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This makes me wonder: what do developers, who completely rely on LLMs to write their code, do when the service is down? I realize this is already a problem for
by fainpul 1y ago
This makes me wonder: what do developers, who completely rely on LLMs to write their code, do when the service is down?
I realize this is already a problem for other jobs, which require working with SAAS, but it seems odd to me that now some developers will fall into this "helpless" category as well.
- cjr 1y agoSwitch to codex? :)
- uh_uh 1y agoExactly, these agentic coding tools which operate on your codebase present on your own disk are a lot more fungible than most SaaS.
- ares623 1y agoEven worse the on-call folks who need to do recovery but need an LLM to do it, but surprise they are both on the same cloud provider.
- fragmede 1y agoUse Qwen3/other locally via lm-studio.
- jasonvorhe 1y agoIf they're smart, they just switch to ppq.ai or an openrouter provider where they can purchase prepaid tokens from various providers with many alternative models available.
- mewpmewp2 1y agoNon-serious answer: I'll go for a walk. Serious answer: I can write code manually, but it feels like a waste of time. I'll just go for a walk to synthesize my ideas if a service was down, and I don't think not writing actual code for a day is a huge problem. So focus on health and maybe even talk to humans.
- askl 1y agoGrab a coffee and wait.
- mayhaps 1y agoAs a technical ... I don't know what to call myself anymore; not a product manager but not a developer nor engineer. The answer: audibly swear out loud.
- Aeolun 1y agoClaude/codex herder. They’re like sheep, but a bit smarter.
- mewpmewp2 1y agoI'm calling myself Vibe Director.
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- _DeadFred_ 1y agoWetware interface. You are the wetware interface between the company and the AI it uses.
- jvidalv 1y agoPrepare the prompts for the features.
- block_dagger 1y agoSame as if GitHub were down over the last decade.
- jstummbillig 1y agoWhat do most people do, when the power goes out? We usually try to figure out how to build reliability/redundancy in step with what we require to function as a society under most circumstances without taking outsized losses. When things go worse than anticipated, we take the hit, try to recover and maybe learn to strengthen the system afterwards. I would rate us roughly okay-ish at that, mostly because I don't know what to compare it to, since we are the only species to do it at this level to my knowledge.
- phgn 1y agoUse another AI tool :D
- erikbye 1y agoDoubtful all services are ever down simultaneously, either way: What do devs do when Github or Gitlab is down? AWS? GCP? Azure? Or whatever Atlassian product they're using. Plus, most devs do a bit more than just produce lines of code.
- roman_soldier 1y agoSwitch to Grok or vice versa (I have Pro on both), or use any one of the other free tier LLM's (Gemini, ChatGPT etc)
- efsavage 1y agoEarly in my career (which started in civil engineering) I was working with a man at the very end of his, which started in the 1950s. I was the young tech-focused intern who found a way to use a computer for everything even when printed and sometimes hand-drawn plans were the standard of the day. He asked me once if I knew how to use a slide rule, which I didn't. "Well, what do you do when the power goes out?", he asked. "I go home, just like you would.", I said with a smile. He paused for a moment and nodded, "you know, you're absolutely right".
- fainpul 1y agoNice story. I guess it can be looked at as some sort of parable. But if I take it literally: I never had a power outage at work, but SAAS downtime happens every year (probably multiple times).
- DANmode 1y agoMake sure you have enough vRAM around for the local models! or, take the brief, unscheduled break. Most corporate cultures need it ;]
- cpursley 1y agoI mean, same thing when other web services are down. Try updating your packages without a web connection...
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- rvz 1y ago> This makes me wonder: what do developers, who completely rely on LLMs to write their code, do when the service is down? Even the engineers at these AI companies can't use these LLMs to fix an outage when there is one. Especially SREs. But if one has to just sit there and "wait" for the outage to subside then perhaps the kitchen timer just went off and declared that these "developers" are cooked.