Media Picks and Tech Preferences

This week, we discuss how LLMs are changing software development, OpenAI’s deep research, and why the Gartner Hype Cycle persists. Plus, a business plan built entirely around ice!

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Runner-up Titles

• I bought the DevOps
• I’m always looking for tomatillas
• You’re making a strong case for RTO
• The CEO of ice. The VP of Ice Machines.
• What you are doing is toil
• I think about WALL-E every day
• Eliminating the first draft

Rundown

• The End of Programming as We Know It
• Apple Earnings, OpenAI Deep Research, The Unbundling of Substantiation
  
• Gartner's Grift Is About To Unravel

Relevant to your Interests

• Google goes heavy on investment but light on detail
• Researchers created an open rival to OpenAI's o1 'reasoning' model for under $50
• Dumping open source for proprietary rarely pays off: Better to stick a fork in it
• Report: OpenAI's ex-CTO, Mira Murati, has recruited OpenAI co-founder John Schulman
• Broadcom and Nvidia are capitalizing on the return of the winner-take-all AI trade
• When will remote workers see their pay cut?
• How Microsoft Releases Changes to Azure - Safe Deployment
• Servers can last a long time
• Matt Mullenweg: WordPress Controversy, Future of Open Source AI, and Navigating Backlash
• Turn/River Agrees to Buy SolarWinds Years After Cyber-Attack
• Gartner's Grift Is About To Unravel
• Developer creates endless Wikipedia feed to fight algorithm addiction
• You Didn't Notice MP3 Is Now Free
• The DevTools Ceiling: great as Open Source, AND a Terrible Business
• The VGHF Library opens in early access | Video Game History Foundation
• Docker Announces Don Johnson as New CEO, Succeeding Scott Johnston
• Developers Unhappy With Tool Sprawl, Lagging Data, Long Waits
• Thomson Reuters Wins First Major AI Copyright Case in the US
• Apple brings heart rate monitoring

Nonsense

• TabBoo

Conferences

• DevOpsDayLA at SCALE22x, March 6-9, 2025, discount code DEVOP
• VMUG NL, March 12th, Coté speaking.
• DevOpsDays Chicago, March 18th, 2025.
• 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, speaking.
• KubeCon EU, April 1-4, London.

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Recommendations

• Brandon: Oxide and Friends | AI Disruption: DeepSeek and Cerebras
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• Coté: Alfred. PoliticalWire.com.

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