WordPress Challenges and OpenAI Valuation Insights

This week, we recap the WordPress showdown between Automattic and WP Engine, and discuss the future of OpenAI. Plus, Coté has a lot (maybe too much) to say about Chick-fil-A coming to the UK.

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Runner-up Titles

• Time change is a-comin’.
• Don’t worry, I’m wearing clothes under this bathrobe.
• Where-ever there are chickens, there is fried chicken, I assume.
• Waffle Chips
• Free Refills and Ice
• The tyranny of no free refills
• Take the Five Guy approach
• You can’t change the rules in the race
• Fill the square

Rundown

• Chick-fil-A to open in the UK
• Wordpress
  • Big chronological list of WordPress/WP Engine drama
  • The WordPress vs. WP Engine drama, explained
  • How much would it cost to fork WordPress?
  • Charitable Contributions
• OpenAI
  • New funding to scale the benefits of AI
  • OpenAI Is A Bad Business

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Nonsense

• A guide to 30 of Australia's iconic Big Things
• Chick-fil-A to open in the UK

Listener Feedback

• Observability Architect (Remote, USA)

Conferences

• Cloud Foundry Day EU, Karlsruhe, GER, Oct 9, 2024, 20% off with code CFEU24VMW.
• VMware Explore Barcelona, Nov 4-7, 2024. Coté speaking.
• GoTech World, Coté speaking, Bucharest, Nov 12th and 13th.
• SREday Amsterdam, Nov 21, 2024. Coté speaking, 20% off with code SRE20DAY.
• DevOpsDayLA at SCALE22x, March 6-9, 2025, discount code DEVOP

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