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For most CRUD apps running in docker its enough to just tell the "agent" to use podman.

HackerNews is social media and this is just representative of social media as a whole.

Critical thinking is at an all time low to start with but even if you attempt to think critically while using social media you cannot do it constantly. This is one of the problems with social media as a whole. You might notice one thing is not quite right and discard it but you cant do that constantly and eventually you will absorb one of the 15 posts or comments.

As a dev I would tell you its an ops burden.

My devops coworker just shrugs, pumps out some yaml and helm and away it goes.

It really depends on your experience and tolerance for a lot of things.

Usually maintenance burden doesent start to make itself known till you get off the happy path or something breaks. Sometimes it can be a long while before that happens, sometimes it happens right away.

I have heard people use smoke test but not nearly at the same rate an LLM uses.

If a repo is bare of CLAUDE.md but mentions a smoke test in a commit in the last year I assume it to be LLM written.

It isnt though.

The industry largely has selected for camp 1 long ago.

If you don't get immediate negative feedback camp 1 can go quite a ways before problems surface.

The use of LLMs has caused Rust usage to explode.

If youre not writing the code yourself and vibing away which I think most people generally are despite the disdain around here then why would you not choose the "more performant language" (I know that isnt necessarily reality but it is a common perception).

Go's managed runtime is less valuable when the LLM is perfectly happy to slap a bunch of stuff together for you to and approximate it and doesn't complain at all when writing async rust despite some of the rough edges.

> It is entirely possible to develop strong systems outside of your current skill and knowledge with methods like this.

If this is true how can you confidently make this assertion.

You yourself are not in a position to evaluate it, you are just running it through a couple times hoping for a "oh wait, you're right to call me out on that, that is not correct at all".

Elixir is pretty easy to learn.

Its syntax is very Ruby and everything is message passing / actors, or genservers.

If you have ever used actors at all it doesnt take much to pick it up and even if you havnt its pretty simple.

Its just designer furniture, like any other Velben good.

A designer couch made entirely of foam can cost you 10k just because there is a name on it.

You're paying for the distinctive style and to show others your wealth or taste.

The paranoia but also the naïveté of internet tracking is a bit of a rare combination I think. Shadow profiles have been a thing for 15 years or more and they have only gotten more sophisticated. Browser fingerprints are surprisingly unique. Unless this guy is rotating machines / vpns / using qubes / etc Google can very likely pinpoint within a degree of certainly which searches are theirs.

Why do people want to be in that region? Is it the default or something?

I know some workloads help to be colocated but all these places are connected by fiber and every cloud has a worldwide CDN it seems.

You don't have to use the ultracentrifuge, though I don't suppose the power plant you would need for a diffusion plant would be much more attainable.

To be fair the state works pretty hard to crush "hobbyist" nuclear weapons programs so you don't really know how far it could get.

The problem is that everything you have said renders you unable to determine the validity of the answer provided.

Sometimes that is fine, sometimes it is not

I cant see how they could. The Gemini cli repo was a shit show the last time I looked a month ago and the service itself wouldnt even let me use version > 2.5 even though I was a paying customer.

The Ideapads I have encountered over the years are just absolute shit quality. Its even started to infect the thinkpad lines. I would not stray too far from specific X, T or P models (and they definitely charge perhaps an unearned premium for them)

The product lines have drifted over the years.

The workstations might have replaceable RAM but like apple some the x line and t line (I think?) have RAM soldered on so no upgrades :(

Our company also made this choice.

One of the first things I did was switch us to git.

Mercurial was way easier to use and fit our use case but all the tooling was built for git.

It is the model training that is dragging them down.

If the arms race stopped tomorrow the current price pays for the inference.

My understanding is no one actually pays Dell sticker price. They list that price on the website but if you talk to whatever they are calling their sales reps you get the real price.

NVME SSDs are consumable items more so than HDDs are.

These drives will arrive in the secondary market to be snapped up by businesses lower in the food chain. By the time you can find them they will be ridden hard and put away wet that you probably wont want them.

This is more or less my take on it.

I am not against AI code, it can be perfectly fine.

The principle issue in my mind is the rate of change.

Once you rewrite a code base like this (in a week no less) the only way to work on it in the future is using AI tools because no single person has any knowledge about any specific piece of code base any more.

AI generated code that is run through a classic PR process would potentially be fine, but then you sorta lose the entire point of using AI.

If the rewrite was zig to C and half the code was in __asm blocks is that different or the same?

There is no Rust tooling that tells you if your unsafe code is shit or not. If there was you wouldn't need the unsafe stuff at all.

The Actix web stuff was the maintainer using unsafe code to increase performance (iirc, it was a long time ago) in what was the most popular rust web frameworks at the time. It has since declined and been supplanted by other projects but the push was mainly a web framework shouldn't need so much unsafe. They eventually ceded the project to another maintainer and went off to work on something else.

I imagine there are a bunch of things on the internet that break if you start trying to connect to them from varying IP addresses. Things like the various CAPTCHA schemes and rate limiting etc, IP reputation etc.

I mean the reasons are the same AI is being pushed everywhere.

The businesses offering these services want to say "we are using AI" to their stake holders and the government committees who approve this shit don't have the skills or knowledge to evaluate the effectiveness in addition to the fact they likely don't even use the tools they have approved for use.

From its point of view what does it mean "to know".

Is it the token (or set of tokens) that are strictly > 50% probable or is it just the highest probability in a set of probabilities?

While generating bullshit is not ideal for a lot of use cases you don't want your premier chat bot to say "I don't know" to the general public half the time. The investment in these things requires wide adoption so they are always going to favour the "guesses".

I've had various agents backed by various models ignore the shit out of various rules and request at varying rates but they all do it.

When you point it out "Oh yes, I did do that which is contrary to the rules, request <whatever>.. Anyway..."

Everyone thinks they need a data lake when most people just need a data pond or data puddle. This is made worse by the industry disappearance of the DBA role and compounded by the fact that PG is not especially easy to tune.

All of this to say that a ton of people are on some sort of managed cloud postgres where the compute is almost always separated from the storage even for the small instances.

Neon et al. will tell you they scale, and I am sure they can but the number of enterprises that actually exceed when can be put on a few large servers in pretty low. You gotta lock them in early so their orgs never develop the expertise to move off on the off chance they get big.

Prior to the RAM crunch you could buy 4 or 5 servers ~50k that would be more than capable to handle many enterprises needs. The thing is the industry has sorta lost the skill set to host and maintain them. The people who can do this still exist of course but they are outnumbered by the YAML jockeys 10 to 1.

There are also other things that the cloud hides in its price as well. Redundant networking, provisioning, rack space, internet connections, firewalls, UPS backup, power usage.

Still I think a lot of startups would benefit from hosting their own stuff if they intend to be a long term business instead of just shooting their shot and hoping to be acquired.