This week: Claude Code's momentum, Cursor's identity crisis, and the SDLC's uncertain future. Plus, Coté finally explains how Markdown is destroying the economy.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 562
Runner-up Titles
Demos over Memos
Products over Prose
Software written by the many for the few
USB is flaky
Do you get a Code of Conduct for prison?
I thought I had typed it somewhere
Markdown is taking down the economy
Claude, Take the Wheel
Sticking with month-to-month
Precious ...
This week: Claude Code's momentum, Cursor's identity crisis, and the SDLC's uncertain future. Plus, Coté finally explains how Markdown is destroying the economy.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 562
Runner-up Titles
- Demos over Memos
- Products over Prose
- Software written by the many for the few
- USB is flaky
- Do you get a Code of Conduct for prison?
- I thought I had typed it somewhere
- Markdown is taking down the economy
- Claude, Take the Wheel
- Sticking with month-to-month
- Precious Tokens
- Rip Van Winkle this whole AI thing
- The ants have won
- They have infinite tokens
- Is SLDC Dead?
Rundown
- The SaaS-Apocalypse was based on markdown files
- The Software Development Lifecycle Is Dead
- The Third Era of Software Development
- Intelligence, Subtracted
- Anthropic rejects Pentagon’s AI demands
- Exclusive-Anthropic investors push to de-escalate Pentagon clash over AI safeguards
- ‘Incoherent’: Hegseth’s Anthropic ultimatum confounds AI policymaker
- Anthropic leads Enterprise AI Spend
- Anthropic took >50% of spend on enterprise AI subscriptions
- $110 Billion in Name Only
- OpenAI reveals more details about its agreement with the Pentagon
- OpenAI changes deal with US military after backlash
Relevant to your Interests
- McKinsey and AWS launch Amazon McKinsey Group
- Polymarket defends its decision to allow betting on war as ‘invaluable’
- The Supreme Court doesn't care if you want to copyright your AI-generated art
- Distinguished Eng On Stack Ranking, Competing with Bezos, Regrets
- WIZ: My Personal AI Agent
- OpenAI changes deal with US military after backlash
- Tech Publications Lost 58% of Google Traffic Since 2024
- Ramp AI Index
Nonsense
- Callers to Washington state hotline press 2 for Spanish and get accented AI English instead
- Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course?
Conferences
- 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)
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