Brandon Whichard
Co-Host of Software Defined Talk
Brandon Whichard has hosted 490 Episodes.
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Episode 584: It’s All God Throwing Dice
August 7th, 2026 | 48 mins 41 secs
This week, we discuss the Situational Awareness meltdown, Airtable getting sold, and review the Java documentary. Plus, what you should actually buy at IKEA.
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Episode 583: HuggingFace make me gazpacho
July 31st, 2026 | 1 hr 3 mins
This week, we discuss how normal people use AI, Alphabet's Anthropic-fueled earnings, and skills vs. agents. Plus, catching AI-cheating students with a hidden prompt.
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Episode 582: Talking About Modernization
July 24th, 2026 | 1 hr 6 mins
This week, we discuss Bun's move to Rust, OpenAI hunting for revenue, and Stripe's bid for PayPal. Plus, Coté's Dad wisdom.
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Episode 581: Arjun Iyer on Shipping Faster with Ephemeral Environments and AI Agents
July 17th, 2026 | 51 mins 19 secs
interview
Brandon interviews Arjun Iyer, CEO & Co-founder of Signadot. They discuss how Ephemeral Environments eliminate developer toil by shifting validation earlier in the dev cycle, how Signadot's MCP server lets AI coding agents run end-to-end tests autonomously, and real-world results including Brex saving $2M in cloud spend. Plus, how Cisco bought AppDynamics for ~$4 billion the day before their IPO.
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Episode 580: Varlock: Bringing Order to the Chaos of Environment Variables
July 10th, 2026 | 54 mins 34 secs
interview
Every project has environment variables. Almost nobody manages them well. This week Brandon talks with Phil Miller and Theo Ephraim, who built varlock to fix that — bringing structure and security to the humble .env file.
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Episode 579: The Headless Lifestyle
July 3rd, 2026 | 1 hr 11 mins
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.
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Episode 578: War for Talent
June 26th, 2026 | 1 hr 4 mins
This week, we discuss Fable follow-up, Gartner's AI Governance MQ, and the war for AI talent. Plus, Matt and Brandon review "Disclosure Day."
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Episode 577: Let’s go to Buc-ee’s
June 19th, 2026 | 1 hr 29 secs
This week, we discuss the Fable ban, SpaceX's $60B Cursor buy, and why Lovable wins when AI picks your stack. Plus, Europeans are at the World Cup and already drank Boston dry.
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Episode 576: Observability's Next Phase
June 12th, 2026 | 48 mins 39 secs
interview
Brandon talks with OpenObserve's Prabhat Sharma and Shani Shoham: why observability is still broken, how they fixed it, and where AI takes it next.
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Episode 575: UI blizzard
June 5th, 2026 | 1 hr 1 min
This week, we discuss NVIDIA going consumer, Microsoft Build, and the Anthropic/OpenAI IPO race. Plus, does credit card insurance work?
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Episode 574: Nobody Wants to Be a Measurer
May 29th, 2026 | 1 hr 1 min
This week, we discuss the Cloudflare CEO's op-ed, upcoming tech IPOs and GitHub getting breached. Plus, ranking our favorite manifestos.
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Episode 573: How many quadrillions in a Googol?
May 22nd, 2026 | 1 hr 2 mins
This week, we discuss Google I/O, the OpenAI soap opera, and ChatGPT going full financial advisor. Plus, thoughts on improving the conference hallway track.
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Episode 572: The world isn’t curl
May 15th, 2026 | 1 hr 53 secs
This week, we discuss how security gets sold to execs, where agentic coding and security collide, and Cloudflare vs. Datadog's diverging paths. Plus, Coté weighs in on sugar cookies.
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Episode 571: The Enterprise Dunbar number
May 8th, 2026 | 58 mins 9 secs
This week, we discuss AI labs driving cloud revenue, hyperscalers laying off instead of building, and kids defeating age verification. Plus, Brandon has too many thoughts on Workday.
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Episode 570: The Enterprisification of Agents
May 1st, 2026 | 1 hr 10 mins
This week, we discuss Google's enterprise agent stack, what makes an agent an agent, and AI's biggest critic. Plus, Coté wants better vision.
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Episode 569: Agent Assimilation
April 24th, 2026 | 1 hr 6 mins
This week, we discuss agents taking over at Google Cloud Next, Apple's new CEO, and Cursor getting acquired (sort of). Plus, Coté's e-waste has no exit strategy.