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?

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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

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• 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.

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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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