If it's good enough to replace plain Software Engineers it's good enough to do DevOps/SRE too. There's no meaningful distinction between those categories in this context.
Can anyone suggest or come up with viable "use cases" of a custom LLM like this? I wouldn't mind giving it a try but ideally I'm looking for something that is not just a toy.
That doesn't justify it because the user should still be able to decide when to initiate it. People are ok with not interrupting the update if they get to choose when it starts.
I find it shocking (not really) that among the many BILLION dollar companies built on the back of Postgres there isn't enough sense to pay the salary of one dude to keep a project like this going forever.
My observation is that people who love this stuff are not programmers so they feel like they have been empowered to automate things that they could not otherwise automate.
For people who are already highly skilled in scripting/automation it's a lot less impressive.
They notice all the things that could go wrong. All the non-determinism issues. And they think I could do this better with a custom script myself.
The use cases I have heard all seem like gimmicks to me.
I think it means charging based on the value of the work to the client not just the cost of doing the work.
That means if you get fast and efficient at doing something valuable for the clients you get to enjoy better margins because your costs are relatively low but the value is high so the customers still happily pay a good amount for it.
Does anyone have solutions or suggestions for mounting a S3 bucket as a read-only filesystem? I don't need any writes.
Previously I have done a periodic script that would simply re-sync the directory which works well enough. But curious if there's anything else out there.
I realise that this is not always practical. But generally I refuse to engage or negotiate about the way I work. Especially if you have a lot of experience, you have to push back when people want to drag you in the mud and wrestle about which tools you use.
A good company will not try to micro manage you as an Engineer in that way.
I don't know but I'm guessing that it's because it makes it easy to give access to it to Mac desktop apps? Not sure what's the VM story with Mac but usually cloud VM stuff is linux so it may be inconvenient for some users to hook it up to their apps/tools.
You have to think about the threat model. The OS itself is rarely a problem. It's all the other stuff around it such as apps, browsers, websites, etc...
What is your use case? If you need a private computer to read and write you can setup a desktop with Linux and air-gap it (ZERO connectivity to the outside world, no wi-fi, no internet, nothing). Then transfer specific data in and out of it using a USB stick. That's just one example.
Yes! I despise how the open source and free software culture turns into just free labour for freeloading million-dollar and billion-dollar companies.
The culture made sense in the early days when it was a bunch of random nerds helping each other out and having fun. Now the freeloaders have managed to hijack it and inject themselves into it.
They also weaponise the culture against the devs by shaming them for wanting money for their software.
Many companies spend thousands of dollars every month on all sorts of things without much thought. But good luck getting a one-time $100 license fee out of them for some critical library that their whole product depends on.
Personally I'd like to see the "give stuff to them for free then beg and pray for donations" culture end.
We need to establish a balance based on the commercial value that is being provided.
For example I want licensing to be based on the size and scale of the user (non-commercial user, tiny commercial user, small business, medium business, massive enterprise).
It's absurd for a multi-million company to leech off a random dev for free.