claytonjy

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by claytonjy 1mo ago
Betteridge’s law prevails. A fun read, but not as fun as the title suggests. tl;dr Modern art existed before the CIA and even CIA predecessors did not originate it, but they did push it abroad to show that America is great because we put up
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by claytonjy 1mo ago
They do, it’s called the AMA, American Medical Association. Very tight control of who can be a doctor, how many new doctors per year, etc. which ensures salaries stay high. They also fight against other roles like nurses doing too much doct
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by claytonjy 2mo ago
The author re-implemented a bunch of k8s logic in a typescript library just for these animations: https://github.com/ngrok/webernetes
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by claytonjy 2mo ago
you might be looking for SemiAnalysis? I only read the free portions of articles but they have various paid options, mostly targeting investors with information and tools. https://semianalysis.com/
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by claytonjy 2mo ago
I haven’t worked at a Big Tech monorepo place, but I hope/assume that in the service dependency case, you would touch both in one changeset and the deploy tooling understands the dependency tree and orders the deployments correctly. Wi
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by claytonjy 2mo ago
if service A calls service B, and service B adds a new endpoint, or a new optional argument, service A needs an update to take advantage of it if a library is used by multiple services, and gets an important bug fix, each service using the
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by claytonjy 2mo ago
does one not imply the other? if it can run faster in the same hardware, it should also run as fast on lower spec hardware
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by claytonjy 2mo ago
the last step, #7, is that fully automated or is this humans calling humans? I imagine everything before then is quite automated, and are thus happening very quickly, so I'm curious if the last piece possible being manual has the poten
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by claytonjy 2mo ago
> There are 'points of view' that emerge during coding I know it’s a bit cliche at this point, but this harkens to “programming as theory building”[0] which I agree is easy to lose out on when embracing agentic coding today. [0
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by claytonjy 2mo ago
thanks for pointing out the linear PR stuff, hadn’t seen that. Interesting that while a dozen other companies are trying to muscle in on the hosting/versioning side of github, rather fewer are working on the PR side.
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by claytonjy 2mo ago
Isn’t this how most tech companies, if not most companies in general, operate? Ive only had one BYOD job in 15 years. Even if you’re a contractor this is common.
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by claytonjy 2mo ago
I think there’s a bit more nuance and complexity here. I built and operated an application that used 1-2000 L4 GPUs in production for a couple of years. Long-term GCP reservations running in a GKE cluster. At that scale we had a few GPU fai
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by claytonjy 2mo ago
How big is this market, self-hosting a model that requires 64 GPUs, H100 or better, with good interconnects between nodes? I suspect the overlap of those that can afford it, and those that have the talent to manage it, is a fairly thin slic
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by claytonjy 4mo ago
I can also use the models anytime, and for a lot of time, until i’m anywhere close to salary for an engineer like that
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by claytonjy 4mo ago
release-please[0] allows you to do a manual version override in a commit, which would allow you to decrement the major version upon reverting a breaking change I think that could be simplified, so the tool can tell that a commit is revertin
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by claytonjy 4mo ago
With a lot of the adult-oriented sets (ICONS and others), especially anything plant-based, they go out of their way to point out how they're using existing pieces in an unusual way. One example is the cherry blossoms on the bonsai tree
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by claytonjy 5mo ago
Kind of the opposite, I was deep in the R world a decade ago and there was a huge trend of replacing Java dependencies with C/++ ones because the JVM was such a pain to manage. The community eagerly adopted the replacements about as so
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by claytonjy 5mo ago
I experienced a flavor of this, too. We had some outages, management said no more daytime deploys, so we had after-hours “deploy parties” whose scope and participant count increased weekly. The smarter managers said it was temporary, but co
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by claytonjy 5mo ago
I don’t know how big the market is, but seems pretty commercial-friendly to this old magic player. I have a big box of cards from a few decades ago I’ve held onto. I’ve thought about selling them, but it seems i either take them to a shop a
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by claytonjy 5mo ago
What sorts of sites are you thinking of? To me, “most useful to a programmer” evokes docs and blogs and github issues and forum posts. I suppose some forums might be AI-resistant (login wall), but the others are trivially AI accessible.
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by claytonjy 5mo ago
Yeah this sounds pretty reasonable really, like instead of using a CMS directly they’re having Claude file PRs to make the same changes. As someone who likes static sites and change control, it actually sounds like an improvement.
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by claytonjy 5mo ago
It is, but it’s the only way for a company to succeed and scale over time. A pet approach works well in the early days, but you can’t become a VC-backed success without drastically reducing bus factors throughout the company. That could be
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by claytonjy 5mo ago
My experience as well. It sounds nice at first, but since it’s tied to org flattening these “player-coaches” end up with 15-20 reports, which is way too many for even a pure manager. I noticed it was especially bad for on-call and incident
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by claytonjy 6mo ago
This is what i often do, but i have never been able to get many coworkers onboard. In my experience I’d say less than 5% of all software folk i’ve worked with are willing to do an interactive rebase; everyone else finds it too scary
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by claytonjy 7mo ago
> most teams we talk to can't even tell you how many GPUs are in use right now how can this be? isn’t this a trivial metric to pull from any clouds monitoring service? to get the good ones (H100+) you generally have to reserve them,
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by claytonjy 8mo ago
Even before LLMs, Data Science was being replaced by more specialization, IME. Data Engineers took over the plumbing once they moved on from Scala and Spark. ML Engineers took over the modeling (and LLMs are now killing this job too, as it’
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by claytonjy 10mo ago
not even google thinks this will happen, given their insistence on only offering TPU access through their cloud
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by claytonjy 1y ago
plans now open in a separate file tab, and if you don’t accept it, it just…disappears so you can’t discuss it!
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by claytonjy 1y ago
you can’t really buy H100s except in multiples of 8. If you want fewer, you must rent. Even then, hyperscalers tend to be a bit inflexible there; GCP only recently added support for smaller shapes, and they can’t yet be reserved, only on-de
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by claytonjy 1y ago
We have common words for those two flavors of “fast” already: latency and throughput. S3 has high latency (arguable!), but very very high throughput.

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