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I wonder how we could handle that in a simpler way with durable workflows (e.g. Temporal, Restante, DBOS) – which are similar to Erlang processes but with persistent disk storage. This could avoid the need to maintain the 1000 row inventory. Perhaps each shopping cart would have its own workflow, and the inventory item would have one as well. Then, whenever a customer put an item in their cart, their cart workflow wo…
Why even have a blog when you can't be arsed to write the posts. This is so obviously LLM-written. I have a positive view of Shopify engineers, but this kind of made a dent in that confidence.
What exactly makes it "obvious" that this is written by AI? I could totally believe that AI was used to generate parts of it, but I really don't get the sense that the whole thing was written that way. I've seen way worse examples on this site. As software engineers we are constantly told that we need to heavily use these tools for our daily work. So is it surprising that software engineers use the same tools as writ…
Why even have a blog when you can't be arsed to write the posts. This is so obviously LLM-written. I have a positive view of Shopify engineers, but this kind of made a dent in that confidence.
What exactly makes it "obvious" that this is written by AI? I could totally believe that AI was used to generate parts of it, but I really don't get the sense that the whole thing was written that way. I've seen way worse examples on this site. As software engineers we are constantly told that we need to heavily use these tools for our daily work. So is it surprising that software engineers use the same tools as writ…
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Because the post is just rambling without a clear intent or direction. Why do you need "oversell protection" if you have "transactions". Isn't the whole point of a "transaction" that it handles concurrency and disk failures?
I work with Shopify often and the whole oversell protection thing is like a huge joke. Oversell happens because Shopify doesn't decrement inventory until payment is confirmed. And they apparently would rather die than change that invariant.
I could see a historical moment where Shopify, sans that invariant, massively fucked up inventory counts from uncompleted transactions... then had to unwind all that when a bunch failed to clear payment.
Ergo, now there's an invariant.
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Flash sales are a huge scaling issue for Shopify. There are celebrities who want to sell thousands of items in a few minutes window at the end of an advertised countdown. Basically this is an incredibly rare case but a feature that they want to support.
There were woot offs 20 years ago. Flash sales are not some new scaling issue.
Why even have a blog when you can't be arsed to write the posts. This is so obviously LLM-written. I have a positive view of Shopify engineers, but this kind of made a dent in that confidence.
I just wanted to drop a note that I almost never go into an article or blog wondering if its AI or not. I am trying to be a more picky reader and try to actually do something occasionally but I do browse database articles and this is a good one. So I wonder, am I becoming insensitive about AI writing? Am I being hypnotized into taking whatever color pill thats had a color representing a surrender to the AI "hive mind…
Obviously the blue pill.
Why even have a blog when you can't be arsed to write the posts. This is so obviously LLM-written. I have a positive view of Shopify engineers, but this kind of made a dent in that confidence.
What exactly makes it "obvious" that this is written by AI? I could totally believe that AI was used to generate parts of it, but I really don't get the sense that the whole thing was written that way. I've seen way worse examples on this site. As software engineers we are constantly told that we need to heavily use these tools for our daily work. So is it surprising that software engineers use the same tools as writ…
The training these LLMs got, was from endless human-slop, on sites like LinkedIn, and marketing copy, everywhere. In fact, don't be surprised, if we start learning from AI; reversing the process.
But I think that it's only a matter of time, before almost everything will be at least touched by AI.
I posted this, yesterday[0]. It wasn't a particularly popular comment, but I stand by it.
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What exactly makes it "obvious" that this is written by AI? I could totally believe that AI was used to generate parts of it, but I really don't get the sense that the whole thing was written that way. I've seen way worse examples on this site. As software engineers we are constantly told that we need to heavily use these tools for our daily work. So is it surprising that software engineers use the same tools as writ…
Well, one thing to remember: AI learned from us (See what I did, there?) . The training these LLMs got, was from endless human-slop, on sites like LinkedIn, and marketing copy, everywhere. In fact, don't be surprised, if we start learning from AI; reversing the process. But I think that it's only a matter of time, before almost everything will be at least touched by AI. I posted this, yesterday[0]. It wasn't a partic…