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I don't get any time off. My full-time job is cleaning up after people who've been using ChatGPT.
Lucky you. Mine is using ChatGPT to review code written by curmudgeons that don't use it.
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i am not talking about git, i am talking about github. lets say i need to merge a PR in GH because use gha pipelines or what have you to deploy a prod fix. this would become severely blocked. where as if openai goes down i can no longer use ai to generate a lame cover letter or whatever i was avoiding actually doing anyway, thats all
This is the realm of standard recovery planning though, isn't it? Like, your processes should be able to handle this, because it's routine: GitHub goes down at least once per month for long enough for them to declare an incident, per https://www.githubstatus.com/history . E.g. one should think carefully before depriving onself of the break-glass ability to do manually what those pipelines do automatically.
i guess my pedantic point is GH itself is central to many organizations, detached from git itself of course. I can only hope the same is NOT true for OpenAI but maybe there are novel workflows.
just to be clear i do not like github lol
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I mean, if internet "internet" is down then society has collapsed and your job is probably gone anyways
It happens every so often with BGP tables going haywire due to a faulty announcement. Fortunately, I know how to use hand tools, so I'm secure in the post-internet future economy.
If the whole Internet goes down, it's not clear if it could even be cold-started, at least faster than it takes for the world economy to collapse.
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- Can't work, no electricity. - Can't work, no computers. - Can't work, no internet. - Can't work, no Google. - Can't work, no ChatGPT. - Can't work, no xxxxxx?
> Can't work, no internet. Don't most people just tether from their phones in this situation? Usually video isn't expected due to excessive bandwith requirements but the internet bill outweighs the daily salary (and you could probably get it expensed, or in my case my old company was already expensing my phone bill due to being used as a pager for on call)
It's at least nice to see a company call this what it is (a "major outage") - seems like most status pages would be talking about "degraded performance" or similar.
Most services have a lot more systems than OpenAI and thus it is degraded performance when a few of them don’t work. Degraded performance isn’t a good thing, I don’t understand the issue with this verbiage.
If certain functions of the service are completely unresponsive, i.e. close to 100% failure rate, that's not "degraded performance"---it's a service outage.
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the choice is to live 2 years behind (e.g. integrate the open source stuff and ride that wave of improvement). for businesses in a competitive space, that’s perhaps untenable. but for individuals and anywhere else where this stuff is just a “nice to have”, that’s really just the long-term sustainable approach. it reminds me of a choice like “do i host my website on a Windows Server, or a Linux box” at a time when bot…
2 years behind in terms of timeline, but what factor in terms of productivity and quality of life? Not to mention openai's lead compounds, so 2 years now and 4 years in 2025 may be 10 times the original prod/qol gain.
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Having multiple systems down sure sounds like a major outage to me. Not a complete outage, sure, but still a major one.
Black - Entire datacenter is down Red - Entire services are down Orange - Partial outage of services, some functionality completely down Yellow - Functionality performance degraded and may timeout/fail, but may also work Greed - Situation normal
Green - Situation normal
Yellow - An outage more severe than usual
Orange, Red - would trigger SLAs, so not possible and therefore not implemented
Black - Status page down too, served from cache, renders as Green
I used Google Bard for the first time today specifically because ChatGPT was down. It was honestly perfectly fine, but it has a slightly different tone than ChatGPT that's kind of hard to explain.
The main thing as a user is that they require different nudges to get the answer you are after out of them, i.e. different ways of asking or prompt eng'n
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This came up the other day. I decided to tease everyone with an 'I told you so' about using some third party hosting service instead of the offline one I had developed years prior. The offline service was still working, and people were doing their job. The online service was not working, and it was causing other people to be unable to do their job. We had 0 control over the third party. The other thing, I make softwa…
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