This week, we discuss Forrester’s LLM Wave, Nvidia's Market Cap Dilemma, and why everything is code. Plus, Matt Ray explains more about Australian slang.

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Runner-up Titles

• Is pig latin American?
• The final boss for Duolingo
• The Corrections Episode
• You can always get it from the leader
• Frito Lay of Chips
• Everything is code

Rundown

• Forrester has no idea what its talking about
  • Get it from Google.
• Nvidia
  • Nvidia Earnings: Stock Rallies As AI Giant Reports 600% Profit Explosion, 10-For-1 Stock Split
  • Nvidia: Short bets against stock top $34B
  • Nvidia to Become $10T Company: I/O Fund's Kindig
  • Intel CEO Fires Back at Nvidia in Battle for AI Chip Leadership
  • Peak Nvidia
• Solomon Hykes & Dagger

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• Olivier Pomel (CEO, Datadog) Shares Every Lesson From Scaling to $40B
• US sues Adobe for hiding termination fees and making it difficult to cancel subscriptions
• Senior Engineer Fatigue
• AWS’ AI And GenAI Leader Leaves For DigitalOcean As New CTO
• The Framework Laptop 13 is about to become one of the world’s first RISC-V laptops
• A Look Back at Q1 '24 Public Cloud Software Earnings

Nonsense

• You can renew U.S. passports online again
• The Excel superstars throw down in Vegas

Conferences

• DevOpsDays Amsterdam, June 19-21, 2024, Coté speaking.
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• SpringOne/VMware Explore US, August 26–29, 2024
• SREday London 2024, September 19th to 20th, Coté speaking. 20% off with the code SRE20DAY

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• Brandon: Houston Public Library and Libby
• Matt: Dissect podcast
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