Cultural Commentary and Media Recommendations

This week, we explore how AI is reshaping software development, the slow adoption of Service Mesh, and the latest effort to modernize the U.S. Government. Plus, chili debates, and Wiz proves puppies make everything better.

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Runner-up Titles

• Just start it, I’ll catch up
• Let’s not get distracted by the corn
• AI’s never eaten a bowl of chili, Brandon.
• No beans for you
• Streetfights about chili
• Get out of my right pane
• Single Thread Pizza
• That is a response to a problem I don’t want to have.
• This is not listener feedback, this is more Matt feedback.

Rundown

• Visual Studio Code helped Microsoft win developers. New AI coding editors want to own the future
• Anysphere, a Maker of A.I. Coding Software, Raises $105 Million
• Model Distillation
• DeepSeek claims its 'reasoning' model beats OpenAI's o1 on certain benchmarks
• Istio Creators on Mistakes To Avoid for Any Project
• Trump signs order setting up DOGE with a focus on government tech
• Trump’s Treasury pick pledges to keep IRS Direct File open this tax season

Relevant to your Interests

• This Hedge Fund Created an Excel on Steroids
• The $500 Million Debacle at Sonos That Just Won’t End
• Thoma Bravo-owned SailPoint reveals narrower loss in US IPO filing
• The First Big Trump Scam Is Already Blowing Up in Everyone’s Faces
• We’re in the Netflix-opens-a-restaurant stage of the cycle.
• Google Invests Another $1 Billion in AI Developer Anthropic
• Product Name Changes
• Gartner: VMware migrations will be long, costly, and risky
• Developers and IT folks, please be careful when installing Homebrew
• Capital One gives update on deposit issues as customers demand answers
• Many remote workers say they’d be likely to leave their job if they could no longer work from home
• Schrödinger's Cat breakthrough could usher in the 'Holy Grail' of quantum computing, making them error-proof

Nonsense

• This Southern Grocery Store Was Just Named The Best In The Nation And We're Not Surprised
• Soup You Can Suck On: Introducing Progresso Soup Drops, the Ultimate Cold and Flu Season Comfort
• New England Patriots VP of content says NFL told team to shut down Bluesky account

Listener Feedback

• Wiz has gone to the dogs (puppies)?

Conferences

• CfgMgmtCamp, February 2-5, 2025.
• Civo Navigate North America, San Francisco, Feb 10-11, 2025
• DevOpsDayLA at SCALE22x, March 6-9, 2025, discount code DEVOP
• 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: Silo and Severance
• Matt: Search Engine: The New Zuckerberg
• Coté:
  • Brian Gracely interview on this week’s Software Defined Interviews.
  • Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophic Life,

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