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Not every fscking story has to be about AI.

They didn't make it about AI, they mentioned a tool that helped with the migration. I find it relevant and helpful to know.

I don't see it as much different from "I used script X to do it" or something.

The author knows that AI can cause social disruption of the kind that siphons even more money to the rich. To that he has thoughts and prayers[1].

Extreme pragmatism for AI converts is just instant gratification for your hacker itch without looking any further.

That’s why people get fatigued by yet another “but now with AI”. In isolation they are just solving this one problem.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46587277

Excuse my ignorance, but how is that migration (especially of older libraries that are apparently being rewritten) not just a copy/paste action from one server to the other? When I build software to deploy it it includes everything it requires library wise. At least the few things I've deployed so far.

You have to copy data across, and confirm that everything worked correctly, and if you're being fancy about it you need to freeze writes to the old server while you are migrating and then unfreeze after you've directed traffic to the new server. It's not trivial.

Sometimes you need library version X, which uses a compiled binary for the platform, which requires C library version Y, which requires glibc version Z, which is deprecated on the current version of the OS, etc etc etc.

Or you can update the app to remove the dependency on the library.

But honestly, this is what containers or VMs are built for in the first place.

I don't see what checking a file system has to do with anything either.

You are going to have a hard time living in the future.

You may not be interested in AI, but AI is interested in you.

I use that phrase with "done with Microsoft," but it fits well here too!

> Not every fscking story has to be about AI.

It might surprise you to learn that nowadays there are a lot of people using LLM code assistants. Those who do can also use them to help them write blog posts.

They really can't help themselves showing how they didn't put any effort doing a thing.

> They really can't help themselves showing how they didn't put any effort doing a thing.

I would be proud to show that I managed to take one of the most radical changes we can do to a system, which would otherwise be practically unthinkable, and use a tool to make it trivial ton pull off.

Yeah, OP is famous for never having put effort into anything, just an AI shill /s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvatore_Sanfilippo

This whole thread is hilarious.

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