Why the generative AI hype is good

by | Feb 11, 2025 | Cloud

Elon Musk predicts artificial general intelligence (AGI) by 2025. Former OpenAI employee Leopold Aschenbrenner says AGI by 2027. Futurist Ray Kurzweil bets on 2029 for AI surpassing human intelligence. OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever declared that language models are...

Review: Zencoder has a vision for AI coding

by | Feb 11, 2025 | Cloud

Zencoder is an AI coding assistant with interfaces to Visual Studio Code and JetBrains IDEs. It is designed to help developers ship products faster, much like GitHub Copilot, Amazon Q Developer, and Tabnine. Zencoder also offers AI coding agents, much like Solver,...

The cloud giants stumble

by | Feb 11, 2025 | Cloud

Recent financial results from the major cloud providers reveal a concerning trend in cloud adoption and growth. AWS reported just 13% growth in the final quarter of 2023, Microsoft Azure saw 19% growth, and Google Cloud achieved 26% growth—all below market...

C++, Go, and Rust gaining popularity – Tiobe

by | Feb 11, 2025 | Cloud

With Tiobe’s February 2025 rankings, the publisher of the monthly index of programming language popularity notes that fast programming languages such as C++, Go, and Rust are gaining ground. But index leader Python, described as a “slow” language by Tiobe CEO Paul...