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SED News: Bezos Returns to Building, AI’s Reality Check, and Europe’s Cloud Ambitions

Software Engineering Daily

Software Engineering Daily

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4.4662 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer unpack the biggest stories shaping software engineering, Silicon Valley, and the broader tech industry. In this episode, they cover Jeff Bezos’s unexpected return to the CEO seat with  Project Prometheus, the growing debate over whether AI investments are

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to SED News. I'm Gregor Vand. And this is, as I'm sure many of you know by now, but just slightly different format of

0:22.7

SE Daily, where we cover tech headlines.

0:26.1

We have a sort of main topic in the middle.

0:28.8

Today's topic is tipping points of technologies.

0:32.7

And then we are going to roll into Hacker News highlights, where we just take a few of the fun,

0:38.8

weird and interesting things that have popped up on Hacker News that you may have missed,

0:44.0

which is very easy these days given how much lands on there.

0:47.0

But as always, I mean, we're heading to the holidays.

0:48.7

We're recording this a day before Thanksgiving.

0:51.0

Certainly, I would love to celebrate Thanksgiving.

0:53.6

It's a great holiday. Unfortunately,

0:54.9

I tend to live in countries that it doesn't really get celebrated, but you're celebrating it,

0:58.6

right, Sean? Yes. And I've, as a Canadian that's now lived in the U.S. for like 15 years,

1:03.7

I've migrated from the Canadian Thanksgiving, which is celebrated in October to the U.S.

1:09.6

Thanksgiving that celebrated in November. So, you know,

1:12.2

I've done the full migration, essentially. Awesome. And yeah, anything else that you've been up to

1:17.0

Sean the last few weeks since we last recorded? Oh, nothing specific. I mean, the big thing

1:22.3

that's coming up for me is the week after Thanksgiving is AWS reInvent. So I'll be going,

1:26.7

heading off to Vegas very early Monday morning to be there for the week, which is AWS Reinvent, so I'll be going, heading off to Vegas,

1:27.8

very early Monday morning to be there for the week, which is going to be a pretty busy week

1:32.4

with, you know, 60, 70,000 various people in the technology industry. So it should be fun. How about

1:38.1

you? Yeah, I've got a few colleagues heading to that. Yeah, just as I for those that are like

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