Software Defined Talk

The code is actually kinda useless

This week, we discuss the Claude Code leak, locking down coding agents, and the Axios supply chain attack. Plus, Coté considers breaking up with his Gmail address of 20+ years.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 566

Runner-up Titles

[email protected]

I get that dude’s email

Those turtles are dyslexic

I’m just a space hyperchicken judge

curl|bash is the debate

Djikstra’s algorithm for calendaring

Rundown

Google Now Lets You Change Your Gmail Address. Here’s How

Claude had a week

He Rewrote Leaked Claude Code in Python, And Dodged Copyright

Anthropic admits Claude Code quotas running out too fast

Auto mode for Claude Code

Anthropic leaked its own source Code

Are sandboxes the future

Docker Sandboxes: Run Agents in YOLO Mode, Safely

Docker Sandboxes: Run Claude Code and More Safely

Coder Raises $35M

Axios NPM Distribution Compromised in Supply Chain Attack

Relevant to your Interests

Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy

Juries Take the Lead in the Push for Child Online Safety

Jensen Huang runs Nvidia with 60 direct reports — and no one-on-ones

Report: Apple to Move a Part of its Embedded Cores to RISC-V, Stepping Away from Arm ISA

A one-line Kubernetes fix that saved 600 hours a year

Apple discontinues the Mac Pro with no plans for future hardware - 9to5Mac

‘Astound’ed. Google Flips Its Fiber To PE.

Hacked Files of F.B.I. Director Kash Patel Circulate Online

We Rewrote JSONata with AI in a Day, Saved $500K/Year

I Decompiled the White House's New App

Mistral secures $830 million in debt financing to fund AI data center

The AI boom is a lie: Fake data centres and unused GPUs | Ed Zitron

Microsoft Copilot is now injecting ads into pull requests on GitHub

American Exchange Group Inks $39 Million Deal for Allbirds Assets

OMG. Best back to back posts. Maintainer for Axios, before and after the supply chain breach.

Historical GitHub Uptime Charts

Reddit - The heart of the internet

Bluesky's new AI tool Attie is already the most blocked account other than J.D. Vance

Steve Blank Your Startup Is Probably Dead On Arrival

Nonsense

The Untold Story of Wiz (ft. Wiz Khalifa)

Conferences

DevOpsdays Atlanta 2026, April 21-22, 2026

DevOpsDays Austin, May 5-6, 2026

DevOpsDays + AI Nashville, May 14-15, 2026

KCD Texas, May 15, 2026, use code MEDIA_THANK_YOU for free pass

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

DevOpsDays Dallas, Sep 28-29, 202

WeAreDevelopers NA, Sept 23-25, 2026, Discount Code: Community_SoftwareDefined

DevOpsDays Vilnius, Sep 30 - Oct 1. 2006

VMware User Groups (VMUGs):

Minneapolis (April 7-9, 2026)

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Orlando (October 20-22, 2026)

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This week, we discuss big bets gone wrong, OpenAI buying the Python toolchain, and Claude's favorite tools. Plus, how fast should AI agents ship bug fixes?

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 565

Runner-up Titles

Product Management Slot Machine

We poisoned our own data

As the resident hater of SDT

I’m optimistic on this one

I’ll check back when you call it Siri

AI SEO

The Ryan Gosling of Podcasts

Rundown

Big Bets, Past, Present and Future

Meta decides not to shut down Horizon Worlds on VR after all

OpenAI Will Shut Down Sora Video App; Disney Drops Plans for $1 Billion Investment

Amazon's smartphone would be ill-timed: IDC analyst

Jitterbug Smart4 Smartphone for Seniors

Python and OpenAI

Thoughts on OpenAI acquiring Astral and uv/ruff/ty

OpenAI to acquire Astral | OpenAI

Security

TeamPCP Backdoors LiteLLM Versions 1.82.7–1.82.8 via Trivy CI/CD Compromise

Three’s a Crowd: TeamPCP trojanizes LiteLLM in Continuation of Campaign

KICS GitHub Action Compromised: TeamPCP Strikes Again in Supply Chain Attack

Trivy Compromised: Everything You Need to Know about the Latest Supply Chain Attack

Introducing Wiz AI Application Protection Platform (AI-APP)

Introducing Wiz Agents & Workflows: Security at the Speed of AI

AI Runtime Threat Detection: From Input to Real-World Impact

Claude defaults

Amplifying — AI Benchmark Research

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Aakash Gupta (@aakashgupta) on X

Meta is shutting down VR social platform Horizon Worlds in further pivot away from the metaverse

Government Registers Aliens.Gov Domain

Instagram to remove end-to-end encryption for private messages in May

What Is the PARK Stack?

Federal cyber experts called Microsoft's cloud a "pile of shit," approved it anyway

Mark Zuckerberg builds AI CEO to help him run Meta

FCC Updates Covered List to Include Foreign-Made Consumer Routers, Prohibiting Approval of New Models

Future Casting the Modern Data Stack

Anthropic says Claude can now use your computer to finish tasks for you in AI agent push

Today’s layoffs, This note was sent to Epic employees today

Your wireless router is now banned from sale in the US

Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features

Jury orders Meta and Google to pay woman $3 million in social media addiction trial

Arm is releasing the first in-house chip in its 35-year history

Arm Launches Own CPU, Arm’s Motivation, Constraints and Systems

Feature Spotlight: Introducing the Fantastical Connector (MCP) for Claude

Conferences

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):

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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)

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SDT News & Community

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Dream Router 7

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

Relevant to your Interests

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

Relevant to your Interests

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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