sdevonoes

> if it runs of out of cash - then it's bad for the whole industry.

Why? I don’t think we would suffer if anthropic disappeared tomorrow

They keep adding this “cloud of dots” where each dot represents a concept or something you wrote, and they are linked to other dots… sure it’s pretty the first time you see it, but it’s not useful at all beyond that

The sooner you cancel the sooner you become independent of them

They are interested in money and ads. We cannot expect anything good from openai, anthropic, meta, google.

We had a couple of decades of brilliant engineers working for faang. What did we get as a result? Just crap: twitter, instagram, youtube, facebook. Imagine all those brilliant minds working on something meaningful instead.

Same goes for LLMs

Just go the old way. You will save a lot of time, and gain a lot of knowledge.

In my company we have tried using claude for exactly the same task you have. The results were bad. We discovered a few interesting things, but most of the stuff was wrong: we had to dif through the code base the old way to confidently accept/reject what Claude was telling us. So we could have save a lot of time and money simply by doing it ourselves. As an upside we also learned about the codebase so now people rely on us for that (that feels good too)

One thing about obsidian is that it’s not open source. So if one day they change something and you don’t like it, you will be forced to use a different KB. That means to change your flows, the ux, etc. That’s a big downside from my pov (it’s good that obsidian allows you to take your files with you, but for me that’s not enough)

At least for me it’s not about speed, but the npm ecosystem: I try to avoid running npm deps in my home computer (if any, I run them in VMs, but a KB should run in the host I believe)

I must be weird, but coffee (or caffeine) doesn’t really “wake me up” in the mornings and I could drink it in the night and still sleep well. Because of that I don’t drink coffee; I prefer tea

I would buy it if it had wifi. A (decent to wear) watch with wifi would be awesome. Tons of ideas for apps I would build for myself

Ofc, im excluding apple

You are normalising layoffs in companies that are not losing money. If you are a regular employee, this kind of behaviour affects you, but hereyou are saying “it’s alright folks, it’s just business “. Sure thing these kind of layoffs are not illegal, but there must be something else in life than raw corporate behaviour when it comes to work, don’t you think?

The other scenario is that Meta doesn’t layoff people. The big fishes will make less money, but won’t affect their lives in the minimum. What about that? That’s not illegal either, but ofc, “that’s not how businesses work!”. So brainwashed. We are the frogs, they are boiling us and you don’t care

And little money buys even less. What’s your point?

With that kind of mindset… man, so sorry for you

So if they fuck it up again and now they have, let’s say, “db problems” instead of “caching problems”, you would happily simply pay more? Wtf

We should encourage minimal dependency on multibillion tech companies like anthropic. They, and similar companies are just milking us… but since their toys are soo shiny, we don’t care

Why don’t we go out in the streets and protest? Like the french did some centuries ago. If only we stop using instagram, youtube, if we stop searching in google, if we ditch claude, openai, for a couple of days… the billionaries will notice it and get hurt. That would be like a warning from our side

Depends. For personal projects, yeah definitely. But at work? Typically the “Platform” team can only afford to support 1 (maybe 2) ways of deployment, and k8s is quite versatile, so even if you need 1 small service, you’ll go with the self-service-k8s approach your Platform team offers. Because the alternative is for you (or your team) to own the whole infrastructure stack for your new deloyment model (ecs? lambda? Whatever): so you need to setup service accounts, secret paths, firewalls, security, pipelines, registries, and a large etc. And most likely, no one will give you access rights for all of that , and your PM won’t accept the overhead either.

So having everyone use the same deployment model (and that’s typically k8s) saves effort. I don’t like it for sure

Using TS/JS in the backend is irresponsible in 2026. We have better languages and ecosystems

For that kind of flow, I prefer to work without AI.

For me it wouldn’t make sense to use ai. Like I work on personal projects because they are fun: it’s fun to think about a problem, to solve it, to implement a solution, to learn new things and to fantasise about what if it gets popular and useful. If I can use AI to flip my fingers and make it happen, well wheres the fun? I have my day to day job to use AI for mundane things

Besides, the idea of paying 200$/month to have the privilege of using ai in my side projects… it’s just stupid for me

Telemetry is the previous obvious step to surveillance. Not the telemetry you implement in your own small bus, but at the scale of microsoft, apple, meta… yeah

religious beliefs aside, there’s something pleasing about living a good life and facing a decent death: closure.

But those are nice ads. Nowadays you get tons of these low/effort-AI-generated ads in YT. They suck big time.

There’s one significant difference between: typewriters and calculators are a one-time-paymeny device. LLMs are subscription based baked by billionaire companies. That alone leaves LLMs in a bad enough place

Because there’s not enough learning material? Like most of the code LLMs have stolen for training is highlevel code, not assembly

I want that it looks good. Nostalgia vibe

LLMs are so 2025. Move on

For the average and mundane stuff, sure do whatever everyone is doing.

For the good stuff, there’s no alternative but to know and to have taste. Llms change nothing.

Nobody cares

It’s time to be AI-independent. It’s like AWS, for most of us, it’s not worth it.

We are not. We are still making money and providing payslips for real humans. We are doing fine