# The Pulse: Quitting Spotify Podcasts over reliability

DevFeed: [The Pulse: Quitting Spotify Podcasts over reliability](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-pulse-quitting-spotify-podcasts-over-reliability-18184.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-pulse-quitting-spotify-podcasts>)

Author: Gergely Orosz

Published: 2026-07-23T15:59:37Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [The Pragmatic Engineer](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/the-pragmatic-engineer.md>)

Topics: [Spotify](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/spotify.md>), [Amazon Web Services](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/aws.md>), [anthropic](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/anthropic.md>), [OpenAI](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/openai.md>)

Tags: [anthropic](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/anthropic.md>), [aws](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws.md>), [models](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/models.md>), [open](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open.md>), [openai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/openai.md>), [podcasts](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/podcasts.md>)

## AI overview

This newsletter issue discusses quitting Spotify podcasts because of reliability concerns and also mentions Chinese open models matching closed models from Anthropic and OpenAI, along with an AWS billing error.

## Source excerpt

Also: Chinese open models match closed ones from Anthropic and OpenAI, AWS's "heart-attack" billing error, and more