I've moved most companies away from using others stuff Today we use Hertzner and OVH and roll out our own solution whenever possible. Running lean and mean. Depending on such third party services is a trap.
This is the way.
Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI
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Re: Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI
#52Incredible how many people are perfectly fine working for a company making AI powered murder bots.
Re: Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI
#53Wow. I have rarely seen a company website with so many buzzwords. Still not sure what they do, except "AI". Good riddance
Cuirrus does not do AI, they do CI.
There is a theme in a lot of products (and open source projects) of plastering AI all over the description, even if it isn't really related to AI. The first thing I see on the CirrusLabs website is "Accelerate AI Adoption Without Compromising Safety". How am I supposed to know this is a CI product, and even if I figure that out, how am I supposed to know it is a genral CI tool and not something AI specific?
I don't understand why these sites just put a bunch of buzzwords instead of telling you what it actually is.
Re: Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI
#54I liked “our incredible journey” more when it wasn’t rushing headlong into OpenMawAI
Every great journey must have an end. As far as I understand Cirrus CI was struggling due to Github Actions eating their market. Cirrus CI was in my opinion much better than Github Actions but it is hard to compete with a bundled solution.
What was good about it? It looks pretty ordinary to me: https://cirrus-ci.org/features/
Re: Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI
#55Re: Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI
#56The level of aqui-hires is getting interesting - at this point, it appears that if one wants one's career to progress, you need to start some kind of tiny startup like Astral or Bun and hope to be notable enough you can get acquired by someone like OpenAI or Anthropic. It certainly makes the idea of a career progression / promotion more challenging than it used to be, but perhaps it also opens up some new opportuniti…
> at this point, it appears that if one wants one's career to progress, you need to start some kind of tiny startup like Astral or Bun and hope to be notable enough you can get acquired by someone like OpenAI or Anthropic
This has been popular for 25+ years. Likely before, but that's when I first started noticing a significant number of companies that were clearly in business solely TO BE BOUGHT.
Re: Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI
#57I've moved most companies away from using others stuff Today we use Hertzner and OVH and roll out our own solution whenever possible. Running lean and mean. Depending on such third party services is a trap.
That is something of a broken promise in the SaaS world; it was supposed to be convenience but instead it became a hundred broken integration points as you struggle to keep up with deprecated APIs and acqui-hires killing off shims you wouldn't have needed if everything had been on-prem to begin with.
Re: Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI
#58Looks like tech and talent grab for "Computer use" project
https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/tools-computer...
Re: Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI
#59I've moved most companies away from using others stuff Today we use Hertzner and OVH and roll out our own solution whenever possible. Running lean and mean. Depending on such third party services is a trap.
Been there, done that, and I still find value in 3rd party services despite the occasional need to migrate.
Self hosting is the way to go if you need to keep monthly services spend as low as possible but you have extra time to spend, such as with a hobby project.
Whenever I’ve worked on real startup projects, self-hosting became a constant source of little tasks for the engineering team to mix into our weekly workload. There were always little tasks to upgrade this service, investigate why that one server was slow, or to migrate something to a bigger server because we were bottlenecked on some resource. Then we had to manage backups and do our recovery drills, along with changing the backup strategy every 6 months because someone had a better idea.
When we started to add up all of the time spent managing everything it starts to look like spending dollars (of engineer time) to save pennies on SaaS bills.
Probably not a popular thing to say on HN, but I now try to stay away from teams that go to extremes to self-host everything because I just want to get my work done, not also be constantly involved in running the underlying services. I do it for my own hobby projects at home but I don’t want to be doing it at work where we have money to spend to lighten the load. If the cost is the occasional migration to a different 3rd party service that’s not a big workload relative to everything involved in self-hosting.
Re: Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
Cuirrus does not do AI, they do CI.
There is a theme in a lot of products (and open source projects) of plastering AI all over the description, even if it isn't really related to AI. The first thing I see on the CirrusLabs website is "Accelerate AI Adoption Without Compromising Safety". How am I supposed to know this is a CI product, and even if I figure that out, how am I supposed to know it is a genral CI tool and not something AI specific? I don't u…
You are checking the wrong Cirrus Labs.