Episode 592: Don't Think for Me

This week, we discuss Meta's Muse, who's spending $500 million on tokens, and why nobody can measure AI ROI. Plus, the case for importing NyQuil by the suitcase. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 592 Runner-up Titles You’re Mom’s not sending it via DHL. Hope you like your toast blackened. Magic of Nerds. Are you a Muse boy? Hacking Australia. I love a good survey. Not using the keyboard shortcuts. Talking is the new typing. Nobody knows what's going on, let's just drive faster A foundation of sand Just give me an API Let's stop asking and start taking Who's spending $500 million on tokens? Talking is the new typing Rundown Muse Can Muse make us forget the metaverse? The Facebook Fake-Out MongoDB Stock Sinks 18%. Why the CEO Departure Timing Is Bad for the Stock. MongoDB stock tanks after Meta poaches CEO Meta launches enterprise AI platform, hires MongoDB CEO to lead new initiative Anthropic What's in Anthropic's IPO Filing Anthropic releases Sonnet 5.5, which it calls a significantly cheaper, faster work partner Anthropic Cuts Costs on Claude Opus 5.5 as IPO Looms Anthropic to pay Akamai $11.6 billion over seven years in cloud deal What’s in Anthropic’s I.P.O. Filing State of AI State of AI AI faces $6 trillion test to justify data centers, Bain says State of Tokenomics, September 2026: AI Tokenomics Insights Relevant to your Interests Introducing System One Models & Jev - TypeSafe AI Blog Infinidash: AWS's New Observability Play Has Great Bones and a Terrible Bedside Manner Docker Sandboxes Promotion | Docker How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month Redis Iris | Redis The Rise of the Forward Deployed Engineer — and How To Do the Job Right Jason Scharf (@Jason_A_Scharf) on X Google seemingly confirms plans to kill ChromeOS in 2034 Thorsten Ball - What I believe about the future of software development Oxide Computer Company and Carahsoft Partner to Bring On-Premise Cloud Computing to the Public Sector AWS Admits Permanent Data Loss After Iranian Strikes Hit Gulf Cloud Facilities NVIDIA Launches Open Agent Safety Platform to Secure Agents From Testing to Deployment OpenAI pauses training of latest models after agents probed US government sites in unexpected ways Nonsense Cable Identification Conferences 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: [email protected] Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected] 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: Take a screenshot of a window on Mac Matt: Sydney Marathon Coté: Spacebar in Claude code: run [/voice](https://support.claude.com/en/articles/14554000-claude-code-power-user-) then hold the space bar