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by cpursley 1y ago
How are you prepping the PDF data before shoving it into Qwen?
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by cpursley 1y ago
What’s funny is Postgres alone can handle this entire workload decently well.
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by cpursley 1y ago
Well, your customers do. Having to relearn an entire new set of UI patterns for each site/application is exhausting for regular people. Don't make your users think.
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by cpursley 1y ago
I'm just shocked people like you are blaming the victim instead of the shooter. I didn't follow that guy and don't really care which topics he covered, he didn't deserve to be killed. If anything, this just makes the tra
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by cpursley 1y ago
Pretty prevalent theme on reddit.
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by cpursley 1y ago
Qwen code is pretty decent but it’s no Claude. How would you compare Z?
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by cpursley 1y ago
That’s hilarious. How’s this model in practice?
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by cpursley 1y ago
Even second generation Latin American folks who speak English fine often perform poorly. It's cultural but we're not supposed to talk about it. Saw a lot of it first hand via the family business; it's truly bewildering and ev
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by cpursley 1y ago
Guess I'm just not webscale™
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by cpursley 1y ago
Also, no way retrieval performance is going to match pgvector because you still have to join the external vector with your domain data in the main database at the application level, which is always going to be less performant.
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by cpursley 1y ago
For the vast majority of applications, the trade off is worth keeping everything in Postgres vs operational overhead of some VC hype data store that won’t be around in 5 years. Most people learned this lesson with Mongo (postgrest jsonb is
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by cpursley 1y ago
Postgres has pgvector. Postgres is where all of my data already lives. It’s all open source and runs anywhere. What am I missing with the specialty vector stores?
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by cpursley 1y ago
Good the hear it’s competent with Elixir! How would you compare it to Claude?
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by cpursley 1y ago
Buy? Lol he most certainly didn’t purchase it.
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by cpursley 1y ago
Well, they can't exactly test that particular system without causing massive ecosystem damage. As for your first comment - you are commenting from a politically motivated position, not a technical one. Said another way, you are making
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by cpursley 1y ago
What? Leading edge LLMs are great at architecture, schema design and that sort of thing if you give them enough context and are not working on anything too esoteric. I’d argue they are better at this than the actual coding part.
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by cpursley 1y ago
This feels a whole lot like when everybody with VC cash was using Mongo. And I see that as a competitive advantage if your competitor is using these types of technologies, it means you can out maneuver them and build a better product.
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by cpursley 1y ago
I moved from Heroku -> to Render.com in a day, then later Render -> Fly in a couple hours because everything was already dockerized. I’ve never really have to think about my servers on any of these providers, they just run.
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by cpursley 1y ago
And how much time are you spending babysitting all of this? What’s your upgrade, deploy and rollback story? Because I don’t have to even think about these things.
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by cpursley 1y ago
If you enjoy playing with servers instead of shipping features, enjoy!
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by cpursley 1y ago
Yeah, Claude has gotten much better with Elixir. I think too many people expect one-shot miracles, but you have to guide it along like you would a junior, including directing it towards the proper context.
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by cpursley 1y ago
This is why I recommend the functional programming map pattern ;)
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by cpursley 1y ago
Yeah, also a happy neon customer - but they can get pricy. Still prefer them over AWS. For compute, Fly is pretty competitive.
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by cpursley 1y ago
Yep, this is why I'm a proponent of paas until the bill actually hurts. Just pay the heroku/render/fly tax and focus on product market fit. Or, play with servers and K8s, burning your investors money, then move on to the next
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by cpursley 1y ago
I'll never have enough imagination to believe mongo is a good solution. Postgres has jsonb, vector type; redis is a fine-enough cache. Why use a known junk "database" when there are superior solutions and truly open source?
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by cpursley 1y ago
Lost me at DumpsterFireDB as cache. But if the goal is to create an even worse architecture thats even harder to maintain, go for it.
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by cpursley 1y ago
Huh? You purchase insurance and invest into retirement funds.
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by cpursley 1y ago
“Enjoy their paycheck”, there - fixed it for you
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by cpursley 1y ago
You saw what you wanted to see.
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by cpursley 1y ago
You missed how they quickly caught up (even surpassed the west in some cases) in vehicle manufacturing, electronics like phones and 5G, drones. Where they haven’t quite yet, they are very very close.

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