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Adam Jacob

AI News for Infrastructure Engineers! Every Monday Adam Jacob, Nick Stinemates, Paul Stack and a special guest break down the AI news for infrastructure engineers. We help you keep up with the rapid pace of change on the frontier.

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  • S1 · E6
    Monday · 43 min

    AI News for September 14th, 2026: OpenAI does math, Miro gets bought, Jacob Coxon quits Anthropic

    Industry Experts run down all the AI news for Infrastructure Engineers. Adam Jacob, Paul Stack, and Nick Stinemates are joined by DevOps engineer and downtempo DJ Don O'Neill. In this episode: OpenAI claims a Millennium Prize problem, but not without controversy Tailwind joins Shopify Apple unveils the iPhone Duo Anthropic syas DeepSeek, Xiaomi, and Moonshot fed conversations to Claude Bending Spoons buys Miro Jacob Coxon quits Anthropic Shopify goes back to native apps You can get Infrastructure Frontiers in your inbox, and see all the links, at https://swamp-club.com/podcast!

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  • S1 · E5
    September 8 · 48 min

    September 8th, 2026

    Industry Experts run down all the AI news for Infrastructure Engineers. Adam Jacob, Paul Stack, and Nick Stinemates are joined by Swamp co-founder and platform engineering wizard John Watson. OpenAI ends access through Cursor due to the SpaceX acquisition Debian adopts the most sensible AI policy possible OpenClaw releases version 2 Nvidia licenses Poolside's technology, and absorbs a bunch of their workforce Claude Fable 5.1, OpenAIs GPT-6-Astra, Gemini 3.8 and Meta Spark 1.3 World Labs launches Atlas, a world model for spatial intelligence The AI model security concerns continue cdleary writes about AI as a stochastic optimizer, and the AI built MLA kernel in OpenAI Jalapeno For all the links and to receive Infrastructure Frontiers in your inbox, visit: https://swamp-club.com/podcast

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  • S1 · E4
    August 31 · 42 min

    August 31st, 2026

    Industry Experts run down all the AI news for Infrastructure Engineers. Adam Jacob, Paul Stack, and Nick Stinemates are joined by amazing infrastructure engineer Jason Powell. In this episode: * Semianalysis says OpenAI's Jalapeno chip is industry leading * DuckLabs joins AWS, DuckDB remains in an open foundation * Z.ai launches GLM-5.3-Flash in stealth as Ox Alpha * Nvidia buys Hugging Face for $12.9 billion dollars * Bill Gates writes about the turbulent AI era * Paul moves our CI into the agent loop * Gary Marcus writes about Anthropic's $30 Trillion TAM * SourceHut bans code written by AI Visit Swamp Club for all the links and to get Infrastructure Frontiers in your inbox every monday!

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  • S1 · E3
    August 24 · 1 hr 10 min

    August 24th, 2026

    Industry Experts run down all the AI news for Infrastructure Engineers. Adam Jacob, Paul Stack, and Nick Stinemates are joined by James Governor of RedMonk fame. In this episode: * Scott Tolinski of Syntax.fm puts up a great podcast about the mental health crisis nobody is talking about in AI * Stripe acquires OpenRouter for $7 billion, while Ramp launches their own router * Dev Ittycheria talks to Chamath about the build vs buy dynamics changing * Omarchy Quattro is released, a desktop with AI at the center of personalization * Google buys Spirit Airlines data for $10 million, should call Adam * Wiz writes a blog post about a common vulnerability * Vercel launches Fx, a minimal coding harness written in Zig, designed for embedding * Dynatrace buys Arize, as observability expands into AI * Soundslice adds a feature that AI hallucinated first * Slack launches a coding agent * Adam's talk about software factories, and numbers about their performance For links and more, visit https://swamp-club.com/podcast/2026-08-24

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  • S1 · E2
    August 10 · 56 min

    August 10th, 20206

    Industry Experts run down all the AI news for Infrastructure Engineers. Adam Jacob, Paul Stack, and Nick Stinemates are joined by one of the longest serving sages of operations, old friend, advisor, and wonderful human John Willis. In this episode: * The Ars Notoria gives a preview of AI Psychosis * Ankur Sethi types all the LLM code by hand * Martin Alderson is picking LLMs based on speed * Simon Willison breaks down all the competing open letters about frontier models * Steve Yegge goes all in on bespoke software factories being the way * David Crawshaw thinks all devtools must be open source because the era of personal software is upon us * Niklas Gruhn says: "Don't be a meat proxy!" * Bending Spoons acquires Airtable * Cloudflare launches Cloudflare OS * Pulumi embraces HCL and Terraform State * Bret Stephens begs you not to write with AI * Confighub goes generally available Get all the links and summaries of our thoughts at https://swamp-club.com/podcast

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  • S1 · E1
    August 1 · 25 min

    August 3rd, 2026

    Industry Experts run down all the AI news for Infrastructure Engineers. Adam Jacob, Paul Stack, and Nick Stinemates are joined by infrastructure engineering legend Sean Escriva. In this episode: Dan Lorenc phases out code review at Chainguard Github launches stacked PRs OpenAI reduces the price of 5.6 Luna and Terra Paul Stack explains that best practices come and go, but architecture is forever OpenAI releases Codex Security Kimi K3 on Hugging Face & Dario Amodei gets mad about distillation Tobi Knaup thinks Open Weight models is AIs Kubernetes Moment Keith Townsend explains deterministic AI is an architecture problem, not a model problem Mitchell Hashimoto starts a new company, Superlogical

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