Episode 560: You Can Feel It Coming

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.

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Runner-up Titles

• 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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• 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

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

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