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by film42 11mo ago
At this point I'm only using google models via Vertex AI for my apps. They have a weird QoS rate limit but in general Gemini has been consistently top tier for everything I've thrown at it. Anecdotal, but I've also not experi
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by film42 11mo ago
It's a cash grab. More conversational AI means more folks running out of free or lower paid tier tokens faster, leading to more upsell opportunities. API users will pay more in output tokens by default. Example, I asked Claude a high l
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by film42 1y ago
AKA... 70% of existing google cloud users have filled out a support ticket, which starts with a chat bot.
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by film42 1y ago
Maybe look at R2 or Wasabi instead of S3. That would cut your storage bill by 3x and take your cloud network bill to zero. IMO self-managing DBs always sucks no matter what you do.
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by film42 1y ago
Or you have PTSD after 10 years of being on-call 24/7 for your company's stack. I've built my next chapter around offloading the pager. Worth every penny.
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by film42 1y ago
They created their business on open source. Free software was their top of funnel. Free customers become paid customers, and fund the business. They are more than welcome to change this, but there is no way they don't end up with egg o
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by film42 1y ago
I have a feeling this is IBM dipping their toes into the water of Postgres after seeing Databricks acquire Neon and Snowflake acquire CrunchyData. Won't be surprised if IBM acquires them next year. It makes a lot of sense and I wish ev
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by film42 1y ago
I'm a fan because it's something you can explicitly turn on and off. For my Docker based app, I really want to verify the completeness of imports. Preferably, at build and test time. In fact, most of the time I will likely disable
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by film42 1y ago
My guess is both will look about the same with real world workloads. Worker is certainly more predictable which is safer in general. That said, I appreciate the callout about signal throughput on workers (fewer connections farm to more proc
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by film42 1y ago
Very cool post. If Jeff Geerling is reading this, I wouldn't mind watching a video on each of these ;)
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Not smarter, just better(film42.substack.com)
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by film42 1y ago
I think I update Vundle like once every 3 years.
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by film42 1y ago
The 1M token context was Gemini's headlining feature. Now, the only thing I'd like Claude to work on is tokens counted towards document processing. Gemini will often bill 1/10th the tokens Anthropic does for the same document
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by film42 1y ago
Agree but pricing wise, Gemini 2.5 pro wins. Gemini input tokens are half the cost of Claude 4. Output is $5/million cheaper than Claude. But, document processing is significantly cheaper. A 5MB PDF (customer invoice) with Gemini is li
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by film42 1y ago
Is there a crowd-sourced sentiment score for models? I know all these scores are juiced like crazy. I stopped taking them at face value months ago. What I want to know is if other folks out there actually use them or if they are unreliable.
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by film42 1y ago
Thanks for your comment! I have a few PDFs that I need to generate for groups of users every so often and since wkhtmltopdf is considered EOL, I've been forced to use chrome (which sucks to manage). I just rewrote that code to use Typs
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by film42 1y ago
Looks great! I'm definitely in the market for something like this; and building on top of helm charts makes me want to try it out. Can Canine automatically upgrade my helm charts? That would be killer. I usually stay on cloud-hosted pa
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by film42 1y ago
Congrats to the Crunchy Data team! Thanks for making containerized postgres so easy for years and years. Wish you all the best!
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by film42 1y ago
Congrats to the teams! Like others have said, your pricing ends up killing adoption for my company. We ended up self-hosting Airbyte. It ain't perfect but at least we're not paying $10/GB to replicate data within our own VPC.
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by film42 1y ago
Exactly. But using AI to summarize articles, stitch them together, etc. under the Wikipedia brand as a product is something they could easily sell. I can totally see a university buying WikiResearch™ for every student.
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by film42 1y ago
I'm guessing any useful use of AI has already been adopted by some volunteers. Wikipedia might be able to build tools around the parts that work well, but the volunteers will end up footing the bill for the AI spend. Wikipedia will pro
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by film42 1y ago
Same. Shorts are actually a great product in terms of capturing attention, but I don't want them on youtube. I hear someone from the back shouting, "you're not the customer, you're the product!" but I pay for youtub
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by film42 1y ago
I agree, but I have a feeling this isn't a small fix. Sounds like someone picked a mechanism that seemed to be equivalent but is not. Swapping that will require a lot of time and testing.
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by film42 1y ago
I think AWS will need to update their documentation to communicate this. Will a snapshot isolation fix introduce a performance regression in latency or throughput? Or, maybe they stand by what they have as being strong enough. Either way, t
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by film42 1y ago
To quote David from the Acquired episode on Meta: > I really want to keep hitting on this insight again, that Mark correctly identified of social shifting from the town square to the living room. This is a second order effect of that shi
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by film42 1y ago
I generated 5 images in the playground. One using a text-only prompt and 4 using images from my phone. I spent $0.85 which isn't bad for a fun round of Studio Ghibli portraits for the family group chat, but too expensive to be used in
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by film42 1y ago
TIL! That's pretty cool. I still think if you have no reason to catch an error (i.e. state tracking, etc.) then you should not.
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by film42 1y ago
Redis is great for caching a customer config that's hit 2000 times/second by your services, but even then, an in-mem cache with short TTL would make redis more tolerant to failure. This would be great for the in-mem part.
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by film42 1y ago
Nice! In rails I end up using Rails.cache most of the time because it's always "right there" but I like how you break out the cache to be a per-method to minimize contention. Depending on your workload it might make sense to
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by film42 1y ago
Is the new valuation multiplier number of developers on platform instead of revenue? Valuing at $1000/developer is kind of insane. Valuing at $570/database is also nuts. It's a cool product but I hope the founders can find a

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