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Fuck that. I just left a job where the IT dept just said "yes and" to the executives for 30 years. It was the most fucked environment I've ever seen, and that's saying a lot coming from the MSP space. Professionals get hired to do these things so they can say "No, that's a terrible idea" when people with no knowledge of the domain make requests. Your attitude is super toxic.

Are you in an area with a bad electrical grid or something? In 40+ years I've never had a single device get fried from a surge/storm. My "surge protector" power strips are from the 90s and probably don't even work.

Not OP but I had an XML file with inconsistent formatting for album releases. I wanted to extract YouTube links from it, but the formatting was different from album to album. Nothing you could regex or filter manually. I shoved it all into a DB, looked up the album, then gave the xml to a local LLM and said "give me the song/YouTube pairs from this DB entry". Worked like a charm.

Missing the point. I no longer need to buy or rely on someone else for software I want to use. A lot of things I want to do ARE one offs. I can write software and throw it away when I'm done.

I've used it to write poetry as a non writer and this screams AI to me. Not that I even care, but it really smells like an AI collab to me.

How can you possibly be this confident if you don't know the number of times Firefox was run and number of bug reports submitted? Say it's run 100,000,000 times, 1000 reports are submitted, and 10 are bit flips. Seems reasonable. You're misinterpreting what they are saying.

Couldn't you just maintain a list of cell tower IPs and figure it out with traceroute?

What you're suggesting is literally impossible. There are plenty of mirrors and random people that download the thing in its entirety. The entire planet would have to be nuked for that to be possible.

And you think just anyone can set that up? No sys admin/infra guy needed? Seems pretty risky.

I think this might miss the point. We put off upgrading to an new RMM at work because I was able to hack together some dashboards in a couple days. It's not novel and does exactly what we need it to do, no more. We don't need to pay 1000's of dollars a month for the bloated Solarwinds stack. We aren't saving lives, we're saving PDFs so any arguments about 5 9s and maintainability are irrelevant. LLMs are going to give us on demand, one off software. I think the SaaS market is terrified right now because for decades they've gouged customers for continual bloat and lock in that now we can escape from. In a single day I was able to build an RMM that fits our needs exactly. We don't need to hire anyone to maintain it because it's simple, like most business applications should be, but SV needs to keep complicating their offerings with bloat to justify crazy monthly costs that should have been a one time purchase from the start. SV shot itself in the face with AI.

In my experience, RAM costs will have very little impact on businesses buying servers. When we buy is pretty much set by contract and warranty cycles.

You need the exact same people to run the infra in the cloud. If they don't have IT at all, they aren't spinning up cloud VMs. You're mixing together SaaS and actual cloud infra.

I can say they are used heavily in the construction industry for Autodesk Cloud to render drawings for field workers. Very resource intensive.

> Is there some evidence of systematic analysis of component parts?

Music theory, Nashville notation

> attempts to model elements of the problem?

Ditto

> data gathering and data analysis?

Listening to a wide variety of music and understanding what make a genre a genre

> simulation?

Cover songs, writing to a style

> Intentional application of principles of physics or some other pure domain to a real world problem?

Literally sound engineering

I played with openclaw for a week and couldn't really find anything interesting to do with it. I'm in the same boat.

You know I tried this exact thing a few months back, sans the ESP32. You just end up writing a state machine and defining a bunch of constants anyway or the LLM just kinda gets stuck in a loop. Hm, it doesn't seem to know when to eat. I'll add a hunger variable... Etc etc until you're not even sure what you want the LLM to do.

They probably have a newly registered domain rule.

"Ok, here's a static bar on the top of the page" as it disappears as you scroll. You can now no longer click anything else on the page. You said "can't click away" and it did show up on top. As a 30 year coder that never did any UI, this is this shit I run into constantly. I can create awesomely cool and fast back end stuff, and can create better UIs than I've ever been able to, but not knowing the nomenclature trips me up constantly.

After your late 20s, that's like 90% of your pool.

Your experience isn't normal and I seriously question it unless there was some sort of criminal activity being investigated or there was known negligence. I worked for a decent sized MSP and have been through crytptolock scenarios.

Insurance pays as long as you aren't knowingly grossly negligent. You can even say "yes, these systems don't meet x standard and we are working on it" and be ok because you acknowledged that you were working on it.

Your boss and your bosses boss tell you "we have to do this so we don't get fucked by insurance if so and so happens" but they are either ignorant, lying, or just using that to get you to do something.

I've seen wildly out of date and unpatched systems get paid out because it was a "necessary tradeoff" between security and a hardship to the business to secure it.

I've actually never seen a claim denied and I've seen some pretty fuckin messy, outdated, unpatched legacy shit.

Bringing a system to compliance can reasonably take years. Insurance would be worthless without the "best effort" clause.