# The Pulse #191: a new trend of CPU shortages

URL: https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/the-pulse-191-a-new-trend-of-cpu-shortages

Category: news
Date: 2026-09-10
Publication: The Pragmatic Engineer
Sylvain Kalache's role: subject

[Original source](https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-pulse-191-a-new-trend-of-cpu)

Gergely Orosz covers rising CPU demand from AI agents, the struggles of COVID-era unicorns, and engineers losing familiarity with their systems as AI takes on incident response.

## Topics

- [AI](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/topics/ai.md)
- [Infrastructure](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/topics/infrastructure.md)
- [Incident Management](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/topics/incident-management.md)

Journalist: Gergely Orosz