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You already have an agent freely doing stuff on your machine
No. Agents run in VMs. Assume anywhere you’re running an agent will be compromised, because eventually, it will be.
The only reason most people haven’t is luck, they didn’t happen to install Axios or Tanstack at a certain time.
Is anyone working on rewriting Rust in Bun?
Have you done iron infusions? My wife has to get these once in a while. She had gastric surgery years back and has issues with absorption of oral supplements.
The job will run the next time a worker runs (in both cases).
And doesn’t that mean the job potentially runs twice? Yes.
In DBOS there are two kinds of “things that run”: workflows, and steps (workflows are made of steps).
Workflows must be deterministic (so it’s fine if it runs twice). Steps don’t have to be deterministic but have at-least-once execution (so it’s best if these are idempotent).
Programming is ultimately the work of constructing a mental model, and that mental model is inherently personal
So that’s why we now have as many different tech stacks as we have developers at work. Conway’s law taken to its logical conclusion?
The most surreal part of this from the Wired article [1]:
The records sit in Airtable
A secret cabal running the world. On AirTable.
[1] https://www.wired.com/story/leak-exposes-members-of-peter-th...
What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence
What’s your evidence for this claim?
This is ironic. They didn’t say they believe. You offered your belief that you know something that happened long ago (extraordinary claim), and they are naturally curious how you could know that. If you’re a time traveler or whatever we’d be quite interested to hear more.
Hudson Rock has a free domain lookup tool for affected domains:
Oh no a coronal mass ejection has taken out the power grid
Except for the bitlocker vulnerability that lets someone with the physical computer bypass it. Other than that, it works flawlessly.
You don’t have to login with the online account. Before you install:
- Disable the network cards in the BIOS
- Install
- When prompted to setup the network press Shift+F10
- Type: start ms-cxh:localonly
- Setup the local account
- After install completes re-enable the network cards in the BIOS
Nothing could be easier. Truly the most user-friendly OS.
Who is doing package management right these days? Who is doing it securely?
QBASIC. When you need a package you type it in from a magazine. Virtually anything you could ever need is only 1-12 weeks away.
One difference is, when the business hits a tough patch, the bank starts asking questions, and whether or not the bank lets it all continue depends primarily on whether there’s a CEO/CFO who:
- Has history with the bank (trust)
- Is willing to put their neck on the line
AI in the current form has no ability to put its neck on the line.
Can you clarify the point you’re trying to make? C-level people are forced out all the time. Even the CEO reports to the board.
There’s at least one
The body can know more than it can tell.
Containers were never a security boundary
DBOS is much less complexity compared to Temporal. That’s the benefit.
Main tradeoff is lower performance. Or at least, you’re going to be limited to what you can push through Postgres. If that’s sufficient for your needs DBOS is great.
we are transferring value from our current standard of living to pay for retirement checks
Isn’t this just what happens when you have an inverted pyramid (older population is larger than the younger population)?
One can argue that PEs make the business more efficient
I’ve never seen it (I agree with you). To improve something they’d have to understand the business and do a bunch of work. Mostly they show up at quarterly meetings and want spreadsheets that measure some number that will go up (regardless if that number means anything).
if you wanna fix or ban PE, solve pensions
How does one solve pensions?
How would one even know if the port of 100k LOC was successful? Are there language-agnostic tests (CLI STDIN/STDOUT) or similar involved?
So what’s the verdict? Was it worth it?
How do you stay aware of all code being written?
Maybe it’s just me, but I’ve never understood how one understands from reading code. Yes you can understand what that code does, but not why it was done that way instead of a different way. In the end I only understand it deeply if I end up writing it. Chatting through it is helpful to me, but having AI crank out code loses all of that context pretty quickly.
I’m not disagreeing. Just curious how you think about this, and if there are key parts of your process that help you stay contexted in.
There was a line in one of The Walking Dead TV show spin-offs, something like:
”I've known men who inspire fear. Do you know what they have in common? They never say how frightening they are.”
And here we are.
”I’ve known companies that work on AI. Do you know what they have in common?...”
People have done this. They call it tablebases [1]. They’ve computed 7-piece tablebases, but not 8 pieces.
”After the completion of the 7-man, some people were curious about the feasibility of building the 8-man. Ronald de Man estimated that without modifying much the generator, the task requires computers with 64 TB RAM and 2000 TB hard disks[10] (cost about $640K and $40K respectively in 2020). The generator can be modified to work on much cheaper computers with 64 GB RAM but that may need a few thousand years of computing”
And to solve chess you’d need to calculate the 32-piece tablebases.
Accidental true leadership
Cuts both ways. If supply chain attacks continue recursive self improvement, everyone’s going to be working in air-gapped facilities. Departments also need to be air-gapped from one another. And each team air-gapped. And so on.
There’s a speed limit, because the faster you go the less room for error you have. It’s the same as being heavily leveraged with debt. If you have a cash investment and it drops by 50% you can just wait. If you’re leveraged 100-to-1, a 1% drop forced liquidation and wipes you out.
had the right idea
Is it no longer the right idea?
I have a co-worker who's basically not a programmer, but got multiple implementations of applications working sooner than our dev teams
Deployed to production, right?
Right??
(I’m just kidding, of course it’s only on their machine, no different than Excel 5 years ago)
architect and orchestrate the coding, but 'language' isn't a barrier anymore.
Never was the barrier.
The main risk-of-regret is: How will you feel when/if the $20/month plan costs $2000/month?
May never happen. But be clear with yourself if you’re relying on it not happening.
It’s a hell of a nice risk mitigator to understand the code, in a language you know, if you have to print-debug it yourself at some point.