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20 gün öncediscuss

How is it going to work for corporate customers. What if one us employee writes claude output into a ticket, can that be read by a non us citizen employee? What about paraphrased?

fizlebit

3 ay öncediscuss

The big bet here is that anthropic stays ahead of the curve and is the goto tool for businesses. The risk is disruption to that leader position, or that it can't sell all those tokens because the value/cost ratio is too lower for consumers of them. I suspect that disruption is the bigger risk because the tokens in my experience are valuable, so as they innovate we're betting the value of the tokens goes up and the cost comes down.

fizlebit

3 ay öncediscuss

I'd like write program / run program / debug program to be as easy as it is in roblox. It isn't that easy though, the set of things you need to do it well is extensive. I wouldn't be averse to a new platform, one in which all io is over highly performant queues, but the moras of existing software tied to unix is large, just look at compilers and all the child processes they launch. It was always shims and it will always be shims.

fizlebit

3 ay öncediscuss

Scrolling through those images it just feels like intellectual theft on a massive scale. The only place I think you're going to get genuinely new ideas is from humans. Whether those humans use AI or not I don't care, but the repetitive slop of AI copying the creative output of humans I don't find that interesting. Call me a curmudgeon. I guess humans also create a lot of derivative slop even without AI assistance. If this leads somehow to nicer looking user interfaces and architecture maybe that is good thing. There are a lot of ugly websites, buildings and products.

fizlebit

3 ay öncediscuss

I think if your university doesn't do in person exams with pen and paper then the degrees it hands out are not much evidence of anything.

If you're not interested in learning the course content, then what are you doing there? Pretty expensive waste of time.

I very fondly recall many of the course I did at university. The exams were a helpful motivating factor even for the interesting courses.

fizlebit

6 ay öncediscuss

Even with anyhow there is a lot of boilerplate it seems to me dealing with crates that don’t use it. I haven’t tried snafu but its name does not inspire confidence.

Clanker (ai assistant) also love to unwrap and if you don’t catch them you have an abort waiting for you.

fizlebit

6 ay öncediscuss

I do feel like better application sandboxing is needed but so much open source software is built on the Unix abstraction meaning you have to run in a container, but macOS doesn’t have containers as far as I can see, and containers themselves are a bit of a poor abstraction, although maybe the best we can do with Unix at the core. I think something closer to Roblox studio would be cool where when you open an environment stuff just spins up in the background, but there is a good debugger, logging, developer ide, good rendering, eg 3d graphics, separate projects are separate, and when you spin down a game (read app or project) everything spins down.

fizlebit

6 ay öncediscuss

Looks a bit like Rust. My peeve with Rust is that it makes error handling too much donkey work. In a large class of programs you just care that something failed and you want a good description of that thing:

  context("Loading configuration from {file}")

Then you get a useful error message by unfolding all the errors at some point in the program that is makes sense to talk to a human, e.g. logs, rpc error etc.

Failed: Loading configuration from .config because: couldn't open file .config because: file .config does not exist.

It shouldn't be harder than a context command in functions. But somehow Rust conspires to require all this error type conversion and question marks. It it is all just a big uncomfortable donkey game, especially when you have nested closures forced to return errors of a specific type.

fizlebit

6 ay öncediscuss

I think that vibe coding now with anthropic tools and the latest model means that the cost of writing integration tests is significantly reduced. When the company ships a large product that has components from many teams, there is still a role for QA engineers who run nightly tests and chase teams to help diagnose the issue when there is an issue found. If you don't have such a central team publishing golden versions, then everybody is chasing the same bug. Ideally the integration tests are part of the change acceptance flow, but low frequency bugs (occur maybe 1 in 100 test runs) can still sneak through.

fizlebit

7 ay öncediscuss

yeah but machines don't produce horseshit, or do they? (said in the style of Vsauce)

fizlebit

8 ay öncediscuss

It looks from the public writeup that the thing programming the DNS servers didn't acquire a lease on the server to prevent concurrent access to the same record set. I'd love to see the internal details on that COE.

I think when there is an extended outage it exposes the shortcuts. If you have 100 systems, and one or two can't start fast from zero, and they're required to get back to running smoothly, well you're going to have a longer outage. How would you deal with that, you'd uniformly across your teams subject them to start from zero testing. I suspect though that many teams are staring down a scaling bottleneck, or at least were for much of Amazon's life and so scaling issues (how do we handle 10x usage growth in the next year and half, which are the soft spots that will break) trump cold start testing. Then you get a cold start event with that last one being 5 years ago and 1 or 2 out of your 100 teams falls over and it takes multiple hours all hands on deck to get it to start.

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