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If your boss is not able to back you up for something like this, it's time to change job.

It's also geeks and engineers using these models and being the most vocal. We always think we're special and need the extra horsepower. Ever been on one of those home lab subreddits ? Same story.

Tesla is still doing that. The CEO is a shithead but that's a different matter.

That's such a cynical take. If everyone does what you're describing, we will never make progress as a society.

I think you're doing it wrong. Use the frontier moddels for the research, planning etc and once you have a plan give it to a local model for implementation.

I think they're at that stage where people know they want it so lack of a trial isn't a deal breaker per se.

They use claude code to code it. Makes sense

I don't think it's even a broad strategy from PM or higher ups. I actually think it's engineers inside the company who want to play with the coolest hardware and the build features for the newest stuff. Features can be made to work with older hardware but that requires more time and optimization which they never get, so someone takes a call that x and y features only work on newer gen hardware.

I think it's a bit of both and perhaps 10% AI. Companies like Block are bloated for what they offer.

I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not, but it will happen sooner or later.

It's interesting how this comes up when the west is the one that is trying to catch up :)

I do the same. Directed tasks with smaller context and start a new "chat" when it's done what I want.

Even as a techie, I prefer and use iCloud for exactly this reason, especially for stuff I share with family. I don't want me to be the bottleneck for what is considered basic functionality these days.

I actually I'd be even willing to downgrade my car one level if I'm not driving and just sitting in the back seat. Will likely be cheaper for me to own even with the increased subscription.

I've been meaning to get more components for a diy NAS since atleast the last year and just been pushing it lazily. I'm literally kicking myself now when I actually started looking up deals for this black friday.

GraphQL sure, but I'm not sure I'd put kafka in the same bucket. It is a nice technology that has it's use in some cases, where postgresql would not work. It is also something a small team should not start with. Start with postgres and then move on to something else when the need arises.

One of our final projects during university was to design and program a basic database in C. Even after 20 years I think that was one of the most one I've had in a project.

We use a headless service and client side load balancing for this. What's the difference ?

I get the sentiment behind your comment but I have a few lawyers in the family and they work round the clock. They might be in meetings or pouring over documents all day that might not look like work to the average software engineer but trust me, they do work hard. And it's true for everyone - from junior interns to senior partners.

These days it's less about language wars and more about picking the right tool for the job

You should talk to the Java advocates in my company :) The language wars are still around, it's just Java vs the rest now.

Or you could buy the Lego version :)

I think its just Apple PR pushing these out now to get Apple's name out in the AI era.

others have articulated it much better but I think the difference isn't in what it can do. But working with existing docs - subtle things like font differences, formatting issues, working with the rest of the world that is MS dominated, keyboard shortcuts for excel warriers. LibreOffice is very capable on it's own, as a drop-in replacement is where it doesn't work most of the time. And the difference isn't even huge, but people being people give up fast.

You're proving the point in the actual research. Programmers who only use AI for learning/coding will lose this knowledge (of python, for example) that you have gained by actually "doing" it.

Jaeger collector perhaps but then you'd have to use the Jaeger UI. Signoz has a much nicer UI that feels more integrated but last I checked had annoying bugs in the UI like not keeping the time selection when I navigated between screens.

I really want this to happen but sadly have seen a LOT of govt and private companies trying to move to libreoffice (and OpenOffice and StarOffice before that). None really stuck. The office suite is hard to replace and none of the open source suites are a good enough alternative right now. I hope that changes.

maybe you could add link in your HN profile so interested people could atleast take a look?

This is very interesting. Do you think people will trust it enough in terms of security/hardening to let homefree be their main router/firewall/vpn ?

I miss reading Blogs. Old school, detailed blogs written in a plain and simple language. It's easy to follow and almost be invested in the journey.

As an Indian, this was also my immediate thought but then I read the About section, I figured it was easy/ier for him. The not allowed if visited another place rule must have been easier to circumvent with some planning.