Episode Details

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

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