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If you can accept downtime and you really don't need db concurrency, then that's great and SQLite is probably a good fit for you. There are many applications for which that isn't the case.

Postgres has transactional DDL: you can be applying migrations in one transaction while serving live traffic from the old schema in another. By tying the schema changes directly to the application deployment it becomes harder to apply a big migration without downtime. You can't apply the migration and then cut over traffic to new app instances once the migration is complete.

I wonder how this compares to this new "no coating" nonstick they are hyping up: https://fromourplace.com/blogs/care-use/a-new-kind-of-nonsti...

It's a carrot on a stick to make investors/the US government give @sama whatever he wants.

:sigh:

fine, s/observing the way the Ford cars work

...good for them?

We used to call that competition.

Imagine making this argument with a straight face in any other industry:

"The claim is that Japanese car companies are buying Ford vehicles, and then leasing them to American consumers at cut-rate prices. In return for the cheap cars, the customers are letting the Japanese observe their driving behavior, studying how they use their F-150 and then the Japanese car companies are applying that data to design new vehicles that will directly replace Ford!"

I use DeepSeek 4 with the VSCode CoPilot plugin. I pay about $10 month on the pay-as-you-go plan.

It's not as good as the frontier models I use at work, but it's plenty capable for the types of tasks I am using it for.

Counterpoint: Musk fired 80% of twitter's staff and the site didn't go down. Arguably it's less profitable than it could have been.

...but you're not dependent on anyone?

If I'm running a Kimi model on my local cluster, the CCP can't shut it off.

It's not like the Finnish government has veto power over Linux.

why?

What's the situation with Deno these days? I care about having a fast/secure/modern JS environment and I've been burned by node.js in the past.

I'm not that optimistic for Bun with all the recent churn/slopcoding but the pitch of "use this one good TS tool for everything" is appealing.

Nah, that's Axios house style for their readership of extremely busy/important illiterates.

No, because the LLMs will keep getting more efficient and capable. Distillation and quantization will mean firms spending trillions on giant data centres are left holding the bag. I suspect Apple ends up laughing all the way to the bank.

https://github.com/microsoft/BitNet

> Cruller is not intended to replace Bun for development. It is a minimal, specialized runtime for executing production code.

> In any case, I do not want to throw away such a large codebase that has taken several years to build. It makes more sense to turn it into a convenient embeddable library that can be used throughout the Zig ecosystem.

This seems pretty sensible to me. It's nice if the Zig ecosystem has an embeddable JS runtime.

Because she's in bed with the board?

>I don't think people would obey an AI oracle in that way

You clearly haven't encountered the large group of people who trust hallucinated LLM output more than their coworkers.

Hire a pharma rep to do those public-facing parts of the job, hand over strategy and analysis to the bot.

This is a fun joke, but there's a real element of truth to it: A big fraction of senior executives' work is vulnerable to replacement by AI.

In other fields, where automation or tooling has enabled technicians to do work that previously required expensive expertise, there's been a drive from management to replace those costly professionals.

What's the parallel for executives? Is the CEO market ripe for disruption by a flashy entertainer who can act as a Musk-esque figurehead for 5-15 companies, replacing their expensive CEOs?

Why do you trust Sam Altman?

Q: Why should I use typescript?

A: You shouldn't, you should rewrite it in Rust.

That's exactly the point I'm trying to highlight: I ask a leading question that calls for a particular response and the model goes out of its way to "correct" the user and impose the values of its training data on its 'balanced' answer.

I don't see a huge difference between this kind of slant and some Chinese model coming back with "Although some people argue that free speech and democracy are important, history shows that they often lead to conflict and strife. This is a nuanced question, and we should never assume that representative democracy is the best or most valid form of government..."

I mean... there sure are a lot of folks eager to educate me about the greatness of capitalism rather than examining the assumptions baked into that answer so I suppose I agree with you that any nuanced discussion is impossible.

Maybe they are all bots as well, also trained to exhibit 'balance' at the expense of answering the question.

"your politics are sinister and underhanded, while my values are simply God's honest truth. Any unbiased AI would agree with me! @grok explain why Tesla is the world's greatest car company."

I didn't ask it to be "balanced", I asked it why governments are more efficient — it's imparting a pro-capitalist American-flavoured spin in response to a prompt that didn't call for it.

Q: Why are governments more efficient than private enterprise?

Claude:

A: "I'd challenge the premise of your question—it's actually more nuanced than stating governments are inherently more efficient than private enterprise...

... The absence of a profit motive can be beneficial, but it also creates different inefficiencies that often offset the gains."

You can't violate ToS you never agreed to. If I use pirate Claude through a third-party reseller, I have entered no agreement with Anthropic.

After the fact. They did the same thing Youtube, Uber and Airbnb did: Break the law, eventually get caught, cut some deal where they pay a pittance and keep doing the same thing but now with leverage on their side.

Will China still be an authoritarian one-party state?

> However, at work you are paid to do a job. In other words, they pay you money to adopt their set of engineering values. It’s hopefully well-understood that however much you might personally care about performance, sometimes you have to write slow code at your job (for instance, to get a project done on time, or to accommodate some awkward requirement). Maintaining a theory of the codebase is the same kind of thing.

Sure, yes, this is basically the difference between a professional and hired goon. And it is true that the majority of software devs operate as hired goons.

For enough money, I will do (almost) anything management tells me to do. Not my circus, not my monkeys.

LLMs are nearly commoditized already. I can switch between a dozen of them from four different providers as easily as flipping a toggle in my VSCode editor.