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This week, we discuss Google acquiring Wiz, the rise of Vibe Coding, and what really counts as legacy software. Plus, Coté runs a post-acquisition all-hands meeting. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 511 Runner-up Titles Tattoo “BUSINESS AS USUAL” on the inside of your eyelids BUSINESS AS USUAL One billion a month Turns out they’re gonna put lions in the product. Vibe coding is outcomes-focused. Cote’s AI Thunderdome Don’t make me learn Think About Time VibeCOBOL I don’t like the no-head Rundown Google in Fresh Talks to Buy Cybersecurity Startup Wiz for $30 Billion Intel board announces Lip-Bu Tan as new CEO Vibe Coding AI IDEs Need Moats AI coding assistant refuses to write code, tells user to learn programming instead Github Coploit does have an agent mode AI coding assistant Cursor reportedly tells a 'vibe coder' to write his own damn code Vibe Coder job listing Legacy Software Relevant to your Interests Saudi Arabia Buys Pokémon Go, and Probably All of Your Location Data Open R1: Update #3 Sonos has canceled its streaming video player ServiceNow releases no-code, low-code AI agent builder Meta Seeks to Block Further Sales of Ex-Employee’s Scathing Memoir AirPods Getting Live Translation Feature Later This Year Clouded Judgement 3.14.25 - Authentication in the Age of AI Agents Google allows users to personalize their Gemini conversations with new features Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture Job Seekers Hit Wall of Salary Deflation - WSJ Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino OpenStack comes to the Linux Foundation | TechCrunch Accusations of Corporate Espionage Shake a Software Rivalry IBM Mergers: Closing on HashiCorp and Intent to Acquire DataStax Nonsense The Problem with Time & Timezones - Computerphile Southwest Airlines CEO Video via WFAA Southwest Airlines Just Broke the $5 Chicken Rule, and There Goes What Once Made It Great. Conferences 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, Coté speaking. KubeCon EU, April 1-4, London. 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: [email protected] Recommendations Brandon: Severance ** Matt: Geoff Huntley’s blog Coté: Barthes: A Very Short Introduction, Coté — When Shit Hits the Fan. Photo Credits Header

This week, we discuss Discord’s IPO plans, Cursor’s big raise, and how much coding developers actually do. Plus, is Southwest making a huge mistake with bag fees and assigned seats? Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 510 Runner-up Titles Cote’s not here, so we’ll keep it tight They treated me like I’m stupid I’m not here to buy into the culture Go eats some rocks and glue My head is full of simultaneous thoughts Fly high Icarus, fly high We are certain of the uncertainty Rundown Southwest Airlines shifts to paid baggage policy to lift earnings Discord in Early Talks With Bankers for Potential I.P.O. IDE Follow up DevTasks outside of the IDE (PDF) How Much Are LLMs Actually Boosting Real-World Programmer Productivity? — LessWrong [AI [CursorStartup Anysphere in Talks for Close to $10 Billion Valuation Market Trends Nvidia Is Down 27% From Its Peak. Millennium Loses $900 Million on Strategy Roiled by Market Chaos Relevant to your Interests OpenAI executives have told some investors about plans for a $20,000/month agent Introducing the Framework Desktop Utah becomes the first state to pass an app store age verification bill Latest Turing Award winners again warn of AI dangers Does Big Tech’s suckiness open the door for leaner startups? Apple Explains Why the New Mac Studio Doesn't Have an M4 Ultra Chip Your Boss Wants You Back in the Office. This Surveillance Tech Could Be Waiting for You Melbourne start-up launches 'biological computer' made of human brain cells What the Dot-Com Bust Can Tell Us About Today’s AI Boom Microsoft is replacing Remote Desktop with its new Windows app A 10x Faster TypeScript - TypeScript Niantic's Next Chapter: Introducing a New Home for Niantic Games iRobot Shares Drop 34% in Premarket Trading After Warning of Financial Uncertainty Health NZ used single Excel spreadsheet to track $28b of public money $16bn health agency managed finances with Excel spreadsheet Oracle's Cash Squeeze Apple Pulls iPhone 16 Ad Showing Off 'More Personal Siri' Apple's AI strategy is showing troubling cracks Nonsense Swearing as a Response to Pain: Assessing Hypoalgesic Effects of Novel “Swear” Words Chuck E. Cheese gets a rebrand — which means no more animatronic band Listener Feedback JD recommends The DuckDB Local UI Conferences 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, Coté speaking. KubeCon EU, April 1-4, London. 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: [email protected] Recommendations Brandon: Belkin MagSafe Charger, 3-in-1 Matt: Wired Photo Credits Header Artwork

This week, we discuss IBM acquisitions, IDEs in the age of AI, and bidding farewell to Skype. Plus, the dos and don’ts of using chat in corporate meetings. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 509 Runner-up Titles I’m going to make a point until the other people stop talking Is there a place I can type? Rediscovering USENET Let me introduce you to Del.icio.us That Big Blue HOA That assumes that enterprise IT is compelling The Costco liquor store is Open Source Lights out programming. The WebKit of IDEs The DevRel that makes a difference Rundown IBM roll ups? Accelerating Production AI and Bringing NoSQL Data at Scale to All Enterprises IBM Completes Acquisition of HashiCorp, IDE up for grabs AI disruption - code editors are up for grabs Google launches a free AI coding assistant with very high usage caps Google’s principles for measuring developer productivity Goodbye Update on Support for Amazon Chime Exclusive: Microsoft is finally shutting down Skype in May, Om’s ode to Skype. Relevant to your Interests The Death and Life of Prediction Markets at Google—Asterisk Microsoft’s Majorana 1 chip carves new path for quantum computing - Source Microsoft Says It Has Created a New State of Matter to Power Quantum Computers Trump Enforcers Affirm Lina Khan's Approach to Antitrust No Rules Are Implicit Rules Is AWS Delivering on Its 3-Layer Approach to AI? Apple Unveils New Lower-Priced iPhone With A.I. Features HP adds 15 minutes waiting time for telephone support calls YouTube Plans Lower-Priced, Ad-Free Version of Paid Video Tier Google may be close to launching YouTube Premium Lite He created one of the world’s first websites. It was IMDb. Processing 23 Billion Rows of ALIEN TXTBASE Stealer Logs Introduction to Service Mesh Slack is down — live updates on massive outage Introducing Alexa+, the next generation of Alexa Alphabet's Google cuts some cloud division staff, Bloomberg reports British musicians release a silent album to protest plans to let AI use their work NVIDIA Announces Financial Results for Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2025 The Job Market Is Frozen The Hardest Career Shift No One Talks About Intel breaking new organizational ground by formalizing the idea of a co-CEO that reports to a (third?) CEO to be named later. NVIDIA's CEO Jensen Huang Addresses The "DeepSeek Fiasco" For The First Time; Says Investors "Overreacted" & "Got It All Wrong" Uber and Waymo officially launch autonomous vehicle service in Austin; what to know How to Get Hired When AI Does the Screening How's that open source licensing coming along? Apple unveils new Mac Studio, the most powerful Mac ever Apple introduces iPad Air with powerful M3 chip and new Magic Keyboard Sponsors Subscribe to the Fork Around and Find Out Podcast Nonsense Everyone Hates Pennies, Except This Guy Mother's Flour Tortillas A Comprehensive Guide to American Regional Cuisine Listener Feedback Episode 94: Adding more condiments to the 7 layer networking burrito, with Marino Wijay Multi Tool Warren recommends: Micra Multi-Tool | Leatherman Mykel recommends ROXON 802 Phantom Matt recommends the Swiss+Tech Utili-Key 6-in-1 Multi-tool | REI Co-op Conferences DevOpsDayLA at SCALE22x, March 6-9, 2025, discount code DEVOP Open Source Career Day 2025, March 9, 2025 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, Coté speaking. KubeCon EU, April 1-4, London. 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: [email protected] Recommendations Brandon: “I’m Not a Robot” (2025 Academy Award Winner) IKON Friends and Family Discounts Matt: Zero Day Coté: The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live. Photo Credits Header Artwork Sponsored By:FAFO: Subscribe to the Fork Around and Find Out Podcast

This week, we're sharing a Software Defined Interviews episode. Coté and Whitney talk with Brian Gracely from the Cloudcast and Red Hat about cloud news, PaaS evolution, and career advice. If you like this, subscribe to Software Defined Interviews for more great conversations! Subscribe to Software Defined InterviewsSpecial Guests: Brian Gracely and Whitney Lee.

This week, we discuss how banks beat PayPal with Zelle, what the Wiz survey says about AI usage, and whether you can really “disagree and commit.” Plus, are multitools actually useful? Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 507 Runner-up Titles Royal Human Skin I feel bad for the multitools The Hulu of Payments Floppy disk mindset Upgrading the status quo The floppy disk mindset, the floppy disk award. A triangle fighting itself. Fancy database tools Apple’s grammar powers. Rundown Zelle payments top $1 trillion in 2024 as network's growth outpaces rivals including PayPal The State of AI in the Cloud 2025 | Wiz How to add a directory to your PATH Relevant to your Interests Juniper CEO, HPE blast DOJ deal denial These are the 50 most common four-digit PINs leaked on the dark web Believing in Aliens Derailed This Internet Pioneer’s Career. Now He’s Facing Prison Arm secures Meta as first customer for ambitious new chip project Inside Amazon’s Messy Push to Bring Everyone Back to the Office EU ditches plans to regulate tech patents, AI liability, online privacy Jamie Dimon offered up candid, lengthy thoughts about remote work TSMC Considers Running Intel’s US Factories After Trump Team Request The danger of relying on OpenAI’s Deep Research The Feds Push for WebAssembly Security Over eBPF How to add a directory to your PATH The “AI Agent As Coworker” Narrative Is Nonsense This is Meta’s brand new ad for Horizon Worlds. Jamie Dimon offered up candid, lengthy thoughts about remote work Nonsense Smalls Sliders: Cheeseburger Slider Restaurant never obsolete Gartner Hype Cycle Demystified Smalls Sliders: Cheeseburger Slider Restaurant 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, Coté speaking. KubeCon EU, April 1-4, London. 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: [email protected] Recommendations Brandon: Cursor Matt: Fall; or, Dodge in Hell: A Novel Coté: The Substance. Photo Credits Header Artwork

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! Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 506 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. 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: [email protected] Recommendations Brandon: Oxide and Friends | AI Disruption: DeepSeek and Cerebras Matt: Beats Fit Pro Coté: Alfred. PoliticalWire.com. Photo Credits Header

This week, we discuss cloud’s never-ending “early innings,” OpenAI Canvas vs. Gemini, and Dell’s RTO reversal. Plus, is there such a thing as too much optimism? Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 505 Runner-up Titles Fastball to the head Not enough AI eggs Toxic Positivity Rundown Cote’s Early Innings Research Slides and stream recording of presenting it at cfgmgmtcamp 2025 Cloud Revenue Microsoft Q2 cloud revenue falls short of expectations, sending the stock lower Alphabet shares drop as much as 9% on revenue miss, soaring AI investments Google parent Alphabet’s earnings disappoint Wall Street amid stiff AI competition DeepSeek Debates: Chinese Leadership On Cost, True Training Cost, Closed Model Margin Impacts DeepSeek Debates: Chinese Leadership On Cost, True Training Cost, Closed Model Margin Impacts Dell RTO Timeline Aug 2020: Dell: 60% of our people won't be going back into an office regularly March 2024: ****Dell says remote workers must go hybrid if they want any hope of a promotion Jan 2025: Dell ends hybrid work policy despite remote work pledge 5 Signs Your Optimism Is Hurting Your Team Relevant to your Interests Jack Dorsey’s Block has an AI agent too Can We Build a Five Gigawatt Data Center?—Asterisk Purely AI-generated art can’t get copyright protection, says Copyright Office 'Everything I Say Leaks,' Zuckerberg Says in Leaked Meeting Audio What Elon Musk should learn from Larry Ellison DOGE, Software, and Government DOJ sues to block HP Enterprise from buying Juniper Networks Mark Zuckerberg to employees in leaked all-hands meeting: ‘buckle up’ There’s Something Very, Very Wrong With Tech Today. Microsoft Enforces Tougher Layoff Rules: No Severance, Immediate Termination Apple reportedly gives up on its AR video glasses project uBlock Origin is dead for Chrome, but ad blockers live on Add F*cking to Your Google Searches to Neutralize AI Summaries Palantir soars 24% to record high as AI powers strong earnings and guidance 'Eternal' 5D memory crystal capable of storing 360 TB of data for billions of years now holds a full human genome AI Company Asks Job Applicants Not to Use AI in Job Applications OpenAI's nightmare: Deepseek R1 on a Raspberry Pi Why Chinese AI has stunned the world Why the AI world is suddenly obsessed with a 160-year-old economics paradox OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From Ue Exposed DeepSeek Database Revealed Chat Prompts and Internal Data Gurman: Apple is launching new iCloud service as soon as this week, codenamed "Confetti" - 9to5Mac Nonsense Funny note from JP Morgan Analyst about Tesla Waffle House is passing along the sky-high cost of eggs to diners with a 50-cent surcharge Optimized Charging Listener Feedback ChatGPT Explains the difference between ‘.bashrc` and .bash_profile Optimized Charging Conferences Civo Navigate North America, San Francisco, Feb 10-11, 2025 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. 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: [email protected] Recommendations Brandon: Blackstone Griddle Matt: The Flaming Lips Live Coté: ChatGPT Canvas Couches (direct link). Photo Credits Header Artwork

This week, we discuss the latest news about DeepSeek, how to make sense of the countless hot takes, and a review of The Nvidia Way. Plus, some thoughts on Valentine’s Day. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 504 Runner-up Titles The Paperclip Apocalypse Markets Over Management The Nest Egg This is cheaper than therapy Valentine’s Day “Turns out, guys…” You can burn a candle out, and when it’s out there’s no candle. I don’t think Jensen is struggling Rundown DeepSeek China's DeepSeek appears to have built AI models that rival OpenAI, while allegedly using much less money, chips, and energy. DeepSeek FAQ DeepSeek and the Enterprise Four big reasons to worry about DeepSeek (and four reasons to calm down) DeepSeek Disruption Has Its Upside Dario Amodei — On DeepSeek and Export Controls Bonus Clouded Judgement - Inference Time Compute CEO Pat Gelsinger is already using DeepSeek instead of OpenAI at his startup, Gloo Relevant to your Interests Trump administration fires members of cybersecurity review board in 'horribly shortsighted' decision Rethinking developer experience at T-Mobile: DevEx vs devprod, exec buy-in, and developer self-service FTC Finalizes Long-Awaited Updates to Children's Privacy Rule FTC Finalizes Changes to Children’s Privacy Rule Limiting Companies’ Ability to Monetize Kids’ Data Free OpenAI & every-LLM API Pricing Calculator GitHub Is Showing the Trump Administration Scrubbing Government Web Pages in Real Time Microsoft's LinkedIn sued for disclosing customer information to train AI models We’re launching Opengrep, a fork of Semgrep CE Semaphore is Going Open Source in 30 days OpenAI launches ChatGPT Gov for U.S. government agencies "Digital shoplifting" is on the rise among the well-off Gen Z crowd Kubernetes Cloud Repatriation Saves Millions for Data Platform Provider Warp vs. Ghostty: Which Terminal App Meets Your Dev Needs? Cheriton School of Computer Science researchers’ update to Linux kernel could cut energy use in data centres by up to 30% Stargate artificial intelligence project to exclusively serve OpenAI Nonsense Why Speaking Like a Wanker at Work Is Essential Stripe accidentally sent an image of a duck when notifying some employees they were getting laid off Conferences CfgMgmtCamp, Ghent, Belgium, February 2-5, 2025. Civo Navigate North America, San Francisco, Feb 10-11, 2025 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. 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: [email protected] Recommendations Brandon: Paradise Matt: Tell me which Ardupilot/PX4 Autopilot platform I should buy? Holybro X500 v2 or QAV250 dev kit? Coté: (MLA) citations “The Joy of Extradimensional Spaces,” Michael Polkinghorn, in Candlekeep Mysteries. Artwork CoverArt Header

This week, we explore how AI is reshaping software development, the slow adoption of Service Mesh, and the latest effort to modernize the U.S. Government. Plus, chili debates, and Wiz proves puppies make everything better. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 503 Runner-up Titles Just start it, I’ll catch up Let’s not get distracted by the corn AI’s never eaten a bowl of chili, Brandon. No beans for you Streetfights about chili Get out of my right pane Single Thread Pizza That is a response to a problem I don’t want to have. This is not listener feedback, this is more Matt feedback. Rundown Visual Studio Code helped Microsoft win developers. New AI coding editors want to own the future Anysphere, a Maker of A.I. Coding Software, Raises $105 Million Model Distillation DeepSeek claims its 'reasoning' model beats OpenAI's o1 on certain benchmarks Istio Creators on Mistakes To Avoid for Any Project Trump signs order setting up DOGE with a focus on government tech Trump’s Treasury pick pledges to keep IRS Direct File open this tax season Relevant to your Interests This Hedge Fund Created an Excel on Steroids The $500 Million Debacle at Sonos That Just Won’t End Thoma Bravo-owned SailPoint reveals narrower loss in US IPO filing The First Big Trump Scam Is Already Blowing Up in Everyone’s Faces We’re in the Netflix-opens-a-restaurant stage of the cycle. Google Invests Another $1 Billion in AI Developer Anthropic Product Name Changes Gartner: VMware migrations will be long, costly, and risky Developers and IT folks, please be careful when installing Homebrew Capital One gives update on deposit issues as customers demand answers Many remote workers say they’d be likely to leave their job if they could no longer work from home Schrödinger's Cat breakthrough could usher in the 'Holy Grail' of quantum computing, making them error-proof Nonsense This Southern Grocery Store Was Just Named The Best In The Nation And We're Not Surprised Soup You Can Suck On: Introducing Progresso Soup Drops, the Ultimate Cold and Flu Season Comfort New England Patriots VP of content says NFL told team to shut down Bluesky account Listener Feedback Wiz has gone to the dogs (puppies)? Conferences CfgMgmtCamp, February 2-5, 2025. Civo Navigate North America, San Francisco, Feb 10-11, 2025 DevOpsDayLA at SCALE22x, March 6-9, 2025, discount code DEVOP 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. 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: [email protected] Recommendations Brandon: Silo and Severance Matt: Search Engine: The New Zuckerberg Coté: Brian Gracely interview on this week’s Software Defined Interviews. Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophic Life, Photo Credits Header

This week, we cover the Sonos executive shake-up, AWS CEO Matt Garman's take on AI, and check in on OpenTofu’s growth. Plus, some thoughts on broken windows and Emacs no longer being preinstalled on macOS. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 502 Runner-up Titles Anecdote Investigations. The Software Defined Elves are gonna send you a RØDECaster. Well, maybe we should talk about emacs more! I still have a box of cables Buy One, Pay for One If it’s fine, it’s fine Rundown Sonos’ interim CEO hits all the right notes in first letter to employees Breaking: Sonos CEO Patrick Spence steps down after disastrous app launch Sonos Chief Product Officer to Leave; Interim CEO to Take Role AI’s payoff will be massive, says AWS CEO Matt Garman OpenTofu Turns One With OpenTofu 1.9.0 macOS No Longer Ships with Emacs Relevant to your Interests The 8 worst technology failures of 2024 41% of companies worldwide plan to reduce workforces by 2030 due to AI | CNN Business How I Replaced Notion with Reminders, Numbers, and Notes Automattic cuts WordPress contribution hours, blames WP Engine How Fidelity’s “chaos buffet” pushed AWS to new Lambda tools Zuckerberg on Rogan: Facebook's censorship was "something out of 1984" Meta Reorientates Itself Around ‘Masculine Energy’ – Pixel Envy #6907 Kong-ingress-controller 3.4 has high CPU usage when running 2 pods Survey: AI Tools are Increasing Amount of Bad Code Needing to be Fixed Exclusive | Hanging Out at Starbucks? You Now Need to Order Something A new AI-powered security tool is promising to reinvent how companies secure login credentials Anexia moves 12,000 VMs off VMware to homebrew KVM platform Mullenweg's Grip On WordPress Challenged In New Court Filing Apple's AI feature just can’t get it right Texas Sues Allstate Over Its Collection of Driver Data Mastodon’s CEO and creator is handing control to a new nonprofit organization Nonsense DirecTV to offer 'MySports,' a smaller streaming package of 40 channels Drake Sues His Label, Calling Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us’ Defamatory Hanging Out at Starbucks? You Now Need to Order Something Listener Feedback Capture AI’s Low-Hanging Fruit with Agents The Ethics of Using AI Tools at Work ****## Conferences CfgMgmtCamp, February 2-5, 2025. Civo Navigate North America, San Francisco, Feb 10-11, 2025 DevOpsDayLA at SCALE22x, March 6-9, 2025, discount code DEVOP 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: [email protected] Recommendations Brandon: Capital One Café Matt: The WELL: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky: State of the World 2025 Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service logo Coté: Splatoon Photo Credits Header Artwork