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> The dingo has truly eaten our baby. It is so strange that people still say this. A family lost their child.
On this one point, if you really pin us down, you can get me to feel bad, but you know that this is a reference to a Seinfeld bit.
Sprites are a beautiful place to make an abstraction. But I have never used a buggier infrastructure product in 30 years of development than when I tried sprites. Data loss left and right, sprites going into unconnectable zombie mode. Couldn't use even load snapshots because half the system seemed to think the sprite was fine, and half seemed to think it was dead. I gave up after two weeks of losing stuff over lunch…
This isn't even a Sprite specific thing. Their whole platform is known for this for years and they have yet to even care to fix it. So it might be good the CEO is quitting because he has done a horrible job.
Sprites seems like a solid lifestyle business for a few friends, not a startup that has taken funding. As a developer, I use docker/podman. Works great. The new massive market that will open up, where grandma and grandpa are making apps, will be taken up by Lovable (and the like). Non-devs will not be using sprites. You’re capturing some small percentage of existing developers.
In theory I'm in OP's described target market here, b/c I am absolutely terrified of agents wrecking my pooter/home network/life as they 100x my sw dev. Every day a new story comes out about OpenCode, CC whatever being a security nightmare. If it's so easy to containerize these things then why aren't more devs doing it and these stories going away? I for one am actively avoiding the agentic coding switch because I ha…
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no? its just weird to write an obviously snarky sentence and then follow up with "im not being snarky". you have no problem owning the tone of the blog post, why not own the tone of your comment?
I can't judge how snarky I'm being overall. I'm writing like I would on any HN thread. What I was saying was: my lack of concern about AGI is not snark. It's weird to me that anybody would call that out. Are you super worried about AGI?
> The dingo has truly eaten our baby. It is so strange that people still say this. A family lost their child.
On this one point, if you really pin us down, you can get me to feel bad, but you know that this is a reference to a Seinfeld bit.
Did Docker "blew the doors off the business"? Does he mean that in a Boeing sense?
Building a cloud like Fly is very difficult. Staying nimble through technology shifts is hard.
I’m right there with you on the agent computer shift. It’s forever changed how I code and deploy and architect systems.
Thanks for all the hard work, hosting, blogging and open source. Looking forward to what the next chapter brings us all.
I was so excited for Sprites but I guess, I was not in the target audience because:
Sprites -- Stateful sandbox environments
Without SSH?
There were workarounds, yes.
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DX ups its game. You got claude to deploy. Cool. I clicked a button in my PaaS and I have an oncall responder and incident manager ready to go.
I'm being serious, not trying to dunk, but can you get me to the place where DX has upped its game to the point where Claude can't just do it?
A story as old as the hills: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
Having x y z set up for you and maintained is kinda useful because you can focus on α
And no Claude is not AGI so you need to babysit to get that done.