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low-traffic auto increment like user creation can be relatively performant by reserving batches up front, then using those in each shard.

But the use-case for this is mostly if you do not need, or have very limited use for anything cross-shard.

This mostly only makes sense if you dont already have a workable game engine. Basing your entire company on UE5 is a risk in itself, but also from the product you make your money selling: Every UE5 game kind of feels the same as every other, so it also means you put a low value in your product experience.

yeah, the float is very low, even if tech IPOs sometimes feature fairly low floats. But the cash sum raised is still ludicrous for a money furnace.

I think I may have had long covid or something like that as well. for something like 12-18 months in 2023-2024 I would only go to work, come home sleep 2 hours and that was all I could manage. I felt so fatigued and tired. I started doing better at the beginning of 2025, and am doing better now. I think it may have been caused by partly illness, and partly the psychological shift to doing nothing social at all for most of covid pandemic.

I know this is just nonsense wish thinking, but apparently the investors disagree and I have zero clue when they will also stop giving Musk their money.

Because the vibe coded stuff is sometimes great, sometimes it breaks stuff, sometimes it breaks things that we fixed multiple times earlier. The PRs are too large, nobody can review that mess and you better be on call for your deployment. Maybe it will get better, maybe not. I dont know yet.

i dont disagree with the problem, but this sort of Idempotency-Key header is kind of outsourcing the de-duplication to the client. If the client sends a different request with same Idempotency-Key header its the user's (client's) fault. Its also circumventing the fact that its the effect that should apply to give the same state, you could design the API itself to be idempotent wrt to some other property such as the transaction id. The designs I have seen using an explicit Idempotency-Key header has usually been added on after launch.

Claude Design 3 months ago

Well, the research is sometimes 10x quicker with AI assistant. But not always. Building phase is maybe 20-100% quicker for me at least, depending on the complexity of the project. Green field without 15 years of legacy that is never allowed to break is many times faster, always has been.

we are not as complicated as the national grid, I have been here for nearly 10 years now, and our outages have gone from single cause, two causes, or now its nearly always 3 things that need to go wrong at the same time.

In CS2, a huge portion of cheaters can be identified just by the single stat 'time-to-damage'. Cheaters will often be 100ms faster to react than even the fastest pros. Not all cheaters use their advantage in this way, but simply always make perfect choices because they have more information than their opponents.

except... i store my password for work in bitwarden, so I dont want to also keep my work passkeys in the same place. For my personal stuff, that is a risk I can live with so far, but for work it seems dumb.

4 months ago I was incredibly dismissive. After having used Claude Code extensively since then, I think these LLM tools definitively has a a place in software development, but with every new tool in software development, the floor has been raised for what can be completed with less resources. I'm more worried for the junior engineers coming in now.