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I think AI-powered is fast approaching the "webscale" status.

It's already there. Plenty of developer focused docs have been updated to mention AI however possible. I was just reading stripe docs, and was surprised by the number of fairly old features that got a doc update so instead of saying "For example, if you're selling a digital subscription with a physical item" to "For example, if you're selling access to an AI service with a physical item".

Or replacing "For example, If you're charging for API requests" to "For example, If you're charging for LLama AI Model API requests".

Heck, I had to review a doc change at work that was pretty stupid. Like one thing we offer is an S3-compatible endpoint. But someone thought we should clarify that you can upload AI models there too and all our docs should include an "AI developer" section for how to upload a blob that also happen to be a model or a lora or whatever.

Has a real “how do you do, fellow kids?” energy to it.

That’s exactly the feeling I got but didn’t know how to put into words.

You don't happen to work at Minio do you?

Because apparently Minio is for AI these days: https://min.io/

Ha that’s hilarious! And no I work at another tech company, but I totally understand how minio decided to go with that marketing. It’s really infuriating and yet understandable.

When the AI craze stated, so many people in my company came to me asking “if we can run AI workload”? another thing we offer is fairly generic compute meant for your average web applications or micro service etc. Initially I said “I don’t think so. We don’t have GPUs nor do we have any ability to express hardware requirements beyond CPU and Memory. We’ll need to do some work to include GPU into that”.

Then hilariously I learned that you don’t need GPUs or ASICs to be able to run “AI workloads”. If your compute allows you to call OpenAI rest APIs, then you’re also “AI Ready”.

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