The Bottom Fell Out Of The Software Industry
Episode 594 · October 16th, 2026 · 47 mins 14 secs
About this Episode
This week, we discuss AI yes/no deciders, the SaaS apocalypse, Bending Spoons, and Oxide's funding. Plus, why Google Docs still has no dark mode.
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Runner-up Titles
- Lightweight Mark Zuckerberg
- I'm on a mailing list
- It respects the dark mode
- You can't be Greasemonkeying your way through life
- What are the optics of AI?
- I was getting into my groove
- Is it worth \$7.5 billion dollars
- The ArtCrafting people
- That is the SaaSpocalypse
- You should see the stuff I make in my bathtub
- Not everything has to be acquired
- The software industry is becoming the CPG industry
- The floor has fallen out of the software industry
- Brand is king
- Horse shampoo in the human shampoo section
- I'm doing real work, I need a black background
- It felt like the sun
- The devil's stream
Rundown
- Jev / TypeSafe: a \$7.5B decision model with no text output
- Andreessen Horowitz Backs Jev Maker at \$7.5 Billion Value
- Understanding Jev, the new model everyone is talking about
- TypeSafe AI Raises \$40 Million Seed Funding At \$200 Million Valuation
- Workday is using TypeSafe's Jev to build user interfaces on the fly
- Andrej Karpathy says only 5,000 people have seen what AI can really do
- Andreessen Horowitz Backs Jev Maker at \$7.5 Billion Value
- "Software is over": AI clones of Adobe and Office, and what open source is becoming
- “Software is over”: AI developer takes aim at Adobe with open source clones
- Creator of free Adobe clones unveils open-source Microsoft Office replacements
- Open Source as We Know It Is Dead
- software doesn't need to be readable anymore. it needs to be explainable.
- Bending Spoons Deploys AI to Overhaul Acquired Software Companies
- “Software is over”: AI developer takes aim at Adobe with open source clones
- Neocloud money: backlog, concentration and the bond market
- AI computing startup Lambda to raise \$4B ahead of planned IPO
- Axe Compute rings Nasdaq bell with \$3.45B neocloud GPU backlog
- Amazon in Talks to Buy AI Startup Decart for Around \$7 Billion
- Compute constraints help Oxide hit \$6B
- Oxide raises \$445M Series D
- IMF cites AI slowdown, spiking yields as looming global market risks
- AI computing startup Lambda to raise \$4B ahead of planned IPO
Relevant to your Interests
- Meta releases its first frontier model, Muse Wonder
- Claude now works in Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides
- Introducing the Anthropic Cyber Mission
- AWS AgentCore security undone by prompt requesting credentials
- ComfortDelGro to pull workloads back from public cloud
- Broadcom introduces VMware HyperArmor
- 11:11 Systems acquires select IBM VMware cloud customers
- CME Group announces cloud migration milestones
- Redesigning source control at Anthropic
- Netflix Lays Off 6% of Employees, Elimination About 1,000 Jobs in Biggest Cutbacks to
- Memphis City Council meeting erupts into chaos over Musk data centers
- Conservation group calls moratorium on AI data centers on US public lands
- Amazon responds to data center backlash, says it no longer uses NDAs
- Oracle's AI data center push hits a power bottleneck
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- DevOpsDays Istanbul, Oct 24th, 2026, Coté keynoting.
- VMware User Group, Orlando, Oct 20-22, 2026
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- Build Stuff, Dec 2-4, 2026, Vilnius, Lithuania. Coté speaking.
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- SCALE 24x Pasadena, CA, April 1-4, 2027
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