News Roundup and Announcements

This week, we discuss Claude Code for non-coders, automating newsletters and status reports, and AI tax prep. Plus, Coté finds unexpected joy in a coding assistant.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 563

Runner-up Titles

• Upgraded to Max
• The only innovation I was talking about was hiring me.
• The Patrick Stewart of the Cubicles.
• Should we become the Claudecast?
• Matt Ray in Your Pocket.
• Come into the tent
• You have agency in your life

Rundown

• Coté went to Claude Camp
  • Microsoft and Anthropic team up to bring Claude Cowork to Microsoft 365
  • Cursor is rolling out a new kind of agentic coding tool
  • Hater Season: Corey Quinn — Better Offline
• Google completes acquisition of Wiz

Relevant to your Interests

• I Worked for Block. Its A.I. Job Cuts Aren’t What They Seem.
• Iranian news claims AWS drone strikes were deliberate
• Anthropic Just Won the Enterprise. Here’s What Nobody’s Talking About
• Amazon's Bahrain data center targeted by Iran for support of U.S. military, state media says
• Startups.RIP - Dead YC Startups, Alive Ideas
• Kratix Anywhere: Cloud, On-Prem, and Hybrid Without Compromise
• Meta just bought Moltbook, the social network for AI bots - 9to5Mac
• Amazon holds engineering meeting following AI-related outages
• Oracle is building yesterday’s data centers with tomorrow’s debt
• SUSE Reportedly May Be For Sale Yet Again
• When Using AI Leads to “Brain Fry”
• Oracle is under pressure from more than $100 billion in debt and massive layoffs as it pushes ahead with Larry Ellison’s 3-step transformation
• Oracle is building yesterday’s data centers with tomorrow’s debt
• Oracle Job Cuts
• OpenAI bowed out of the Oracle
• MacBook Neo - Tech Specs
• Code Mode: give agents an entire API in 1,000 tokens
• MacBook Neo - Tech Specs

Nonsense

• McDonald’s C.E.O. Takes a Big Bite Out of a Burger. Maybe Scratch ‘Big.’

Conferences

• KubeCon EU, March 23-26, 2026 - Coté will be there on a media pass.
• DevOpsdays Atlanta 2026, April 21-22, 2026
• DevOpsDays Austin, May 5-6, 2026
• WeAreDevelopers, July 8-10, 2026 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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• Brandon:
  • Token management with RTK
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