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ritcgab

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    Comment #49105914

    It is senior programmers that will be in demand again, but at junior price.

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    Comment #49036609

    And yet people are still happily driving 10 LLM sessions concurrently.

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    Comment #48887168

    I mean, Pfizer has a good margin on every pill they produce too.

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    Comment #48868018

    Heat death is inevitable in a codebase built mostly by coding agents.

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    Comment #48781695

    It's a documentary.

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    Comment #48687707

    We cannot talk about net benefit until we agree on the objective: net benefit for whom ? I don't care if my current job is being replaced or the whole industry I am working in vani…

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    Comment #48661230

    Frontier models do not trade on 100x earnings either.

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    Comment #48661110

    I wonder why the apartment buildings in the US never have mini splits but always use PTACs or window units. In my opinion, they suck.

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    Comment #48645639

    Because a database is a kv store. Most workloads won't tell the performance difference as long as the store works.

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    Comment #48549770

    Multi-cluster federation is still hard.

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    Comment #48399769

    DNS is a federated, read-optimized, geo-replicated key-value store with eventual consistency.

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    Comment #48174868

    An AI hate wave is here, yet when I opened the link: > Axios AI+: Catch up on what's new and why it matters in just 5 minutes. > Sign up for Axios AI+ to continue reading for free.…

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    Comment #48071347

    People run websites on a VPS with 32MB RAM decades ago and it was fine. What is new about this?

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    Comment #48008489

    Is "Mostly-reliable" TCP connection a real thing? A TCP connection is either reliable or not working at all. That is what a proper abstraction should be like.

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    Comment #47922625

    Using AI: pay-as-you-go via token usage. Using human workers: monthly subscription but rate limited due to biological nature.

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    Comment #47917292

    They aren't. They act like seniors. But that is all the business needs.

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    Comment #47829243

    They all know that, and we all know that. So we are all in this "scheme".

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    Comment #47821463

    I hope the voyagers can last longer. We are trapped on Earth, but it is just fascinating (and relieving) thinking of them expanding the boundary of human's space adventure.

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    Comment #47651314

    If humans are not GI, we cannot judge what is AGI.

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    Comment #47635050

    Isn't OpenClaw itself a privilege escalation?

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    Comment #47568462

    Interestingly mixed usage of en dash and em dash across the article.

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    Comment #47441635

    Well deserved.

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    Comment #47390414

    All those nice numbers are just beaten by the unit cost. And the ecosystem is a mess.

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    Comment #47300568

    Hard pass whenever you host long-term storage without ECC memory.

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    Comment #47291184

    At the end of the day, it's about liability. Whether you use AI tools to generate the code or not, you are the author of the code, and such authorship implies the liability that yo…