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The Hidden Tax of Multi-Vendor GPU Infrastructure

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Copyright: Sanjay Basu AI, Minus the Marketing (Substack Newsletter) Why the Hardest Problems in Heterogeneous Accelerator Deployments Have Nothing to Do with Compute By Dr. Sanjay Basu Everyone is buying GPUs. Not everyone is thinking about what happens after they arrive. The enterprise AI playbook in 2025 reads like a procurement arms race. NVIDIA Blackwell. AMD MI300X. Intel Gaudi 3. Custom ASICs from Google and Amazon. The options are multiplying faster than the engineering teams tasked with making them work together. And somewhere between the vendor pitch deck and the first production training run, a quiet realization sets in. The hard part was never choosing the hardware. The hard part is making it behave like a single coherent system. I spend my days building GPU cloud infrastructure. I have watched teams spend months optimizing a training pipeline on one accelerator type, only to discover that porting to a second vendor's hardware isn't a weekend project. It's an ar...

The 72-Hour Meltdown That Revealed Everything Wrong With AI Agents

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  Copyright: Sanjay Basu How a Viral Open-Source Project Became a $16 Million Scam, a Security Catastrophe, and a Case Study in Everything We’re Getting Wrong The lobster molted. The scammers pounced. And a thousand developers learned they’d been running infostealer malware on their shiny new Mac Minis. If you wanted to design a stress test for everything that could go wrong with autonomous AI agents, you couldn’t do better than what actually happened to Clawdbot between January 29 and January 31, 2026. In 72 hours, the open-source darling of the developer community experienced a forced rebrand, had its social media accounts hijacked in literally ten seconds, spawned a fraudulent cryptocurrency that briefly hit $16 million in market cap, and exposed over a thousand misconfigured deployments containing API keys, private credentials, and months of conversation histories. The project survived. It’s now called OpenClaw, it has over 105,000 GitHub stars, and its community remains enthus...