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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 597: Our APIs Are Still Bad: Rethinking APIs for the Agent Era with Sterling Chin · 1 Std. 3 Min. · Folge 597Brandon talks with Sterling Chin, founder of Sannr, about tribal knowledge for coding agents, MCP's growing pains, and agent-first APIs. Plus, does Houston out-culture San…
- Episode 596: So Much for the Embargo · 56 Min. · Folge 596This week, we discuss Chainguard breaking the PHP embargo, Anthropic's S-1, and betting AI gets exponentially better. Plus, when do kids age out of trick-or-treating? Watch the…
- Episode 595: The Silent Disco · 1 Std. 14 Min. · Folge 595This week, we discuss sovereign cloud, Postgres conference takeaways, CoreWeave's debt, and why AI is a single-player game. Plus, whether home automation is worth it. Watch the…
- Episode 594: The Bottom Fell Out Of The Software Industry · 47 Min. · Folge 594This 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…
- Episode 593: Markdown for the Masses · 1 Std. 6 Min. · Folge 593This 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…
- Episode 592: Don't Think for Me · 1 Std. 0 Min. · Folge 592This 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…
- Episode 591: Fall Down With the Ball · 59 Min. · Folge 591This 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…
- Episode 590: Transparency will save us · 53 Min. · Folge 590Transparency 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…
- Episode 589: He's the Heel · 58 Min. · Folge 589This 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…
- Episode 588: Check Your Bank Accounts · 56 Min. · Folge 588This 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…
- Episode 587: The Singularity Didn't Happen on the First · 1 Std. 7 Min. · Folge 587This 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…
- Episode 586: Watermark Away, Baby · 1 Std. 0 Min. · Folge 586This 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…
- Episode 585: I'm not a total AI hater, I'm a finance hater · 1 Std. 4 Min. · Folge 585This 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…
- Episode 584: It’s All God Throwing Dice · 49 Min. · Folge 584This 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…
- Episode 583: HuggingFace make me gazpacho · 1 Std. 3 Min. · Folge 583This 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…
- Episode 582: Talking About Modernization · 1 Std. 6 Min. · Folge 582This 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…
- Episode 581: Arjun Iyer on Shipping Faster with Ephemeral Environments and AI Agents · 51 Min. · Folge 581Brandon 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…
- Episode 580: Varlock: Bringing Order to the Chaos of Environment Variables · 55 Min. · Folge 580Every 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…
- Episode 579: The Headless Lifestyle · 1 Std. 11 Min. · Folge 579This 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…
- Episode 578: War for Talent · 1 Std. 4 Min. · Folge 578This 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 577: Let’s go to Buc-ee’s · 1 Std. 0 Min. · Folge 577This 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…
- Episode 576: Observability's Next Phase · 49 Min. · Folge 576Brandon 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…
- Episode 575: UI blizzard · 1 Std. 1 Min. · Folge 575This 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 574: Nobody Wants to Be a Measurer · 1 Std. 1 Min. · Folge 574This 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 573: How many quadrillions in a Googol? · 1 Std. 2 Min. · Folge 573This week, we discuss Google I/O, the OpenAI soap opera, and ChatGPT going full financial advisor. Plus, thoughts on improving the conference hallway track. Watch the YouTube…
- Episode 572: The world isn’t curl · 1 Std. 0 Min. · Folge 572This week, we discuss how security gets sold to execs, where agentic coding and security collide, and Cloudflare vs. Datadog's diverging paths. Plus, Coté weighs in on sugar…
- Episode 571: The Enterprise Dunbar number · 58 Min. · Folge 571This week, we discuss AI labs driving cloud revenue, hyperscalers laying off instead of building, and kids defeating age verification. Plus, Brandon has too many thoughts on…
- Episode 570: The Enterprisification of Agents · 1 Std. 10 Min. · Folge 570This week, we discuss Google's enterprise agent stack, what makes an agent an agent, and AI's biggest critic. Plus, Coté wants better vision. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of…
- Episode 569: Agent Assimilation · 1 Std. 6 Min. · Folge 569This week, we discuss agents taking over at Google Cloud Next, Apple's new CEO, and Cursor getting acquired (sort of). Plus, Coté's e-waste has no exit strategy. Watch the…
- Episode 568: Claude Code, OpenAI Drama, and Is Anyone Still Using Backstage? · 1 Std. 6 Min. · Folge 568This week, we discuss Claude's harness, OpenAI's ongoing drama, and whether Backstage is still a thing. Plus, Coté gives up on the green screen. Watch the YouTube Live Recording…
- Episode 567: Building Voice and Streaming Apps for the Enterprise with Alberto · 56 Min. · Folge 567Brandon interviews Alberto González, CTO of WebRTC.ventures, about building voice and streaming applications for the enterprise. They dig into how developers can integrate WebRTC…
- Episode 566: The code is actually kinda useless · 1 Std. 0 Min. · Folge 566The 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…
- Episode 565: Field Engineering is the YOLO team · 1 Std. 3 Min. · Folge 565This 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…
- Episode 564: New Token Machines · 55 Min. · Folge 564This 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…
- Episode 563: Claude Camp · 1 Std. 10 Min. · Folge 563This 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…
- Episode 562: Bureaucracy: Still Unsolved · 1 Std. 6 Min. · Folge 562This 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…
- Episode 561: Two Guys and Their Tokens · 1 Std. 0 Min. · Folge 561This 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…
- Episode 560: You Can Feel It Coming · 1 Std. 11 Min. · Folge 560This 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…
- Episode 559: A series of OODA loops · 1 Std. 10 Min. · Folge 559This week, we discuss the future of SaaS, OpenAI vs. Anthropic strategies, and cloud capex. Plus, when will you let an AI book your flights? Watch the YouTube Live Recording of…
- Episode 558: Tara Raj on Amazon Nova Act · 47 Min. · Folge 558Brandon interviews Tara Raj, Senior Engineering Manager at the Amazon AGI Lab. They dive into her journey into the world of AGI, how Nova Act is streamlining complex workflows…
- Episode 557: Moltbot Maximists · 1 Std. 3 Min. · Folge 557This week, we discuss Moltbot (née Clawdbot) taking over, Apple’s new AirTags, and finding Enterprise AI ROI. Plus, the tragic demise of the TV dinner. Watch the YouTube Live…
- Episode 556: This Conversation is Hardened · 1 Std. 7 Min. · Folge 556This week, we discuss the end of Cloud 1.0, AI agents fixing old apps, and Chainguard vs. Docker images. Plus, the mystery of Dutch broth is finally solved. Watch the YouTube…
- Episode 555: After the Dream · 1 Std. 9 Min. · Folge 555This week, we discuss Gemini powering Siri, AWS’s biggest competitor, and AWS strategy choices. Plus, when should your next meeting actually start? Watch the YouTube Live…
- Episode 554: The Alpha and The Omega · 1 Std. 12 Min. · Folge 554This week, we discuss AI’s impact on Stack Overflow, Docker’s Hardened Images, and Nvidia buying Groq. Plus, thoughts on playing your own game and having fun. Watch the YouTube…
- Episode 553: 2025 Year in Review · 1 Std. 9 Min. · Folge 553This week, we review our 2025 predictions, discuss the big stories, and speculate on 2026. Plus, Coté dives deep into the EU broth market. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of…
- Episode 552: Tech Strategy: Past, Present, Future · 1 Std. 16 Min. · Folge 552This week, Brian Gracely joins to dissect strategic choices made by Broadcom, Docker, Netflix and Intel. Plus: The AI Bifurcation—are models commodities or product pillars?…
- Episode 551: An Australian Documentary · 1 Std. 0 Min. · Folge 551This week, we discuss Oracle’s AI vibes, Chainguard’s EmeritOSS, and GitHub’s pricing U-turn. Plus, a robust robot vacuum debate. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 551…
- Episode 550: Typeface Philosophy · 1 Std. 10 Min. · Folge 550This week, we discuss how Netflix is disrupting media, IBM’s Confluent acquisition, and Anthropic buying Bun. Plus, an important discussion on fonts and typography. Watch the…
- Episode 549: The Fermi Paradox of Agentic Development · 1 Std. 11 Min. · Folge 549This week, we discuss AWS re:Invent announcements, Agentic Development, and OpenAI's Code Red. Plus, a Digital ID field test and more on silverware sorting. Watch the YouTube…
- Episode 548: Household CMDB · 1 Std. 2 Min. · Folge 548This week, we discuss the Cloudflare outage, their current business strategy, and paying OSS maintainers. Plus, thoughts on loading the dishwasher and managing your home. Watch…







