Relative to your interests, Tuesday

RedHat gets bought. 'First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you ~~win~~ buy you.' From cfgmgmtcamp 2026.
  • Codex App - OpenAI’s Claude Code competitor.
  • U.S tech backlash grows as countries and startups seek alternatives - Big revealed preferences tests coming up here.
  • Related, the investor angle: “Europe is hitting the kills witch on some U.S. tech.”
  • AWS destiny: becoming the next Lumen - ‘The real problem is that developers don’t choose AWS anymore (because honestly, given a choice between AWS and a vendor who thinks deeply about developer experience, who would?). They choose Vercel, or Netlify, or whatever their AI coding assistant suggests when they type “deploy this."’ // Some charts/survey/data would be nice to see here. Still, I hear this sentiment a lot. If it gets into the chatter, true or not, it will have negative consequences for AWS.