Exploring AI Tools and Movie Recommendations

This week, we discuss how banks beat PayPal with Zelle, what the Wiz survey says about AI usage, and whether you can really “disagree and commit.” Plus, are multitools actually useful?

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Runner-up Titles

• Royal Human Skin
• I feel bad for the multitools
• The Hulu of Payments
• Floppy disk mindset
• Upgrading the status quo
• The floppy disk mindset, the floppy disk award.
• A triangle fighting itself.
• Fancy database tools
• Apple’s grammar powers.

Rundown

• Zelle payments top $1 trillion in 2024 as network's growth outpaces rivals including PayPal
• The State of AI in the Cloud 2025 | Wiz
• How to add a directory to your PATH

Relevant to your Interests

• Juniper CEO, HPE blast DOJ deal denial
• These are the 50 most common four-digit PINs leaked on the dark web
• Believing in Aliens Derailed This Internet Pioneer’s Career. Now He’s Facing Prison
• Arm secures Meta as first customer for ambitious new chip project
• Inside Amazon’s Messy Push to Bring Everyone Back to the Office
• EU ditches plans to regulate tech patents, AI liability, online privacy
• Jamie Dimon offered up candid, lengthy thoughts about remote work
• TSMC Considers Running Intel’s US Factories After Trump Team Request
• The danger of relying on OpenAI’s Deep Research
• The Feds Push for WebAssembly Security Over eBPF
• How to add a directory to your PATH
• The “AI Agent As Coworker” Narrative Is Nonsense
• This is Meta’s brand new ad for Horizon Worlds.
• Jamie Dimon offered up candid, lengthy thoughts about remote work

Nonsense

• Smalls Sliders: Cheeseburger Slider Restaurant
• never obsolete
• Gartner Hype Cycle Demystified
• Smalls Sliders: Cheeseburger Slider Restaurant

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, Coté speaking.
• KubeCon EU, April 1-4, London.

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Recommendations

• Brandon: Cursor
• Matt: Fall; or, Dodge in Hell: A Novel
• Coté: The Substance.

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