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Gartner is throwing cold water on the AI boom, and it is worth paying attention. The analyst firm told attendees at its annual IT Symposium that the more AI an organization adopts, the harder it becomes to control costs and demonstrate real return on investment. That is a pointed message aimed directly at the vendors pushing hardest for enterprise adoption.
On a related note, there is a quieter but genuinely thorny problem lurking in those same AI pipelines — the humble PDF. A format built for print and visual fidelity turns out to be surprisingly hostile to machine reading. Inconsistent structure, embedded images, and layered encoding mean AI systems frequently stumble over documents that humans navigate without a second thought. It is a reminder that legacy formats carry hidden costs.
Shifting gears, Google's Closure Compiler is getting a fresh look from developers. The JavaScript checker and optimizer has been around for years, but with performance and bundle size back at the top of engineering priorities, some teams are revisiting older tools that quietly do the job well. Sometimes the story is not the new thing — it is the reliable thing people stopped noticing.
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