Episode 516: Vibe Strategy
This week, we discuss Google being found to be a monopoly, OpenAI’s “offer” to buy Chrome, and some hot takes on JSON. Plus, is it better to wait on hold or ask for a callback?
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 516
Runner-up Titles
Just Fine
The SDT “Fine” Scale
Callback
Asynchronous Friendship
I would love to get to know you better…over text
Send you Jams to the dry cleaners.
JSON
Take it xslt-easy!
Rundown
OpenAI
OpenAI in talks to pay about $3 billion to acquire AI coding startup Windsurf
The Cursor Mirage
AI is for Tinkerers
Vibe Coding is for PMs
OpenAI releases new simulated reasoning models with full tool access
Clouded Judgement 4.18.25 - The Hidden Value in the AI Application Layer
OpenAI tells judge it would buy Chrome from Google
The Creators of Model Context Protocol
Judge finds Google holds illegal online ad tech monopolies
Intuit, Owner of TurboTax, Wins Battle Against America’s Taxpayers
Relevant to your Interests
Switch 2 Carts Still Taste Bad, Designed Purposefully To Be Spat Out
CEO Andy Jassy’s 2024 Letter to Shareholders
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says AI costs will come down
Happy 18th Birthday CUDA!
Honeycomb Acquires Grit: A Strategic Investment in Pragmatic AI and Customer Value
Everything Announced at Google Cloud Next in 12 Minutes
GitLab vs GitHub : Key Differences in 2025
Old Fashioned Function Keys
Fake job seekers are flooding U.S. companies that are hiring for remote positions,
NetRise raises $10M to expand software supply chain security platform
Mark Zuckerberg’s antitrust testimony aired his wildest ideas from Meta’s history
How Much Should I Be Spending On Observability?
Did we just make platform engineering much easier by shipping a cloud IDP?
Google Cloud Next 2025: Agentic AI Stack, Multimodality, And Sovereignty
iPhone Shipments Down 9% in China's Q1 Smartphone Boom
Exclusive: Anthropic warns fully AI employees are a year away
Synology requires self-branded drives for some consumer NAS systems, drops full functionality and support for third-party HDDs
Porting Tailscale to Plan 9
CVE Foundation
The Cursor Mirage
There's a Lot of Bad Telemetry Out There
Gee Wiz
Nonsense
Silicon Valley crosswalk buttons hacked to imitate Musk, Zuckerberg's voices
A Visit to Costco in France
No sweat: Humanoid robots run a Chinese half-marathon
Metre, a consistent measurement of the world
Conferences
DevOps Days Atlanta, April 29th-30th.
KCD Texas Austin 2025, May 15th, Whitney Lee Speaking.
Cloud Foundry Day US, May 14th, Palo Alto, CA, Coté speaking.
Free AI workshop, May 13th. day before Cloud Foundry Day.
NDC Oslo, May 21st-23th, Coté speaking.
SDT News & Community
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Recommendations
Brandon: Dope Thief on Apple TV
Coté: Check out the recording of the Tanzu Annual update, all about Tanzu’s private AI platform. Next, watch Coté’s new MCP for D&D video (#4) figures out something cool to do with MCP Prompts, they make sense now. And, a regret-a-mmendation: Fields Notes annual subscription.
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Vibe Strategy
Episode 516
April 25th, 2025
1 hr 7 mins
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About this Episode
This week, we discuss Google being found to be a monopoly, OpenAI’s “offer” to buy Chrome, and some hot takes on JSON. Plus, is it better to wait on hold or ask for a callback?
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 516
Runner-up Titles
- Just Fine
- The SDT “Fine” Scale
- Callback
- Asynchronous Friendship
- I would love to get to know you better…over text
- Send you Jams to the dry cleaners.
- JSON
- Take it xslt-easy!
Rundown
- OpenAI
- OpenAI in talks to pay about $3 billion to acquire AI coding startup Windsurf
- The Cursor Mirage
- AI is for Tinkerers
- Vibe Coding is for PMs
- OpenAI releases new simulated reasoning models with full tool access
- OpenAI tells judge it would buy Chrome from Google
- The Creators of Model Context Protocol
- Judge finds Google holds illegal online ad tech monopolies
- Intuit, Owner of TurboTax, Wins Battle Against America’s Taxpayers
Relevant to your Interests
- Switch 2 Carts Still Taste Bad, Designed Purposefully To Be Spat Out
- CEO Andy Jassy’s 2024 Letter to Shareholders
- Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says AI costs will come down
- Happy 18th Birthday CUDA!
- Honeycomb Acquires Grit: A Strategic Investment in Pragmatic AI and Customer Value
- Everything Announced at Google Cloud Next in 12 Minutes
- GitLab vs GitHub : Key Differences in 2025
- Old Fashioned Function Keys
- Fake job seekers are flooding U.S. companies that are hiring for remote positions,
- NetRise raises $10M to expand software supply chain security platform
- Mark Zuckerberg’s antitrust testimony aired his wildest ideas from Meta’s history
- How Much Should I Be Spending On Observability?
- Did we just make platform engineering much easier by shipping a cloud IDP?
- Google Cloud Next 2025: Agentic AI Stack, Multimodality, And Sovereignty
- iPhone Shipments Down 9% in China's Q1 Smartphone Boom
- Exclusive: Anthropic warns fully AI employees are a year away
- Synology requires self-branded drives for some consumer NAS systems, drops full functionality and support for third-party HDDs
- Porting Tailscale to Plan 9
- CVE Foundation
- The Cursor Mirage
- There's a Lot of Bad Telemetry Out There
- Gee Wiz
Nonsense
- Silicon Valley crosswalk buttons hacked to imitate Musk, Zuckerberg's voices
- A Visit to Costco in France
- No sweat: Humanoid robots run a Chinese half-marathon
- Metre, a consistent measurement of the world
Conferences
- DevOps Days Atlanta, April 29th-30th.
- KCD Texas Austin 2025, May 15th, Whitney Lee Speaking.
- Cloud Foundry Day US, May 14th, Palo Alto, CA, Coté speaking.
- Free AI workshop, May 13th. day before Cloud Foundry Day.
- NDC Oslo, May 21st-23th, Coté speaking.
SDT News & Community
- Join our Slack community
- Email the show: questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com
- Free stickers: Email your address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com
- Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
- Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
- Sponsor the show: ads@softwaredefinedtalk.com
Recommendations
- Brandon: Dope Thief on Apple TV
- Coté: Check out the recording of the Tanzu Annual update, all about Tanzu’s private AI platform. Next, watch Coté’s new MCP for D&D video (#4) figures out something cool to do with MCP Prompts, they make sense now. And, a regret-a-mmendation: Fields Notes annual subscription.
Photo Credits
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