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by re-thc 8mo ago
> There's a point at which these things become Good Enough though Well sure. Like there's McDonalds and let's just not care about health or better tastes. The world keeps improving or you're left behind. > While I
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by re-thc 8mo ago
> Maybe? I could see that happening. It already is. Besides dedicated options (which are just as expensive) - those shared cores are so old the performance compared to current line AWS models is so far out that it isn't competitive.
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by re-thc 8mo ago
> Essentially people get fooled by survivorship bias It's still a thing today though? It's not survivorship bias. Take the Microwave example. In a lot of countries it is very hard to buy just a traditional (convection) Microwav
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by re-thc 8mo ago
> when I can just write a simple bash script to accomplish the same thing At this point you don't need most things...
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by re-thc 8mo ago
> For example, it's possible to make hiking boots that last a lot longer than others. But if the requirement is to have it last for just 20 miles, it's better to pay less for one that won't last as long. That's rewrit
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by re-thc 8mo ago
Nvidia GB300 i.e. Blackwell.
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by re-thc 8mo ago
> I see people at work who are drooling about being able to have code made for them These people just drool at being able to have work done for them to begin with. Are you sure it is just "code"?
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by re-thc 8mo ago
> Literally zero downside in it. Any poor valuation or negative news can tank the stock price harder than dealing with it privately.
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by re-thc 8mo ago
Yes, they haven’t updated their infrastructure in a long time. Pricing hence isn’t competitive. With each new generation they fall behind.
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by re-thc 8mo ago
> For a lot of people, they just want to get things done and not have to constantly keep on top of what's new or SOTA That hasn’t been tech for a long time. Frontend has been changing forever. React and friends have new releases all
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by re-thc 8mo ago
What you asked for is AGI. How else does it think, reason and logic to answer your "why"? It doesn't do that currently even if you think it does.
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by re-thc 8mo ago
As many as they want. They can "spin off" and then "merge" again.
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by re-thc 8mo ago
> Yes. Internal IT teams ran old-school are inefficient. They aren't. It's politics. They want to protect and improve their own headcount and resources. > One is hard dollars the other is funny money. All the same to a team
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by re-thc 8mo ago
Not 12M? ... or 12B?
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by re-thc 8mo ago
> The cloud is a psyop, a scam. You're just young. > Suddenly costs didn't matter and scaling was the answer to poor designs. It did. Did you know that cloud cost less than what the internal IT team at a company would charge
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by re-thc 8mo ago
> you shouldn't own the infrastructure (capital expense) and instead just account for the cost as operational expense (opex) That was part of the reason. The real reason was the internal infrastructure team in many orgs got nowhere.
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by re-thc 8mo ago
> Example... It was 2020 and they were using a format that was replaced in 2007. It. says more about their issues than Excel. I doubt paper forms would have saved them. Maybe they'll run out of paper and just ignore new entries too.
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by re-thc 8mo ago
> your infra is so efficient and cheap that even paying 4x for it rather than going for colocation is well worth it because of the QoL and QoS. You don’t need colocation to save 4x though. Bandwidth pricing is 10x. EC2 is 2-4x especially
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by re-thc 8mo ago
> You can definitely ask the agent what it built, why it built it, and what could be improved. If that was true we’d have what they call AGI. So no, it doesn’t actually give you those since it can’t reason and logic in such a way.
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by re-thc 9mo ago
> that is they are describing a new type of programmer that will only use agents and never read the underlying code > and wouldn't look at the code anymore than, say, a PHP developer would look at the underlying assembly This rea
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by re-thc 9mo ago
> We are certainly closer now to being able to prototype and go to market faster with a product. Prototype maybe. Go to market maybe not so. It's giving false hope. You're just taking more shortcuts with prototyping.
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by re-thc 9mo ago
> Anyone overseeing work from multiple people has to? That's not a black box though. Someone is still reading the code. > At some point you have to let go and trust people‘s judgement Where's the people in this case? > Pe
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by re-thc 9mo ago
> I mean if we want recent examples just look at tailwindui since it's technically a SaaS. How is it in any way B2B? At most B2C + freelancers / individuals / really small SME. It didn't have any clues a med/larg
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by re-thc 9mo ago
> I see vibe coding in the business sense right now being a gateway to replace all of the ad hoc uses of excel I rather use Excel. It's likely More robust and safer than the vibe coded app that could trigger data loss / incorre
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by re-thc 9mo ago
> Sure, vibe coding has impacted user's expectations. They know you can ship a new update easier and faster than before - and you actually can. Can you though? With major bugs? We've been getting more and more crashes, downtime
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by re-thc 9mo ago
> I'm still not entirely convinced they actually did Arc themselves Raja ex AMD / Radeon ran the project?
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by re-thc 9mo ago
They did but then it stopped and was scrapped (chief involved also left). So it's more like "re"-start than start.
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by re-thc 9mo ago
Are B2B sales actually impacted or is the stock market just randomly predicting AI will impact B2B and selling off? Since when does stock price / valuation have to match actual business realities?
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by re-thc 9mo ago
Jobs get stuck. Minutes are being consumed. The problem isn't just it being unavailable.
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by re-thc 9mo ago
And the point here is borrowing more money increases available funds for bigger rewards. Google can fund 1 Waymo but not an infinite amount of them.

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