Jorge Lopes

- Read your stuff and nothing else.

[Jorge Lopes @jorgelopes_r]

Always remember: “It is not the critic who counts”

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The fear of losing something seems to bring down societies. Is there a name for this?

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@thsottiaux Hats off for using "kerfuffle"!

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@peduarte spotted a colleague actually using spotlight this week. 😨
Send help.

[Jorge Lopes @jorgelopes_r]

Is everything a show now?

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How much of tech is solving problems that we created ourselves but refuse to simply undo?

[Simon Grimm @Simon__Grimm]

A couple of weeks ago, I visited my hometown of Laufenburg in northern Switzerland, for a middle-school reunion. While there, I noticed a gigantic construction site just outside of town.

Talking with my schoolmates, it turned out to be a 400 MW data center site.

The five-person town council went back and forth over whether to approve it, but ultimately, if the project works out, the income it generates will be enormous! Because of Switzerland's decentralized taxation system, the town will earn 5.94% of corporate profits, and the company building the data center is located in Laufenburg. So if the project works out, Laufenburg's financial future looks pretty good!

Who finances it? I looked into the documents of the company behind it, and it mostly seems to be rich people from Switzerland. Laufenburg is located next to one of Europe's largest substations, and that substation has already granted the project a 800 MW grid connection. They are now building the world's largest flow battery, which will allow them to power the data center during times when grid prices peak. All of which looks like a decent setup for a data center project.

It's of course not assured that the project will work out. But it shows how such data center projects should work: compensating locals lavishly while financing the project through the private sector. Subsidizing data centers makes basically no sense—they are among the most profitable pieces of infrastructure you can possibly build!

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All of the tech companies seem to be converging into the same company

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Experience trumps efficiency

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@GergelyOrosz I'd argue that if this is really to be a consumer success, the fact of it being somehow related to Musk will be irrelevant. It is almost a requirement that it is not an important factor for it to be really mass-adopted and not only tech-circle hype.

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The same people that claims to be replacing their saas with home-grown alternatives are the ones obsessed about token-pricing and tracking of token optimization on their engineering teams. Maybe there is a correlation between these two phenomena?

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An observation: most men wear shoes that are too small.

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It is kind of crazy to drive something that is running thousands of explosions a second and that needs constant refueling with highly flammable liquid

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A few patterns:

1. Error in prod -> agent -> diff -> merge
2. Issue description -> agent -> diff -> merge
3. Agent orchestration -> describe issues n-> agents -> diffs -> merge
4. Idea -> agent -> diff -> merge
5. DB query insight -> agent -> diff -> merge

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Are all dev related SaaS going to become the same thing?
-> input -> agent -> diff -> merge

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@signulll South Americans is quite the big group. Don't see Brazil nor the brazilian teams playing dirty. In fact this is heavily frowned upon in Brazil and criticized. For reference argentinian clubs have not won a Libertadores in a long time and I guess this dirty play is part of it.

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@peduarte Your pictures, mate 👌
When you visit Copenhagen, hit me up. Would be glad to take you for a coffee and show you around (in case you need showing around that is)

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I've been coding ever day (literally!) in the past 5 years or so and love it.
But it hurts my eyes to read senior engineers saying stuff like "LLM's are a great tool.....for non-technical people"

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@peduarte @peduarte decaf recommendations in europe?

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@zeeg Tell us about the simrig!