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Founder/CEO at trieve.ai helping with search, recommendations, and RAG
What frustrates me about modern web development is that everyone is focused on making it work much more than they are making it sure it works fast. Then when you go to push back, the response is always something like "we need to not spend time over-optimizing."
Sent this straight to the team slack haha.
YES! YES! I FEEL SO SEEN RIGHT NOW! I find this behavior unbelievably frustrating. It's hard for me to understand why they ever even shipped RSC's without fixing this.
Ramp, a finance company for corporations to manage spend, did something absolutely amazing in New York with one of the actors from the office recently[1]. Those kinds of activities certainly take trained creatives!
The optimistic view is that there are more ads than ever and the bar for what it takes to stand out has been raised. So as someone with liberal arts degree, there is more opportunity for you to leverage that into commercial and creative work than ever before.
[1] https://artofthebrand.substack.com/p/stop-selling-start-ente...
I recall that tailscale DERP servers were always slow and made things feel delayed when they had to be used as a relay.
I think that a disposable camera, or even something fancier, like a Mamiya C330, are better and more gratifying bets for the money.
I cannot believe how much of a pain it was to ship this, though, given how simple it is in theory. Docker has been solving this for a decade, but we are somehow still relearning the lesson that engineers just want to ship their machine to prod.
Exercises like this also seem fun in general. It's a real test of how much you know to start anything from scratch.