ChatGPT Astra users on $20 plan hit usage limits fast

Talk shows building MCP servers and AI agents with Spin, the open-source WebAssembly framework, deployed on Akamai Functions to eliminate cold starts, proprietary SDKs and single-region deployments.

Warren, Blumenthal and Van Hollen released a 27-page report, "Power and Profits: How the AI Data Center Boom Costs Households and Communities," after a nearly yearlong investigation. Letters went to Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, CoreWeave, Digital Realty and Equinix on December 15, 2025; the report says the companies keep seeking subsidies and using NDAs.

Talk walks through taking a custom agent from a single laptop to org-wide use and into the CI pipeline. Palafox has spent six and a half years at GitHub and now works with companies on Copilot adoption.

The Pragmatic Engineer episode features Sam Newman, author of Building Microservices and Building Resilient Distributed Systems, discussing why LLMs delete databases.