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Ars in San Jose recap: Infrastructure, sustainability, AI, cocktails

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Ars Technica kicked off a tech conference in San Jose last week in partnership with IBM .

The event was hosted by the Computer History Museum and IBM .

Ken Fisher and Ashwin Ballal spoke on the environmental impact of ever-expanding data centers.

The most appropriate role for generative AI in coding is likely going to be augmenting human coding rather than replacing it.

If your infrastructure is resilient—and, most importantly, if you have some emergency operational money held in reserve—you should have flexibility in your infrastructure to respond to unexpected demand spikes (or at least the ability to temporarily throw some money at the load until the problem goes away). It's not rocket science—and heck, even at companies that are doing actual rocket science, good requirements planning always wins the day ..