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AI Made Infrastructure Weird Again | Ubuntu Summit 26.04

For years, we were told we were escaping hardware. Virtualization, containers, and Kubernetes made the underlying servers practically invisible to the average application developer. Then came the AI boom and infrastructure got incredibly weird again. In this fast-paced lightning talk, Billy Olson from Canonical breaks down why the modern AI server is no longer just a machine, but a volatile distributed system packed inside a single chassis.

Tokenmaxxing: The AI Productivity Lie

Your best engineer spent 500,000 tokens last week. Nothing shipped. There's a name for it now: tokenmaxxing. Failed prompts, dead PRs, code that never reaches production — it looks like productivity, but it isn't. Most engineering leaders can't tell you what percentage of AI-generated code actually ships, or where the budget went. You should be able to say "that bug cost me $2,700 in tokens to fix.".

How to run self-hosted AI on your own infrastructure with Konstruct

Civo Platform Engineer M R Rishi demonstrates how to go from zero to self-hosted AI in minutes using Konstruct. While most teams are stuck managing thousands of configuration values across multiple models and tools, Rishi shows how Konstruct eliminates that complexity with GPU cluster provisioning, GitOps catalog deployments, and production-ready infrastructure on day zero.

Aiven MCP: Build on Aiven from Your AI Agent

You've felt it. You're deep in a flow state with Claude or Cursor, building the next great thing, and then you hit the wall. Time to leave your editor, open a browser, click through a console, copy a connection string, paste it back, and pray you didn't fumble a character. The vibe is gone. What if your AI agent could just... do it? Deploy the database. Create the Kafka topic. Ship the app. All without you ever leaving the conversation. Today, that's real.

Visualising Claude Code telemetry in SquaredUp

Engineering teams are shipping more AI-generated code than ever, but at what cost? Learn how to build a telemetry pipeline to monitor Claude Code usage and costs directly in SquaredUp. It is estimated that 85-90% of engineering teams are now using AI coding assistants such as Claude, Codex and Cursor. This is not just for small-scale pilot projects— around 40% of all code now being shipped is AI-generated, and in start-ups the figure is around 95%. This can result in incredible productivity gains.

Why AI-Powered Asset Audits Are Replacing Manual Physical Verification (And How to Switch)

Picture this. It's the end of the financial year. Your audit team is clipboard in hand, walking floor to floor, cross-referencing serial numbers against a spreadsheet that was last updated six months ago. Three days in, two people are still checking warehouses, and someone has already found a printer that the system says was disposed of in 2022. This is how most enterprises still run their physical asset audits in 2026.

Top AI App Makers Transforming Software Development in 2026

Software development has never moved faster than it does today. Just a few years ago, building a functional app required a team of engineers, months of planning, and a significant budget. Now, thanks to the rise of the AI app maker, that process has been compressed into days or even hours. These tools are reshaping how developers, entrepreneurs, and businesses think about creating software, and the shift is happening across industries at a pace that is hard to ignore.

OpenAI's o1-preview Highlights a New Phase in AI Infrastructure Economics, Says iFrame®

OpenAI's release of the o1-preview reasoning model in September 2024 sparked widespread discussion about advances in artificial intelligence performance. While many observers focused on benchmark results and reasoning capabilities, iFrame founder Vlad Panin examined the launch from a different perspective, emphasizing its implications for the economics and architecture of AI delivery.