Episode 504: Socrates Didn’t Whiteboard

This week, we discuss the latest news about DeepSeek, how to make sense of the countless hot takes, and a review of The Nvidia Way. Plus, some thoughts on Valentine’s Day.

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Runner-up Titles

• The Paperclip Apocalypse
• Markets Over Management
• The Nest Egg
• This is cheaper than therapy
• Valentine’s Day
• “Turns out, guys…”
• You can burn a candle out, and when it’s out there’s no candle.
• I don’t think Jensen is struggling

Rundown

• DeepSeek
  • China's DeepSeek appears to have built AI models that rival OpenAI, while allegedly using much less money, chips, and energy.
  • DeepSeek FAQ
  • DeepSeek and the Enterprise
  • Four big reasons to worry about DeepSeek (and four reasons to calm down)
  • DeepSeek Disruption Has Its Upside
  • Dario Amodei — On DeepSeek and Export Controls
  • Bonus Clouded Judgement - Inference Time Compute
  • CEO Pat Gelsinger is already using DeepSeek instead of OpenAI at his startup, Gloo

Relevant to your Interests

• Trump administration fires members of cybersecurity review board in 'horribly shortsighted' decision
• Rethinking developer experience at T-Mobile: DevEx vs devprod, exec buy-in, and developer self-service
• FTC Finalizes Long-Awaited Updates to Children's Privacy Rule
• FTC Finalizes Changes to Children’s Privacy Rule Limiting Companies’ Ability to Monetize Kids’ Data
• Free OpenAI & every-LLM API Pricing Calculator
• GitHub Is Showing the Trump Administration Scrubbing Government Web Pages in Real Time
• Microsoft's LinkedIn sued for disclosing customer information to train AI models
• We’re launching Opengrep, a fork of Semgrep CE
• Semaphore is Going Open Source in 30 days
• OpenAI launches ChatGPT Gov for U.S. government agencies
• "Digital shoplifting" is on the rise among the well-off Gen Z crowd
• Kubernetes Cloud Repatriation Saves Millions for Data Platform Provider
• Warp vs. Ghostty: Which Terminal App Meets Your Dev Needs?
• Cheriton School of Computer Science researchers’ update to Linux kernel could cut energy use in data centres by up to 30%
• Stargate artificial intelligence project to exclusively serve OpenAI

Nonsense

• Why Speaking Like a Wanker at Work Is Essential
• Stripe accidentally sent an image of a duck when notifying some employees they were getting laid off

Conferences

• CfgMgmtCamp, Ghent, Belgium, February 2-5, 2025.
• Civo Navigate North America, San Francisco, Feb 10-11, 2025
• DevOpsDayLA at SCALE22x, March 6-9, 2025, discount code DEVOP
• VMUG NL, March 12th, Coté speaking.
• DevOpsDays Chicago, March 18th, 2025.
• SREday London, March 27-28, Coté speaking. 10% with code LDN10.
• Monki Gras, London, March 27-28, Coté speaking.
• Cloud Foundry Day US, May 14th, Palo Alto, CA
• NDC Oslo, May 21-23, speaking.
• KubeCon EU, April 1-4, London.

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Recommendations

• Brandon: Paradise
• Matt: Tell me which Ardupilot/PX4 Autopilot platform I should buy?
  • Holybro X500 v2 or QAV250 dev kit?
• Coté:
  • (MLA) citations
  • “The Joy of Extradimensional Spaces,” Michael Polkinghorn, in Candlekeep Mysteries.

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