Failover Weekly: The AI Ate the Stack
Every show this week ended up in the same place: AI has stopped being a topic and started being the operating environment. Whether that's a good thing probably depends on how much you enjoy the chaos.
Quick personal note — I got to join Brian on The Reasoning Show this week to talk through what daily work actually looks like when you go all-in on Claude. Worth a listen if you've been curious about the workflow side, not just the hype.
From the Network
The Reasoning Show
Living the Claude-centric Life
Brian invited me on to dig into what it looks like to make Claude the center of every workflow — not just coding, but planning, research, outreach, writing. Real daily use, not demos.
Three Thoughts from NVIDIA GTC 2026
Aaron and Brian unpack the GTC keynote: accelerated computing going everywhere, how complicated the new inference stack has gotten, and NVIDIA's "open" software moves including NemoClaw. Short and dense — worth 20 minutes.
Software Defined Talk
Episode 565: Field Engineering is the YOLO team
Big bets that didn't pay off, OpenAI making a play for the Python toolchain, and Claude's own tool preferences. Plus: should AI agents be shipping bug fixes at YOLO speed? Matt and I have opinions.
The Cloud Pod
Episode 347: The CloudPod is Only Recording This Week "Because of AI"
Justin, Jonathan, and Ryan dig into how old the tools holding up cloud infrastructure actually are, and whether that's a problem when AI starts touching all of it. Spoiler: some of this stuff is ancient.
What else I'm listening to
Channels with Peter Kafka — Why Prediction Markets Are Turning Everything Into a Bet
Prediction markets are bleeding into everything — how they work, why they're spreading, and what it means when every opinion becomes a trade.
Plain English with Derek Thompson — America's Tax System Is Broken
Derek Thompson on why the U.S. tax system is structurally broken — what's actually wrong with it and why fixing it is so hard.
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