101–110 of 163 posts
Feels a bit rough to refocus the whole company and immediately bail out. At least give a new CEO a fighting chance by letting them set their own direction.
As an elixir dev fly was a company I very much wanted to succeed but I twice had to leave them because they just never found the right balance between cool engineering and ops. For a long time they would have global outages where the status page would list everything as green and the only reason you'd know something was wrong was the forum threads. Their response was that they were too busy fixing the issues to updat…
Are you talking about AWS or Fly here? I seriously cannot tell.
Well, fuck. ... we raised a fuckload of money and didn’t need more. And if we fail, we fail with our full asses. I have seen this language from other companies to which I say "no". Being professional means being able to do good work, being polite, without lying, cheating, or stealing. I do not want them to fail yet I would never use them despite liking their product. A few other companies behave the same way.
Have they done bad work, lied, cheated, or stolen something?
As an elixir dev fly was a company I very much wanted to succeed but I twice had to leave them because they just never found the right balance between cool engineering and ops. For a long time they would have global outages where the status page would list everything as green and the only reason you'd know something was wrong was the forum threads. Their response was that they were too busy fixing the issues to updat…
> For a long time they would have global outages where the status page would list everything as green and the only reason you'd know something was wrong was the forum threads. Their response was that they were too busy fixing the issues to update the status board. Right. Are you talking about AWS or Fly here? I seriously cannot tell.
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…
So it might be good the CEO is quitting because he has done a horrible job.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have I spoiled the solemnity of the subthread where we're litigating whether we "lost our aura" by writing a blog post?
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?
It's weird to me that anybody would call that out. Are you super worried about AGI?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
okay, well, then this is me telling you that overall, the comment with the fake apology came across as really snarky.
>Are you super worried about AGI?
no. i typically agree with your takes on ai. i usually just happily ignore your tone and enjoy the substance of your comments but i thought this particular exchange from you was exceptionally odd so i commented on it.
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.
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 have no interest in opening my home environment to a remote corporate LLM just to write code faster. But of course I'm missing out, as soon as I have more than one source file that I want my chat LLM to analyze in a single go.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
> I can't judge how snarky I'm being overall okay, well, then this is me telling you that overall, the comment with the fake apology came across as really snarky. > Are you super worried about AGI? no. i typically agree with your takes on ai. i usually just happily ignore your tone and enjoy the substance of your comments but i thought this particular exchange from you was exceptionally odd so i commented on it.
It is so strange that people still say this. A family lost their child.