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I guess you'll have to do it with browser automation. I assume that's possible?

This is cool but personally I never really understood the interest in turning a barcode into a piece of art or trying to embed images and logos into it.

I'll take the 300x slower non-vibe-coded pg, thanks!

If it's good enough to replace plain Software Engineers it's good enough to do DevOps/SRE too. There's no meaningful distinction between those categories in this context.

Gimmickmaxxing?

I don't remember 2001. But 2008 tech job market was way wayyy better than today.

Unfortunately nerds are easy to trick. Good luck convincing any other discipline to do free labour for optional donations, vibes, and "the community".

Can anyone suggest or come up with viable "use cases" of a custom LLM like this? I wouldn't mind giving it a try but ideally I'm looking for something that is not just a toy.

That doesn't justify it because the user should still be able to decide when to initiate it. People are ok with not interrupting the update if they get to choose when it starts.

I find it shocking (not really) that among the many BILLION dollar companies built on the back of Postgres there isn't enough sense to pay the salary of one dude to keep a project like this going forever.

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My observation is that people who love this stuff are not programmers so they feel like they have been empowered to automate things that they could not otherwise automate.

For people who are already highly skilled in scripting/automation it's a lot less impressive.

They notice all the things that could go wrong. All the non-determinism issues. And they think I could do this better with a custom script myself.

The use cases I have heard all seem like gimmicks to me.

Unfortunately everything is going in the opposite direction.

We are in the age of AI-slop AI-everything AI-break-it AI-fix-it.

Software companies are competing with each other on how low they can push the quality and still get away with it.

There's no reward or incentive for paying attention to the details or the quality. In fact you will get penalised for it.

I think it means charging based on the value of the work to the client not just the cost of doing the work.

That means if you get fast and efficient at doing something valuable for the clients you get to enjoy better margins because your costs are relatively low but the value is high so the customers still happily pay a good amount for it.

Claude is SOOO powerful and dangerous they just had to shut it down guys :))

Does anyone have solutions or suggestions for mounting a S3 bucket as a read-only filesystem? I don't need any writes.

Previously I have done a periodic script that would simply re-sync the directory which works well enough. But curious if there's anything else out there.

Holy shit I just scrolled through the status sites. Almost every single day is filled with incidents.

It's not clear that it would be a net-negative on the revenue.

It could encourage more development and adoption and lead to being a net-positive for the revenue.

I realise that this is not always practical. But generally I refuse to engage or negotiate about the way I work. Especially if you have a lot of experience, you have to push back when people want to drag you in the mud and wrestle about which tools you use.

A good company will not try to micro manage you as an Engineer in that way.

Can anyone mention how you can "save the state" so it doesn't have to train from scratch on every run?

I don't know but I'm guessing that it's because it makes it easy to give access to it to Mac desktop apps? Not sure what's the VM story with Mac but usually cloud VM stuff is linux so it may be inconvenient for some users to hook it up to their apps/tools.

You have to think about the threat model. The OS itself is rarely a problem. It's all the other stuff around it such as apps, browsers, websites, etc...

What is your use case? If you need a private computer to read and write you can setup a desktop with Linux and air-gap it (ZERO connectivity to the outside world, no wi-fi, no internet, nothing). Then transfer specific data in and out of it using a USB stick. That's just one example.

Yes! I despise how the open source and free software culture turns into just free labour for freeloading million-dollar and billion-dollar companies.

The culture made sense in the early days when it was a bunch of random nerds helping each other out and having fun. Now the freeloaders have managed to hijack it and inject themselves into it.

They also weaponise the culture against the devs by shaming them for wanting money for their software.

Many companies spend thousands of dollars every month on all sorts of things without much thought. But good luck getting a one-time $100 license fee out of them for some critical library that their whole product depends on.

Personally I'd like to see the "give stuff to them for free then beg and pray for donations" culture end.

We need to establish a balance based on the commercial value that is being provided.

For example I want licensing to be based on the size and scale of the user (non-commercial user, tiny commercial user, small business, medium business, massive enterprise).

It's absurd for a multi-million company to leech off a random dev for free.

Not quite what you asked, but here are some thoughts.

Do you have the sales "fire power" to sell this solution?

Because it sounds like the kind of thing that governments or complicated companies would potentially buy. And they are not easy to sell to, to put it lightly.

I used to have some startup ideas that are in this category => "Most people don't need or want it, and people who do need or want it are not going to buy it from my flimsy bootstrapped startup (they will take 2 years and spend 100M with Deloitte on it instead)".

Not sure what's your situation/size/funding/scale but personally I'm happy to stay away from that category.

His whole "I love fast food and coca cola" thing is a fake persona

Simply speaking "Postgres for everything" is meant as a fool-proof default choice for the average person making an average app. It helps startups avoid tangling themselves with some bespoke/complex combination of Redis+Postgres+RabbitMQ+MongoDB from day 1 for their app that reaches a peak of 10 requests per second with 100 daily average users if they are lucky.

This usually happens because a junior dev wants to have fun and pad their resume while playing around with tech. Or they are insecure and want to make the "maximally proper" choice with everything so they appear to be an expert. For example they think storing any JSON or cache data in Postgres is somehow incorrect or forbidden and they must use something more specific to feel like they've made the correct choice.

In general Postgres will take people very far. Majority of companies could start with it and live with it forever. If they are lucky enough to need something else by that point hopefully they have enough money and staff to re-evaluate the stack and make changes for the future of the company.

Yes but usually the routing is done as part of a library so the developers are unlikely to interact with the API themselves. It will just affect the internals of their routing library. Those libraries already have their own implementation of similar stuff.

At first glance it seems like this API would be more useful on the server side to do URL routing. What are the use cases for it on the client side?

They seem to beat their chest in every elaborate highly technical post-mortem as they report the timestamp of events down to the millisecond as if we should be impressed!

Every time they screw up they write an elaborate postmortem and pat themselves on the back. Don't get me wrong, better have the postmortem than not. But at this point it seems like the only thing they are good at is writing incident postmortem blog posts.