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That’s a fair approach, thanks for elaborating. I think the main point of contention is there is an expectation this software should be more reliable, that doesn’t take away from your approach, running close sourced software like a harness (or operating system) is asking for problems.

The barrier to entry to generating code may be "I can think", but the barrier to entry for solving hard, distributed/multi-faceted engineering problems still remains quite high - agents can't really do this still to a decent level of efficacy reliably.

The progress models have made in the last 5 years aren't convincing me they'll bridge that gap too soon, although I can see how some people are convinced by how decent agentic harnesses make things. I know it's really easy to get very hyped with the current state of the technology, but try to have a bit of skepticism.

The duplication is a necessity to achieve the isolation. Having shared devels and hordes of unit files for a multi tenant system is hell - versioning issues can and will break this paradigm, no serious shop is doing this.

For running your own machine, sure. But this would become non maintainable for a sufficiently multi tenant system. Nix is the only thing that really can begin to solve this outside of container orchestration.

This article comes off sort of low effort and mentions a lot grievances without actual pinpointing precise issues. I think leveraging OTEL as a general processor with a generic output is a good idea, but discounting Grafana for implementing multi tenancy solutions and alloy which is pretty fucking good is kind of pointless.

The AI coding trap 10 months ago

Probably something about how using LLMs for coding is such an amazing opportunity or something judging by how he implies the author would be surpassed due to information asymmetry.

I was expecting a sort of MD to HTML conversion since it's hard to think of a simpler way of doing this. I don't see how react or nextjs constitutes this being easy or simple unless you're targeting folks with domain knowledge with those ecosystems.

I think a user of _not_ neovim they'd have to implement their own js client. I honestly can't say much but with INI style formatting it's been mostly based on contstants rather than abstract syntax tree parsing which is unique and a bit of a problem in its own right. I haven't implemented a language server before so this was a learning experience, but I was very pleasantly surprised how adding it to my neovim configuration was. I am hoping at some point it's added to "mason" so it's even easier.

I would create a vscode client, but I am not really very familiar with that ecosystem. Welcoming anyone to implement this in any other editors. This is just the language server implementation with no assumption regarding clients.

That’s very interesting, but systemd is pretty pervasive I really don’t think it’s going anywhere anytime soon for better or for worse. Language servers aren't just adopted in vscode, other editors use them in fact. I am not a VS Code user myself, but I appreciate their implementation of the language server protocol, they did a fantastic job with that.

Not to be that guy, tech twitter is already so reductionist in terms of actually quality content. Getting the most popular posts from there is going to be really "fluffy" in terms technical details. For instance how is Elon Musk declaring he's forming a new political party technology related news?

Open source the server infrastructure or describe the protocol in sufficient detail to easily be reverse engineered.

I think this initiative sounds great, it's curious to me in a legal sense why this would strictly pertain to gaming software and not one-time bought software licensing models as a whole. This issue is pretty prevalent in software in general. Software vendors should have some accountability for EoLing these things in a graceful manner.

I think this is less caused by ChatGPT/LLMs and more of a phenomenon in social media circles where people flock to "the thing" and have poor social skills and mental health generally speaking.