Episode 531
Episode 531: YAYAML
This week, we discuss the AI hype cycle, Astronomer’s viral moment, and yet another YAML flavor — KYAML. Plus, private equity is coming for your donuts.
August 1, 202559m 5sExplicit
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Show Notes
This week, we discuss the AI hype cycle, Astronomer’s viral moment, and yet another YAML flavor — KYAML. Plus, private equity is coming for your donuts.
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Runner-up Titles
- Sometimes it’s hard to make money
- I’ve given into Big Donut
- Maybe you can fake your way through life
- At some point you have to have some expertise
- AI has no taste
- Can you fix my PowerPoint?
- There is a chance we’re all going to be naked soon
- Gobbling up the dark fiber
- WHYAML
- Waymo for Babies
Rundown
- Beloved Texas doughnut chain sold to California equity firm
- AI Mid-Year Hype-Cycle Check-in
- Gartner hype cycle
- Betting on AI: The Delusion Driving Big Tech - Last Week in AWS Podcast
- Clouded Judgement 7.25.25 - TAMs Lie
- Microsoft’s AI CEO thinks Copilot will age and ‘have a room that it lives in’
- Flaw in Gemini CLI coding tool could allow hackers to run nasty commands
- Claude Code is a slot machine
- The Hater’s Guide to the AI Bubble
- 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey
- 2025 Stack Overflow sentiment and usage section
- Astronomer
- Introducing KYAML, a safer, less ambiguous YAML subset / encoding
- Palo Alto Networks to acquire CyberArk in $25 billion deal
Relevant to your Interests
- Microsoft's Satya Nadella says job cuts have been 'weighing heavily' on him
- IBM shares drop as software revenue misses
- MSFT Teams in your car?
- Y2K38 bug? Debian switching to 64-bit time for everything
- A.I.-Driven Education: Founded in Texas and Coming to a School Near You
- How Anthropic teams use Claude Code
- Anthropic unveils new rate limits to curb Claude Code power users
- Alphabet's Q2 revenue beats estimates as cloud computing surges
Listener Feedback
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- Sydney Wizdom Meet-Up, Sydney, August 7. Matt will be there.
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- SREDay London, Coté speaking, September 18th and 19th.
- Civo Navigate London, Coté speaking, September 30th.
- Texas Linux Fest, Austin, October 3rd to 4th. CFP closes August 3rd.
- CF Day EU, Frankfurt, October 7th, 2025.
- AI for the Rest of Us, Coté speaking, October 15th to 16th, London.
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- Brandon: Uber Teen
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