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code cowboy with a splash of vibe

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@jayair An organization or individual overly concerned about their SDLC is distracting themselves from a problem in their product

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and its impossible to have rational conversations about it with them. I can't name any specific people because they include personal friends I deeply respect, but I worry about how this plays out.

I lived through the great MTBF vs MTTR (mean-time-between-failure vs. mean-time-to-recovery) reckoning of infrastructure during the transition to cloud and cloud automation. All those arguments are rearing their ugly heads again but now its... the whole software development industry (maybe the whole world, really).

It's frightening, because the psychosis folks operate under an almost absolute "MTTR is all you need" mentality: "its fine to ship bugs because the agents will fix them so quickly and at a scale humans can't do!" We learned in infrastructure that MTTR is great but you can't yeet resilient systems entirely.

The main issue is I don't even know how to bring this up to people I know personally, because bringing this topic up leads to immediately dismissals like "no no, it has full test coverage" or "bug reports are going down" or something, which just don't paint the whole picture.

We already learned this lesson once in infrastructure: you can automate yourself into a very resilient catastrophe machine. Systems can appear healthy by local metrics while globally becoming incomprehensible. Bug reports can go down while latent risk explodes. Test coverage can rise while semantic understanding falls. Changes happens so fast that nobody notices the underlying architecture decaying.

I worry.

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

"oh we're building an answer to openclaw" who gives a shit man. who cares.

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@ThePrimeagen Boi have I got a conference then

https://t.co/0IRMxZpyU7

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@Nick_Latcham @kenwheeler Fair enough, plus if you win in Vegas you have a story people don’t hate you for having

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My man has never been to a chipotle

[Felipe O. Carvalho @_Felipe]

@mitchellh You won’t have any problem if you tastefully apply these constructs to a project. But taste doesn’t scale.

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XBOX CLOUD GAMING WILL RISE FROM THE ASHES OF AI.

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

@pmddomingos that's...entirely wrong? These data centers are going to be full of expensive GPUs that have two things (training or inference) - the GPUs being cheaper for someone to buy up will not make running them cheaper, nor are GPUs particularly flexible in what they can do

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@RhysSullivan No but you get really freaking close by building a harness environment with Daytona and Cloudflare IMO

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Isaac Newton was bested by midwits. Never underestimate the stupidity of the median

[Arikalabs @Arikalabs]

it's wild how VS Code became the industry standard while JetBrains spent years building actually superior IDEs that nobody wants to pay for anymore

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Kubernetes is the same

[Anurag Goel @anuraggoel]

AWS isn't poorly designed.

It's just not made for you. It was built for infrastructure engineers, while most of us are product builders.

Different users, different mental models. We've been conflating them for decades.

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@jayair Seems like their context window got too big and are hallucinating. Have you considered firing them for openclaw with a good memory backend?

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The year of the GitLab/GitTea server has arrived

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

@stolinski Yes. But also if you self host you don’t have to worry about web scale. Services aren’t hard to keep up if you have 1 user (private, you) or 500 (a popular but not huge community). Even at Ghostty scale a self hosted forge can run on a single local DB.

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@thekitze If the employer is paying: $500 a month
If the employee is paying: $100 a month

IMO if I can get decent auto-complete with JetBrains at $16 a month using their LSP 200 for inference is stupid. I'd be better off typing faster and feeding my family

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@tekbog ClankerCloud idea: one click secure GitLab self-hosted deploys that have private backplane connectivity to your cloud environment for runners and deploys

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Crazy that Microsoft funded the invention of a thing that would turn to GitHub into their most profitable Enterprise and then absolutely fumbled it

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In 24 months this will be the industry norm if subsidies crash hard

[dax @thdxr]

we tell our employees they have unlimited tokens but we just take it out of their paycheck

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@vikhyatk It is easier to expand the AWS bill than it is to add a new vendor. We shouldn’t be automating software engineers we should be automating finance bros

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@tekbog Looks like it became Microsoft ClankerCloud by the aesthetics here

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

A society that prioritizes adult individuals over children and families is destined for misery. I don’t blame the adults, they’re just doing what our culture says we should do: look after ourselves first and only, bc people we don’t know aren’t our problem.

If a pregnant or elderly woman wants your seat on the subway, too bad, she should have gotten there first.