Spotify More Than Doubled Monthly Code Changes as AI Accelerated Development

Analysis: constructing and equipping a 1GW AI data center in Abilene, Texas, could cost ~$30B, including $17B on chips, $3B on power, and $2.4B on construction (Lynn Doan/Bloomberg)

Roughly $750 billion. That's how much Meta Platforms Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Google owner Alphabet Inc …

1h ago ·bloomberg.com

Guarding a support agent's tool calls: provenance, a customer's yes, written gates and a backend that teaches

An LLM agent with tools is a model whose outputs have side effects. "Cancel order #W9034102" is a fine thing to say and a bad thing to do when the order belongs to someone else and the instruction…

1h ago ·dev.to

Should an AI Tutor Just Give You the Answer? I Tested It

I built an AI tutor for SQL that won't hand you the answer straight away. Then I tested it against a normal version that does. Six people practised with one version or the other.

• "Try first" AI tutor group performed better overall in SQL test
• Two of ten checks failed, limiting conclusive results
• Test conducted at author's leisure, not real-time

1h ago ·dev.to

Beyond the AI noise: How Stack Overflow is rethinking tech hiring

It’s gotten exponentially harder to identify talent that we feel is a good fit for our teams at the top of the application funnel.

1h ago ·stackoverflow.blog