My observation is that people who love this stuff are not programmers so they feel like they have been empowered to automate things that they could not otherwise automate.

For people who are already highly skilled in scripting/automation it's a lot less impressive.

They notice all the things that could go wrong. All the non-determinism issues. And they think I could do this better with a custom script myself.

The use cases I have heard all seem like gimmicks to me.

Unfortunately everything is going in the opposite direction.

We are in the age of AI-slop AI-everything AI-break-it AI-fix-it.

Software companies are competing with each other on how low they can push the quality and still get away with it.

There's no reward or incentive for paying attention to the details or the quality. In fact you will get penalised for it.

I think it means charging based on the value of the work to the client not just the cost of doing the work.

That means if you get fast and efficient at doing something valuable for the clients you get to enjoy better margins because your costs are relatively low but the value is high so the customers still happily pay a good amount for it.

Claude is SOOO powerful and dangerous they just had to shut it down guys :))

Does anyone have solutions or suggestions for mounting a S3 bucket as a read-only filesystem? I don't need any writes.

Previously I have done a periodic script that would simply re-sync the directory which works well enough. But curious if there's anything else out there.

Holy shit I just scrolled through the status sites. Almost every single day is filled with incidents.

It's not clear that it would be a net-negative on the revenue.

It could encourage more development and adoption and lead to being a net-positive for the revenue.

It's a fair point but iff you neglect that the overwhelming revenue drivers for these services are large corps who are already locked-in. Devx doesn't matter at all once you're there.

The myopathy among us "online people" is assuming number of voices here and elsewhere correlate to revenue.

It does not.

Just fyi, myopathy is a general term for diseases that affect some types of muscles, while myopia is short-sightedness -- assuming the latter is what you were going for!

Thanks!

If it's irrelevant whether or not individual developers are on board, why are Amazon offering a free plan?

I realise that this is not always practical. But generally I refuse to engage or negotiate about the way I work. Especially if you have a lot of experience, you have to push back when people want to drag you in the mud and wrestle about which tools you use.

A good company will not try to micro manage you as an Engineer in that way.

Can anyone mention how you can "save the state" so it doesn't have to train from scratch on every run?

I don't know but I'm guessing that it's because it makes it easy to give access to it to Mac desktop apps? Not sure what's the VM story with Mac but usually cloud VM stuff is linux so it may be inconvenient for some users to hook it up to their apps/tools.