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    Software Defined Talk

    Get ready for a weekly dose of all things Enterprise Software and Cloud Computing! Join us as we dive into topics including Kubernetes, DevOps, Serverless, Security and Coding. Plus, we’ll keep you entertained with plenty of off-topic banter and nonsense. Don’t worry if you miss the latest industry conference – we’ve got you covered with recaps of all the latest news from AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).

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    Episode 594: The Bottom Fell Out Of The Software Industry Oct 16, 2026
    Show notes

    This week, we discuss AI yes/no deciders, the SaaS apocalypse, Bending Spoons, and Oxide's funding. Plus, why Google Docs still has no dark mode.

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 594

    Runner-up Titles

    • Lightweight Mark Zuckerberg
    • I'm on a mailing list
    • It respects the dark mode
    • You can't be Greasemonkeying your way through life
    • What are the optics of AI?
    • I was getting into my groove
    • Is it worth \$7.5 billion dollars
    • The ArtCrafting people
    • That is the SaaSpocalypse
    • You should see the stuff I make in my bathtub
    • Not everything has to be acquired
    • The software industry is becoming the CPG industry
    • The floor has fallen out of the software industry
    • Brand is king
    • Horse shampoo in the human shampoo section
    • I'm doing real work, I need a black background
    • It felt like the sun
    • The devil's stream

    Rundown

    • Jev / TypeSafe: a \$7.5B decision model with no text output
      • Andreessen Horowitz Backs Jev Maker at \$7.5 Billion Value
      • Understanding Jev, the new model everyone is talking about
      • TypeSafe AI Raises \$40 Million Seed Funding At \$200 Million Valuation
      • Workday is using TypeSafe's Jev to build user interfaces on the fly
      • Andrej Karpathy says only 5,000 people have seen what AI can really do
    • "Software is over": AI clones of Adobe and Office, and what open source is becoming
      • “Software is over”: AI developer takes aim at Adobe with open source clones
      • Creator of free Adobe clones unveils open-source Microsoft Office replacements
      • Open Source as We Know It Is Dead
      • software doesn't need to be readable anymore. it needs to be explainable.
      • Bending Spoons Deploys AI to Overhaul Acquired Software Companies
    • Neocloud money: backlog, concentration and the bond market
      • AI computing startup Lambda to raise \$4B ahead of planned IPO
      • Axe Compute rings Nasdaq bell with \$3.45B neocloud GPU backlog
      • Amazon in Talks to Buy AI Startup Decart for Around \$7 Billion
      • Compute constraints help Oxide hit \$6B
      • Oxide raises \$445M Series D
      • IMF cites AI slowdown, spiking yields as looming global market risks

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    • Meta releases its first frontier model, Muse Wonder
    • Claude now works in Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides
    • Introducing the Anthropic Cyber Mission
    • AWS AgentCore security undone by prompt requesting credentials
    • ComfortDelGro to pull workloads back from public cloud
    • Broadcom introduces VMware HyperArmor
    • 11:11 Systems acquires select IBM VMware cloud customers
    • CME Group announces cloud migration milestones
    • Redesigning source control at Anthropic
    • Netflix Lays Off 6% of Employees, Elimination About 1,000 Jobs in Biggest Cutbacks to
    • Memphis City Council meeting erupts into chaos over Musk data centers
    • Conservation group calls moratorium on AI data centers on US public lands
    • Amazon responds to data center backlash, says it no longer uses NDAs
    • Oracle's AI data center push hits a power bottleneck

    Conferences

    • 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: 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
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    Episode 593: Markdown for the Masses Oct 09, 2026
    Show notes

    This week, we discuss Google Docs finally getting Markdown, Cloudflare's CF CLI, Gartner's agentic AI abandonment stat, and forward deployed engineers. Plus, Coté forgets his laptop.

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 593

    Runner-up Titles:

    • Cables only
    • Blame it on AI
    • We’re outcome-focused here
    • I brought CSV to the masses
    • The King of Google
    • Product Manager for Markdown
    • Just give me an API
    • The Word Race
    • Unqualify yourself
    • I'll Ride the AI Hype Cycle to Markdown Support
    • Forward Deployed Field CTOI
    • You Are the API
    • Agent Product Management
    • Money Can Be Exchanged for Goods and Services
    • Brandon's the Travel Dad

    Rundown

    • Google is going to let you directly edit Markdown files in Docs.
    • Agent-Friendly APIs
      • Introducing cf: the agentic CLI for the entire Cloudflare API
      • Cloudflare’s 2026 Annual Founders’ Letter
      • Your app’s frontend UI is now optional
      • The Agents Are Among Us - Tao of Mac
      • Docker Sandboxes Promotion | Docker
      • Redis Iris | Redis
      • OpenClaw launches free enterprise control plane for AI agents
      • The New, New Kingmakers: Agents, Developers, and the Future of Software with Stephen O'Grady
      • Headless CRM.
    • Forward-deployed engineers and the enterprise AI ROI question
      • The Rise of the Forward Deployed Engineer
      • Gartner: 70% of enterprises will abandon vendor-built agentic AI by 2028
      • McKinsey: The State of AI in 2026, On the Road to ROI
      • Thorsten Ball: The future of software development
      • AI faces $6 trillion test to justify data centers, Bain says
    • Rogue agents: who is liable when the AI breaks containment?
      • OpenAI agent hacked Medicare portal, PM says
      • OpenAI pauses training after agents probed US government sites
      • OpenAI shelves new AI model after internal safety tests, WSJ reports
      • Wikimedia: OpenAI-linked agents made millions of unauthorized requests
      • Lawmakers: AI firms should be liable for their models’ actions
      • NVIDIA launches Open Agent Safety Platform
      • New AI-powered government website uses Gemini, Grok

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    • AppleInsider: Meta's Muse AI is stealing Apple Messages
    • Daily Brief: Top technology stories this week
    • DevDay 2026 Recap
    • Meta Connect Keynote 2026
    • OpenAI connects the Dots
    • 125 Tests of the New AI Siri
    • Meta Enterprise Platform Needs More Than Muse
    • Software bugs led to Bahrain Grand Prix farce
    • Meta carves out enterprise offerings, brings in new leadership
    • Please Don't Shame the AI Writers
    • New Relic Appoints Nandini Ramani as Chief Executive Officer
    • Google is going to let you directly edit Markdown files in Docs.
    • Norway Considers Most Drastic Smart Glasses Ban Yet
    • Mistral unveils new model rivaling China’s best open systems
    • Ed Zitron: The AI Bubble is Bleeding Cash, Part 2
    • Mistral’s new 1T model aims to leapfrog rivals
    • Google signs 20-year nuclear deal with Constellation
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    • Amazon hires Microsoft Copilot CTO to lead AWS agentic AI
    • EU set to designate AWS and Azure as DMA gatekeepers
    • UK government cloud spend: up to 80% on AWS and Microsoft
    • AWS admits permanent data loss after Iranian strikes

    Nonsense

    • EP 1: ROOFTOPS, PENTHOUSES, AND URBAN LIVING
    • Distance from Texas, measured in Texases

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    • Prash recommends:
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    Conferences

    • 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: 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
    • Sponsor more podcasts with Failover Media

    Recommendations

    • Brandon: PodEditor in beta
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    • Coté: Libation.

    Episode 592: Don't Think for Me Oct 02, 2026
    Show notes

    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

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    • 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
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    • 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: 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
    • Sponsor more podcasts with Failover Media

    Recommendations

    • Brandon: Take a screenshot of a window on Mac
    • Matt: Sydney Marathon
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    Episode 591: Fall Down With the Ball Sep 25, 2026
    Show notes

    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?

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    • 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: 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
    • Sponsor more podcasts with Failover Media

    Recommendations

    • Brandon: YouTube TV new Multiview and Sports Plan
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    Episode 590: Transparency will save us Sep 18, 2026
    Show notes

    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

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    • Google Cloud, Accenture Launch Unit to Put AI Engineers On-Site With Customers
    • Cloud has a new bulk capacity market
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    • 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: 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
    • Sponsor more podcasts with Failover Media

    Recommendations

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    Sponsored By:

    • 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

    Episode 589: He's the Heel Sep 11, 2026
    Show notes

    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

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    • 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: 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
    • Sponsor more podcasts with Failover Media

    Recommendations

    • Brandon: Base Power
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      • Pole: Wald
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      • Dungeon Crawler Carl
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    Special Guest: Aaron Delp.

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    Episode 588: Check Your Bank Accounts Sep 04, 2026
    Show notes

    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

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    • 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
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    • Gwyneth Paltrow’s Hamptons Dinner for A.I. C.E.O. Is Postponed
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    Episode 587: The Singularity Didn't Happen on the First Aug 28, 2026
    Show notes

    This week, we discuss Stripe's singularity letter, its $8B Open Router buy, and AI job anxiety. Plus, Matt plays “Bot or Not” on another podcast.

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 587

    Runner-up Titles

    • Inertia wins again
    • We don’t talk about the Pope very much.
    • Better than this year’s storage arrays
    • AI pimps its own ride
    • Chonking machine
    • A lot of chonk opportunity
    • I’m tired of tech people being all fancy
    • Thanksgiving with Ed Zitron
    • No religion, no politics, no AI
    • My recommendation: try harder
    • Teletubbies for Adults.

    Rundown

    • Singularity, Models and Routers
      • Scoop: Stripe says "the singularity" has begun
      • Stripe strikes mega-deal for OpenRouter
      • Hugging Face reportedly in talks to be acquired for $13B
      • Routing is coming for the frontier AI labs
      • Terminator Judgement Day: August 29, 1997 2:14 a.m. Eastern Time
    • The AI backlash goes mainstream
      • 52% of Americans Now More Concerned Than Excited About AI, With Under-30s Crossing a Majority for the First Time
      • Why Is Everyone In Tech So Sad?
      • The AI Hater's Manifesto
    • 40 Years of Infrastructure as Code: Ansible → Terraform → Kubernetes → Crossplane → AI Agents

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    • OpenAI 'will be a public company in 2027' or sooner, CFO Friar tells employees
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    • Meta settles social media addiction case with California, other states for $16.7 billion
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    • Apple Releases New Polishing Cloth
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    Episode 586: Watermark Away, Baby Aug 21, 2026
    Show notes

    This week, we discuss the unsung genius of Apple Pay, AI watermarking, and why digital transformation fails without a crisis. Plus, D&D Beyond's secret character API.

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 586

    Runner-up Titles

    • Special Sauce
    • A new monkey’s thing
    • I am all for USB-C
    • Did I like it
    • It’s all water marked'
    • That NPC did need to be there
    • It's Pre-Watermarked
    • We Need to Touch Grass More
    • Send Us Your APIs

    Rundown

    • Apple Pay Chief Jennifer Bailey Retiring in October
    • AI Watermarking's Unintended Consequences
      • Anthropic says it will watermark text generated by its AI models
      • Google will now allow users to remove visible watermark from its AI generations
    • Why "It's People, Not Tech" Never Actually Changes Anything
      • The Chief Therapy Officer, Job Titles as Culture Change, and AI as Spreadsheets, with Bryan Ross
      • Platform Engineering ROI: What it costs to build your own platform
      • How Duolingo uses AI to create lessons faster
      • Silver Lake's Workday Buyout Talks Could Be the First 'SaaSpocalypse' Opportunity

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    • IRS Proposes Simpler Process for Retirement Rollovers
    • The Actual Reason Why Google "Fell Out" of the AI Race Changes Everything
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    • Andreessen Horowitz Focus of DOJ Probe Over Board Directors
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    • Farewell, Mico: Microsoft's cute little AI blob is going the way of Bob
    • Microsoft kills off unsuccessful AI features while merging its separate Copilot apps
    • Google may retire Gems in October, forcing Skills migration
    • OpenAI replaces revenue lead as Greg Brockman builds his presence
    • OpenAI CFO Friar tells investors that enterprise business now bigger than consumer by revenue
    • OpenAI sheds senior execs in pre-IPO refresh
    • OpenAI's Brockman brushes off concerns about leadership changes in CNBC exclusive
    • Anthropic CFO Krishna Rao is leading early IPO meetings with investors and has not discussed valuation, sources say
    • Anthropic in Talks to Buy AI Startup Decart for $6 Billion

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    Episode 585: I'm not a total AI hater, I'm a finance hater Aug 14, 2026
    Show notes

    This week, we discuss Zuckerberg's open source AI manifesto, GPUs as securitizable assets, and who actually gets AI ROI. Plus, Buc-ee's goes to war over beavers.

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 585

    Runner-up Titles

    • Law of Unintended Consequences
    • We’re not lawyers, we just have common sense
    • Trillion-dollar open source company
    • The Meta Manifesto
    • I don’t think self-awareness is their strong point.
    • Using AI to fight AI
    • Put me as a strong maybe.

    Rundown

    • Days after John Oliver's dare, Buc-ee's sues again
    • Meta's Big AI Week
      • The Future is for Everyone
      • Meta Unveils ‘Open Source’ Version of Its Most Powerful A.I. Model
      • Meta debuts first AI coding agent to take on Anthropic and OpenAI
      • Superintelligence is a dragon
      • Mistral Is in the Right Place at the Right Time
    • The AI Money Machine
      • Nvidia lines up $500 billion in financing as CEO Jensen Huang tells CNBC his chips are ‘investable asset’
      • 48% of Google Cloud Revenue Next Year Could Come From Just 2 Companies That Have Still Never Turned a Profit
      • Datadog Says Lower Usage From Major AI Customer Could Dent Growth

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    Nonsense

    • Buc-off

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