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 T

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

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 V

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

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 C

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 st

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

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 Mor

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 stro

This week, we discuss the Situational Awareness meltdown, Airtable getting sold, and review the Java documentary. Plus, what you should actually buy at IKEA. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 584 Runner-up Titles Duffle bag of leftovers 5Are you dead in this scenario? Bury me with my IKEA bags Don’t automate the world, nobody really wants that AttentionIsAllYouNeed.blog Take some money o

This week, we discuss how normal people use AI, Alphabet's Anthropic-fueled earnings, and skills vs. agents. Plus, catching AI-cheating students with a hidden prompt. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 583 Runner-up Titles “Do you think they named them red delicious because they knew they were delicious?” I thought they were First World Steal your Alpha-tier Cory uses only 100% free-range

This week, we discuss Bun's move to Rust, OpenAI hunting for revenue, and Stripe's bid for PayPal. Plus, Coté's Dad wisdom. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 582 Runner-up Titles Turn off my dog Dad Wisdom Amazon subscription and let it fly Dad box Talking about modernization Skin in the game The ivory tower of “Things Actually Work in the Real World” Business fortnight No SegwaysBanking

Brandon interviews Arjun Iyer, CEO & Co-founder of Signadot. They discuss how Ephemeral Environments eliminate developer toil by shifting validation earlier in the dev cycle, how Signadot's MCP server lets AI coding agents run end-to-end tests autonomously, and real-world results including Brex saving $2M in cloud spend. Plus, how Cisco bought AppDynamics for ~$4 billion the day before their IPO.

Every project has environment variables. Almost nobody manages them well. This week Brandon talks with Phil Miller and Theo Ephraim, who built varlock to fix that — bringing structure and security to the humble .env file. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 580 Show Links: varlock.dev varlock on GitHub @env-spec Overview DMNO (corporate site) Varlock MCP Server (docs) howtostore.food — The

This week, we discuss Anthropic's 18-day Fable timeout, whether AI is actually killing jobs, and OpenAI's trillion-dollar IPO problem. Plus, SoftBank's golden goose slides. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 579 Runner-up Titles Everything is Files It’s just about meetings Did you do the pre-meet? Meetings Judgement Let it ride If it’s hot, turn on the AC I don’t have time for a towel. He

This week, we discuss Fable follow-up, Gartner's AI Governance MQ, and the war for AI talent. Plus, Matt and Brandon review Disclosure Day . Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 578 Runner-up Titles Ready to podcast from a sailboat It’s just people fighting Calculator budget Ask Siri to do your homework Software Defined Consulting: SDC The Magic Platform AI Curious I watched ALLLLL the keyn

This week, we discuss the Fable ban, SpaceX's $60B Cursor buy, and why Lovable wins when AI picks your stack. Plus, Europeans are at the World Cup and already drank Boston dry. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 577 Runner-up Titles Waited out the storm Maybe we should build some castles or something Years of lawsuits ahead of us The ultimate dream AI SEO I hope you’re paid by the hour Al

Brandon talks with OpenObserve's Prabhat Sharma and Shani Shoham: why observability is still broken, how they fixed it, and where AI takes it next. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 576 Show Links OpenObserve OpenObserve on GitHub Series A and Observability 3.0 announcement blog post Launching OpenObserve OpenObserve 2-Minute Demo Download OpenObserve Contact Prabhat Sharma LinkedIn: hip

This week, we discuss NVIDIA going consumer, Microsoft Build, and the Anthropic/OpenAI IPO race. Plus, does credit card insurance work? Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 575 Runner-up Titles Who Wins AI? Models vs. Middleware Jensen After Dark Once again, robots Why is this something you talk about in a keynote? Could this have been an app? Defeating Apple, the sword in the stone Your to

This week, we discuss the Cloudflare CEO's op-ed, upcoming tech IPOs and GitHub getting breached. Plus, ranking our favorite manifestos. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 574 Runner-up Titles We’re not making money so we can’t put in place the enshitification strategy. Go easy on the AI I hope they’re not using PowerPoint in the Vatican I didn’t’ come here to talk about the Pope I should