Vibe Strategy
Episode 516 · April 25th, 2025 · 1 hr 7 mins
About this Episode
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?
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 516
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
- Switch 2 Carts Still Taste Bad, Designed Purposefully To Be Spat Out
- 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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