GitHub Copilot CLI adds Rubber Duck review agent

GitHub has introduced an experimental Rubber Duck mode in the GitHub Copilot CLI. The latest addition to the AI-powered coding tool uses a second model from a different AI family to provide a second opinion before enacting the agent’s plan. The new feature was announced April 6. Introduced in experimental mode, Rubber Duck leverages a…

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AI Is Running Into a $7 Trillion Wall

The rise of AI over the past two years or so has often been framed as a high stakes race. Bigger models, unbelievable company valuations, more compute and bigger datacenters. Every milestone reinforced the meteoric trajectory of AI’s growth. Could AI keep scaling without limit? Many hyperscalers and governments aligned around that vision, committing to…

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The Terraform scaling problem: When infrastructure-as-code becomes infrastructure-as-complexity

Terraform promised us a better world. Define your infrastructure in code, version it, review it, and deploy it with confidence. For small teams running a handful of services, that promise holds up beautifully. Then your organization grows. Teams multiply. Modules branch and fork. State files balloon. And suddenly, that clean declarative vision starts looking a…

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Nvidia’s SchedMD acquisition puts open-source AI scheduling under scrutiny

Nvidia’s recent acquisition of SchedMD, the company behind the Slurm workload manager, is raising concerns among AI industry executives and supercomputing specialists who fear the chip giant could use its new position to favour its own hardware over competing chips, whether through code prioritization or roadmap decisions. The concern, as industry sources frame it, is…

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