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
  • Data Pipelines with Apache Airflow
  • Astronomer (@astronomerio) on X
  • Ryan Reynolds' ad agency, was behind the Gwyneth Paltrow Astronomer ad
• 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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Conferences

• Sydney Wizdom Meet-Up, Sydney, August 7. Matt will be there.
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• Wiz Capture the Flag, Brisbane, August 26. Matt will be there.
• 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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