The Cloudcast AI & Cloud Trends for November 2025
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Dec 3, 2025 Dive into the world of AI and cloud trends as hosts discuss the reality behind AGI promises and the churn in talent. A major Cloudflare outage highlights vulnerabilities in large systems, while the retirement of NGINX Ingress raises sustainability concerns in open source. There's a reality check on AI's growth narrative, with insights on how companies will monetize and the potential of behavioral advertising as the leading revenue model. Plus, explore Jeff Bezos' Project Prometheus and its implications for physical AI and robotics.
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Talent Churn Mirrors College Football Moves
- Brandon Whichard compares AI researchers moving between firms to college coaches chasing bigger paydays.
- He suggests the industry's churn often looks more like career moves than devotion to a singular long-term mission.
Large Systems Fail Over Small Breaks
- Major platforms can fail due to a single small config or file causing wide outages.
- Brian Gracely notes Cloudflare's four-hour outage shows giant systems still hinge on tiny brittle parts.
Critical Open Source Hinges On Volunteers
- Open-source critical projects can collapse when volunteer maintainers stop working.
- Brandon Whichard and Brian highlight Nginx Ingress retirement as a recurring systemic risk in open source.