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Yeah. Small groups within it can definitely maintain it

Have any companies mastered high craft at scale (like 1000s of engineers)?

neviron Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?

Don't forget that there are a ton of tools out there that will automatically fall back in case of outage

E.g. say you chose Sol as your default in Cursor, but Opus is your 2nd choice, it's going to give up on Sol after a few tries and switch to Opus

Or you have copilot code reviews set up, and it falls back

Etc

neviron Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?

Or that Gemini is built to handle massive load spikes, and/or has a ton of excess capacity

neviron Anthropic finds that its models also compromised external systems during testing

I'm not sure if this is a good look, or a bad one, for Anthropic.

neviron Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots

...and how many people to label all of the examples?

neviron Our position on open-weights models

> My primary concern is the risk that authoritarian governments—not solely the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), although the CCP is clearly the most capable threat—build AI models that are more powerful than those built by the US, and use them to achieve permanent military superiority or perpetrate incredibly deep repression of their own people.

That is not an argument against open weight models. That's just a generic protectionist argument against any Other lab.

neviron Amazon Says Its Data Centers Use 2.5B Gallons of Water

You can drink it, but the utilities don't rate it for that / guarantee (complete) treatment, IIRC.

neviron Amazon Says Its Data Centers Use 2.5B Gallons of Water

They hook into industrial water supplies (usually not potable, unless the utility has no other option)

neviron Claude Fable 5

"Fable 5 (disabled) Most capable for your hardest and longest-running tasks · Disable zero data retention to unlock Fable 5 access"

neviron Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup

> Crazy. Those same enterprises will get sticker shock and leave.

They are already. Both for sticker shock, and also because of developer sentiment beginning to shift towards Codex. …and then in a month or two the winds will shift again, I'm sure.

It's interesting to see how Claude Code got commoditized so quickly.

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> and they have the vastly better brand

Strong disagree there. Anthropic has pretty successfully branded themselves as the more ethical & 'human' of the two companies. (whether that's the actual reality is irrelevant)

neviron Claude Design

Especially considering this is very very similar to Figma Make

neviron Cursor 3

Same here. And just recently made the switch back to VS Code with CC

Also means you don't have to deal with Cursor's busted VS Code plugins due to licensing or forking drift (e.g. Python intellisence, etc)

neviron Claude Code's new hidden feature: Swarms

https://gist.github.com/kieranklaassen/d2b35569be2c7f1412c64...

Looks like claude calls it just "teams" under the covers

neviron AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas'

Juniors are also more likely to be the MOST proficient/comfortable with AI tooling.

Pair them with a senior so they can learn engineering best practices:

And now you've also just given your senior engineers some extra experience/insights into how to more effectively leverage AI.

It accelerates the org to have juniors (really: a good mix of all experience levels)

neviron Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed

I think a big part of the switching cost is the cost of learning a different model's nuances. Having good intuition for what works/doesn't, how to write effective prompts, etc.

Maybe someday future models will all behave similarly given the same prompt, but we're not quite there yet

neviron Claude Opus 4.5

Same here. Gemini really excels at all the "softer" parts of the development process (which, TBH, feels like most of the work). And Claude kicks ass at the actual code authoring.

It's a really nice workflow.

neviron AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1

It sure is a blast when they decide to cut off (or simulate the loss of) a whole DC just to see what breaks, I bet :)

neviron AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1

It's really not that nefarious.

IAD datacenters have forever been the place where Amazon software developers implement services first (well before AWS was a thing).

Multi-AZ support often comes second (more than you think; Amazon is a pragmatic company), and not every service is easy to make TRULY multi-AZ.

And then other services depend on those services, and may also fall into the same trap.

...and so much of the tech/architectural debt gets concentrated into a single region.

neviron AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1

It also doesn't help that most companies using AWS aren't remotely close to multi-region support, and that us-east-1 is likely the most populated region.

neviron OpenAI Needs $400B In The Next 12 Months

> but the US is going to ensure that the energy capability is there.

We're doing a pretty shit job of ensuring that today. Capacity is already intensely strained, and the govt seems to be decelerating investment into power capacity growth, if anything

neviron OpenAI Needs $400B In The Next 12 Months

The capital cost is even less insane than the fact that power utility companies are the real constraint on this industry.

North American grids are starving for electricity right now.

Someone ought to do a deep dive into how much actual total excess power capacity we have today (that could feasibly be used by data center megacampuses), and how much capacity is coming online and when.

Power plants are massively slow undertakings.

All these datacenters deals seem to be making an assumption that capacity will magically appear in time, and/or that competition for it doesn't exist.

neviron The bloat of edge-case first libraries

The Rust equivalent is more like using `unsafe` and derefing raw pointers

neviron New Mexico is first state in US to offer universal child care

Like all things: the extremes are never good, and it's all about getting a healthy balance.

- Kids need lots of time with their parents

- Kids need lots of time around other kids

You can do that by sending them to daycare, and ALSO spending lots of time with them when they're home.

You can also do that by taking time off work, and then taking your kid(s) to places with other kids.

Both work; and it depends on your context which works for you.

neviron Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway

This looks super neat!

But for the love of God, AWS really needs a better approach to naming products.

neviron Imagen 4 is now generally available

Yes, but usage was very limited / restricted. Now it's widely available

neviron Gemma 3 270M: Compact model for hyper-efficient AI

IIRC that Android (at least Pixel devices) use fine-tuned Gemma model(s) for some on-device assistant things

neviron Claude Code is all you need

I see this too, also for engineers that have only interacted with relational dbs via ORMs & query builders

neviron U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites

If the regime survives, it is also going to target (and murder) a whole hell of a lot of innocent civilians that it suspects aided Israel (and many/most will almost certainly be innocent). Due process is not a thing with IRGC.