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by sanderjd 9mo ago
Yep agreed, totally changes build vs buy decisions. Which is not to say it's always "build" now, but the calculation has changed.
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by sanderjd 10mo ago
Linear progression feels slower (and thus more like a plateau) to me than the end of 2022 through end of 2024 period. The question in my mind is where we are on the s-curve. Are we just now entering hyper-growth? Or are we starting to level
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by sanderjd 10mo ago
I don't think of this as a project manager's role, but an engineering manager's role. The engineers on the team (especially the senior engineers) should be identifying the risks, and the engineering managers should be decidin
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by sanderjd 10mo ago
lol, I probably don't have any, actually. If I recall, I would just write comments when my question differed slightly from one already there. But it's definitely the case that being able to go back and forth quickly with an LLM di
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by sanderjd 10mo ago
Yeah we're not too far from agreement here. Something I think though (which, again, I could very well be wrong about; uncertainty is the only certainly right now) is that "so the person after me would have a good clean idea of wha
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by sanderjd 10mo ago
This is the question! Your narrative is definitely plausible, and I won't be shocked if it turns out this way. But it still isn't my expectation. It wasn't when people were saying this in 2023 or in 2024, and I haven't b
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by sanderjd 10mo ago
So literally everyone in the world? Yeah, seems right!
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by sanderjd 10mo ago
Yeah I love working with Claude Code, I agree that the new models are amazing, but I spend a decent amount of time saying "wait, why are we writing that from scratch, haven't we written a library for that, or don't we have ex
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by sanderjd 10mo ago
> I'm hoping for a world where more end users code (vibe or otherwise) and the solve their own problems with their own software. I think that will make more a smaller, more elite software industry that is more focused on infrastruc
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by sanderjd 10mo ago
The people I admire most talk a lot more about "risk" than about "right vs. wrong". You can do that thing that caused that all-nighter 5 years ago, it isn't "wrong", but it is risky, and the person who p
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by sanderjd 10mo ago
I read the comment more as "based on past experience, it is usually the case that the first 90% is easier than the last 10%", which is the right base case expectation, I think. That doesn't mean it will definitely play out th
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by sanderjd 10mo ago
Yeah maybe, but personally it feels more like a plateau to me than an exponential takeoff, at the moment. And this isn't a pessimistic take! I love this period of time where the models themselves are unbelievably useful, and people are
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by sanderjd 10mo ago
I worry that the sad truth is that there isn't anything similar for "kids these days". But hopefully there is something fun and deep like this for the youths in the AI world that I'm just too old to know about.
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by sanderjd 10mo ago
I'm happy to agree to disagree, but I think this seems like a misunderstanding of the kind of work I'm referring to. It's not clear to me how being plugged into exec calendars and org charts would help, so I think we're
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by sanderjd 10mo ago
Oh I disagree entirely with your first sentence. LLMs continue to be much better at writing lots of code than keeping track of how all the pieces of an organization actually fit together.
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by sanderjd 10mo ago
Yes! We're definitely talking about the same thing here! Definitely not thinking of consistent writes to both views. Now that you said this about watermarks, I realize that this is definitely the same idea as streaming systems like fli
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by sanderjd 10mo ago
Not all olap-like queries are for daily reporting. I agree that the basic architecture should be row order -> delay -> column order, but the question (in my mind) is balancing the length of that delay with the usefulness of column ord
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by sanderjd 10mo ago
The startups are new.
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by sanderjd 10mo ago
It does matter though. I also find it off-putting, but in the same way as lots of other stuff that I don't like about the reality of human society. The trick (I think) is to strike a balance between being open-eyed and realistic about
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by sanderjd 10mo ago
I've done both things, and they have their pros and cons. Big businesses can build bigger and more impactful things, and it is very satisfying to contribute to those things. The original poster is still clearly proud of the things they
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by sanderjd 10mo ago
I think this is what leads a lot of people to want to run their own business. Of course, a lot of those people end up needing to (or falling into the trap of) kissing the asses of investors.
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by sanderjd 10mo ago
Aha! That makes so much sense. Thank you for this. Edit: Ah, right, the downside is that this is not going to have good olap query performance when interacting directly with the sqlite tables. So still necessary to copy out to duckdb tables
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by sanderjd 10mo ago
Yeah, I tend to agree, just trying to check my assumptions. There was always some newfangled thing killing the web every other time too. I would also say that those pronouncements of doom were not necessarily wrong, but that it's been
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by sanderjd 10mo ago
Right. This is what I want, but transparently to the client. It seems fairly straightforward, but I keep looking for an existing implementation of it and haven't found one yet.
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by sanderjd 10mo ago
My understanding is that this is still too slow for quick inserts, because duckdb (like all columnar stores) is designed for batches.
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by sanderjd 10mo ago
Never felt so old, seeing nodejs in a list of old boring stuff.
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by sanderjd 10mo ago
Isn't it because it's about news , as in what's changing, rather than being about what's staying the same? He's a researcher, so his interests are always going to be more oriented toward new systems and new compani
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by sanderjd 10mo ago
This is a funny thread to me because my frustration is at the intersection of your comments: I keep wanting sqlite for writes (and lookups) and duckdb for reads. Are you aware of anything that works like this?
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by sanderjd 10mo ago
I've been reading about the web's downfall for way longer than generative AI has existed.
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by sanderjd 10mo ago
As usual, somewhere in between!

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