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If these are the priors why would I keep reading?
Overall I do believe this has accelerated our development and I'm interested to see where it goes. I don't think it's a direct comparison to claude code or cursor - its a different approach with some overlap.
That said there are a ton of cons. There's an entrenched management class that is disconnected from reality. There are a number of ~L8-L10 folks who don't believe or understand how they're falling behind the cloudflares and other providers. There is a bizarre arrogance in Seattle that masquerades as "willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time". People aren't afraid enough.
What AWS will struggle with over the next few years is verifying the results of the narratives they tell themselves. At some point along their evolution a disconnect between narrative and reality happened and someone needs to bring everything back to a baseline of reality. Leaders tell a story of their success (that I'm sure they themselves believe) and no one follows through to actually verify the results.
This issue of lack of narrative/reality baseline, to me, is a cancer at the heart of AWS and if it can be addressed then I think they can recover and shine. Otherwise they'll fall into the same trap as MSFT back in the 90s/2000s where they think everything is going just fine while the floor falls out from under them.
I don't have any particular advice. I've been very lucky to join a few companies that were on the run up at the time but I never really knew at the time that they were going to be successful.
I just think blindly pursuing passion to the exclusion of profit will leave most people happy (or not) but impoverished and some people happy, lucky, and wealthy.
It was really just a tongue in cheek comment. I think Paul's advice is inspirational but it should be checked with a healthy dose of reality.
This optimizes for Paul's outcomes not for the individual outcomes.
You clearly didn't read half of the article. 50% of these are purposeful chimes.
Also, why? What is the value of making a compressor or fan more quiet on the 3? It would be much better to lower the cost. Worry about the sound on the higher end vehicles but let the 3 be low cost.
```
curl -sS https://cdn.caylent.com/bedrock_new.zip > bedrock.zip
mkdir -p ~/.aws/models/
unzip bedrock.zip -d ~/.aws/models
```
There are ~1900 publicly traded companies with a market cap over $1B. (NAMER) There are over 1000 privately owned companies with valuations over $1B. (NAMER?)
Writing off startups as not contributing to the economy (jobs, spending with vendors, etc.) is a harder to argue in 2023 than it would have been in the past.
This very well could be the beginning of a stall in the greater economic engine. Except this time it isn't necessarily fueled by failure of the underlying assets. Instead the underlying assets may fail because of the banks. Which could cascade into additional failures across the system.
You build greenfield in cloud precisely because it is greenfield and the utilization isn't well understood. Cloud options let you adjust and experiment quickly. Once a workload is well understood it's a good candidate for optimization, including a move to self managed hardware / on prem.
Buying hardware is a great option once you actually understand the utilization of your product. Just make sure you also have competent operators.
They complied with a legal order - they didn't submit it to the FBI.
Do you need some more tinfoil for your hat?