This week, we discuss how LLMs are changing software development, OpenAI’s deep research, and why the Gartner Hype Cycle persists. Plus, a business plan built entirely around ice!

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Runner-up Titles

• I bought the DevOps


• I’m always looking for tomatillas


• You’re making a strong case for RTO


• The CEO of ice. The VP of Ice Machines.


• What you are doing is toil


• I think about WALL-E every day


• Eliminating the first draft

Rundown

• The End of Programming as We Know It


• Apple Earnings, OpenAI Deep Research, The Unbundling of Substantiation
  


• Gartner's Grift Is About To Unravel

Relevant to your Interests

• Google goes heavy on investment but light on detail


• Researchers created an open rival to OpenAI's o1 'reasoning' model for under $50


• Dumping open source for proprietary rarely pays off: Better to stick a fork in it


• Report: OpenAI's ex-CTO, Mira Murati, has recruited OpenAI co-founder John Schulman


• Broadcom and Nvidia are capitalizing on the return of the winner-take-all AI trade


• When will remote workers see their pay cut?


• How Microsoft Releases Changes to Azure - Safe Deployment


• Servers can last a long time


• Matt Mullenweg: WordPress Controversy, Future of Open Source AI, and Navigating Backlash


• Turn/River Agrees to Buy SolarWinds Years After Cyber-Attack


• Gartner's Grift Is About To Unravel


• Developer creates endless Wikipedia feed to fight algorithm addiction


• You Didn't Notice MP3 Is Now Free


• The DevTools Ceiling: great as Open Source, AND a Terrible Business


• The VGHF Library opens in early access | Video Game History Foundation


• Docker Announces Don Johnson as New CEO, Succeeding Scott Johnston


• Developers Unhappy With Tool Sprawl, Lagging Data, Long Waits


• Thomson Reuters Wins First Major AI Copyright Case in the US


• Apple brings heart rate monitoring

Nonsense

• TabBoo

Conferences

• DevOpsDayLA at SCALE22x, March 6-9, 2025, discount code DEVOP


• VMUG NL, March 12th, Coté speaking.


• DevOpsDays Chicago, March 18th, 2025.


• SREday London, March 27-28, Coté speaking. 10% with code LDN10


• Monki Gras, London, March 27-28, Coté speaking.


• Cloud Foundry Day US, May 14th, Palo Alto, CA


• NDC Oslo, May 21-23, speaking.


• KubeCon EU, April 1-4, London.

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Recommendations

• Brandon: Oxide and Friends | AI Disruption: DeepSeek and Cerebras


• Matt: Beats Fit Pro


• Coté: Alfred. PoliticalWire.com.

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