
Spotify reports that AI-assisted development more than doubled monthly merged changes, prompting a review of quality and reliability controls across its engineering organization. The company describes changes to testing, observability,…

On August 25, Robert Haas opened a pgsql-hackers thread like this: I asked Claude to evaluate which v19 patches were the scariest based on the number and type of bugs fixed post-freeze. Results below, with a few particularly cutting…

Erik Peterson discusses why AI spend is eclipsing cloud bills, triggering a major software engineering cost crisis. He explains tokenmaxxing, unit economics, forced developer promotions, and why fully autonomous AI will write, deploy, and…
pg_statviz can now ask Claude, a local Ollama model, OpenAI or Gemini to explain your PostgreSQL statistics on every distro we ship it for. Getting there took three days and a few dozen new Python packages pg_statviz is a small tool that…