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There’s a weird yet common attitude that nobody has to implement operating systems, databases, compilers, cryptography, consensus algorithms, etc because you should use off the she…

I don’t know anything about Germany’s postal service. In the US, what the parent comment was getting it, is why are we even talking about this in the first place? What problem is p…

Their argument didn’t make sense to me from the beginning. One of its premises is that The Rich are some cohesive group that can trade amongst themselves in a hermetically sealed e…

I don’t know if this is the case here, but it’s very hard in general to judge how much software projects ought to cost. Software projects will grow in complexity to consume whateve…

That’s not so special, though? There’s a difference between Google infra running Google services. Versus any F500 company running their services on GCP. It’s a bit whacky to think …

What if I don’t care about affording more things? And instead want to live in an ethical society that prioritizes stability and universal access to housing, healthcare, and educati…

I’m not sure this is generally true, and you’re ignoring a lot of context around the specific situation of GCC. Just to make a point: I could throw out SQLite as a project that ban…

You’re being sarcastic, but I think you’d be surprised at how often you can say no to managers or even VPs and the c-suite and … have nothing happen to you. I didn’t realize this u…

One thing I don’t quite understand: Wouldn’t it be in Amazon’s interest to run open models and sell time slots at around the cost of running them? My only guess for why they don’t …

There’s going to be lots of documentation. It will be AI generated and no human will ever read it. But there will be a lot of it.

I'm about to leave a shallow comment, but I am a bit skeptical of the supposed drop in inference costs. If AI labs saw a lot of potential there, they'd surely be bragging about it …

I get what you’re saying, but the housing market is actually a really subtle issue in my opinion. Just one example, owning a home protects you against price shocks. As others have …

This brings to mind two thoughts: First, that this is challenging to scale across large orgs. Even if your plans produce high quality code, that isn’t true for everyone. I’m defini…

He didn’t hedge at the end. Nate always writes the models before election season then doesn’t touch them apart from actual bug fixes. The model actually organically predicted 30%. …

Also, they don’t any plans for the IP, and Nate would’ve paid above-market rate just to take over and preserve the content for posterity. He estimates that they deleted 200,000 hou…

Which brings us to the next layer of modern dependency management insanity: The fact that basically none of these multi-million dollar companies are vendoring their entire dependen…

As recently as 2015 when I attended a middling CS program, we had in-person timed exams where we had to write down DSA implementations on a blank sheet of paper in Java. We were de…

One important piece of context that might make all these stories less confusing for non-googlers: Code references are less important inside Google editors, because we have a code v…

If you want a laugh, Google a tutorial for how to read a file. You should also know that all the tutorials are wrong, because they fail to handle at least one footgun or another. T…

Because you can naively iterate through a million items faster than an additional network round trip would take. So a lot of code quality debates don’t matter for the typical enter…

It’s because in most enterprise contexts: 1) Most bugs are integration bugs. Whereby multiple systems are glued together but there’s something about the API contract that the vario…

I agree and that’s the point I was trying to make. Linus’s contribution is a great one. He learned from prior tools and contributions, made a lot of smart technical decisions, got …

Im specifically pointing out the false history that Linus god-coded git and handed it to us on the 7th day. In reality, it was a collaborative effort between multiple smart people …

It’s not being pedantic. The parent comments are arguing that 17million for git 2.0 is insane because Linux wrote the original in a week. Except that’s not true. He sketched out a …

I think AI bans are more common in projects where the maintainers are nice people that thoughtfully want to consider each PR and provide a reasoned response if rejected. That’s onl…