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mglvsky

89 karma · joined November 5, 2015

DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mogilevski

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mglvsky··on Restrooms along the Norwegian Scenic Routes
finally: unshittification
mglvsky··on AI isn't replacing SREs, it's deskilling them
Imagine SRE that very quickly triaged the incident, gave solution and it turns out that solution made system ever worse, and after that he/she said: "You're absolutely, right!"
mglvsky··on Show HN: UK Farming Simulator
can I choose Lambo as tractor?
mglvsky··on AI Is Not a Tool
This would be true when software factories succeed. For now, AI needs initial input from a human
mglvsky··on Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default
can I use this harness with subcription plans without being afraid to banned from violating some ToS?
mglvsky··on Incident with Actions, Pull Requests and Issues
Why they didn't prompt something like "please make whole system more reliable, don't make mistakes"?
mglvsky··on Show HN: PS2 games statically recompiled to WebAssembly
are there clean-room games?
mglvsky··on New repository settings for configuring pull request access
eternal hacktober
mglvsky··on Vibecoding isn't as fun as writing code by hand
My current take: at the moment, vibecoding is much fun as being IT manager.

YMMV, not so fun for me being human/robot proxy constantly, there is "review dilemma" with AI tools:

review everything AI does - getting burned out quickly

skip review what AI does - getting wake up call in a weekends' nights and getting burned out quickly as well

mglvsky··on Spending on AI Is Becoming Almost Impossible for Businesses to Budget
Maybe I'm in the bubble, but I don't see a lot of "software factories bros" here, there are plenty of "coding is solved"-bros (they're also annoying btw)

edit: grammar

mglvsky··on Sites in ChatGPT
impressive, but brand websites mostly "eaten" by curated accounts in social media
mglvsky··on Apple Pass Designer
I've lurked about PKPASS[1] file format a little bit, sounds like any vibecoder can make editor of those files, but maybe I am missing something (verification?)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PKPASS

mglvsky··on You are no longer invited to dinner
Call me introvert or not, before doing the exercise I feel a little resistance to do it, but after - feel very energized. For parties: it's diametrically different - feel big boost of dopamine before party, but after - I feel some regrets, so I'm just trying to not think about later.
mglvsky··on Oxilite: An Oxigraph-compatible RDF database and SPARQL engine that uses SQLite
...that uses SQLite as its storage engine
mglvsky··on Coding is not solved
but where are new shiny apps from whom who uses $RECENT sota models?
mglvsky··on Coding Is Not Solved – Alex Ewerlöf Notes
Here is my approach:

"coding is solved" == "gastown-like systems give a brand-new and useful software"

I don't recall whether GasTown succeeded...

mglvsky··on Pentium II at 600Mhz with Voodoo 3 Emulated on 86Box with M6 Mac Mini
From my experience, the game crashed sometimes on Windows 7 (on old HP ProBook)
mglvsky··on Pentium II at 600Mhz with Voodoo 3 Emulated on 86Box with M6 Mac Mini
I'd play Messiah[1] - such a hidden gem

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messiah_(video_game)

mglvsky··on Show HN: Redis City – Explore how Redis works in an interactive 3D model
that could be "new" technique to use agents in software development: instead of tiresome prompting/reviewing large swathes of text - pointing to specific area in a map, just like in a strategic videogame
mglvsky··on The internet is kind of a predatory cesspit now
A good quote: "Sell people a worldview, and they will advertise it for free because criticism of the product now feels like criticism of the self"
mglvsky··on GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven
> We just need better, efficient and faster GUIs to put these TUIs to an end.

I think, firstly, we need less meaningless red-tape shenanigans from MS/Apple to publish GUI apps

mglvsky··on The Rise of Million-Dollar Companies with Just One Employee
For me as introvert, it looks like naive dream about getting big income solo, without dealing with other people and politics and all "jazz". But it turns out there are clients to engage with. Oops. So why not doing business with a few other pals?
mglvsky··on W Social, public institutions and the theater of European digital sovereignty
I'd go further - just leave social media
mglvsky··on How to Become a Person After Smartphones Have Rotted Your Brain
> If they give that up, they are pushed into insecure positions where they cannot be replaced by AI and machines

Is there typo? Great passage anyway, but I think the virality still isn't only venue to "enough money" for poor. For "shitload of ton of money" amount - perhaps

mglvsky··on Kirkland Roundabouts
That combination of soundtrack and graphics reminds me of [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_n%27_Roll_Racing

mglvsky··on Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?
I think, considering length of "self-help content", there is spectrum, and in the both ends of such spectrum there is conflict of interests - audience vs authors.

In the first end - short-form content: yt shorts, tiktoks, tweets, ig posts - "authors" have interested to just have more engagement, so we end up with ragebait, fringe ideas, etc - everything for just viewers count go up, the substance doesn't matter at all.

In the other end - "long-form" content: books (usually thick ones), writers for some reason need to fill extra content alongside the substance, some off-topic stuff, I'm not professional writer/editor, but I suppose it's protection from some nitpickers, adding some scientific basis to look more solid (don't know why: author can pick any research that support's book idea, even already debunked), maybe there is requierement from publishers, editors, etc.

The sweet spot here are thin books here, but even that case they cannot help much, because even a therapy sometimes cannot help for someone (heck, there is a real person trying help, not just text with ideas!)

mglvsky··on A standard protocol to handle and discard low-effort, AI-Generated pull requests
I prefer this policy: https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/blob/main/AI_POLICY.m...

> If you can't explain what your changes do and how they interact with the greater system without the aid of AI tools, do not contribute to this project.

edit: added that quote

mglvsky··on Glaze by Raycast
what about barebone/starter desktop app that can be modified itself by prompts?

that's would be Electron app, but without unneeded bloat

mglvsky··on Claude Code Remote Control
so is harnessing tmux/tailscale new "rsync/FTP is enough" thing nowadays?
mglvsky··on AI tooling must be disclosed for contributions
thanks, will check the video
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