Episode 591: Fall Down With the Ball

This week, we discuss why Sun really failed, the New Kingmakers becoming agents, and AI doom brackets. Plus, the NC State fumble and tech's biggest own goals. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 591 ## Runner-up Titles - I’m trying to take a break from AI - I knew it was some numbers - Hey man, the business is over - No budget meetings that day - Developers don’t always win - It’s probably fine and now Vercel has a new customer - There’s no concept of “why RAM?” - How do we feel about Wall-E? - Fall Down With the Ball - Sun Had Become Bored with the Mechanics of Running a Business - Yahoo Buying Google - I Haven't Seen This Bag Done - It's Just Like a Tornado Hitting Your House - Sun Sunday - The New Kingmakers Are Agents - Developers Have Lost a Lot of Power - Give Me Five Architectures - The AI Industry Likes Talking About This Too Much for It to Be Real - It's Incredibly Hard to Exterminate All of Humanity - Systemic Takeover, But We're All Happy - Superloop, Who Dis? ## Rundown - What Sun got wrong | The Observation Deck - Agents: The new, New Kingmakers - The AI Apocalypse Bracket: Just How Doomed Are We, Really? ## Relevant to your Interests - The contagion of fear | The Observation Deck - Iran strikes on Amazon data centers caused permanent loss of customer data - Zuckerberg distances Meta from calls for a coordinated approach on an AI slowdown - The Enshittification Resistant Software Project - Would you buy branded clothing from your favourite tech firm? - Stopping The AI Safety Cult ft. Adam Becker & Cal Newport — Better Offline - Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee - “Everyone's in a race to replace GitHub": Zed launches Delta because agents made pull requests obsolete - AWS reimagines the getting started experience ## Nonsense - Rising beef costs push a Top 50 Texas BBQ spot to pull brisket from its everyday menu ## Conferences - DevOpsDays Dallas, Sept 28-29, 2026 - DevOpsDays Vilnius, Sep 30-Oct 1, 2006, Lithuania. - DevOpsDays Prague, Oct 5, 2026 , Coté speaking. - VMware Explore Frankfurt 2026, Oct 13-14, 2026 - Coté speaking. - DevOpsDays Istanbul, Oct 24th, 2026, Coté keynoting. - VMware User Group, Orlando, Oct 20-22, 2026 - VMware Explore London, Nov 18-19, 2006, Coté speaking. - Cloud Native Denmark, Nov 19th, 2026, Coté keynoting, Discount Code: **CSVFTW** \*\*\** - Build Stuff, Dec 2-4, 2026, Vilnius, Lithuania. Coté speaking. - cfgmgmtcamp, Ghent, Belgium February 1-3, 2027 - SCALE 24x Pasadena, CA, April 1-4, 2027 ## 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: YouTube TV new Multiview and Sports Plan - Matt: SuperLoop