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I keep hearing the phrase "code is cheap." I don't know who came up with it. Whoever it was clearly has not seen an Anthropic bill. I get what they mean. The cost of writing a line of code has cratered, AI does most of the typing, you know the rest. Fine. But the phrase is combative in a way that doesn't help anyone, especially the engineers in the room. "Code is accessible" lands better. Less swagger, more honesty. Either way, here's the line my friend Guillaume gave me that finally cracked it open.

When distributed workloads stall because nodes cannot exchange small messages quickly and consistently, the network is the limiting factor. How do you solve that problem? InfiniBand offers one solution. InfiniBand is an interconnect, meaning the end-to-end communication system that links compute, storage, and accelerator nodes. It is implemented as a purpose-built network fabric, the switching and transport layer engineered to deliver high bandwidth and low, predictable latency between those nodes.

"Blackwell sales are off the charts, and cloud GPUs are sold out. Compute demand keeps accelerating and compounding across training and inference, each growing exponentially. We've entered the virtuous cycle of AI." Jensen Huang, CEO, NVIDIA When NVIDIA's CEO makes that statement in a quarterly earnings release, it is not marketing language.

For network administrators, managing DNS has traditionally meant juggling zones and records across separate server interfaces, manually tracking changes, and responding to resolution failures after they’ve already caused disruption. We’re excited to introduce Microsoft DNS management in ManageEngine OpUtils, bringing DNS zone and record administration directly into the same console you already use for IP address management (IPAM).

Everyone wants an AI agent factory in 2026. Autonomous agents fixing bugs and shipping features while you sleep. I’ve been building toward that myself. But the error rates don’t support the fantasy. The best AI coding agents in the world fix about 50% of real bugs on SWE-bench verified. Half the time they fail. And AI-generated code produces 1.7x more issues than human-written code.