This week, we discuss Discord’s IPO plans, Cursor’s big raise, and how much coding developers actually do. Plus, is Southwest making a huge mistake with bag fees and assigned seats?
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Runner-up Titles
Cote’s not here, so we’ll keep it tight
They treated me like I’m stupid
I’m not here to buy into the culture
Go eats some rocks and glue
My head is full of simultaneous thoughts
Fly high Icarus, fly high
We are certain of the uncertainty
Rundown
Southwest Airlines shifts to paid baggage policy to lift earnings (https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/southwest-airlines-shifts-paid-baggage-policy-lift-earnings-2025-03-11/)
Discord in Early Talks With Bankers for Potential I.P.O. (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/technology/discord-ipo.html?unlocked_article_code=1.1k4.eQrV.NtKK_GpiT-Di&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p)
IDE Follow up
DevTasks outside of the IDE (PDF) (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2019/04/devtime-preprint-TSE19.pdf)
How Much Are LLMs Actually Boosting Real-World Programmer Productivity? — LessWrong (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tqmQTezvXGFmfSe7f/how-much-are-llms-actually-boosting-real-world-programmer)
[AI [CursorStartup Anysphere in Talks for Close to $10 Billion Valuation (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-07/ai-startup-anysphere-in-talks-for-close-to-10-billion-valuation)
Market Trends
Nvidia Is Down 27% From Its Peak. (https://www.fool.com/investing/2025/03/07/nvidia-stock-down-27-from-peak-history-says-this/)
Millennium Loses $900 Million on Strategy Roiled by Market Chaos (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-08/millennium-loses-900-million-on-strategy-roiled-by-market-chaos)
Relevant to your Interests
OpenAI executives have told some investors about plans for a $20,000/month agent (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-plots-charging-20-000-a-month-for-phd-level-agents> |
Utah becomes the first state to pass an app store age verification bill (https://www.theverge.com/news/624981/utah-app-store-age-verification-bill)
Latest Turing Award winners again warn of AI dangers (https://www.theverge.com/news/624485/turing-award-andrew-barto-richard-sutton-ai-dangers)
Does Big Tech’s suckiness open the door for leaner startups? (https://thehustle.co/news/does-big-techs-suckiness-open-the-door-for-leaner-startups)
Apple Explains Why the New Mac Studio Doesn't Have an M4 Ultra Chip (https://www.macrumors.com/2025/03/05/apple-explains-lack-of-m4-ultra-chip/)
Your Boss Wants You Back in the Office. This Surveillance Tech Could Be Waiting for You (https://www.wired.com/story/your-boss-wants-you-back-in-the-office-this-surveillance-tech-could-be-waiting-for-you/)
Melbourne start-up launches 'biological computer' made of human brain cells (https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-03-05/cortical-labs-neuron-brain-chip/104996484)
What the Dot-Com Bust Can Tell Us About Today’s AI Boom (https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/what-the-dot-com-bust-can-tell-us-about-todays-ai-boom-c78482e7?mod=hp_lead_pos2)
Microsoft is replacing Remote Desktop with its new Windows app (https://www.theverge.com/news/627483/microsoft-remote-desktop-windows-app-replacement)
A 10x Faster TypeScript - TypeScript (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/typescript-native-port/)
Niantic's Next Chapter: Introducing a New Home for Niantic Games (https://nianticlabs.com/news/niantic-next-chapter)
iRobot Shares Drop 34% in Premarket Trading After Warning of Financial Uncertainty (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/irobot-shares-drop-34-premarket-174337217.html)
Health NZ used single Excel spreadsheet to track $28b of public money (https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/significant-concerns-health-nz-was-using-a-single-excel-spreadsheet-to-track-28-billion-of-public-money/WADIE2J26JEDVCLXYL7HKTMNDE/)
$16bn health agency managed finances with Excel spreadsheet (https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/10/nz_health_excel_spreadsheet/)
Oracle's Cash Squeeze (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/oracles-cash-squeeze?rc=x1tr6w)
Apple Pulls iPhone 16 Ad Showing Off 'More Personal Siri' (https://www.macrumors.com/2025/03/10/apple-pulls-iphone-16-ad-more-personal-siri/)
Apple's AI strategy is showing troubling cracks (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apples-ai-strategy-is-showing-troubling-cracks-150559429.html)
Nonsense
Swearing as a Response to Pain: Assessing Hypoalgesic Effects of Novel “Swear” Words (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7204505/)
Chuck E. Cheese gets a rebrand — which means no more animatronic band (https://www.today.com/food/restaurants/chuck-e-cheese-animatronic-band-rcna195724)
Listener Feedback
JD recommends The DuckDB Local UI (https://duckdb.org/2025/03/12/duckdb-ui.html)
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Monki Gras (https://monkigras.com/), London, March 27-28, Coté speaking.
Cloud Foundry Day US (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cloud-foundry-day-north-america/), May 14th, Palo Alto, CA
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