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I have access to both a RTX 5090 PC with 64gb of ram and a Spark 128gb, the performance of the Spark has been highly disappointing.

I prefer 1000x the RTX one, even with 64gb of ram.

There is no reason to be loyal....There is no moat.

Basically you may choose to drink brand A water bottle, brand B water bottle or tap water. Oh and you might choose the glass water bottle if you use API/Fable.

Reality of AWS or Azure in Europe : - Can't provision new ressources without calling them - If you get defects, you might be with Azure Europe Head after weeks of escalation and the only thing he wants to hear is if Microsoft can do a success story with you - Gaslighting you on issues

I agree with you, we went from terrible service, to terrible service with no leverage.

It just accelerated the trend, and I am sure that reddit took over for a lot of new users. The different problems with SO has been well documented.

And they killed maybe one of the most side features of it : https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/415293/sunsetting-j...

So yeah metakill your own brands with stupid policies.

Yeah institutional knowledge is hard to capture, even more with agentic coding.

I just compressed what would take a team a few months to deliver in one or two months, the amount of gotcha I spot from the existing system we work on everyday is staggering.

How to deliver and keep these feedback is difficult, the other teams are overwhelmed by other tasks, so any tickets or communications will be forgotten in a few months.

And as an external ressources allowed to use frontier model, I have a hard time to keep up with my own pace, and all that institutional knowledge will be lost both by my employer and client.

In France, we have https://citadelles-mazenod.com/ and they publish large and gorgeous books... If only I had the Space to buy them. I bought a few when they were on sales, so two digits instead of 3 was good, but some limited and even larger are often > 500€. And not having the space to buy some of these kills me.

The momentum behind VB.NET was mainly because most enterprises using VB6 assumed it was the natural replacement.

I told my parents that I will never ask for money, doesn't matter the situation, even with live video, it's trivial to generate live audio and video nowadays.

I hope they got the message.

I haven't been impressed by 5.6 SOL extra. Typically I asked to do a summary of our session, and it went to do a summary of the repo. Tried different things and I just gave up.

Opus 4.8 did the same at first and after it blended better the repo knowledge with the session one.

I have both $20 as I am less a power user these days and I can't justify a 100 let alone 200 but each model as its irks.

Most Saas delegated QA to their clients...

Yeah this round replaces both body and knowledge.

Basically what is left is internal politics and cross company dynamics until we get to the point where a company is self autonomous.

For some reasons, models are blind to their own output...

You will still need as many people to manage these systems, that's the biggest lie in Saas solution.

Smaller companies might either want to utilize their employees better, avoid ever increasing Saas subscriptions, while larger ones will just defer responsibilities on suppliers, it's just easier to blame your suppliers for any faults.

What is not outsourced to India or nowadays, Portugal for Europeans/Switzerland?

Working in Switzerland and first Paris, it's always amusing to see the circle of outsourcing and the overall regression of skills and critical thinking in enterprise.

Or the myth that startups have some of the greatest people we working for them, meanwhile, I was a click away to be able to take over the whole Saas platform of an industrial leader, with a few 100b at stake. And their security response team was inexistant.

Neither is your mediocre frontend developer.

I am really annoying by these post (not yours, but op), they are basically the reverse of linkedin.

Between LinkedIn that is packed with AI slope, and HN which is "I am smarter than you, AI is awful"...Where are the interesting news?

Have you ever worked in a company? Have you ever worked in a F100?

Companies are paying for software, not for owning the code.

LLM are string happy instead of using ADT with ocaml. That was my main pain point with it. Otherwise fairly happy, I would feel C#/.net core would be the best overall in term of language/platform.

Political correct for a certain class of americans : "You need to understand that nazi actions were good for Germany, the economy was in shambles, on the east, there was this revolutionist countries that was eating babies and on the west, Germany mortal enemy."

/s

People will need to realize that these behavior are actually truly human in nature.

People thought they'd get their own persona through AI, they get a sum of the best and worse of everyone.

Let codex review Claude output and the contrary. Win for everyone involved, more code, more features, more token usage, promotions, code to be debug by juniors and the cycle of life can continue.

My attempt at VHDL was a failure but at least it helped me to get a modern build on a Sockit.

But that was a few months ago, getting high hope with fable and seeing killed before I could even try it for that project killed all my motivations.

And all the governing bodies are just money scams.

More often than not, it requires a few weeks of mandatory paid "trainings" in order to attempt (and pass) the certifications.

And because IT is IT, no two companies or persons do things in similar ways (and for good reasons, the moment you do like everyone else, you average to the middle at best), and unless you are doing PHD like work, you don't need CS.

Software engineering is more akin of witchcraft.

It's easy to read SQL code as long as the person writing the query doesn't resort to "hack" the planner. Now to make that reusable....That's another beast and most often will defeat the purpose of writing pure SQL in the first place, let's put a OR there, let's call several queries, let's screw the data model.

Well one thing is sure, before 1776, the USA didn't do any industrial espionage.

Especially that behind Salt was/is a French company, ohhh the horror.

Imagine providing fibers in city such as London, Paris or Geneva. Oh wait.

France had Minitel and now, for less than 50, you have up/down 8Gbps with TV etc. 5G is half that price.

Switzerland might be even cheaper with Salt for the fiber, 5G, can be pretty cheap here too, or bloody expensive ( Swisscom )

US just has many excuses that's it.

And Anthropic put that shit model as default, after a single prompt I was wondering what was the shit it was spouting, and yes, Sonnet 5.