Software Defined Talk

This week, we discuss NVIDIA GTC, token machines, token budgets, and an AWS outage that may or may not involve AI. Plus, Matt reviews The Wizard of Oz at The Sphere.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 564

Runner-up Titles

Let's T this up.

One Trillion Dollars

Leader to laggard

My terms of service

Someone should come up with a term

Networking FOMO

Slide crimes

It’s token machines all the way down.

The Claude-ning

So why Nemo Cloud?

You’re just selling token machines

Billionaire version of Gallagher

I’ve seen too much

Upward Replicability

Rundown

NVIDA GTC

Nvidia bets on AI inference as chip revenue opportunity hits $1 trillion

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang: $1 trillion in chip sales coming

Keynote at NVIDIA GTC San Jose 2026

AI Roundup

Amazon just called an emergency engineering meeting after AI coding tools caused multiple outages.

2 Ways to Correct the Financial Times at AWS (So Far)

Amazon orders 90-day reset after code mishaps cause millions of lost orders

Microsoft shakes up Copilot AI leadership team, freeing up Suleyman to build new models

MCP vs. CLI for AI-native development - CircleCI

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YouTube Lays Claim to Another Crown: The World’s Largest Media Company

The Lobster That Moved $50 Billion

Amazon is determined to use AI for everything – even when it slows down work

Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company

How to Do Code Reviews in the Agentic Era

Elon Musk Says He's Epically Screwed Up at xAI, Is Rebuilding "From the Foundations"

The ‘AI-Washing’ of Job Cuts Is Corrosive and Confusing

Introducing Chainguard Commercial Builds: Secure-by-default containers

Exclusive: Small publishers hit hardest by search traffic declines

The State of AI in the Enterprise - 2026 AI report

Agents Over Bubbles

"Yes, AI Is a Bubble. There Is No Question."

Listener Feedback

Recap of SCALE 23x with Barton George

Conferences

KubeCon EU, March 23-26, 2026 - Coté will be there on a media pass.

DevOpsdays Atlanta 2026, April 21-22, 2026

DevOpsDays Austin, May 5-6, 2026

WeAreDevelopers, July 8-10, 2026 Berlin, Coté speaking.

VMware User Groups (VMUGs):

Minneapolis (April 7-9, 2026)

Toronto (May 12-14, 2026)

Dallas (June 9-11, 2026)

Orlando (October 20-22, 2026)

SDT News & Community

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This week, we discuss Claude Code for non-coders, automating newsletters and status reports, and AI tax prep. Plus, Coté finds unexpected joy in a coding assistant.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 563

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Upgraded to Max

The only innovation I was talking about was hiring me.

The Patrick Stewart of the Cubicles.

Should we become the Claudecast?

Matt Ray in Your Pocket.

Come into the tent

You have agency in your life

Rundown

Coté went to Claude Camp

Microsoft and Anthropic team up to bring Claude Cowork to Microsoft 365

Cursor is rolling out a new kind of agentic coding tool

Hater Season: Corey Quinn — Better Offline

Google completes acquisition of Wiz

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I Worked for Block. Its A.I. Job Cuts Aren’t What They Seem.

Iranian news claims AWS drone strikes were deliberate

Anthropic Just Won the Enterprise. Here’s What Nobody’s Talking About

Amazon's Bahrain data center targeted by Iran for support of U.S. military, state media says

Startups.RIP - Dead YC Startups, Alive Ideas

Kratix Anywhere: Cloud, On-Prem, and Hybrid Without Compromise

Meta just bought Moltbook, the social network for AI bots - 9to5Mac

Amazon holds engineering meeting following AI-related outages

Oracle is building yesterday’s data centers with tomorrow’s debt

SUSE Reportedly May Be For Sale Yet Again

When Using AI Leads to “Brain Fry”

Oracle is under pressure from more than $100 billion in debt and massive layoffs as it pushes ahead with Larry Ellison’s 3-step transformation

Oracle is building yesterday’s data centers with tomorrow’s debt

Oracle Job Cuts

OpenAI bowed out of the Oracle

MacBook Neo - Tech Specs

Code Mode: give agents an entire API in 1,000 tokens

MacBook Neo - Tech Specs

Nonsense

McDonald’s C.E.O. Takes a Big Bite Out of a Burger. Maybe Scratch ‘Big.’

Conferences

KubeCon EU, March 23-26, 2026 - Coté will be there on a media pass.

DevOpsdays Atlanta 2026, April 21-22, 2026

DevOpsDays Austin, May 5-6, 2026

WeAreDevelopers, July 8-10, 2026 Berlin, Coté speaking.

VMware User Groups (VMUGs):

Amsterdam (March 17-19, 2026) - Coté speaking.

Minneapolis (April 7-9, 2026)

Toronto (May 12-14, 2026)

Dallas (June 9-11, 2026)

Orlando (October 20-22, 2026)

SDT News & Community

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This week. we discuss Claude Code's momentum, Cursor's identity crisis, and the SDLC's uncertain future. Plus, Coté finally explains how Markdown is destroying the economy.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 562

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Demos over Memos

Products over Prose

Software written by the many for the few

USB is flaky

Do you get a Code of Conduct for prison?

I thought I had typed it somewhere

Markdown is taking down the economy

Claude, Take the Wheel

Sticking with month-to-month

Precious Tokens

Rip Van Winkle this whole AI thing

The ants have won

They have infinite tokens

Is SLDC Dead?

Rundown

The SaaS-Apocalypse was based on markdown files

The Software Development Lifecycle Is Dead

The Third Era of Software Development

Intelligence, Subtracted

Anthropic rejects Pentagon’s AI demands

Exclusive-Anthropic investors push to de-escalate Pentagon clash over AI safeguards

‘Incoherent’: Hegseth’s Anthropic ultimatum confounds AI policymaker

Anthropic leads Enterprise AI Spend

Anthropic took >50% of spend on enterprise AI subscriptions

$110 Billion in Name Only

OpenAI reveals more details about its agreement with the Pentagon

OpenAI changes deal with US military after backlash

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McKinsey and AWS launch Amazon McKinsey Group

Polymarket defends its decision to allow betting on war as ‘invaluable’

The Supreme Court doesn't care if you want to copyright your AI-generated art

Distinguished Eng On Stack Ranking, Competing with Bezos, Regrets

WIZ: My Personal AI Agent

OpenAI changes deal with US military after backlash

Tech Publications Lost 58% of Google Traffic Since 2024

Ramp AI Index

Nonsense

Callers to Washington state hotline press 2 for Spanish and get accented AI English instead

Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course?

Conferences

Austin Meetup, March 10th, Listener Steve Anness speaking on Grafana

KubeCon EU, March 23rd to 26th, 2026 - Coté will be there on a media pass.

DevOpsdays Atlanta 2026, April 21-22, 2026

DevOpsDays Austin, May 5-6, 2026

WeAreDevelopers, July 8th to 10th, Berlin, Coté speaking.

VMware User Groups (VMUGs):

Amsterdam (March 17-19, 2026) - Coté speaking.

Minneapolis (April 7-9, 2026)

Toronto (May 12-14, 2026)

Dallas (June 9-11, 2026)

Orlando (October 20-22, 2026)

SDT News & Community

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This week, we discuss AI-assisted COBOL migrations, the OpenClaw Foundation, and AI killing Office. Plus, is TSA PreCheck Touchless the peak of airport efficiency?

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 561

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New’s not good

He knows how to be retired

Let Matt Cook

We don’t have to worry about that Brandon

You’re that guy

The stock market feels reactionary

Siri-Claw

Foundation Washing

Give me life-changing money and I’ll have a better take

Why do I need to pay for power usage?

Rundown

IBM is the latest AI casualty. Shares tank 13% on Anthropic programming language threat

IBM Crashes 11% as Anthropic Threatens COBOL Empire

Mechanical Orchard: Half Baked

OpenClaw, OpenAI and the future

This Is the Biggest Threat to Microsoft Office I've Ever Seen.

LibreOffice Online: a fresh start - TDF Community Blog

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The A.I. Disruption We’ve Been Waiting for Has Arrived

YOLO Travel Bookings

This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby

The Death of Spotify: Why Streaming is Minutes Away From Being Obsolete

OpenAI resets spending expectations, tells investors compute target is around $600 billion by 2030

Cloud and AWS cost consultant Duckbill expands to software, raises $7.75M for new Skyway platform

Man accidentally gains control of 7,000 robot vacuums

My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker

Nonsense

GE Profile made a smaller version of its nugget ice maker that needs less counter space

TSA PreCheck Touchless ID | Delta Air Lines

Listener Feedback

Introducing Agent Plugins for AWS

Conferences

DevOpsDay LA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA

Use code: DEVOP for 50% off.

Devnexus 2026, March 4th to 6th, Atlanta, GA.

Use this 30% off discount code from your pals at Tanzu: DN26VMWARE30.

Check out the Tanzu and Spring talks and trading cards on THE LANDING PAGE.

Austin Meetup, March 10th, Listener Steve Anness speaking on Grafana

KubeCon EU, March 23rd to 26th, 2026 - Coté will be there on a media pass.

DevOpsdays Atlanta 2026, April 21-22, 2026

DevOpsDays Austin, May 5 - 6, 2026

WeAreDevelopers, July 8th to 10th, Berlin, Coté speaking.

VMware User Groups (VMUGs):

Amsterdam (March 17-19, 2026) - Coté speaking.

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SDT News & Community

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This week, we discuss personal AI hype cycles, bottoms-up adoption, and "The Modern Stack" simplifying cloud. Plus, thoughts on new cars and the dogs that ride in them.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 560

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They only talk about AI

I bet you have 5 shop vacs

It’s all going into applesauce

Live Claude Code It

Good defaults and opinions, nobody wants that

Give me 5 minutes, and I’ll give you fifty 6 page memos

I know I just pulled off a Pivotal scab.

Free Tier as a Service

Rundown

Something Big Is Happening

OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI

Modern Stack: Fly.io, Neon, Upstash and Cloudflare

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An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me

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Temporal raises $300M Series D at a $5B valuation as AI drives demand for Durable Execution

Amazon's Ring cancels Flock partnership amid Super Bowl ad backlash

Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses

Anthropic raises $30 billion in Series G funding at $380 billion post-money valuation

Introducing Sonnet 4.6

Conferences

DevOpsDay LA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA

Use code: DEVOP for 50% off.

Devnexus 2026, March 4th to 6th, Atlanta, GA.

Use this 30% off discount code from your pals at Tanzu: DN26VMWARE30.

Check out the Tanzu and Spring talks and trading cards on THE LANDING PAGE.

Shout out to the people who saw the trading cards and messaged me!

Austin Meetup, March 10th, Listener Steve Anness speaking on Grafana

KubeCon EU, March 23rd to 26th, 2026 - Coté will be there on a media pass.

Devopsdays Atlanta 2026, April 21-22, 2026

DevOpsDays Austin, May 5 - 6, 2026

WeAreDevelopers, July 8th to 10th, Berlin, Coté speaking.

VMware User Groups (VMUGs):

Amsterdam (March 17-19, 2026) - Coté speaking.

Minneapolis (April 7-9, 2026)

Toronto (May 12-14, 2026)

Dallas (June 9-11, 2026)

Orlando (October 20-22, 2026)

SDT News & Community

Join our Slack community

Email the show: [email protected]

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