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Cutting layers of bureaucracy not replacing with AI

I grew up recommending windows to everybody I knew for most of my early life. I’ve had my boomer dad on Linux mint for almost a decade. Any time I am asked for a recommendation I cannot say to buy a Mac fast enough. Yes they are overpriced but the build quality to me is worth it. The windows 11 start menu is user hostile, I seriously can’t believe people use that day to day. I’m old enough to remember when they called it Micro$oft -unfortunately Microslop is going to stick (the author is right about the two settings apps). When was the last time you think an exec at MSFT played an Xbox or described using teams as “pleasant”?

“Adobe and Office run better on Mac, change my mind”

Evolution typically happens on the scale of a million years, not a couple generations of human behavior.

AI didn’t kill SAAS- the overinflated P/E values are just returning to something vaguely resembling sanity

It’s not an AI bubble - it’s an inflated P/E bubble.

No, we just want to point out not everybody utilizing agents ends up like LeBron or Jordan - most are Brian Scalabrine.

> This is a five-alarm fire if you're a SWE and not retiring in the next couple years.

I’m sorry, but this is such a hype beast take. In my opinion this is equivalent to telling people not to learn to drive five years ago because of self driving from Tesla. How is that going?

Every single line of code produced is a liability. This idea that you’re going to have “gas town” like agents running and building apps without humans in the loop at any point to generate liability free revenue is insane to me.

Are humans infallible? Obviously not. But if you are telling me that ‘magic probability machines’ are creating safe, secure, and compliant software that has no need for engineers to participate in the output- first I’d like to see a citation and second I have a bridge to sell you.

We use OpenTofu it’s pretty seamless

It doesn't work for me on safari either.

37signals?

Not to go full tin-foil hat - but how do we know it isn't?

IMHO for a comment of this level of vitriol you should probably cite some sources rather than rely on anecdotal evidence.

Interesting, I find myself thinking the exact opposite.

And we wonder why we can’t get along anymore when the only time we go outside it to grab our Amazon packages off the porch.

Growing up on the South Side of Chicago he's probably a White Sox fan.

Speaking of IAC- I have an existing GCP project with some basic infra (service accounts, cloud run jobs, cloud build scripts, and databases) what is the best tool to _import_ all of this into IAC. The only real tool I’ve found is terraformer. I have no dog in the race regarding tooling e.g if my output is Pulumi, terraform, or just straight YAML. I’m just looking to “codify” it.

Any suggestions from experience?

Thanks for pointing it out - I couldn't really follow the full 'drama' between the two threads.

You described the price increasing from $10/month to $300 (which is an order of magnitude). What I meant was when you are saying it equals out (in terms of cost for you) you would expect a similar increase in performance. If that makes sense.

Do you have any resources regarding the resignation I could read?

So it’s an order of magnitude more effective?

Love anything made by Nolen. To me it seems like he’s hitting the sweet spot of developing single purpose apps/sites that give me nostalgia for what the internet used to be like.

Here is an article of how my team had accomplished this with GitHub actions I posted earlier: https://blog.gregweber.info/blog/github-actions-trunk-based-...

Remote management is a requirement for SOC other compliance frameworks.

FYI If you want to turn this off in workspace you'll need to go here https://admin.google.com/ac/managedsettings/47208553126 and here https://admin.google.com/ac/managedsettings/793154499678.

FYI If you want to turn this off in workspace you'll need to go here https://admin.google.com/ac/managedsettings/47208553126 and here https://admin.google.com/ac/managedsettings/793154499678.

> Coding as a profession is completely obsolete.

Citation needed.

> entirely

What would you like to wager on this?

But then the bitcoin could be traced back to Coinbase, where they probably used their bank information to buy it.

I’ll never forget spending the evening of the 2016 election on /pol/

I love these questions. I usually ask some variation of them. The other question I always ask is “What was your first job?” - the way they describe that experience can tell you a lot about a person.