued at $10bn after $2bn fundraising
  • ChatGPT's Enterprise Success Against Copilot Fuels OpenAI and Microsoft's Rivalry
  • Iyo vs. Io — OpenAI and Jony Ive get sued
  • Zuckerberg Leads AI Recruitment Blitz Armed With $100 Million Pay Packages
  • After trying to buy Ilya Sutskever's $32B AI startup, Meta looks to hire its CEO
  • Message from CEO Andy Jassy: Some thoughts on Generative AI
  • Clouded Judgement 6.19.25 - The Dropping Cost of Intelligence
• Coatue's 2025 EMW Keynote Replay
  • Slides in online PDF
  • Coatue’s Laffont Brothers. AI, Public & VC Mkts, Macro, US Debt, Crypto, IPO's, & more
• Agents and the Web
  • Remote MCP support in Claude Code
  • Agentforce 3, it's agents all the way down.
  • Google Cloud donates A2A to Linux Foundation- Google Developers Blog
• Linux Foundation Appoints Jonathan Bryce as Executive Director, Cloud & Infrastructure and Chris Aniszczyk as CTO, Cloud & Infrastructure to Oversee Major Open Source Initiatives

Relevant to your Interests

• Amazon orders employees to relocate to Seattle and other hubs
• Microsoft announces advancement in quantum error correction
• Datadog DASH: A Revolving Door Of Operations And Security Announcements
• the six-month recap: closing talk on AI at Web Directions, Melbourne, June 2025
• Snap acquires Saturn, a social calendar app for high school and college students
• Frequent reauth doesn't make you more secure
• Checking In on AI and the Big Five
• U.S. House tells staffers not to use Meta’s WhatsApp
• How AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux Have Diverged Since CentOS
• AI search finds publishers starved of referral traffic
• 10 years of platform engineering at SIXT: Lessons in scaling and innovation - Boyan Dimitrov
• What Would a Kubernetes 2.0 Look Like
• kubectl-ai

Nonsense

• Costco Executive Members get extended hours

Listener Feedback

• Warp

Conferences

• CF Day EU, Frankfurt, October 7th, 2025.
• SpringOne, Las Vegas, August 25th to 28th, 2025. See Coté’s pitch.
• Explore 2025 US, Las Vegas, August 25th to 28th, 2025. See Coté’s pitch.
• Texas Linux Fest, Austin, October 3rd to 4th. CFP closes August 3rd.

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Recommendations

• Brandon: Discount Tire
• Coté:
  • Brimstone Angels
  • Rebels of Reason: The Long Road from Aristotle to ChatGPT and AI's Heroes Who Kept the Faith

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This week, we try a shorter format inspired by the Dithering podcast. The conversation digs into the difference between apps built with AI from the ground up and those with AI bolted on after the fact.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 525

Rundown

• Format inspired by Dithering
• An Interview with Cursor Co-Founder and CEO Michael Truell

SDT News & Community

• Join our Slack community
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