Show Notes
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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The Lunduke Journal (@LundukeJournal)
Video on Apple Podcasts - Apple Podcasts for Creators
Temporal raises $300M Series D at a $5B valuation as AI drives demand for Durable Execution
Amazon's Ring cancels Flock partnership amid Super Bowl ad backlash
Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses
Anthropic raises $30 billion in Series G funding at $380 billion post-money valuation
Introducing Sonnet 4.6
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