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JSON is okay most of the time, but I loath YAML.

How many Kubernetes administration headaches trace back to the need for automated systems to surgically edit YAML? It’s absurd and YAML may be the worst choice for this use case.

Sonnet/Claude Code may technically be "smarter", but Qwen3-Coder on Cerebras is often more productive for me because it's just so incredibly fast. Even if it takes more LLM calls to complete a task, those calls are all happening in a fraction of the time.

While your technical analysis is excellent, making judgements about workload suitability based on a Preview release is premature. Preview services have historically had significantly lower performance quotas than GA releases. Lambda for example was limited to 50 concurrent executions during Preview, raised to 100 at GA, and now the default limit is 1,000.

Reading about mainframes feels very much like reading science fiction. Truly awesome technology that exists on a completely different plane of computing than anything else.

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This thinly veiled advertisement claims it's a waste of time to understand the tradeoffs in the models you're using, and you should instead pay them to make those decisions for you. No thank you.

Both these issues can be resolved by adding some sample code to context to influence the LLM to do the desired thing.

As the op says, LLMs are going to be biased towards doing the "average" thing based on their training data. There's more old backend code on the internet than new backend code, and Tailwind is pretty dominant for frontend styling these days, so that's where the average lands.

Counterpoint: I also used to fix Lexmark printers as a field tech servicing pharmacies. It was routine to see Lexmark MS711dn printers with page counts in the millions. They did not need more than basic maintenance.

Java in the Small 2 years ago

After years of Python and TypeScript, I've started using Java as my default for everything. It's just so much more productive. The ancient developer memes that Java is slow and clunky don't apply anymore.

Postgres also had a long-held reputation for being slow and difficult, but it made incremental improvements for decades and now it's the default choice for databases.

I see Java in the exact same position, as the Postgres of languages.

See also: EDI / EDIFACT / ANSI X12. It was supposed to standardize the way businesses exchange data, but every company implements it differently so integrations take forever, and there's an entire of middlemen offering solutions to make it faster.

Wikileaks released DNC's internal emails, where they made plans to sabotage Bernie.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/23/us/politics/dnc-emails-sa...

Bernie supporters filed a lawsuit against the DNC for disenfranchising them. The DNC argued they operate as a private corporation and are free to pick whomever they want "over cigars in a back room".

“There’s no right to not have your candidate disadvantaged or have another candidate advantaged. There’s no contractual obligation here . . . it’s not a situation where a promise has been made that is an enforceable promise,” Spiva said.

The DNC is advancing the argument that any claims to be neutral and fair to all candidates were nothing but “political promises” and are unenforceable by law.

https://www.salon.com/2017/05/13/the-dncs-elephant-in-the-ro...

Counterpoint: Hyundai/Kia has a terrible reputation in the car industry and was probably willing to give Waymo more favorable terms than any other manufacturer. Ford and GM are working on FSD by themselves, so they aren't interested.

Hyundai/Kia have had multiple scandals over the past 10 years due to widespread engine failures, fatal vehicle fires, and becoming a huge theft target due to failing to install even the most basic anti-theft technology (RFID key+immobilizer). Each of these has resulted in recalls and lawsuits.

And besides that, Consumer Reports ranks them #10 on the reliability chart.

https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/car-reliability-owner-s...

Well when you describe it that way, OpenAI also started as a blank text box that gave you a bunch of good answers, and they've already expanded with other services.

I already use ChatGPT as my first go-to stop for certain search queries.

Another HN hot take about the Cloudflare bogeyman.

The CDN can't give you content you're asking for without knowing which content you're asking for.

This improvement prevents your ISP and the government from reading your packets to get that same information.

This is a pointless attempt at a hot take made only because AI is the latest thing HN luddites like to dump on.

Theranos never shipped a real product. OpenAI has, and has millions of direct active users plus millions more indirect active users via tech companies building products on top of their API.