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I used to like Steve's posts. They were all way too long, but a fun and interesting read nonetheless. He started to lose me when at Sourcegraph where he oversel

by bambax 2mo ago

I used to like Steve's posts. They were all way too long, but a fun and interesting read nonetheless. He started to lose me when at Sourcegraph where he oversell Cody which didn't do anything useful (I even had a commercial meeting with Sourcegraph people who weren't of much help); then he completely lost me with his GasTown business where AI meets crypto (what could possibly go wrong with that). Now I can't read anything from him anymore ;-(

tclancy 2mo ago
It is a rough go for a long-time reader, the bragging tone of six figure engagements and “whales” (i.e., suckers) keeping the game going. The statement that what he is doing is what the reader will soon catch up to feels like someone who can no longer see land. That said, as another nut with an agent factory toiling away around me, I’ve also started to think about replacing any kind of CI in the cloud with local. I couldn’t quite keep myself at the article to read what comes next, so I guess I will catch up to it down the road.
- Garlef 2mo ago
  > I’ve also started to think about replacing any kind of CI in the cloud with local. Same here. But maybe the answer is not `local` but "dispatch workload (to wherever) from your CLI"
  - tclancy 2mo ago
    This creeped me out a little, simply because about a week before Anthropic started using the name, it’s what Claude suggested for the harness we had built and all of the command line instructions look like “dispatch noun verb”
    - Garlef 2mo ago
      Maybe that's just language preferences the LLMs proliferate
kelnos 2mo ago
> They were all way too long And still are. When I got to his "Lots to cover today! Let's get to it.", I was like "wait, we haven't started yet?" I used to read his stuff regularly prior to his Sourcegraph days, and I don't recall why I stopped. Completely agree that he was always fun to read. So I was really disappointed to start reading this one (I'll leave the tab open, but probably won't finish it). Sounds like he's pretty out of touch with reality these days and isn't grounded at all. Like the sibling poster, I gagged a little at his casual mention of six-figure teaching engagements, and the "suckers" (that's what "whales" read to me as well) keeping his game alive.
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by bambax 2mo ago

tclancy 2mo ago

It is a rough go for a long-time reader, the bragging tone of six figure engagements and “whales” (i.e., suckers) keeping the game going. The statement that what he is doing is what the reader will soon catch up to feels like someone who can no longer see land. That said, as another nut with an agent factory toiling away around me, I’ve also started to think about replacing any kind of CI in the cloud with local. I couldn’t quite keep myself at the article to read what comes next, so I guess I will catch up to it down the road.

Garlef 2mo ago
> I’ve also started to think about replacing any kind of CI in the cloud with local. Same here. But maybe the answer is not `local` but "dispatch workload (to wherever) from your CLI"
- tclancy 2mo ago
  This creeped me out a little, simply because about a week before Anthropic started using the name, it’s what Claude suggested for the harness we had built and all of the command line instructions look like “dispatch noun verb”
  - Garlef 2mo ago
    Maybe that's just language preferences the LLMs proliferate

kelnos 2mo ago

> They were all way too long And still are. When I got to his "Lots to cover today! Let's get to it.", I was like "wait, we haven't started yet?" I used to read his stuff regularly prior to his Sourcegraph days, and I don't recall why I stopped. Completely agree that he was always fun to read. So I was really disappointed to start reading this one (I'll leave the tab open, but probably won't finish it). Sounds like he's pretty out of touch with reality these days and isn't grounded at all. Like the sibling poster, I gagged a little at his casual mention of six-figure teaching engagements, and the "suckers" (that's what "whales" read to me as well) keeping his game alive.

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