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This week, we discuss Meta's Muse, who's spending $500 million on tokens, and why nobody can measure AI ROI. Plus, the case for importing NyQuil by the suitcase. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 592 Runner-up Titles You’re Mom’s not sending it via DHL. Hope you like your toast blackened. Magic of Nerds. Are you a Muse boy? Hacking Australia. I love a good survey. Not using the keyboard shortcuts. Talking is the new typing. Nobody knows what's going on, let's just drive faster A foundation of sand Just give me an API Let's stop asking and start taking Who's spending $500 million on tokens? Talking is the new typing Rundown Muse Can Muse make us forget the metaverse? The Facebook Fake-Out MongoDB Stock Sinks 18%. Why the CEO Departure Timing Is Bad for the Stock. MongoDB stock tanks after Meta poaches CEO Meta launches enterprise AI platform, hires MongoDB CEO to lead new initiative Anthropic What's in Anthropic's IPO Filing Anthropic releases Sonnet 5.5, which it calls a significantly cheaper, faster work partner Anthropic Cuts Costs on Claude Opus 5.5 as IPO Looms Anthropic to pay Akamai $11.6 billion over seven years in cloud deal What’s in Anthropic’s I.P.O. Filing State of AI State of AI AI faces $6 trillion test to justify data centers, Bain says State of Tokenomics, September 2026: AI Tokenomics Insights Relevant to your Interests Introducing System One Models & Jev - TypeSafe AI Blog Infinidash: AWS's New Observability Play Has Great Bones and a Terrible Bedside Manner Docker Sandboxes Promotion | Docker How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month Redis Iris | Redis The Rise of the Forward Deployed Engineer — and How To Do the Job Right Jason Scharf (@Jason_A_Scharf) on X Google seemingly confirms plans to kill ChromeOS in 2034 Thorsten Ball - What I believe about the future of software development Oxide Computer Company and Carahsoft Partner to Bring On-Premise Cloud Computing to the Public Sector AWS Admits Permanent Data Loss After Iranian Strikes Hit Gulf Cloud Facilities NVIDIA Launches Open Agent Safety Platform to Secure Agents From Testing to Deployment OpenAI pauses training of latest models after agents probed US government sites in unexpected ways Nonsense Cable Identification Conferences DevOpsDays Prague, Oct 5, 2026, Coté speaking. VMware Explore Frankfurt 2026, Oct 13-14, 2026 - Coté speaking. DevOpsDays Istanbul, Oct 24th, 2026, Coté keynoting. VMware User Group, Orlando, Oct 20-22, 2026 VMware Explore London, Nov 18-19, 2006, Coté speaking. Cloud Native Denmark, Nov 19th, 2026, Coté keynoting, Discount Code: CSVFTW Build Stuff, Dec 2-4, 2026, Vilnius, Lithuania. Coté speaking. cfgmgmtcamp, Ghent, Belgium, February 1-3, 2027 SCALE 24x Pasadena, CA, April 1-4, 2027 SDT News & Community Join our Slack community Email the show: [email protected] Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected] Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté Sponsor the show Sponsor more podcasts with Failover Media Recommendations Brandon: Take a screenshot of a window on Mac Matt: Sydney Marathon Coté: Spacebar in Claude code: run [/voice](https://support.claude.com/en/articles/14554000-claude-code-power-user-) then hold the space bar

This week, we discuss why Sun really failed, the New Kingmakers becoming agents, and AI doom brackets. Plus, the NC State fumble and tech's biggest own goals. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 591 Runner-up Titles I’m trying to take a break from AI I knew it was some numbers Hey man, the business is over No budget meetings that day Developers don’t always win It’s probably fine and now Vercel has a new customer There’s no concept of “why RAM?” How do we feel about Wall-E? Fall Down With the Ball Sun Had Become Bored with the Mechanics of Running a Business Yahoo Buying Google I Haven't Seen This Bag Done It's Just Like a Tornado Hitting Your House Sun Sunday The New Kingmakers Are Agents Developers Have Lost a Lot of Power Give Me Five Architectures The AI Industry Likes Talking About This Too Much for It to Be Real It's Incredibly Hard to Exterminate All of Humanity Systemic Takeover, But We're All Happy Superloop, Who Dis? Rundown What Sun got wrong | The Observation Deck Agents: The new, New Kingmakers The AI Apocalypse Bracket: Just How Doomed Are We, Really? Relevant to your Interests The contagion of fear | The Observation Deck Iran strikes on Amazon data centers caused permanent loss of customer data Zuckerberg distances Meta from calls for a coordinated approach on an AI slowdown The Enshittification Resistant Software Project Would you buy branded clothing from your favourite tech firm? Stopping The AI Safety Cult ft. Adam Becker & Cal Newport — Better Offline Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee “Everyone's in a race to replace GitHub": Zed launches Delta because agents made pull requests obsolete AWS reimagines the getting started experience Nonsense Rising beef costs push a Top 50 Texas BBQ spot to pull brisket from its everyday menu Conferences DevOpsDays Dallas, Sept 28-29, 2026 DevOpsDays Vilnius, Sep 30-Oct 1, 2006, Lithuania. DevOpsDays Prague, Oct 5, 2026 , Coté speaking. VMware Explore Frankfurt 2026, Oct 13-14, 2026 - Coté speaking. DevOpsDays Istanbul, Oct 24th, 2026, Coté keynoting. VMware User Group, Orlando, Oct 20-22, 2026 VMware Explore London, Nov 18-19, 2006, Coté speaking. Cloud Native Denmark, Nov 19th, 2026, Coté keynoting, Discount Code: CSVFTW **** Build Stuff, Dec 2-4, 2026, Vilnius, Lithuania. Coté speaking. cfgmgmtcamp, Ghent, Belgium February 1-3, 2027 SCALE 24x Pasadena, CA, April 1-4, 2027 SDT News & Community Join our Slack community Email the show: [email protected] Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected] Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté Sponsor the show Sponsor more podcasts with Failover Media Recommendations Brandon: YouTube TV new Multiview and Sports Plan Matt: SuperLoop

Transparency will save us This week, we discuss AI doom odds, WordPress's boardroom coup, and Meta's Muse assistant. Plus, a robot vacuum fire scare. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 590 Runner-up Titles Maybe you have too much The mopping sucks Why not us? I subscribe to all the conspiracies I brought my own pieces The true heroes are the open source users We learned a lot about VR on the way Fun for your spatial reasoning It's Only Cheating If You Get Caught Won't Somebody Slow Down? I Brought My Own Pieces A Big Living Room in the Sky I Don't Read the Five Stars, I Read the Four Stars Rundown AI Doom and Gloom Dario Amodei — We Must Pace the Frontier President Trump Is on the Line About an A.I. Slowdown How AI might reshape the economy The contagion of fear | The Observation Deck Goldman AI chief: Don't rule out open models The contagion of fear Executive behavior Matt Mullenweg tells (trolls?) Automattic staff, saying he's back in control after CEO ouster Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg Put on 'Leave of Absence' Automattic’s interim CEO and legal chief signed reciprocal severance deals during Mullenweg’s brief ouster Ballmer to accept NBA's punishment, has 'sincere regrets' Introducing Muse: The World's First Personal AI Agent Built for Everyone Relevant to your Interests Ferrari on Miro acquisition: 'no small responsibility' Anemo Labs lands £700K to give AI a sense of smell Kenyan Startup Makes Robotic Hands That Translate Teacher's Voice into Signs for Deaf Students New Zuckoff app detects nearby Meta 'perv glasses': 'right to at least know that someone is recording' Google Cloud, Accenture Launch Unit to Put AI Engineers On-Site With Customers Cloud has a new bulk capacity market Like working from home? In Australia, it could become the law Tech giant Oracle rocked by another wave of layoffs after employees receive devastating 6 am email Oracle Surges 7% as AI Cloud Backlog Hits $664B, CoreWeave and Nebius Climb 4% Sponsors Atlassian — Hear from Atlassian & Vercel’s CEOs and industry leaders from Dropbox, Lovable, and more at State of AI SDLC on September 22nd. Seats are limited, reserve your spot now. Conferences WeAreDevelopers NA, Sept 23-25, 2026, Discount Code: DEVPOD50 25 Free Tickets Cloud Foundry Summit, Sept. 21-22, Heidelberg, Coté speaking. DevOpsDays Rockies, Sept. 22–23, 2026, Discount Code: 26DODSWEDEFTALK DevOpsDays Dallas, Sept 28-29, 2026 DevOpsDays Vilnius, Sep 30-Oct 1, 2006, Lithuania. DevOpsDays Prague, Oct 5, 2026 , Coté speaking. VMware Explore Frankfurt 2026, Oct 13-14, 2026 - Coté speaking. DevOpsDays Istanbul, Oct 24th, 2026, Coté keynoting. VMware User Group, Orlando, Oct 20-22, 2026 VMware Explore London, Nov 18-19, 2006, Coté speaking. Cloud Native Denmark, Nov 19th, 2026, Coté keynoting, Discount Code: CSVFTW **** Build Stuff, Dec 2-4, 2026, Vilnius, Lithuania. Coté speaking. cfgmgmtcamp, Ghent, Belgium February 1-3, 2027 SCALE 24x Pasadena, CA, April 1-4, 2027 SDT News & Community Join our Slack community Email the show: [email protected] Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected] Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté Sponsor the show Sponsor more podcasts with Failover Media Recommendations Brandon: Claude Code Remote Control (rc) command Matt: Mitre saw

This week, we discuss the VS Code documentary, Ed Zitron's rise to fame, and a 10% AI extinction forecast. Plus, the NFL's Australia travel gamble Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 589 Runner-up Titles Sleep Strategy Obviously I Have Issues Not Sure It Was an Exciting Thing At One Point, I Knew That Bitterness Rug Pull The American in Me Would Be Bitter Gaping Pit of Despair They Don't Care if They Never Sell a Thing It's the First Time Silicon Valley Has Done Something Irresponsible With VC Money We've Got to Drive as Fast Into This Wall and See if We Get Through It We're Already Having to Keep Track of Which Time AGI Actually Started Nobody Can See That You Have Size Eighteen Fonts The Dystopian Future Always Takes Place in Australia We Gotta Drive as Fast as We Can Into This Wall and See if We Get Through It Even the Dutch Have Problems With Internet We Could Do Better, Slack Rundown The Rams think they’ve figured out jet lag. Australia is about to test their theory The Story of VS Code | Official Documentary He Did Tech PR. Now He Rails Against AI for a Living. How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been? Jacob Coxon leaves Anthropic and says no one is acting responsibly. Apple’s iPhone Duo Relevant to your Interests The AI Engine That Re-Accelerated Snowflake 1Password wades into a right-wing mess after funding a Linux project I Asked 100 Companies for My Data. I Got Deletion Notices Instead Clouded Judgement 9.4.26 - Recurrent Depth I’ve factored the RSA keys of a Certificate Authority… Mistral secures €3B Series D to push sovereign AI into its next phase Clouded Judgement 9.4.26 - Recurrent Depth Write Things Down Nonsense Southwest Airlines to construct first-ever airport lounge at Austin airport The Netherlands Will Never Be Rid of Louisiana Crawfish Listener Feedback OpenAudible - Download, Backup and Manage Audible Audiobook Libraries Conferences WeAreDevelopers NA, Sept 23-25, 2026, Discount Code: DEVPOD50 25 Free Tickets DevOpsDays Graz, Sept 4-5, 2026 Cloud Foundry Summit, Sept. 21st to 22nd, Heidelberg, Coté speaking. DevOpsDays Rockies, Sept. 22 – 23, 2026, Discount Code: 26DODSWEDEFTALK DevOpsDays Dallas, Sept 28-29, 2026 DevOpsDays Vilnius, Sep 30 - Oct 1, 2006, Lithuania. DevOpsDays Prague, Oct 5, 2026 - Coté speaking. DevOpsDays Istanbul, Oct 24th, 2026, Coté keynoting. VMware User Group, Orlando, Oct 20-22, 2026 Cloud Native Denmark, Nov 19th, 2026, Copenhagen, Coté keynoting. Build Stuff, Dec 2-4, 2026, Vilnius, Lithuania. cfgmgmtcamp, February 1st to 3rd, 2027, Ghent. SCALE 24x Pasadena, CA, April 1-4, 2027 SDT News & Community Join our Slack community Email the show: [email protected] Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected] Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté Sponsor the show Sponsor more podcasts with Failover Media Recommendations Brandon: Base Power Matt: Ubiquiti UniFi Express 7 Pole: Wald Aaron: World Summit, Amsterdam Dungeon Crawler Carl YINYOO KBEAR Storm Professional in Ear Monitor Special Guest: Aaron Delp.

This week, we discuss rogue AI agent civilizations, why AI can't fix your tax forms, and Chainguard vs. IBM's Lightwell. Plus, refrigerator magnet marketing. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 588 Runner-up Titles Mark this moment Refrigerator magnets Fester in your inbox The reaction would not be “let’s have a podcast about it” Maximum boasty Your silos are showing They want me to get started The really is no plan except eating RISCy business It's Not Only the AIs Acting Like Middle Schoolers We Fell for It Agent Zero Was the Problem I Thought You Were My Friend More Salsa Than Chewy's in 2004 Vibes based analysis Rundown Agent Civilizations The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations (podcast) Who Wins Hardened Containers Chainguard's Athena clears 40,000 vulnerabilities Tech giants warn time is running out to prepare for AI threats Start Secure in the AI Era: Accelerating AI Threat Readiness with WizOS Lightwell (IBM) Lightwell (Red Hat) The Linux Kernel Is Approaching 2,000 CVEs Per Release Relevant to your Interests AWS to acquire DuckLabs, the Amsterdam-based company behind DuckDB Historic first as Chinese robot beats Usain Bolt's 100m world record at Beijing games Observability Revenue Bill Gates Warns AI Is More Dangerous Than Big Tech Will Admit Microsoft cracks down on employee AI use after one worker spent $28,000 in 28 days Twitter - The Square Is Back Inside Meta's Push to Put Robots to Work in Data Centers Kara Swisher on Threads Nvidia (NVDA) Q2 2027 earnings report: Live updates Claudeforce: The AI Interface Salesforce Never Built Salesforce, Anthropic expand partnership as Benioff responds to "SaaSpocalypse" concerns Nonsense Gwyneth Paltrow’s Hamptons Dinner for A.I. C.E.O. Is Postponed Dyson CameraJet: The first toothbrush with a camera and a jet, to target the gaps and remove plaque between your teeth Conferences WeAreDevelopers NA, Sept 23-25, 2026, Discount Code: DEVPOD50 25 Free Tickets DevOpsDays Graz, Sept 4-5, 2026 Cloud Foundry Summit, Sept. 21st to 22nd, Heidelberg, Coté speaking. DevOpsDays Rockies, Sept. 22 – 23, 2026, Discount Code: 26DODSWEDEFTALK DevOpsDays Dallas, Sept 28-29, 2026 DevOpsDays Vilnius, Sep 30 - Oct 1, 2006, Lithuania. DevOpsDays Prague, Oct 5, 2026 - Coté speaking. DevOpsDays Istanbul, Oct 24th, 2026, Coté keynoting. VMware User Group, Orlando, Oct 20-22, 2026 Cloud Native Denmark, Nov 19th, 2026, Copenhagen, Coté keynoting. Build Stuff, Dec 2-4, 2026, Vilnius, Lithuania. cfgmgmtcamp, February 1st to 3rd, 2027, Ghent. SCALE 24x Pasadena, CA, April 1-4, 2027 SDT News & Community Join our Slack community Email the show: [email protected] Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected] Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté Sponsor the show Sponsor more podcasts with Failover Media Recommendations Brandon: Violent Ends entogo — Type a keyword. Go anywhere Matt: MeetingBar Futurama - Parasites Lost Coté: NØLSON clothes. Explore videos are up