Episode 579: The Headless Lifestyle

This 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 Back - White House lifts export control on advanced AI model from Anthropic - Trump administration lifts restrictions on Anthropic's Fable 5 - OpenAI and Anthropic limit new AI models to Trump-approved customers during cybersecurity review - AI News of the Month - June 2026 - AI is NOT killing jobs - Ford rehires ‘gray beard’ engineers after AI falls short - AWS puts $1 billion into new AI unit to embed engineers with customers - A New Look at AI’s Impact on Jobs - The Unstoppable Force of A.I. Hype Is Meeting One Immovable Fact - Cloudflare Acquires VoidZero to Build the Future of the AI-Native Web - OpenAI Leans Toward Waiting Until Next Year for I.P.O. - SoftBank’s slides are just trolling us - The PDF of the Slides ## Relevant to your Interests - The Australians fighting AI slop in open-source code - Axios Future of Cybersecurity Thought Bubble - SpaceX Is Getting Fast-Tracked Into Indexes. Ordinary Investors Could Lose Out. - News Flash: You Are the Exit Liquidity for the SpaceX IPO - Cerebras Systems Announces Strong First Quarter 2026 Results - The AI Compass - T-Mobile appears to be quitting VMware ## Listener Feedback - Introducing Omnigent: A Meta-Harness to Combine, Control and Share Your Agents ## Conferences - WeAreDevelopers Europe, July 8-10, 2026 Berlin, Coté speaking. - DevOpsDays Graz, Sept 4-5, 2026 - Cloud Foundry Summit, Sept. 21st to 22nd, Heidelberg, Coté speaking. - DevOpsDays Rockies, Sept. 22 – 23, 2026, Discount Code: **26DODSWEDEFTALK** - WeAreDevelopers NA, Sept 23-25, 2026, Discount Code: **DEVPOD26** - 25 Free Tickets - DevOpsDays Dallas, Sept 28-29, 2026 - DevOpsDays Vilnius, Sep 30 - Oct 1, 2006 - DevOpsDays Istanbul, Oct 24th, 2026, Coté keynoting. - VMware User Group, Orlando, Oct 20-22, 2026 - Cloud Native Denmark, Nov 19th, 2026, Copenhagen, Coté keynoting. ## SDT News & Community - Join our Slack community - Email the show: [questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com](mailto:questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com) - Free stickers: Email your address to [stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com](mailto: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 - Sponsor more podcasts with Failover Media ## Recommendations - Brandon: Walmart+ for Grocery Delivery - Coté: Supermarkt Meerwijk Watergraafsmeer, also in Instagram