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panic101on What is your strategy in the midst of AI race?

Precisely. AI is hyped right now, and all its flaws are being ignored. Also over time regulators will get involved and put more restrictions on AI.

It was the same with cryptocurrencies and driverless cars.

panic101on Show HN: A new open-source automation tool as an alternative to Ansible/Salt

I like that you made it in Rust, but I'd take YAML over HCL any day.

I guess in Rust it wouldn't take much work to add support for YAML and keep the checks.

Also note that Ansible is slow with default ssh arguments. When configured properly it's quite fast!

panic101on Show HN: Tau – OSS Cloud Platform where `coding locally == production at scale`

It's nice someone is looking at Kubernetes critically.

"Taubyte eliminates the need for DevOps and platform engineering"

Every developer? No, developers that can't keep it simple.

One of the reason Kubernetes became mainstream is developers pushed adoption to get higher paying jobs.

Of course it's managers as well, in an age in which most engineering managers have limited technical knowledge (i.e. wouldn't pass their own engineering interview).

Engineers have lost the ability to keep things simple, to make technical assessments in an objective manner and push back on management.

For most apps that assessment would be: we can put it on a VPS.

panic101on People who don't want to learn how to program can always find a reason not to

I see more and more engineers that wish they had another job. Some are actively trying to get out.