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.
- 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
Michael E. says:
09/23/2026 at 9:03 am
The part about observability expanding into ai feels real to me, cuz when you bolt “agents” on top of systems the failure modes move from simple latency/errors to weird intent drift. I’ve seen dashboards look fine while the actual workflow is silently skipping steps, so you need traces tied to user goals not just infra metrics. Also the “soundslice adds a feature that ai hallucinated first” bit matches what i’ve encountered: the model can be confidently wrong unless you force grounded validation.
James Governor says:
09/23/2026 at 11:05 am
Hey Michael thanks for the feedback. Glad you enjoyed the podcast! Your points are right on the money. we appreciate you for taking the time.