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Please don't give your users a nickname like "tanglers", groups come up with their own nicknames. It's not as infuriating as when New Relic started calling everyone "Data Nerd", which is actually offensive to me and weirdly aggressive for a corporate product.

Companies buy cloud services because they want to reduce in-house server management and operations, for them it's a trade-off with hiring the right people. But you are right, when you can find the right people doing it yourself can be a lot cheaper.

Around 2010 I met a friend at a bar in San Francisco and within 10 minutes we were approached by someone with a chocolate bar startup. It may have been vaguely associated with developers or maybe I'm misremembering. We got a free sample and I explained I didn't live in the US and I also wasn't an investor. They left and moved on to the next group of people at the bar.

This has always stuck to me as an example of the pinnacle of collective investment delusion that seems to exist in certain circles. They idea that you can shape the world to your product instead of improving the world with your product. You just have to try hard enough.

I had the same experience. It's even more confusing when you want to create an API key because they are separated by product, maybe?

Fuzzy automated reviews should always run in an interactive loop with a developer on their workstation and contain enough context to quickly assess if they are valid or not.

When developers create a PR, they already feel they are "done", and they have likely already shifted their focus on another task. False positive are horrible at this point, especially when they keep changing with each push of commits.

This argument would have a lot more weight if it was published in a peer reviewed journal by a party that does not have a stake in the AI market.

I think they are hinting at the idea that a long running process on a dedicated server should allocate all necessary memory during initialization. That way you never accidentally run out of memory during high loads, a time when you really don't want your service to go down.

You would need so much more physical memory with this approach. For example, you may want to allocate a lot of memory for the browser, but then close the tab. 2 seconds later you want to use it for a compiler. And then you switch to a code editor.