Software Defined Talk

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

Relevant to your Interests

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

Amazon and Constellation sign 20-year nuclear power deal

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

Listener Feedback

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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