devin

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I don't think it does. (meaningfully change the economics of rewrites)

Burning a sea of tokens to arrive at the equivalent functionality and having a small team of people oversee that process is rarely going to be the fix to the organizational problems that surround typical failed/stagnant software projects.

Rewrites are rarely about the organization of the symbols and are more often about a change in the fundamental understanding of the organization about the problem they've solving. Remember: People change slowly.

People are often too tied to the idea of "rewrite" as a replay of all current capabilities, but should instead be thinking about fundamentally different primitive capabilities of the system. It's not a "redo" if you're changing some of your fundamental assumptions about the problem space.

5 dagen geledendiscuss

> This isn't about dogma. Sometimes you genuinely need specialized infrastructure. But the bar should be high: only after pushing Postgres to its limits, documenting why it was insufficient, and accepting the operational cost of the alternative.

I've seen a few "Use Postgres for Everything!" posts lately. It seems to be fashionable. It reminds me of the Choose Boring Technology[1] thing from 2018 or so, but more specific to a database.

I think the ideas of "don't add unnecessary dependencies" and "ruthlessly evaluate tradeoffs" and "prefer simplicity" and so on are general and have very little to with postgres, so when I see things like "All you need is X" I roll my eyes a little, because these decisions are highly dependent on your use case, and taken as blanket advice it is generally _bad_ advice even if the underlying rationale is sound.

[1]: https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology

ETA: I am going through their list and so much of this means that you are going to manage your own PG cluster and not take advantage of Aurora or RDS, which means you're already committing to a major tradeoff if you want to use a lot of these custom extensions.

5 dagen geledendiscuss

Honest question/comment for you and the parent: I find these subjective experience reports pretty empty without an understanding of your level of experience, the problem space you're working in, etc.

5 dagen geledendiscuss

50% of folks seems a pretty strong signal, though. No?

While I agree that simply calling something "AI slop" is not constructive, it is not my job to voluntarily review LLM-extruded crap. In the past I would provide constructive criticism because there was an actual conversation taking place. The producer had put at least enough thought into it such that my engagement didn't feel like replying to a chatbot, but that's what it feels like now, so unless I see some considerable effort and original thought on the author's part, I am likely to drop a "slop" comment and move on with my day.

11 dagen geledendiscuss

I look forward to re-evaluating this statement in, what do you say, 12 months from now?

11 dagen geledendiscuss

Implicit in your answer is the belief that they will come back to earth. I wonder how realistic that belief is.

11 dagen geledendiscuss

If I have 10k to spend, what should I buy for the best local model experience?

14 dagen geledendiscuss

I'm taking the downvote in stride, but 14.4 and 28.8 RealAudio streaming seems like it lasted all of 3 months and then people had napster and were pulling 96k mp3s.

14 dagen geledendiscuss

AOHell didn't take any time to load, and no one was streaming music on 28.8.

15 dagen geledendiscuss

Eh, to be fair, this post is about a _bank_, and the one you've linked is about _fintech_. They are not even close to the same space, even though they both deal with money.

But also I suppose you may be saying exactly this?

16 dagen geledendiscuss

Isn't it also well-documented that Virgil Abloh stole more in the ~100% range from up-and-coming designers who then saw nothing for their work?

16 dagen geledendiscuss

Also, adumbrate.

17 dagen geledendiscuss

I'll help if I can.

17 dagen geledendiscuss

Big eye roll from me.

"Can't scale due to too many PRs" neglects answering questions like: Are these PRs valuable? Are they just additional PRs to right the wrongs of previous ill-conceived PRs? How much churn is going on here? Is the influx of PRs a permanent state, or something that we'll only live through temporarily because we have a lot of little things we can set our agents upon, but after they're done we'll return to a normal work cadence?

17 dagen geledendiscuss

And then the US government will say that these company's futures are in the national interest, and they will be bailed out with taxpayer dollars.

20 dagen geledendiscuss

Do you think bad actors can't make something like this? What are you even talking about?

20 dagen geledendiscuss

Avery Trufelman does an incredibly well-researched podcast on clothing of all kinds by the name of Articles of Interest. They did a whole show on the pointe shoe. You can check it out here: https://articlesofinterest.substack.com/p/on-pointe

20 dagen geledendiscuss

1. It was a joke about pointers.

2. Cut out the macho gatekeeping nonsense around what makes a "real" programmer. It's tiresome.

21 dagen geledendiscuss

Your response suggests that you're only considering native apps where users can view memory usage.

For cloud apps where the costs are largely hidden from users, the user has no way of doing that analysis. I agree with the second part of what you said, though: I expect businesses to just raise their prices in those cases rather than systematically focus on actual difficult engineering problems.

21 dagen geledendiscuss

They're answering the question posed in the article: No, programmers won't write more efficient code.

They're suggesting that instead, consumers will just be forced to pay more for inefficient SaaS products being run on more expensive infrastructure.