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does one not imply the other? if it can run faster in the same hardware, it should also run as fast on lower spec hardware

the last step, #7, is that fully automated or is this humans calling humans? I imagine everything before then is quite automated, and are thus happening very quickly, so I'm curiou…

> There are 'points of view' that emerge during coding I know it’s a bit cliche at this point, but this harkens to “programming as theory building”[0] which I agree is easy to lose…

thanks for pointing out the linear PR stuff, hadn’t seen that. Interesting that while a dozen other companies are trying to muscle in on the hosting/versioning side of github, rath…

Isn’t this how most tech companies, if not most companies in general, operate? Ive only had one BYOD job in 15 years. Even if you’re a contractor this is common.

I think there’s a bit more nuance and complexity here. I built and operated an application that used 1-2000 L4 GPUs in production for a couple of years. Long-term GCP reservations …

How big is this market, self-hosting a model that requires 64 GPUs, H100 or better, with good interconnects between nodes? I suspect the overlap of those that can afford it, and th…

I can also use the models anytime, and for a lot of time, until i’m anywhere close to salary for an engineer like that

release-please[0] allows you to do a manual version override in a commit, which would allow you to decrement the major version upon reverting a breaking change I think that could b…

With a lot of the adult-oriented sets (ICONS and others), especially anything plant-based, they go out of their way to point out how they're using existing pieces in an unusual way…

Kind of the opposite, I was deep in the R world a decade ago and there was a huge trend of replacing Java dependencies with C/++ ones because the JVM was such a pain to manage. The…

I experienced a flavor of this, too. We had some outages, management said no more daytime deploys, so we had after-hours “deploy parties” whose scope and participant count increase…

I don’t know how big the market is, but seems pretty commercial-friendly to this old magic player. I have a big box of cards from a few decades ago I’ve held onto. I’ve thought abo…

What sorts of sites are you thinking of? To me, “most useful to a programmer” evokes docs and blogs and github issues and forum posts. I suppose some forums might be AI-resistant (…

Yeah this sounds pretty reasonable really, like instead of using a CMS directly they’re having Claude file PRs to make the same changes. As someone who likes static sites and chang…

It is, but it’s the only way for a company to succeed and scale over time. A pet approach works well in the early days, but you can’t become a VC-backed success without drastically…

My experience as well. It sounds nice at first, but since it’s tied to org flattening these “player-coaches” end up with 15-20 reports, which is way too many for even a pure manage…

This is what i often do, but i have never been able to get many coworkers onboard. In my experience I’d say less than 5% of all software folk i’ve worked with are willing to do an …

> most teams we talk to can't even tell you how many GPUs are in use right now how can this be? isn’t this a trivial metric to pull from any clouds monitoring service? to get the g…

Even before LLMs, Data Science was being replaced by more specialization, IME. Data Engineers took over the plumbing once they moved on from Scala and Spark. ML Engineers took over…

not even google thinks this will happen, given their insistence on only offering TPU access through their cloud

plans now open in a separate file tab, and if you don’t accept it, it just…disappears so you can’t discuss it!

you can’t really buy H100s except in multiples of 8. If you want fewer, you must rent. Even then, hyperscalers tend to be a bit inflexible there; GCP only recently added support fo…

We have common words for those two flavors of “fast” already: latency and throughput. S3 has high latency (arguable!), but very very high throughput.

how would you explain how hard he fought to NOT buy twitter? people seem to forget he was legally forced to buy Twitter after he tried for months to get out of his joke bid, primar…