Episode 560: You Can Feel It Coming

This week, we discuss personal AI hype cycles, bottoms-up adoption, and "The Modern Stack" simplifying cloud. Plus, thoughts on new cars and the dogs that ride in them.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 560

Runner-up Titles

They only talk about AI
I bet you have 5 shop vacs
It’s all going into applesauce
Live Claude Code It
Good defaults and opinions, nobody wants that
Give me 5 minutes, and I’ll give you fifty 6 page memos
I know I just pulled off a Pivotal scab.
Free Tier as a Service

Rundown

Something Big Is Happening
OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI
Modern Stack: Fly.io, Neon, Upstash and Cloudflare

Relevant to your Interests

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me
YouTube launches native app for Apple Vision Pro
Not all cables are born equal, so test your USB cables with these cheap USB testers — these budget-priced tools help you protect your expensive gear from faulty or bad-quality leads
The Lunduke Journal (@LundukeJournal)
Video on Apple Podcasts - Apple Podcasts for Creators
Temporal raises $300M Series D at a $5B valuation as AI drives demand for Durable Execution
Amazon's Ring cancels Flock partnership amid Super Bowl ad backlash
Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses
Anthropic raises $30 billion in Series G funding at $380 billion post-money valuation
Introducing Sonnet 4.6

Conferences

DevOpsDay LA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA

Use code: DEVOP for 50% off.

Devnexus 2026, March 4th to 6th, Atlanta, GA.

Use this 30% off discount code from your pals at Tanzu: DN26VMWARE30.
Check out the Tanzu and Spring talks and trading cards on THE LANDING PAGE.
Shout out to the people who saw the trading cards and messaged me!

Austin Meetup, March 10th, Listener Steve Anness speaking on Grafana
KubeCon EU, March 23rd to 26th, 2026 - Coté will be there on a media pass.
Devopsdays Atlanta 2026, April 21-22, 2026
DevOpsDays Austin, May 5 - 6, 2026
WeAreDevelopers, July 8th to 10th, Berlin, Coté speaking.
VMware User Groups (VMUGs):

Amsterdam (March 17-19, 2026) - Coté speaking.
Minneapolis (April 7-9, 2026)
Toronto (May 12-14, 2026)
Dallas (June 9-11, 2026)
Orlando (October 20-22, 2026)

SDT News & Community

Join our Slack community
Email the show: questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com
Free stickers: Email your address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com
Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky
Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
Sponsor the show

Recommendations

Brandon: Ghostty pairs nicely with Claude Code
Matt: Home Assistant Connect ZBT-2
Coté: Iron Lung. ChatGPT for upscaling images, like this one.
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You Can Feel It Coming

Episode 560

February 20th, 2026

1 hr 11 mins

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About this Episode

This week, we discuss personal AI hype cycles, bottoms-up adoption, and "The Modern Stack" simplifying cloud. Plus, thoughts on new cars and the dogs that ride in them.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 560

Runner-up Titles

• They only talk about AI

• I bet you have 5 shop vacs

• It’s all going into applesauce

• Live Claude Code It

• Good defaults and opinions, nobody wants that

• Give me 5 minutes, and I’ll give you fifty 6 page memos

• I know I just pulled off a Pivotal scab.

• Free Tier as a Service

Rundown

• Something Big Is Happening

• OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI

• Modern Stack: Fly.io, Neon, Upstash and Cloudflare

Relevant to your Interests

• An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me

• YouTube launches native app for Apple Vision Pro

• Not all cables are born equal, so test your USB cables with these cheap USB testers — these budget-priced tools help you protect your expensive gear from faulty or bad-quality leads

• The Lunduke Journal (@LundukeJournal)

• Video on Apple Podcasts - Apple Podcasts for Creators

• Temporal raises $300M Series D at a $5B valuation as AI drives demand for Durable Execution

• Amazon's Ring cancels Flock partnership amid Super Bowl ad backlash

• Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses

• Anthropic raises $30 billion in Series G funding at $380 billion post-money valuation

• Introducing Sonnet 4.6

Conferences

• DevOpsDay LA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA

• Use code: DEVOP for 50% off.

• Devnexus 2026, March 4th to 6th, Atlanta, GA.

• Use this 30% off discount code from your pals at Tanzu: DN26VMWARE30.

• Check out the Tanzu and Spring talks and trading cards on THE LANDING PAGE.

• Shout out to the people who saw the trading cards and messaged me!

• Austin Meetup, March 10th, Listener Steve Anness speaking on Grafana

• KubeCon EU, March 23rd to 26th, 2026 - Coté will be there on a media pass.

• Devopsdays Atlanta 2026, April 21-22, 2026

• DevOpsDays Austin, May 5 - 6, 2026

• WeAreDevelopers, July 8th to 10th, Berlin, Coté speaking.

• VMware User Groups (VMUGs):

• Amsterdam (March 17-19, 2026) - Coté speaking.

• Minneapolis (April 7-9, 2026)

• Toronto (May 12-14, 2026)

• Dallas (June 9-11, 2026)

• Orlando (October 20-22, 2026)

SDT News & Community

• Join our Slack community

• Email the show: questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com

• Free stickers: Email your address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com

• Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky

• Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok

• Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté

• Sponsor the show

Recommendations

• Brandon: Ghostty pairs nicely with Claude Code

• Matt: Home Assistant Connect ZBT-2

• Coté: Iron Lung). ChatGPT for upscaling images, like this one.

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