Timothy Downs

AWS 🌧 opinions here just my own. or the opinion of whoever I read on HN most recently. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Timothy Downs @timothy_downs]

@GeoffreyHuntley #1 thing of the year for sure

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@GeoffreyHuntley @LukeParkerDev Sadly web_search seems to be one of the most important parts of a harness

[Steve Yegge @Steve_Yegge]

I talk to so many tech leaders at huge companies every week. One of the most brutal failure patterns for executive teams right now is thinking that AI is like SOC 2 compliance: a new checkbox item that they have to allocate some resources to, to make their governance people happy. They think, we'll get AI "done" in Q3 or Q4 and finally be able to move on to other stuff.

What they don't see is that their entire company is going to change shape over the next few years, regardless of what they think, or want. Their current hierarchy will be gone, nearly unrecognizable from what gets rebuilt in its ashes. Everyone will be conducting their business VERY differently from how they do it today.

AI not some compliance drill. Leaders need to get in front of this situation before it overwhelms them.

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@antirez Great news for the tech world, less good for the world of literature!

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@GergelyOrosz Classification and extraction - e.g. content moderation and pulling structured data from documents.

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@riffraff @antirez @dhh I have a really good HEPA filter and I still want one of these to validate how much of my house is filtered.

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@rothgar Never had activation energy to try this, but if it’s where the stars of AWS are going…

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@petehanssens I like it when people want tried and tested approaches to LLM usage🤓

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@rothgar 😢

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@antirez I couldn’t get Whisper working on streaming audio though (although your point is still 100% on point). Picovoice worked super well for me even streaming on a Pi.

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@NMoutschen @dustinliukkonen As someone on the other side: 1000% agree. Please give strong feedback both to the SA and the docs page. The SA role requires a. long nights to deeply understand things, b. brutal honesty when we don’t have this understanding.

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@petehanssens I’ve found the input delay on the iPad to be a frustrating. Everything seems just a little slower due to animations, and copy pasting feels much slower. Otherwise seems fine!

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@petehanssens Oh man people still follow the Gartner magic quadrant? This brings back horrific memories…

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@MatterOfStats LLMs also seem to prefer 'Yes', can't argue with that.

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@MatterOfStats Your tweet prompted me to actually read https://t.co/LF2MmbUNtB and it seems reasonable.

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@gwenshap Redis Streams, but you do need to add your own debounce and batching logic.

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@theburningmonk The trouble is it is not ‘companies’ that make that technical decision, it is individuals with their own personal agenda. I rarely see this agenda overlap too much with what the company needs.

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@kore_sar Please do! I’d love to hear the details.

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@__steele Random cheap high throughput queues.. why not Redis? LPUSH if single consumer, XADD if multiple consumers are needed.

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@ben11kehoe G14 Zephyrus has been the best laptop I’ve ever had.