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Very cool article. Wish it didn't have silly AI-isms: > This is the shape Distr lands on
by philipallstar 6mo ago
Very cool article. Wish it didn't have silly AI-isms:
> This is the shape Distr lands on
- Cthulhu_ 6mo agoIt's an AI company, it's kind of expected at this point - who would take an AI company seriously if they don't use AI themselves?
- dewey 6mo agoWhy do you say it's an AI company? It seems like their business is "Distribute your application to self-managed customers" not especially AI focused.
- hnlmorg 6mo agoEvery company these days are AI companies. Even the ones you’d least expect. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c98mrepzgj7o https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c98mrepzgj7o
- dwedge 6mo agoThey said they help deployments for "software companies and AI companies" which I thought was an interesting distinction
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- dewey 6mo agoThat's just different customer personas for marketing reasons, just like Vercel has "Build and deploy on the AI Cloud" as their main tag line on the landing page. It doesn't mean they are an "AI company".
- philipallstar 6mo agoI think it's just to get the AI keyword in there.
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- threecheese 6mo agoI quite like the “shape” term; every type of (sigh…) stakeholder … understands it, and I don’t need to swap in terms like “interface”, api, contract, architecture, structure, etc - unless I want to talk specifically about that thing. Everyone can fit a triangle and parallelogram in their mind, which is just dandy when I’m just trying to communicate difference. “Lands on”? I like that less.
- philipallstar 6mo agoI think it just means "This is how Distr works", which seems clear enough.