Episode 568: Claude Code, OpenAI Drama, and Is Anyone Still Using Backstage?

This week, we discuss Claude's harness, OpenAI's ongoing drama, and whether Backstage is still a thing. Plus, Coté gives up on the green screen.

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Runner-up Titles

• It’s clearly an AI chair.
• I’ve given up on the green screen
• No animals, only buttholes
• I don’t know if I can think on my own
• Make your pecans really pop
• Did they shut it down? I wasn’t paying attention
• Always take the first offer for a billion dollars
• Bad Parking
• The Apple IIE had this problem
• I was paying attention but I might have had a mouthful of cereal.

Rundown

• Anthropic
  • Anthropic vs. OpenAI Revenue
  • Why Anthropic’s new model has cybersecurity experts rattled
  • Workday CTO Joins Anthropic Amid Startup’s Push to Build HR Apps
  • Clouded Judgement 4.10.26 - Long Live the Harness (Wrapper?) !
  • Anthropic closes in on OpenAI as US business use surges
  • Anthropic says Claude Code subscribers will need to pay extra for OpenClaw usage
  • Anthropic Buys Stealth Dimension-Backed Coefficient Bio in $400M+ Stock Deal
  • Claude Command /powerup
  • Post-Mortem of Anthropic's Claude Code Leak
• OpenAI Palace Intrigue
  • OpenAI's Fidji Simo takes medical leave, announces leadership changes
  • OpenAI CEO and CFO Diverge on IPO Timing
  • Industrial policy for the Intelligence Age
  • OpenAI is getting weird again - Casey Newton
  • OpenAI has bought AI personal finance startup Hiro
  • Let Us Learn to Show Our Friendship for a Man When He Is Alive and Not After He Is Dead
• OpenAI buys TBPN
  • Exclusive | OpenAI Buys Tech-Industry Talk Show TBPN
  • OpenAI Buys Tech-Industry Talk Show TBPN
  • OpenAI acquires TBPN | OpenAI
  • OpenAI acquires TBPN, the buzzy founder-led business talk show
  • OpenAI Buys Streaming Show ‘TBPN,’ Aiming to Change Narrative on A.I.
  • Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted?
• Backstage
  • Backstage is dead
• Observability
  • Cisco to grab Galileo for AI observability supercharge - SDxCentral
  • Dynatrace to Acquire Bindplane to Establish Telemetry Pipelines for AI and Cloud‑Native Observability
• Cursor and Coding Agents
  • Cursor's $2 billion bet: The IDE is now a fallback, not the default
  • Cursor's New Tool Lets Users Delegate to a Team of Coding Agents
  • Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex are merging into one AI coding stack nobody planned

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• Trump's AI framework targets state laws, shifts child safety burden to parents | TechCrunch
• TIME100 AI 2025: Chris Lehane
• Jack Dorsey says Block employees now bring prototypes — not slide decks — to meetings
• Post Mortem: axios npm supply chain compromise · Issue #10636 · axios/axios · GitHub
• Addressing GitHub’s recent availability issues
• Iran threatens ‘complete and utter annihilation’ of OpenAI's $30B Stargate AI data center
• Social media is turning into a freak show
• The Building Block Economy
• Giant Mac mini cluster powers Overcast podcast transcripts without the cloud
• How Amazon Dies: A Possible, Maybe Likely Future
• Maine Is About to Become the First State to Ban New Data Centers
• Introducing Muse Spark: Scaling Towards Personal Superintelligence
• SiFive raises $400 million from Atreides, Nvidia for data-center chip technology
• Amazon CEO takes aim at Nvidia, Intel, Starlink, more in annual shareholder letter
• Giving external agents access to Xcode | Apple Developer Documentation
• France orders all government ministries to ditch Windows for Linux in digital sovereignty push
• You can now easily call LLMs from your messaging engine. Should you?
• Microsoft exec suggests AI agents will need to buy software licenses, just like employees
• Meta creating AI version of Mark Zuckerberg so staff can talk to the boss
• Little Snitch for Linux — Because Nothing Else Came Close
• AI infrastructure budgets set to triple as demand soars: Deloitte
• Amazon jumps deeper into space race
• Amazon buying Globalstar, to rival SpaceX's Starlink
• Meta is making an AI Zuck to chat with employees

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Nonsense

• NASA sends Outlook around Moon, immediately needs IT help
• Top FEMA Official Doubles Down on Claim He Teleported to Waffle House
• AI CEO vs Engineer (2026).
• Poor Blue Blob
• Paul McCartney Banned From Reddit After Promoting Himself in Paul McCartney Subreddit

Listener Feedback

• Michael Neal: built mesh-llm — Decentralised LLM Inference
• Shaun built: workworkwork
• Brandon’s App: Milestone Birthday and Anniversary Tracker

Conferences

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• WeAreDevelopers Europe, July 8-10, 2026 Berlin, Coté speaking.
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• DevOpsDays Dallas, Sept 28-29, 202
• WeAreDevelopers NA, Sept 23-25, 2026, Discount Code: Community_SoftwareDefined
• DevOpsDays Vilnius, Sep 30 - Oct 1. 2006
• DevOpsDays Istanbul, October 24th, 2026 - Coté keynoting.
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