Episode 560: You Can Feel It Coming

This week, we discuss personal AI hype cycles, bottoms-up adoption, and "The Modern Stack" simplifying cloud. Plus, thoughts on new cars and the dogs that ride in them.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/live/11XGPsZAUEg?si=o2AdHpRHNoqAqez2) 560 (https://www.youtube.com/live/11XGPsZAUEg?si=o2AdHpRHNoqAqez2)

Runner-up Titles

• They only talk about AI

• I bet you have 5 shop vacs

• It’s all going into applesauce

• Live Claude Code It

• Good defaults and opinions, nobody wants that

• Give me 5 minutes, and I’ll give you fifty 6 page memos

• I know I just pulled off a Pivotal scab.

• Free Tier as a Service

Rundown

• Something Big Is Happening (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/something-big-happening-matt-shumer-so5he?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&utm_campaign=share_via)

• OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI (https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/15/openclaw-creator-peter-steinberger-joins-openai/)

• Modern Stack: Fly.io (https://fly.io/), Neon (https://neon.com/), Upstash (https://upstash.com/) and Cloudflare (https://www.cloudflare.com/)

Relevant to your Interests

• An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me (https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/)

• YouTube launches native app for Apple Vision Pro (https://9to5mac.com/2026/02/12/youtube-launches-native-app-for-apple-vision-pro/)

• Not all cables are born equal, so test your USB cables with these cheap USB testers — these budget-priced tools help you protect your expensive gear from faulty or bad-quality leads (https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/usb/not-all-cables-are-born-equal-so-test-your-usb-cables-with-these-cheap-usb-testers-these-budget-priced-tools-help-you-protect-your-expensive-gear-from-faulty-or-bad-quality-leads)

• The Lunduke Journal (@LundukeJournal) (https://vxtwitter.com/LundukeJournal/status/2021682522665480385)

• Video on Apple Podcasts - Apple Podcasts for Creators (https://podcasters.apple.com/video-apple-podcasts?src=email)

• Temporal raises $300M Series D at a $5B valuation as AI drives demand for Durable Execution (http://Temporal%20raises%20$300M%20Series%20D%20at%20a%20$5B%20valuation%20as%20AI%20drives%20demand%20for%20Durable%20Execution)

• Amazon's Ring cancels Flock partnership amid Super Bowl ad backlash (https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/amazons-ring-cancels-flock-partnership-amid-super-bowl-ad-backlash.html)

• Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/technology/meta-facial-recognition-smart-glasses.%5B%E2%80%A6%5DI&smid=nytcore-ios-share&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email)

• Anthropic raises $30 billion in Series G funding at $380 billion post-money valuation (https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-raises-30-billion-series-g-funding-380-billion-post-money-valuation?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email)

• Introducing Sonnet 4.6 (https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-4-6?ref=sidebar)

Conferences

• DevOpsDay (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x) (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x)LA at SCALE23x (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x), March 6th, Pasadena, CA

• Use code: DEVOP for 50% off.

• Devnexus 2026 (https://devnexus.com), March 4th to 6th, Atlanta, GA.

• Use this 30% off discount code from your pals at Tanzu: DN26VMWARE30 (https://go-vmware.broadcom.com/vmware-tanzu-at-devnexus-2026).

• Check out the Tanzu and Spring talks and trading cards on THE LANDING PAGE (https://go-vmware.broadcom.com/vmware-tanzu-at-devnexus-2026).

• Shout out to the people who saw the trading cards and messaged me!

• Austin Meetup (https://altinity.com/events/austin-open-lakehouse-and-ai), March 10th, Listener Steve Anness speaking on Grafana

• KubeCon EU (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/), March 23rd to 26th, 2026 - Coté will be there on a media pass.

• Dev (https://devopsdays.org/events/2026-atlanta/welcome/)o (https://devopsdays.org/events/2026-atlanta/welcome/)ps (https://devopsdays.org/events/2026-atlanta/welcome/)d (https://devopsdays.org/events/2026-atlanta/welcome/)ays Atlanta 2026 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2026-atlanta/welcome/), April 21-22, 2026

• DevOpsDays Austin (https://devopsdays.org/events/2026-austin/welcome/), May 5 - 6, 2026

• WeAreDevelopers (https://www.wearedevelopers.com/world-congress), July 8th to 10th, Berlin, Coté speaking.

• VMware User Groups (VMUGs):

• Amsterdam (March 17-19, 2026) - Coté speaking.

• Minneapolis (April 7-9, 2026)

• Toronto (May 12-14, 2026)

• Dallas (June 9-11, 2026)

• Orlando (October 20-22, 2026)

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Recommendations

• Brandon: Ghostty (https://ghostty.org/) pairs nicely with Claude Code

• Matt: Home Assistant Connect ZBT-2 (https://www.home-assistant.io/connect/zbt-2/)

• Coté: Iron Lung. ChatGPT for upscaling images, like this one (https://cote.io/2026/02/13/i-use-the-ha-ha.html).