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The secret sauce will most likely be tight integration with Shortcuts, enabling the language interface to drive and automate existing apps.

I did exactly that with a custom GPT and it works pretty well. I did my best to push it to respond with its training knowledge about brand reputation and avoid searches. When it ha…

That was indeed a big parameter. We missed someone on the team able to connect to us to one or two large early adopters. We learned that building a good product and building a comp…

Lack of traction basically. We ran out of time and money. Also we, maybe wrongly, did not feel like we could compete with the big ones without clustering. Yet we had a lot of fun b…

Built something similar in Go with a friend a few years ago. https://github.com/thibauts/styx

That is my understanding also. I would very much like an expert answer on this one !

They make money because growth. Any strategy that is not based on information asymmetry or unique clever use of information makes less than the market on average.

You couldn’t feel that way if you had no doubt or did not care about your level or worth as a developer. So you do care about how others perceive your level and you are not totally…

It’s time we fork a « software design » category from the software engineering catchall. Yet many great suggestions on this topic but one is missing, which in my opinion sums up a …

You can deploy your whole monolith on one single lambda and it will scale the same. It may even help to keep it hot. Services, micro or not are only really useful when load factors…

Right. Then HTTP requests being share-nothing they horizontally scale in a single instance, too. Just spin more cores. This microservices craze has been mind-boggling. As for many …

I wouldn’t call these talented.

Welcome to advertising driven journalism.

I call it wasting time trying to fit square pegs in round holes. Many things and approaches have their virtues and their place, be it top-down, bottom-up or tests. Silver bullet te…

Then it’s not test « driven ».

How does TDD force you to a better design ?

No. TDD is as top-down as it can be. « Test-driven development (TDD) is a software development process relying on software requirements being converted to test cases before softwar…

Used to use this cheat sheet https://scikit-learn.org/stable/tutorial/machine_learning_ma...

Here is an event stream abstraction that has very strong semantics (exactly once in most cases) with simple usage examples, native HTTP and websockets APIs, strong atomicity and du…

You’re right, I pushed it a bit too far. What I was feeling and trying to convey is how it flips the design process from bottom up to top down, by forcing the design of the interfa…

When tests amount to specs waterfall tends be be referred to as TDD.

Exactly this. Encoding business requirements or expected output of a complex algorithm by writing tests before code can make some sense. Writing tests for something that has no def…