RAM prices are skyrocketing, driving up the cost of products that rely heavily on memory. The price of Raspberry Pi boards has now soared to the point where two 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 boards will cost you as much as a new laptop.
The new Arduino Ventuno Q is a very different beast. For one, it's powered by the Dragonwing IQ-8275 chipset. This contains an 8-core Kryo CPU (2x Gold Prime at 2.35GHz + 2x Gold at 2.1GHz + 4x Silver at 1.95GHz) and an Adreno 623. The Ventuno Q offers up to 16GB of RAM and up to 64GB of eMMC storage plus an M.2 NVMe Gen 4 connector for SSDs.
AI coding tools have caused as many problems as they have solved, according to industry experts. The easy-to-use and accessible nature of AI coding tools has enabled a flood of bad code that threatens to overwhelm projects. Building new features is easier than ever, but maintaining them is just as hard and threatens to further fragment software ecosystems. The result is a more complicated story than simple software abundance.
According to Phillip Torrone, managing director of Adafruit, writing in a YCombinator forum, "This happened after I sent an email reporting the founder, Nate [Seidle], for multiple harassing actions directed at [ Adafruit founder Limor Fried], including behavior by him and a former employee. Instead of addressing that, they decided to kill the messenger, me, and also cut us off from Teensy." Torrone and Fried are married.
Software development used to be simpler, with fewer choices about which platforms and languages to learn. You were either a Java, .NET, or LAMP developer. You focused on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud. Full-stack developers learned the intricacies of selected JavaScript frameworks, relational databases, and CI/CD tools. In the best of times, developers advanced their technology skills with their employer's funding and time to experiment. They attended conferences, took courses, and learned the low-code development platforms their employers invested in.
