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Regarding the Compact 10 months ago

I read the whole thing. Seems pretty fair to me, including the section prohibiting discrimination against conservative ideas. With all the coverage I expected something crazy.

If your project is well organized and individual files are small and the dependency graph isn’t too crazy, Claude code does an amazing job building only the context it needs even as the project grows. You just have to be aggressive about refactoring for maintainability. The bonus here is that it’s easier for humans to work on too.

This is awesome! I’m work with a team of analysts and data engineers who own a pretty big snowflake data warehouse. We write a ton of dbt models and have a range of sql skill levels on the team. This would be the perfect way to allow more junior devs to build their skills quickly and support more complex models.

I would recommend you target data warehouses like snowflake and bigquery where the query complexity and thus value prop for a tool like this is potentially much higher.

I’ve always built analytics daily by default, and certain metrics real-time - via a different system - only when a compelling and permanent use case exists (except operational analytics). I mean something like YouTube view counter/likes or delivering order count/total as a b2b2c so your customers can watch their promotions in real-time. Major bonus, you have the super complicated, hard to maintain, real-time system to point to when someone wants everything real-time but invested the minimum possible.

I love these. Someone posts a scathing critique of a company. Company representative responds with a mea culpa that misses the mark, and includes plans to fix. Top reply nails the actual problem, why the fix won’t work, and gets massive agreement. Company rep doesn’t respond.

You know it hits hard though. Hopefully they take it to heart. I like using medium as an author but HATE the “4 articles remaining” crap. I’ve been planning to move elsewhere but have been lazy. I’ve noticed from my readership numbers that I’m not alone.

My experience with Zapier is that you quickly hit a point where you’re building an ultra complex expression or manipulating json in a less than ideal editor. Also your zap is basically the ast of the code you would have written and grows quickly. Code is far more terse.

That said, long running durable workflow tools that are targeted at devs all have challenges. There’s room for a Goldilocks solution. I’d imagine temporal will win though.