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Software Defined Talk

by Software Defined Talk LLC · English · Tech & Science

New episodes: Weekly
Typical length: 1 hr 1 min
Latest: 2 Oct 2026
Language: English

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2 Oct 2026 · 1 hr

Episode 592: Don't Think for Me

This 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 YouTube Live Recording of Episode 592 Runner-up Titles You’re Mom’s not sending it via DHL. Hope you like your toast blackened. Magic of Nerds. Are you a Muse boy? Hacking Australia. I love a good survey. Not using the keyboard shortcuts. Talking is the new typing. Nobody knows what's going on, let's just drive faster A foundation of sand Just give me an API Let's stop asking and start taking Who's spending $500 million on…

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E591 · 25 Sep 2026 · 59 min

Episode 591: Fall Down With the Ball

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. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 591 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…
E590 · 18 Sep 2026 · 53 min

Episode 590: Transparency will save us

Transparency 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 Recording of Episode 590 Runner-up Titles Maybe you have too much The mopping sucks Why not us? I subscribe to all the conspiracies I brought my own pieces The true heroes are the open source users We learned a lot about VR on the way Fun for your spatial reasoning It's Only Cheating If You Get Caught Won't Somebody Slow Down? I Brought My Own Pieces A Big Living Room in the Sky I Don't Read the Five Stars, I Read the…
E589 · 11 Sep 2026 · 58 min

Episode 589: He's the Heel

This 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 Recording of Episode 589 Runner-up Titles Sleep Strategy Obviously I Have Issues Not Sure It Was an Exciting Thing At One Point, I Knew That Bitterness Rug Pull The American in Me Would Be Bitter Gaping Pit of Despair They Don't Care if They Never Sell a Thing It's the First Time Silicon Valley Has Done Something Irresponsible With VC Money We've Got to Drive as Fast Into This Wall and See if We Get Through It We're Already…
E588 · 4 Sep 2026 · 56 min

Episode 588: Check Your Bank Accounts

This 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 Live Recording of Episode 588 Runner-up Titles Mark this moment Refrigerator magnets Fester in your inbox The reaction would not be “let’s have a podcast about it” Maximum boasty Your silos are showing They want me to get started The really is no plan except eating RISCy business It's Not Only the AIs Acting Like Middle Schoolers We Fell for It Agent Zero Was the Problem I Thought You Were My Friend More Salsa Than…
E587 · 28 Aug 2026 · 1 hr 8 min

Episode 587: The Singularity Didn't Happen on the First

This 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 Recording of Episode 587 Runner-up Titles Inertia wins again We don’t talk about the Pope very much. Better than this year’s storage arrays AI pimps its own ride Chonking machine A lot of chonk opportunity I’m tired of tech people being all fancy Thanksgiving with Ed Zitron No religion, no politics, no AI My recommendation: try harder Teletubbies for Adults. Rundown Singularity, Models and Routers Scoop: Stripe says "the…
E586 · 21 Aug 2026 · 1 hr

Episode 586: Watermark Away, Baby

This 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 YouTube Live Recording of Episode 586 Runner-up Titles Special Sauce A new monkey’s thing I am all for USB-C Did I like it It’s all water marked' That NPC did need to be there It's Pre-Watermarked We Need to Touch Grass More Send Us Your APIs Rundown Apple Pay Chief Jennifer Bailey Retiring in October AI Watermarking's Unintended Consequences Anthropic says it will watermark text generated by its AI models Google will…
E585 · 14 Aug 2026 · 1 hr 4 min

Episode 585: I'm not a total AI hater, I'm a finance hater

This 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 YouTube Live Recording of Episode 585 Runner-up Titles Law of Unintended Consequences We’re not lawyers, we just have common sense Trillion-dollar open source company The Meta Manifesto I don’t think self-awareness is their strong point. Using AI to fight AI Put me as a strong maybe. Rundown Days after John Oliver's dare, Buc-ee's sues again Meta's Big AI Week The Future is for Everyone Meta Unveils ‘Open Source’ Version…
E584 · 7 Aug 2026 · 49 min

Episode 584: It’s All God Throwing Dice

This 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 Live Recording of Episode 584 Runner-up Titles Duffle bag of leftovers 5Are you dead in this scenario? Bury me with my IKEA bags Don’t automate the world, nobody really wants that AttentionIsAllYouNeed.blog Take some money off the table No more great ideas Rundown IKEA FRAKTA Leopold Aschenbrenner's $45B Fund Implodes AI investor Leopold Aschenbrenner forced to unwind all public stock positions after steep losses,…
E583 · 31 Jul 2026 · 1 hr 4 min

Episode 583: HuggingFace make me gazpacho

This 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 YouTube Live Recording of Episode 583 Runner-up Titles “Do you think they named them red delicious because they knew they were delicious?” I thought they were First World Steal your Alpha-tier Cory uses only 100% free-range, organic AI. Copy, paste, go. Stolen fruit from the poisoned tree all the way down. It’s a different kind of cold. It’s a dry cold. Rundown AI IRL How people use AI in 2026: TV, homework, the DMV…
E582 · 24 Jul 2026 · 1 hr 7 min

Episode 582: Talking About Modernization

This 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 Runner-up Titles Turn off my dog Dad Wisdom Amazon subscription and let it fly Dad box Talking about modernization Skin in the game The ivory tower of “Things Actually Work in the Real World” Business fortnight No SegwaysBanking works everywhere else in the world, not America Rundown Rewriting Bun in Rust OpenAI OpenAI's No. 2 Executive to Step Down in Latest Leadership Shake-up OpenAI's Chief Futurist Is Leaving the…
E581 · 17 Jul 2026 · 51 min

Episode 581: Arjun Iyer on Shipping Faster with Ephemeral Environments and AI Agents

Brandon 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 Signadot's MCP server lets AI coding agents run end-to-end tests autonomously, and real-world results including Brex saving $2M in cloud spend. Plus, how Cisco bought AppDynamics for ~$4 billion the day before their IPO. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 581 Show Links Signadot Free Tria l Brex Case Study Signadot Documentation Overview Contact Arjun Iyer LinkedIn: Arjun Iyer Twitter: @ arjuniyer_ SDT News…
E580 · 10 Jul 2026 · 55 min

Episode 580: Varlock: Bringing Order to the Chaos of Environment Variables

Every 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 structure and security to the humble .env file. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 580 Show Links: varlock.dev varlock on GitHub @env-spec Overview DMNO (corporate site) Varlock MCP Server (docs) howtostore.food — Theo's side project on the best way to store produce unsafeharbour.com — Phil's music label Nautical Artifacts on Bandcamp bumpy Contact Phil Miller: LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/themillman Email:…
E579 · 3 Jul 2026 · 1 hr 12 min

Episode 579: The Headless Lifestyle

This 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. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 579 Runner-up Titles Everything is Files It’s just about meetings Did you do the pre-meet? Meetings Judgement Let it ride If it’s hot, turn on the AC I don’t have time for a towel. Headless HEB Rundown I was fired by Google for creating the Google Workspace CLI Fable is Back White House lifts export control on advanced AI model from Anthropic Trump administration lifts…
E578 · 26 Jun 2026 · 1 hr 5 min

Episode 578: War for Talent

This 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 578 Runner-up Titles Ready to podcast from a sailboat It’s just people fighting Calculator budget Ask Siri to do your homework Software Defined Consulting: SDC The Magic Platform AI Curious I watched ALLLLL the keynotes. I don’t know that, but I know that You gotta stay to vest Brandon, remember Cursor? Educated Hater Rundown Gartner Magic Quadrant for AI Governance Platforms IBM recognized as a Leader in the…
E577 · 19 Jun 2026 · 1 hr

Episode 577: Let’s go to Buc-ee’s

This 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. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 577 Runner-up Titles Waited out the storm Maybe we should build some castles or something Years of lawsuits ahead of us The ultimate dream AI SEO I hope you’re paid by the hour Always be monitoring to me Rundown Anthropic How Amazon and the White House ended Anthropic's Fable Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 Dario Amodei —…
E576 · 12 Jun 2026 · 49 min

Episode 576: Observability's Next Phase

Brandon 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 Recording of Episode 576 Show Links OpenObserve OpenObserve on GitHub Series A and Observability 3.0 announcement blog post Launching OpenObserve OpenObserve 2-Minute Demo Download OpenObserve Contact Prabhat Sharma LinkedIn: hiprabhat Twitter/X: @hiprabhat Contact Shani Shoham LinkedIn: shanishoham Twitter: @ shohams SDT News & Hype Join us in Slack . Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to…
E575 · 5 Jun 2026 · 1 hr 2 min

Episode 575: UI blizzard

This 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 575 Runner-up Titles Who Wins AI? Models vs. Middleware Jensen After Dark Once again, robots Why is this something you talk about in a keynote? Could this have been an app? Defeating Apple, the sword in the stone Your tokens are my margin Prisons, schools and military - what is the Venn diagram? Every enterprise is unhappy in their own way Rundown Nvidia NVIDIA and Microsoft Reinvent Windows PCs for the Age of…
E574 · 29 May 2026 · 1 hr 1 min

Episode 574: Nobody Wants to Be a Measurer

This 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 574 Runner-up Titles We’re not making money so we can’t put in place the enshitification strategy. Go easy on the AI I hope they’re not using PowerPoint in the Vatican I didn’t’ come here to talk about the Pope I should take more showers I came to measure and chew bubblegum Matt Ray Dalio is not a wave rider. Usability golf No dependencies, no problems Peak Software We are a safe haven for measures Tools and Rules…
E573 · 22 May 2026 · 1 hr 2 min

Episode 573: How many quadrillions in a Googol?

This 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 Live Recording of Episode 573 Runner-up Titles Stupid Macs I like my idea What was I thinking? Opt-in AI Kentucky Derby’s this Weekend It’s a low plateau There’s no vibe in X-Code Matt’s trading with AI Everyone’s watching Rundown Google I/O A new era for AI Search All the news from the Google I/O 2026 Developer keynote I/O 2026: Welcome to the agentic Gemini era AI Stuff Elon Musk lost his case against Sam Altman Greg…
E572 · 15 May 2026 · 1 hr 1 min

Episode 572: The world isn’t curl

This 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 cookies. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 572 Runner-up Titles Sugar Kingdom Bastard Sugar Choose butter It’s just AI now People don’t like paying for software It’s an exciting time to be writing software Are we going to start funding open source? Speaking of that, but not that, it’s totally unrelated We’re leaving the table Weird network stuff That box of cables on GitHub Rundown Security Mini Shai-Hulud Is…
E571 · 8 May 2026 · 58 min

Episode 571: The Enterprise Dunbar number

This 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 Workday. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 571 Runner-up Titles The world is just paper. TODO debris pile Fancy countries you live in Enron Conspiracy Shredder. Cote’s mom’s gonna love this Brandon works out his Workday trauma. Cash money, hamburger, hamburger bang bang ChatGPT PS Edition Forward Deployed Engineer for Workday It’ll probably work, that’s the future Rundown Earnings Cloud Giants Update Amazon…
E570 · 1 May 2026 · 1 hr 10 min

Episode 570: The Enterprisification of Agents

This 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 570 Runner-up Titles You can’t win against time The Shining Path of Least Resistance The Burger Diagram You guys were talking about CORBA the other day. Is this just destiny Burger Diagram Aficionado Think like a computer Those are the fun agents. AI for None of Us Matt Ray, but verify Gen-X Stamp Collecting Rundown Google Cloud Next Google Cloud Next '26 Developer Keynote An Interview with Google Cloud CEO…
E569 · 24 Apr 2026 · 1 hr 7 min

Episode 569: Agent Assimilation

This 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 YouTube Live Recording of Episode 569 Runner-up Titles I love throwing stuff in the trash. Dillo dirt’s a thing. BurgerOps. Thomas opens for Richard. Department of “No” people Starfish Stomach Model Enterprise — come into me The Organization will Assimilate it Gold plaques all around He can let his freak flag fly Take the first billion dollar offer Rundown Google Next Welcome to Google Cloud Next26 Google's AI adoption —…

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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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