AI Is Scaling Fast — But Security, Energy, Talent, and Trust Are Falling Behind • Buttondown

4 little bits of Tech, that you might find interesting…

Welcome to issue 6 of The Tech Stop.

Covering AI's evolution, bot threats, energy woes, job changes, and corpospeak in today's Tech Stop!:

Context engineering elevates AI beyond prompts by combining system instructions, memory, tools, and live data to ensure reliable, scalable, and context-aware performance across enterprise applications. More…
POV: The conversation is shifting from "prompt engineering" - worthy of a read for when talking with your tech team.
Bots now outnumber humans and are bypassing security by mimicking real users, causing breaches, skewed analytics, operational strain, and inflated costs. More…
POV: Time for AI-driven bot protection, rate-limiting, and continuous detection strategies.
Big Tech struggles with AI’s soaring energy demands, stressing power grids and increasing carbon footprints. Leaders pursue renewables, nuclear, and efficiency innovations. More…
POV: Energy is the critical bottleneck for AI expansion, expect to see a lot more debt before anything useful comes out of this.
Entry-level job vacancies in the UK have plunged nearly 32% since late 2022 amid the rise of generative AI tools, while overall vacancies grow and wages increase, signaling a reshaped early-career landscape. More…
POV: Make some opportunities for junior developers and interns?

Why is it so hard in business to talk to people how they want to be talked to? Getting rid of corpospeak.

Thanks for reading, catch you next week! 😀

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AI Is Scaling Fast — But Security, Energy, Talent, and Trust Are Falling Behind