Show Notes
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.
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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 Vercel has a new customer
There’s no concept of “why RAM?”
How do we feel about Wall-E?
Fall Down With the Ball
Sun Had Become Bored with the Mechanics of Running a Business
Yahoo Buying Google
I Haven't Seen This Bag Done
It's Just Like a Tornado Hitting Your House
Sun Sunday
The New Kingmakers Are Agents
Developers Have Lost a Lot of Power
Give Me Five Architectures
The AI Industry Likes Talking About This Too Much for It to Be Real
It's Incredibly Hard to Exterminate All of Humanity
Systemic Takeover, But We're All Happy
Superloop, Who Dis?
Rundown
What Sun got wrong | The Observation Deck
Agents: The new, New Kingmakers
The AI Apocalypse Bracket: Just How Doomed Are We, Really?
Relevant to your Interests
The contagion of fear | The Observation Deck
Iran strikes on Amazon data centers caused permanent loss of customer data
Zuckerberg distances Meta from calls for a coordinated approach on an AI slowdown
The Enshittification Resistant Software Project
Would you buy branded clothing from your favourite tech firm?
Stopping The AI Safety Cult ft. Adam Becker & Cal Newport — Better Offline
Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee
“Everyone's in a race to replace GitHub": Zed launches Delta because agents made pull requests obsolete
AWS reimagines the getting started experience
Nonsense
Rising beef costs push a Top 50 Texas BBQ spot to pull brisket from its everyday menu
Conferences
DevOpsDays Dallas, Sept 28-29, 2026
DevOpsDays Vilnius, Sep 30-Oct 1, 2006, Lithuania.
DevOpsDays Prague, Oct 5, 2026 , Coté speaking.
VMware Explore Frankfurt 2026, Oct 13-14, 2026 - Coté speaking.
DevOpsDays Istanbul, Oct 24th, 2026, Coté keynoting.
VMware User Group, Orlando, Oct 20-22, 2026
VMware Explore London, Nov 18-19, 2006, Coté speaking.
Cloud Native Denmark, Nov 19th, 2026, Coté keynoting, Discount Code: CSVFTW ****
Build Stuff, Dec 2-4, 2026, Vilnius, Lithuania. Coté speaking.
cfgmgmtcamp, Ghent, Belgium February 1-3, 2027
SCALE 24x Pasadena, CA, April 1-4, 2027
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