Show Notes
This 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.
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Runner-up Titles
Did you order the Code Red?
In the year 2000
Jane go swiftly
Another day in the coal mine
Goal Driven Development
I want to believe
Prove me wrong
AI’s going to dig this hole faster
Tornado of Innovation
Revenue times Story
Rundown
SiteAngel - bonus press quote from Brandon
AWS
Amazon announces $50B investment to expand AI and supercomputing capabilities for US government
Top announcements of AWS re:Invent 2025
All the biggest news from AWS’ big tech show re:Invent 2025
AWS announces preview of AWS Interconnect - multicloud
The Future of AWS CodeCommit | Amazon Web Services
Nova Act
Code Red
OpenAI CEO declares “code red” as Gemini gains 20 0 million users in 3 months
Anthropic reportedly preparing for one of the largest IPOs ever in race with OpenAI: FT
Microsoft stock sinks on report AI product sales are missing growth goals
AI & Cloud Trends for November 2025
Relevant to your Interests
Under My Roof Home Inventory + App - App Store
Thoma Bravo invests in Azul
Streamline Development with the Google Workspace Extension
As its voice dictation app takes off, Wispr secures $25M from Notable Capital | TechCrunch
Valve makes almost $50 million per employee
HelixGuard
What to know about a recent Mixpanel security incident
ServiceNow to Expand Security Portfolio With Acquisition of Veza’s Leading AI-native Identity Security Platform
Vista-Backed LogicMonitor Buys Monitoring Startup Catchpoint
Google releases Nano Banana Pro, its latest image generation model
Years of JSONFormatter and CodeBeautify Leaks Expose Thousands of Passwords and API Keys
Netflix kills casting from phones
Nonsense
Victorian Name Generator
Conferences
cfgmgmtcamp 2026, February 2nd to 4th, Ghent, BE.
Coté speaking and doing live SDI with John Willis.
DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA
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Devnexus 2026, March 4th to 6th, Atlanta, GA.
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Recommendations
Brandon: Dampf Good BBQ
Matt: UmamiPapi chilli oil
Coté: Anta, slightly more in English. Also XdgBaseDirs.
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