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This week, we discuss personal AI hype cycles, bottoms-up adoption, and "The Modern Stack" simplifying cloud. Plus, thoughts on new cars and the dogs that ride in them. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 560 Runner-up Titles They only talk about AI I bet you have 5 shop vacs It’s all going into applesauce Live Claude Code It Good defaults and opinions, nobody wants that Give me 5 minutes, and I’ll give you fifty 6 page memos I know I just pulled off a Pivotal scab. Free Tier as a Service Rundown Something Big Is Happening OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI Modern Stack: Fly.io, Neon, Upstash and Cloudflare Relevant to your Interests An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me YouTube launches native app for Apple Vision Pro Not all cables are born equal, so test your USB cables with these cheap USB testers — these budget-priced tools help you protect your expensive gear from faulty or bad-quality leads The Lunduke Journal (@LundukeJournal) Video on Apple Podcasts - Apple Podcasts for Creators Temporal raises $300M Series D at a $5B valuation as AI drives demand for Durable Execution Amazon's Ring cancels Flock partnership amid Super Bowl ad backlash Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses Anthropic raises $30 billion in Series G funding at $380 billion post-money valuation Introducing Sonnet 4.6 Conferences DevOpsDay LA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA Use code: DEVOP for 50% off. Devnexus 2026, March 4th to 6th, Atlanta, GA. Use this 30% off discount code from your pals at Tanzu: DN26VMWARE30. Check out the Tanzu and Spring talks and trading cards on THE LANDING PAGE. Shout out to the people who saw the trading cards and messaged me! Austin Meetup, March 10th, Listener Steve Anness speaking on Grafana KubeCon EU, March 23rd to 26th, 2026 - Coté will be there on a media pass. Devopsdays Atlanta 2026, April 21-22, 2026 DevOpsDays Austin, May 5 - 6, 2026 WeAreDevelopers, July 8th to 10th, Berlin, Coté 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: questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com Free stickers: Email your address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté Sponsor the show Recommendations Brandon: Ghostty pairs nicely with Claude Code Matt: Home Assistant Connect ZBT-2 Coté: Iron Lung. ChatGPT for upscaling images, like this one.

This week, we discuss the future of SaaS, OpenAI vs. Anthropic strategies, and cloud capex. Plus, when will you let an AI book your flights? Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 559 Runner-up Titles Do we get to eat Moon Pies? Some days it’s just me and the AI We have a LinkedIn page The state of the world has not gotten better, it’s just moved to Kubernetes Trained on the Corpse of Stack Overflow. We just have to get the files right It is all just files It’s all an OODA loop Rinse and reply. Is Software dead? Your margin is my yacht. claude-travel.md Vegans have morals though Rundown DriftlessAF: Introducing Chainguard Factory 2.0 Is Software dead? Clouded Judgement 2.6.26 - Software Is Dead...Again...For Real this Time...Maybe? Anthropic’s breakout moment: how Claude won business and shook markets Besieged The $285 Billion 'SaaSpocalypse' Is the Wrong Panic The "whole product" is more relevant than ever Cloud Earnings Microsoft Q2 earnings beat on top and bottom lines as cloud revenue tops $50 billion, but stock falls Microsoft stock plunges as Wall Street questions AI investments A day of reckoning for the AI boom Oracle says it plans to raise up to $50 billion in debt and equity this year Google Earnings Beat. Cloud Computing Momentum Builds Amid Spending Boom Amazon stock falls 10% on $200 billion spending forecast, earnings miss Amazon’s $200 Billion Spending Plan Raises Stakes in A.I. Race [Follow the CAPEX: Cloud Table Stakes 2024 Retrospective](http://(https://platformonomics.com/2025/02/follow-the-capex-cloud-table-stakes-2024-retrospective/) Amazon Earnings, CapEx Concerns, Commodity AI Google's parent company raises billions of dollars in debt sale OpenAI Drama Amazon in Talks to Invest Up to $50 Billion in OpenAI The $100 Billion Megadeal Between OpenAI and Nvidia Is on Ice Sam Altman got exceptionally testy over Claude Super Bowl ads | TechCrunch OpenAI will reportedly start testing ads in ChatGPT today Relevant to your Interests Deploying Moltbot (Formerly Clawdbot) Apple tops Q1 earnings estimates on record-breaking iPhone sales Clouded Judgement 1.30.26 - Software is Dead...Again! Leaders, gainers, and unexpected winners in the Enterprise AI arms race All Enterprise software is dead The Dumbest Thing I’ve Seen This Week SpaceX acquires xAI in record-setting deal as Musk looks to unify AI and space ambitions AWS destiny: becoming the next Lumen CloudBees CEO: Why Migration Is a Mirage Costing You Millions Xcode 26.3 unlocks the power of agentic coding The world is trying to log off U.S. tech Anthropic's newest AI model uncovered 500 zero-day software flaws in testing DHH on OpenClaw Adam Jacob really likes AI code generation Cautionary Tales – The WOW Machine Stops (Part 2) Kyndryl Shares Halved Amid CFO Departure, Accounting Review Our $200M Series C / Oxide Presentations — Benedict Evans Matrix messaging gaining ground in government IT Hello Entire World · Entire Blog Former GitHub CEO raises record $60M dev tool seed round at $300M valuation From magic to malware: How OpenClaw's agent skills become an attack surface Nonsense What If the Sensors on Your Car Were Inspecting Potholes for the Government? Honda Found Out Superbowl Ad 404 Conferences DevOpsDay LA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA Use code: DEVOP for 50% off. Devnexus 2026, March 4th to 6th, Atlanta, GA. Use this 30% off discount code from your pals at Tanzu: DN26VMWARE30. Check out the Tanzu and Spring talks and trading cards on THE LANDING PAGE. Austin Meetup, March 10th, Open Lakehouse and AI — Listener Steve Anness speaking KubeCon EU, March 23rd to 26th, 2026 - Coté will be there on a media pass. Devopsdays Atlanta 2026. April 21-22 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: questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com Free stickers: Email your address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté Sponsor the show Recommendations Brandon: YouTube TV plans launch this week Matt: Send Help Steal Coté: AI, open source, talent, and more, live at cfgmgmtcamp 2026, with Andrew Clay Shafer Tapistry

Brandon interviews Tara Raj, Senior Engineering Manager at the Amazon AGI Lab. They dive into her journey into the world of AGI, how Nova Act is streamlining complex workflows, and the steps to deploying your very own Normcore Agent. Plus, Tara finally settles the heated debate: Flat vs. Curved monitors. Show Links Amazon Nova Act Contact Tara Raj LinkedIn: Tara Raj Twitter: @tara_amzn SDT News & Hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Special Guest: Tara Raj.

This week, we discuss Moltbot (née Clawdbot) taking over, Apple’s new AirTags, and finding Enterprise AI ROI. Plus, the tragic demise of the TV dinner. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 557 Runner-up Titles The Podcasters’ Choice I was biding my time I just want to sell something I believe in What if you didn’t get chard Chard as a Service Let’s be cool The Human League Spinning tapes talking to each other Artisanal tape dispensers Buying into the Panopticon Why should only Facebook know where I am? Root access to your life The AirTag Family Circus comic Jar of Airtags Hold my beer open source The Value of AI is intuitively obvious OK, we’re done. Talk to you guys next week. Rundown Clawdbot Rebrands to Moltbot After Trademark Request From Anthropic - Laravel News Clawdbot users are snapping up the Mac Mini — and it’s under $500 at Amazon Enterprise AI ROI is still elusive. What IT can do to fix it. It's not "culture." Apple Silicon machine learning code may become more easily portable to Nvidia hardware Apple introduces new AirTag with expanded range and improved findability MFi Program Cords, Cyborgs & Cold Cases: Grandpa Dancy’s Operating System for Life Anthropic launches interactive Claude apps, including Slack and other workplace tools AMD Quietly Funded A Drop-In CUDA Implementation Built On ROCm: It's Now Open-Source Relevant to your Interests On Running a Startup of Claude Code Agents: What You Get For a Billion Tokens a Month Hundreds of Millions of Audio Devices Need a Patch to Prevent Wireless Hacking and Tracking Guiding the future of Chainguard OS: Announcing the FUD Committee Andy Jassy on Healthcare Betting on Prediction Markets Is Their Job. They Make Millions. How Intel Came Crashing Back to Earth After Its Trump Bump Intel Shares Slide as Costs Pile Up in Bid to Meet AI Demand Querying and Ingest issues in EU The A.I. Start-Up Soap Opera Riveting Silicon Valley Listener Feedback Aaron Delp is hiring for a Technical Marketing Engineer in the EU. ,more in Slack Conferences cfgmgmtcamp 2026, February 2nd to 4th, Ghent, BE. Coté speaking, live SDI recording with Andrew Clay Shafer. DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA Use code: DEVOP for 50% off. Devnexus 2026, March 4th to 6th, Atlanta, GA. Use this 30% off discount code from your pals at Tanzu: DN26VMWARE30. I was going to moderate this panel, but now I’m not. Also, this one. They’ll be super-cool! KubeCon EU, March 23rd to 26th, 2026 - Coté will be there on a media pass. 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: questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com Free stickers: Email your address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté Sponsor the show Recommendations Brandon: The Cloudpod Grizzlies Owner Robert Pera Linked to Russia's "Crimes Against Humanity" Matt: Oxide & Friends 2026 Predictions - “Deep Blue” Coté: CNCF Annual Survey for 2025, I finally read it closely-ish.

This week, we discuss the end of Cloud 1.0, AI agents fixing old apps, and Chainguard vs. Docker images. Plus, the mystery of Dutch broth is finally solved. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 556 Runner-up Titles His overall deal Been there and done that been ignoring that shift key for years Cloud is just fine I’ll be back in Bartertown The “F” Word Hardened-washing We’ll never do this, but we should check back in in 3 months Libraries are the best Elves don’t belong in space Rundown Are we at the end of cloud or cloud 1.0 It's the beginning of Cloud 2.0 Spec-driven development system for Claude Code Anthropic and App Modernization A meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven development What comes next, if Claude Code is as good as people say. Microsoft Spending on Anthropic Approaches $500 Million a Year Claude Code Won't Fix Your Life Coté and Tony contemplate day two AI-generated apps, and an excerpt. Why We've Tried to Replace Developers Every Decade Since 1969 Well, that escalated quickly: Zero CVEs, lots of vendors Relevant to your Interests Beijing tells Chinese firms to stop using US and Israeli cybersecurity software China blacklists VMware, Palo Alto Networks software over national security fears Kroger taps Google Gemini, announces more key AI moves Texas judge throws out second lawsuit over CrowdStrike outage Apple will pay billions for Gemini after OpenAI declined Dell wants £10m+ from VMware if Tesco case goes against it Tailscale: The Best Free App Most Mac Power Users Aren’t Using How WhatsApp Took Over the Global Conversation Our approach to advertising and expanding access to ChatGPT OpenAI’s ARR reached over $20 billion in 2025, CFO says Simon Willison’s take on Our approach to advertising and ChatGPT The AI lab revolving door spins ever faster | TechCrunch How Markdown took over the world An Interview with United CEO Scott Kirby About Tech Transformation Conferences cfgmgmtcamp 2026, February 2nd to 4th, Ghent, BE. Coté speaking - anyone interested in being an SDI guest? DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA Use code: DEVOP for 50% off. Devnexus 2026, March 4th to 6th, Atlanta, GA. Use this 30% off discount code from your pals at Tanzu: DN26VMWARE30. KubeCon EU, March 23rd to 26th, 2026 - Coté will be there on a media pass. VMware User Groups (VMUGs): Amsterdam (March 17-19, 2026) Minneapolis (April 7-9, 2026) Toronto (May 12-14, 2026) Dallas (June 9-11, 2026) Orlando (October 20-22, 2026) SDT News & Community Join our Slack community Email the show: questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com Free stickers: Email your address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté Sponsor the show Recommendations Brandon: The Library will loan you a 5G hotspot Matt: Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor (rogue-like Vampire Hunters-type game) Coté: Streamyard shorts generation. Salesforce was inspired by dolphins.

This week, we discuss Gemini powering Siri, AWS’s biggest competitor, and AWS strategy choices. Plus, when should your next meeting actually start? Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 555 Runner-up Titles Swedish Death Cleaning Give it a best effort Trying it bad for profits. That pen better be really good You do all the nerd shit, we’ll be cool Looking at a hundred rabbits’ assholes. The Kremlinologist of AWS The aaSes of Cloud They’ll like our apples better Running on hopes and dreams until you’re sure they don’t exist What we have is a situation Rundown Apple gets AI from Google Joint statement from Google and Apple Kuo: Apple's AI Deal With Google Is Temporary and Buys It Time Google's Apple AI deal marks 'huge loss' for OpenAI AWS in 2026: The Year of Proving They Still Know How to Operate Relevant to your Interests Anthropic reportedly raising $10B at $350B valuation Dell Reverses Course, Brings Back XPS Laptops Google is unleashing Gemini AI features on Gmail. Users will have to opt out Bose is open-sourcing its old smart speakers instead of bricking them Google Guys Say Bye to California Amazon gives managers a new way to spot who's barely coming into the office A decade of open source in CNCF with 300,000+ contributors and counting CrowdStrike to Acquire SGNL to Transform Identity Security for the AI Era Snowflake Announces Intent to Acquire Observe to Deliver AI-Powered Observability Nvidia Hires Google Veteran as Its First Chief Marketing Officer The Fediverse Experiment RIP the metaverse Nonsense American Airlines rolls out free Wi-Fi to loyalty members Conferences cfgmgmtcamp 2026, February 2nd to 4th, Ghent, BE. Coté speaking - anyone interested in being a SDI guest? DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA Use code: DEVOP for 50% off. Devnexus 2026, March 4th to 6th, Atlanta, GA. Coté has a discount code, but he’s not sure if he can give it out. He’s asking! Send him a DM in the meantime. KubeCon EU, March 23rd to 26th, 2026 - Coté will be there on a media pass. Whole bunch of VMUGs: Amsterdam (March 17-19, 2026), Minneapolis (April 7-9, 2026), Toronto (May 12-14, 2026), Dallas (June 9-11, 2026), Orlando (October 20-22, 2026) SDT News & Community Join our Slack community Email the show: questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com Free stickers: Email your address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté Sponsor the show Recommendations Brandon: Google Nest Doorbell (Wired, 3rd Gen) Matt: MTV Rewind Coté: “These 36 Airlines Offer iPhone Feature That Helps Find Your Lost Bags.” Distroless, Helm Charts, & Hardened Images: Security That Ships (with William Jimenez) Photo Credits Header

This week, we discuss AI’s impact on Stack Overflow, Docker’s Hardened Images, and Nvidia buying Groq. Plus, thoughts on playing your own game and having fun. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 554 Please complete the Software Defined Talk Listener Survey! Runner-up Titles It’s all brisket after that. Exploring Fun Should I go build a snow man? Pets Innersourcing Two books Michael Lewis should write. Article IV is foundational. Freedom is options. Rundown Stack Overflow is dead. Hardened Images for Everyone Tanzu’s Bitnami stuff does this too. OpenAI OpenAI’s New Fundraising Round Could Value Startup at as Much as $830 Billion OpenAI Reportedly Planning to Make ChatGPT "Prioritize" Advertisers in Conversation OpenAI bets big on audio as Silicon Valley declares war on screens Sam Altman says: He has zero percent interest in remaining OpenAI CEO, once Nvidia buying AI chip startup Groq's assets for about $20 billion in its largest deal on record Relevant to your Interests Broadcom IT uses Tanzu Platform to host MCP Servers. A Brief History Of The Spreadsheet Databricks is raising over $4 billion in Series L funding at a $134 billion Amazon's big AGI reorg decoded by Corey Quinn “They burned millions but got nothing.” X sues to protect Twitter brand Musk has been trying to kill Mozilla's new CEO says AI is coming to Firefox, but will remain a choice | TechCrunch Why Oracle keeps sparking AI-bubble fears What's next for Threads Salesforce Executives Say Trust in Large Language Models Has Declined Akamai Technologies Announces Acquisition of Function-as-a-Service Company Fermyon Google Rolling Out Gmail Address Change Feature: Here Is How It Works The Enshittifinancial Crisis MongoBleed: Critical MongoDB Vulnerability CVE-2025-14847 | Wiz Blog Softbank to buy data center firm DigitalBridge for $4 billion in AI push The best tech announced at CES 2026 so far Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter Manus Joins Meta for Next Era of Innovation The WELL: State of the World 2026 with Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky Virtual machines still run the world Databases in 2025: A Year in Review Chat Platform Discord Files Confidentially for IPO The DRAM shortage explained: AI, rising prices, and what’s next Nonsense Palantir CEO buys monastery in Old Snowmass for $120 million H-E-B gives free groceries to all customers after registers glitch today in Burleson, Texas. Conferences cfgmgmtcamp 2026, February 2nd to 4th, Ghent, BE. Coté speaking - anyone interested in being a SDI guest? DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA Use code: DEVOP for 50% off. Devnexus 2026, March 4th to 6th, Atlanta, GA. Coté has a discount code, but he’s not sure if he can give it out. He’s asking! Send him a DM in the meantime. KubeCon EU, March 23rd to 26th, 2026 - Coté will be there on a media pass. Whole bunch of VMUGs, mostly in the US. The CFPs are open, go speak at them! Coté speaking in Amsterdam. Amsterdam (March 17-19, 2026), Minneapolis (April 7-9, 2026), Toronto (May 12-14, 2026), Dallas (June 9-11, 2026), Orlando (October 20-22, 2026) SDT News & Community Join our Slack community Email the show: questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com Free stickers: Email your address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté Sponsor the show: ads@softwaredefinedtalk.com Recommendations Brandon: Why Data Doesn't Always Win, with a Philosopher of Art (Apple Podcasts) Why Data Doesn't Always Win, with a Philosopher of Art (YouTube) Coté: “Databases in 2025: A Year in Review.” Photo Credits Header

This week, we review our 2025 predictions, discuss the big stories, and speculate on 2026. Plus, Coté dives deep into the EU broth market. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 553 Runner-up Titles I was up at 1am thinking, “are there any good billionaires.” Maybe you forgot your shoes Not just room temperature, but cold I thought Europe was known for its soups Ice, air conditioning, and, broth - we have solved those three problems. Sloppy search Cutlery, tupperware, COVID The Young People. The Automation Apologist. I’m disappointed in everything Models don’t matter anymore Shade-tree programmer An empty farm in Waco Rundown 2024 Year in Review Scaling Platform Engineering in the CNCF Community - Abby Bangser Syntaso’s Platform as a Product book Claude Skills are way under-rated “Agents are [just] models using tools in a loop. 2026 Predications Are we in an AI Bubble? Do Anthropic or OpenAI IPO? New AI use cases? Altman remain CEO? Do Apple or AWS make an AI acquisition? CFB Championship? Conferences cfgmgmtcamp 2026, February 2nd to 4th, Ghent, BE. Coté speaking and doing live SDI with John Willis. DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA Use code: DEVOP for 50% off. Devnexus 2026, March 4th to 6th, Atlanta, GA. Coté has a discount code, but he’s not sure if he can give it out. He’s asking! Send him a DM in the meantime. Whole bunch of VMUGs, mostly in the US. The CFPs are open, go speak at them! Coté speaking in Amsterdam. Amsterdam (March 17-19, 2026), Minneapolis (April 7-9, 2026), Toronto (May 12-14, 2026), Dallas (June 9-11, 2026), Orlando (October 20-22, 2026) SDT News & Community Join our Slack community Email the show: questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com Free stickers: Email your address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté Sponsor the show: ads@softwaredefinedtalk.com Recommendations Brandon: Pluribus — slow but interesting Coté: AirPods Pro 3 Photo Credits Header

This week, Brian Gracely joins to dissect strategic choices made by Broadcom, Docker, Netflix and Intel. Plus: The AI Bifurcation—are models commodities or product pillars? Rundown Licensing in VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 Hardened Images for Everyone Introducing Chainguard EmeritOSS Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros. Anthropic reportedly preparing for one of the largest IPOs Conferences cfgmgmtcamp 2026, February 2nd to 4th, Ghent, BE. Coté speaking and doing live SDI with John Willis. DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA Use code: DEVOP for 50% off. Devnexus 2026, March 4th to 6th, Atlanta, GA. Whole bunch of VMUGs, mostly in the US. The CFPs are open, go speak at them! Coté speaking in Amsterdam. Amsterdam (March 17-19, 2026), Minneapolis (April 7-9, 2026), Toronto (May 12-14, 2026), Dallas (June 9-11, 2026), Orlando (October 20-22, 2026) SDT News & Community Join our Slack community Email the show: questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com Free stickers: Email your address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté Sponsor the show: ads@softwaredefinedtalk.com Photo Credits Header Special Guest: Brian Gracely.

This week, we discuss Oracle’s AI vibes, Chainguard’s EmeritOSS, and GitHub’s pricing U-turn. Plus, a robust robot vacuum debate. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 551 Runner-up Titles It has CarPlay iPad Range Anxiety an Australian documentary Oracle got popped Intentions I don’t feel bad for them Open Source old folks home Spreadsheets love it Robots are going to take care of us The Median User Nobody feels bad for the whales I have a dog I have a Korean microwave We’re the Neal Stephenson of podcasts Rundown Ford pulls the plug on the all-electric F-150 Lightning pickup truck AI Investment Oracle plummets 11% on weak revenue, pushing down AI stocks like Nvidia and CoreWeave Oracle Shares Drop the Most Since 2001 on Mounting AI Spending OpenAI in Talks to Raise At Least $10 Billion From Amazon and Use Its AI Chips S&P 500 falls after nearing record as Oracle disappointment drags down AI stocks Inside The $1T AI Economy Introducing Chainguard EmeritOSS: Sustainable stewardship for mature open source Runners Announcing powerful upgrades & a new pricing model for self-hosted runners GitHub to charge for self-hosted runners from March 2026 GitHub postpones changes to self-hosted runners pricing plans Why GitHub Why? Coursera to buy Udemy, creating $2.5 billion firm to target AI training Roomba Maker iRobot Files for Bankruptcy, With Chinese Supplier Taking Control Relevant to your Interests Harness raises a $240M Series E at a $5.5B valuation A great platform as a product paper, and a fun platform philosophy thereof Google Launches Managed Remote MCP Servers for Its Cloud Services Fake Leonardo DiCaprio Movie Torrent Drops Agent Tesla Through Layered PowerShell Chain Useful patterns for building HTML tools Waymo Seeking Over $15 Billion Near $100 Billion Valuation Write your CV or resume as YAML, then run RenderCV, and get a PDF with perfect typography. No template wrestling. No broken layouts. Consistent spacing, every time Roomba Maker iRobot Files for Bankruptcy, With Chinese Supplier Taking Control Nonsense The Full Text of Marco Rubio’s Directive on State Department Typography, Re-Establishing Times New Roman Listener Feedback Sent stickers to Jelle in Belgium Conferences cfgmgmtcamp 2026, February 2nd to 4th, Ghent, BE. Coté speaking and doing live SDI with John Willis. DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA Use code: DEVOP for 50% off. Devnexus 2026, March 4th to 6th, Atlanta, GA. Whole bunch of VMUGs, mostly in the US. The CFPs are open, go speak at them! Coté speaking in Amsterdam. Amsterdam (March 17-19, 2026), Minneapolis (April 7-9, 2026), Toronto (May 12-14, 2026), Dallas (June 9-11, 2026), Orlando (October 20-22, 2026) SDT News & Community Join our Slack community Email the show: questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com Free stickers: Email your address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté Sponsor the show: ads@softwaredefinedtalk.com Recommendations Brandon: Humble Audiobook Bundle: Shadows, Stars & Screams: Epic Audiobooks Matt: Termination Shock - Neal Stephenson Photo Credits Header

This week, we discuss how Netflix is disrupting media, IBM’s Confluent acquisition, and Anthropic buying Bun. Plus, an important discussion on fonts and typography. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 550 Runner-up Titles Blame the children I never liked that font No emojis, this is business time Mahalo You need a Chief Economist On the cutlery tray Rundown Rubio Deletes Calibri as the State Department’s Official Typeface Cartridge Source Code Pro It’s Official: Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros. in Deal Valued at $82.7 Billion Confluent stock soars 29% as IBM announces $11 billion acquisition deal Bun is joining Anthropic Claude Code is coming to Slack, and that's a bigger deal than it sounds OpenAI enterprise usage study. Relevant to your Interests Antigravity Is Google's New Agentic Development Platform Amazon CTO Werner Vogels' Predictions for 2026 ‘End-to-end encrypted’ smart toilet camera is not actually end-to-end encrypted AWS AI IDE, AgentCore throw down gauntlets for Microsoft Admins and defenders gird themselves against maximum-severity server vuln Andy Jassy says Amazon's Nvidia competitor chip is already a multibillion-dollar business 52 things I learned in 2025 State of AI | OpenRouter Microsoft has a problem: nobody wants its poor AI products DHH & Open Source Gruber: Apple employees 'giddy' about Alan Dye’s departure - 9to5Mac Apple announces the departure of general counsel and policy chief Nonsense All of the Men’s Clothing We Loved (and Didn’t) From Costco’s Kirkland Signature Conferences cfgmgmtcamp 2026, February 2nd to 4th, Ghent, BE. Coté speaking and doing live SDI with John Willis. DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA Use code: DEVOP for 50% off. Devnexus 2026, March 4th to 6th, Atlanta, GA. Whole bunch of VMUGs, mostly in the US. The CFPs are open, go speak at them! Coté speaking in Amsterdam. Amsterdam (March 17-19, 2026), Minneapolis (April 7-9, 2026), Toronto (May 12-14, 2026), Dallas (June 9-11, 2026), Orlando (October 20-22, 2026) SDT News & Community Join our Slack community Email the show: questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com Free stickers: Email your address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté Sponsor the show: ads@softwaredefinedtalk.com Recommendations Brandon: Short Power Extension Cord Outlet Saver Matt: Everything is Tuberculosis Octopus Project - Music is Happiness Coté: The Octopus Organization. Photo Credits Header

This week, we discuss AWS re:Invent announcements, Agentic Development, and OpenAI's Code Red. Plus, a Digital ID field test and more on silverware sorting. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 549 Runner-up Titles Did you order the Code Red? In the year 2000 Jane go swiftly Another day in the coal mine Goal Driven Development I want to believe Prove me wrong AI’s going to dig this hole faster Tornado of Innovation Revenue times Story Rundown SiteAngel - bonus press quote from Brandon AWS Amazon announces $50B investment to expand AI and supercomputing capabilities for US government Top announcements of AWS re:Invent 2025 All the biggest news from AWS’ big tech show re:Invent 2025 AWS announces preview of AWS Interconnect - multicloud The Future of AWS CodeCommit | Amazon Web Services Nova Act Code Red OpenAI CEO declares “code red” as Gemini gains 20 0 million users in 3 months Anthropic reportedly preparing for one of the largest IPOs ever in race with OpenAI: FT Microsoft stock sinks on report AI product sales are missing growth goals AI & Cloud Trends for November 2025 Relevant to your Interests Under My Roof Home Inventory + App - App Store Thoma Bravo invests in Azul Streamline Development with the Google Workspace Extension As its voice dictation app takes off, Wispr secures $25M from Notable Capital | TechCrunch Valve makes almost $50 million per employee HelixGuard What to know about a recent Mixpanel security incident ServiceNow to Expand Security Portfolio With Acquisition of Veza’s Leading AI-native Identity Security Platform Vista-Backed LogicMonitor Buys Monitoring Startup Catchpoint Google releases Nano Banana Pro, its latest image generation model Years of JSONFormatter and CodeBeautify Leaks Expose Thousands of Passwords and API Keys Netflix kills casting from phones Nonsense Victorian Name Generator Conferences cfgmgmtcamp 2026, February 2nd to 4th, Ghent, BE. Coté speaking and doing live SDI with John Willis. DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA Use code: DEVOP for 50% off. CFP open until Dec. 1st. Devnexus 2026, March 4th to 6th, Atlanta, GA. SDT News & Community Join our Slack community Email the show: questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com Free stickers: Email your address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté Sponsor the show: ads@softwaredefinedtalk.com Recommendations Brandon: Dampf Good BBQ Matt: UmamiPapi chilli oil Coté: Anta, slightly more in English. Also XdgBaseDirs. Photo Credits Header

This week, we discuss the Cloudflare outage, their current business strategy, and paying OSS maintainers. Plus, thoughts on loading the dishwasher and managing your home. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 548 Runner-up Titles Mystery Knob Vegans are cursed vegetarians Skilled enough Defrag the dishwasher Design Intentions QR codes everywhere I don’t know where we draw the line, but I know where we start SDT IoT CMBD, Home Edition. SDT Open Source Money Maker Lead with Nagware Stocks go up, stocks go down Safari’s my naked browser Coté wanted to add periods to all of these but did not. Rundown FFmpeg to Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs Cloudflare blames massive internet outage on 'latent bug' Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 Replicate is joining Cloudflare Relevant to your Interests The Walt Disney Company Announces Multi-Year Distribution Agreement With YouTube TV Anthropic claims of Claude AI-automated cyberattacks met with doubt Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign Compact, human-readable serialization of JSON data for LLM prompts Outage Tracker | Updog By Datadog Jeff Bezos Creates A.I. Start-Up Where He Will Be Co-Chief Executive PowerPoint is your therapist, Gamma is your coach | Andreessen Horowitz Red Hat Introduces Project Hummingbird for “Zero-CVE” Strategies A new era of intelligence with Gemini 3 The platform that needs a platform The AI Coding Startup Favored by Tech CEOs Is Now Worth $29.3 Billion The Smartest Fliers Use This App to Survive America’s Travel Hell Oracle's Market Cap Decline: Analyzing the Impact on Finance OpenAI's Fidji Simo Plans to Make ChatGPT Way More Useful—and Have You Pay For It Europe’s cookie nightmare is crumbling Nonsense AI-Powered Teddy Bear Caught Talking About Sexual Fetishes and Instructing Kids How to Find Knives Whipped Cream Worth $80K Stolen in Ontario Conferences DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA Use code: DEVOP for 50% off. CFP open until Dec. 1st. SDT News & Community Join our Slack community Email the show: questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com Free stickers: Email your address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté Sponsor the show: ads@softwaredefinedtalk.com Recommendations Brandon: The Beast in Me Matt: The Prestige Coté: Fantastic 4 with that Boba Fett guy, “Winter’s Mourning,” from Uncaged Goddesses. Photo Credits Header

This week, Whitney Lee joins us to discuss KubeCon news, Coding Assistants, and conference tips. Plus, vegan food and note-taking recommendations. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 547 Rundown Slutty Vegan Cloud Native Rejekts Maintainer Summit Conference Parties Ingress NGINX Retirement: What You Need to Know Linkerd Forever Migrating from Ingress Resources Conferences DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA Use code: DEVOP for 50% off. CFP open until Dec. 1st. SDT News & Community Join our Slack community Email the show: questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com Free stickers: Email your address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté Sponsor the show: ads@softwaredefinedtalk.com Recommendations Brandon: GE Attic Mount Digital TV Antenna Whitney: Obsidian, Wispr Flow Coté: MacWhisper Photo Credits Header Special Guest: Whitney Lee.

This week, we discuss Facebook scams, engineering management trends, and the past and present of curl. Plus, when’s the right time to put up the Christmas tree? Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 546 Runner-up Titles Matt has a lot of room tone. I shut the kitchen door . You gotta just reboot all of Australia every morning. Did you see my water dragons? Didn’t he die? I’m worried about the future. Quality of revenue. The spatula is higher than the plunger. This discussion has really raised my morale. I know what your API is. Rundown Meta estimates that it earns 10% of its revenue from scams, report says "Good engineering management" is a fad When CEO pay exploded Yes, really, curl is still developed Relevant to your Interests Apple Nears $1 Billion-a-Year Deal to Use Google AI for Siri Sam Altman on Trust, Persuasion, and the Future of Intelligence ‘Vibe coding’ named Collins Dictionary’s Word of the Year | CNN Business Automattic Inc. Claims It Owns the Word 'Automatic' IKEA Debuts 21 HomeKit-Compatible Smart Bulbs, Sensors, and Controls The wildest stuff Elon Musk said at Tesla’s shareholder meeting CNCF Launches Kubernetes AI Conformance Program Russia's grand reveal of humanoid robot couldn't have gone worse How AWS is losing the younger generation with complexity OpenAI Races to Quell Concerns Over Its Finances 'Big Short' investor Michael Burry accuses AI hyperscalers of artificially boosting earnings Here's How Much OpenAI Spends On Inference and Its Revenue Share With Microsoft Apple Announces Launch of U.S. Passport Feature in iPhone's Wallet App Nonsense Interview with Dying Company's VP As Seen on TV Conferences Wiz Wizdom Conferences, November 17-19, London The good hospitality from Keith Townsend. DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA Use code: DEVOP for 50% off. CFP open until Dec. 1st. SDT News & Community Join our Slack community Email the show: questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com Free stickers: Email your address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté Sponsor the show: ads@softwaredefinedtalk.com Recommendations Brandon: Pluribus Matt: Hades 2 Coté: Camo Photo Credits Header

This week, we discuss cloud earnings, Siri teaming up with Gemini, and AI bottlenecks. Plus, is cloning your dog weird? Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 545 Runner-up Titles Stack the deck Pets and Chickens Blame it on Android They’re fungible Are they going to have to introduce a new principle? Managers of rocks The world we live in Marketing wins We’re the healthy skeptics Rundown Ex-NFL star QB Brady claims his dog is a clone Cloud Earnings AI & Cloud Trends for October 2025 Alphabet tops $100 billion quarterly revenue for first time, cloud grows 34% Google Cloud Q3 revenue surges 34% as backlog hits $155 billion Microsoft Azure sees 40% revenue growth in Q1 Meta stock drops 10% as heightened AI spending overshadows strong results Amazon revenues rise 13% on strength in cloud computing unit Clouded Judgement 10.31.25 - Cloud Giants Report Q3 7m OpenAI work users Amazon's culture went the wrong way Octoverse: A new developer joins GitHub every second as AI leads TypeScript to #1 What do we think of GitHub saying there are 180m developers in the world? AWS and OpenAI announce multi-year strategic partnership Amazon stock jumps on $38 billion deal with OpenAI to use hundreds of thousands of Nvidia chips Relevant to your Interests Azure outage: Microsoft still working on fix, says recovery expected in several hours Microsoft takes $3.1 billion hit from OpenAI investment Meta Stock Slides After Earnings. AWS to Bare Metal Two Years Later: Answering Your Toughest Questions Meta denies torrenting porn to train AI, says downloads were for “personal use” Shocker! Reversal in AI ROI slide-wisdom: AI does works well SaaS Monopoly | Khushi Lunkad The State of Developer Experience and Developer Productivity Why the “Free” Chef Version Could Be Your Most Expensive Mistake | Chef Nonsense Disney yanks channels from YouTube TV after media giants fail to resolve carriage dispute | CNN Business Traffic hits record high as commuters rewrite the rush hour - Texas A&M Transportation Institute Denny's to be acquired and taken private in a deal valued at $620 million Conferences SREDay Amsterdam, November 7th, Coté speaking. Wiz Wizdom Conferences, November 17-19, London DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA Use code: DEVOP for 50% off. CFP open until Dec. 1st. SDT News & Community Join our Slack community Email the show: questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com Free stickers: Email your address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté Sponsor the show: ads@softwaredefinedtalk.com Recommendations Brandon: Liquid Glass Transparency Toggle Matt: The Other Two Coté: NØLSON shirts Photo Credits Header

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.” Relevant to your Interests 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 Uxse code: DEVOP for 50% off. CFP open until Dec. 1st. SDT News & Community Join our Slack community Email the show: questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com Free stickers: Email your address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté Sponsor the show: ads@softwaredefinedtalk.com Recommendations Brandon: Who Is Michael Lombardi? Debunking the Myths of UNC's GM Matt: Shell Game podcast Coté: "What Grant Reviewers Actually Look For (and What They Ignore)." Photo Credits Header

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 Relevant to your Interests 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. SDT News & Community Join our Slack community Email the show: questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com Free stickers: Email your address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté Sponsor the show: ads@softwaredefinedtalk.com Recommendations Brandon: The PR Guy Who Says the AI Boom Is a Bust Matt: Comfort Ear Grip Hooks Coté: MSG on popcorn, Claude Skills, Masman Curry, Sora? Photo Credits Header

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

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 SREDay Amsterdam, Coté speaking, November 7th. SDT News & Community Join our Slack community Email the show: questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com Free stickers: Email your address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté Sponsor the show: ads@softwaredefinedtalk.com Recommendations Brandon: Shark NV352 Navigator Lift Away Upright Vacuum Matt: Murderbot Photo Credits Header