This week, we discuss how security gets sold to execs, where agentic coding and security collide, and Cloudflare vs. Datadog's diverging paths. Plus, Coté weighs in on sugar cookies.

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Runner-up Titles

Sugar Kingdom
Bastard Sugar
Choose butter
It’s just AI now
People don’t like paying for software
It’s an exciting time to be writing software
Are we going to start funding open source?
Speaking of that, but not that, it’s totally unrelated
We’re leaving the table
Weird network stuff
That box of cables on GitHub

Rundown

Security
AI is restructuring the software industry — winners and losers

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