This week, @brandonwhichard.com, @cote.io and @mattray.dev discuss Claude Code's momentum, Cursor's identity crisis, and the SDLC's uncertain future. Plus, Coté finally explains how Markdown is destroying the economy.
https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/562
How Oren personalizes his AI stuff https://github.com/0pens0/pensobot/tree/main
When to use AI for writing, and when it's totally acceptable
cote.io/2026/03/06/w...
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I think that whole SaaS-pocalypse was just caused by a bunch of markdown files: github.com/anthropics/k...
This week, we talk with @fuzzychef.org - Art Degrees, Sun Microsystems, and How Kubernetes Scales Contributions - also, some pottery talk: www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/121
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CFOs boost tech budgets and squeeze headcount, AI art may not be copyrightable, and agents expose your structural chaos. Also, slide fails, secret soap operas, and surviving BigCo absurdity. // open.substack.com/pub/cote/p/r...
I think this means you can't copyright stuff made by AI? In the US, at least. How about programming code? That'd be a big shift! https://www.engadget.com/ai/the-supreme-court-doesnt-care-if-you-want-to-copyright-your-ai-generated-art-171849407.html
More spending on tech, less on people. https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2026-02-10-gartner-research-reveals-cfos-budget-plans-prioritize-grotwth-functions-tech-and-ai-in-2026?utm_campaign=SM_GB_YOY_GTR_SOC_SF1_SM-PR&utm_source=threads,twitter&utm_medium=social
Nw newsletter episode: Kubernetes in the age of agentic AI, ROI in ice-routing logistics, cheap-but-not-free code, mainframe modernizing, Podman vs. Docker, Claude COBOL panic, and a newsletter platform move - plus Wastebook from the beach. open.substack.com/pub/cote/p/d...
Why your DIY Kubernetes stack won't survive the era of agentic AI https://thenewstack.io/diy-kubernetes-agentic-ai/
The Boss Email. https://tadaima.bearblog.dev/privilege-is-bad-grammar/?ref=labnotes.org
Modernization requires a lot of people stuff. Also, if a company is in the legacy trap already, that was a form of self-harm that they need to address regardless of the code. https://fintanr.com/thoughts/2026/02/24/ibm-anthropic.html
Connect your LLMs to existing Java apps to skip several the data integration mess, and the need to recreate all your business logic. https://medium.com/embabel/agent-memory-is-not-a-greenfield-problem-ground-it-in-your-existing-data-9272cabe1561
Check out the space you're presenting in ahead of time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJyWPgA7ejE&list=WL&index=2
The Great Claude COBOL Scare of February 2026.
Drink it and save the receipt to expense or deduct as part of your influencer persona maintenance costs.
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Hear that? That’s the sound of 1,000’s of slide decks for private cloud products being updated with a new slide. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
a mini barbie dreamhouse atop a giant (relative to the house) chicken legs
I felt like making some art last night/today and could have made something beautiful and/or meaningful but I made this instead.
It's a Barbie Yaga Malibu Dream Hut.
No regrets. Can't defeat fascism without joy.
A prop engine plane with pontoons for landing and taking off from water. As a rule, Rod does not like to fly. He prefers the sea. Give me sharks over the sky any day, he says. But he’ll make an exception for a floatplane, especially if it’ll get him out of Barataria Bay like, right now. A bullet whistles past Rod’s ear.
FLOAT.BMF
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A mass-produced knit cap in extremely bright blue, yellow, white, and red stripes, with a large blue, yellow, and red pom-pom on top. The forehead-covering part of the cap reads, in enormous white knit-pixelated letters, OLD BAY.
I have lost all the other hats. Now I must wear the final hat.
This is a really good app. It brought me back to reading The Socials.
Is there a list or them somewhere? I too have would like to go, but I have no idea how to find them.
The Modern Stack simplifying cloud, AI hype cycles, and how bottoms-up adoption actually plays out. Lots to discuss this week.
It is coffee.
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