Contemplating Time: Creative Solutions and Conference Announcements

This week, we discuss Google acquiring Wiz, the rise of Vibe Coding, and what really counts as legacy software. Plus, Coté runs a post-acquisition all-hands meeting.

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Runner-up Titles

• Tattoo “BUSINESS AS USUAL” on the inside of your eyelids
• BUSINESS AS USUAL
• One billion a month
• Turns out they’re gonna put lions in the product.
• Vibe coding is outcomes-focused.
• Cote’s AI Thunderdome
• Don’t make me learn
• Think About Time
• VibeCOBOL
• I don’t like the no-head

Rundown

• Google in Fresh Talks to Buy Cybersecurity Startup Wiz for $30 Billion
• Intel board announces Lip-Bu Tan as new CEO
• Vibe Coding
  • AI IDEs Need Moats
  • AI coding assistant refuses to write code, tells user to learn programming instead
  • Github Coploit does have an agent mode
  • AI coding assistant Cursor reportedly tells a 'vibe coder' to write his own damn code
  • Vibe Coder job listing
• Legacy Software

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• Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture
• Job Seekers Hit Wall of Salary Deflation - WSJ
• Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino
• OpenStack comes to the Linux Foundation | TechCrunch
• Accusations of Corporate Espionage Shake a Software Rivalry
• IBM Mergers: Closing on HashiCorp and Intent to Acquire DataStax

Nonsense

• The Problem with Time & Timezones - Computerphile
• Southwest Airlines CEO Video via WFAA
• Southwest Airlines Just Broke the $5 Chicken Rule, and There Goes What Once Made It Great.

Conferences

• SREday London, March 27-28, Coté speaking. 10% with code LDN10
• Monki Gras, London, March 27-28, Coté speaking.
• Cloud Foundry Day US, May 14th, Palo Alto, CA
• NDC Oslo, May 21-23, Coté speaking.
• KubeCon EU, April 1-4, London.

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Recommendations

• Brandon: Severance **
• Matt: Geoff Huntley’s blog
• Coté: Barthes: A Very Short Introduction, Coté — When Shit Hits the Fan.

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