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Software Defined Talk has produced 531 episodes. 410 of those episodes have been sponsored by 218 companies. We last recorded an episode on Aug 7, 2026.
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It’s All God Throwing Dice
Aug 7, 2026This week, we discuss the Situational Awareness meltdown, Airtable getting sold, and review the Java documentary. Plus, what you should actually buy at IKEA. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 584 Runner-up Titles Duffle bag of leftovers 5Are you dead in this scenario? Bury me with my IKEA bags Don’t automate the world, nobody really wants that AttentionIsAllYouNeed.blog Take some money off the table No more great ideas Rundown IKEA FRAKTA Leopold Aschenbrenner's $45B Fund...
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HuggingFace make me gazpacho
Jul 31, 2026This week, we discuss how normal people use AI, Alphabet's Anthropic-fueled earnings, and skills vs. agents. Plus, catching AI-cheating students with a hidden prompt. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 583 Runner-up Titles “Do you think they named them red delicious because they knew they were delicious?” I thought they were First World Steal your Alpha-tier Cory uses only 100% free-range, organic AI. Copy, paste, go. Stolen fruit from the poisoned tree all the way down. It’s a...
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Talking About Modernization
Jul 24, 2026This week, we discuss Bun's move to Rust, OpenAI hunting for revenue, and Stripe's bid for PayPal. Plus, Coté's Dad wisdom. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 582 Runner-up Titles Turn off my dog Dad Wisdom Amazon subscription and let it fly Dad box Talking about modernization Skin in the game The ivory tower of “Things Actually Work in the Real World” Business fortnight No SegwaysBanking works everywhere else in the world, not America Rundown Rewriting Bun in...
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Arjun Iyer on Shipping Faster with Ephemeral Environments and AI Agents
Jul 17, 2026Arjun Iyer on Shipping Faster with Ephemeral Environments and AI Agents Brandon interviews Arjun Iyer, CEO & Co-founder of Signadot. They discuss how Ephemeral Environments eliminate developer toil by shifting validation earlier in the dev cycle, how Signadot's MCP server lets AI coding agents run end-to-end tests autonomously, and real-world results including Brex saving $2M in cloud spend. Plus, how Cisco bought AppDynamics for ~$4 billion the day before their IPO. Show...
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Varlock: Bringing Order to the Chaos of Environment Variables
Jul 10, 2026Every project has environment variables. Almost nobody manages them well. This week Brandon talks with Phil Miller and Theo Ephraim, who built varlock to fix that — bringing structure and security to the humble .env file. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 579 Show Links: varlock.dev varlock on GitHub @env-spec Overview DMNO (corporate site) Varlock MCP Server (docs) howtostore.food — Theo's side project on the best way to store produce unsafeharbour.com — Phil's music...
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The Headless Lifestyle
Jul 3, 2026This week, we discuss Anthropic's 18-day Fable timeout, whether AI is actually killing jobs, and OpenAI's trillion-dollar IPO problem. Plus, SoftBank's golden goose slides. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 579 Runner-up Titles Everything is Files It’s just about meetings Did you do the pre-meet? Meetings Judgement Let it ride If it’s hot, turn on the AC I don’t have time for a towel. Headless HEB Rundown I was fired by Google for creating the Google Workspace CLI Fable is...
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War for Talent
Jun 26, 2026This week, we discuss Fable follow-up, Gartner's AI Governance MQ, and the war for AI talent. Plus, Matt and Brandon review Disclosure Day. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 578 Runner-up Titles Ready to podcast from a sailboat It’s just people fighting Calculator budget Ask Siri to do your homework Software Defined Consulting: SDC The Magic Platform AI Curious I watched ALLLLL the keynotes. I don’t know that, but I know that You gotta stay to vest Brandon, remember...
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Let’s go to Buc-ee’s
Jun 19, 2026This week, we discuss the Fable ban, SpaceX's $60B Cursor buy, and why Lovable wins when AI picks your stack. Plus, Europeans are at the World Cup and already drank Boston dry. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 577 Runner-up Titles Waited out the storm Maybe we should build some castles or something Years of lawsuits ahead of us The ultimate dream AI SEO I hope you’re paid by the hour Always be monitoring to me Rundown Anthropic How Amazon and the White House ended...
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Observability's Next Phase
Jun 12, 2026Brandon talks with OpenObserve's Prabhat Sharma and Shani Shoham: why observability is still broken, how they fixed it, and where AI takes it next. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 576 Show Links OpenObserve OpenObserve on GitHub Series A and Observability 3.0 announcement blog post Launching OpenObserve OpenObserve 2-Minute Demo Download OpenObserve Contact Prabhat Sharma LinkedIn: hiprabhat Twitter/X: @hiprabhat Contact Shani Shoham LinkedIn:
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UI blizzard
Jun 5, 2026This week, we discuss NVIDIA going consumer, Microsoft Build, and the Anthropic/OpenAI IPO race. Plus, does credit card insurance work? Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 575 Runner-up Titles Who Wins AI? Models vs. Middleware Jensen After Dark Once again, robots Why is this something you talk about in a keynote? Could this have been an app? Defeating Apple, the sword in the stone Your tokens are my margin Prisons, schools and military - what is the Venn diagram? Every enterprise...
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