As someone who got a Comp Sci degree from a good school and who worked at FAANG right out of school, it seems like this is all that matters to companies looking to hire me.
I remember asking Gemini 3 to implement my multiplayer XNA game in JavaScript with netcode last year. It faithfully did everything it could while I talked to it for hours nonstop with zero limitations.
What happened? That's just suddenly totally gone now.
I used it yesterday afternoon-night and this morning-afternoon, UK time, over a period of a few 5-hour windows. I didn't count the prompts, wall time was 1d6h, API time was 2h10m.
Strange though... I spent my window after a couple of prompts and effective API time of 13m. Out for 4 hours and a half (why that?). The next day, today, I've tried to repeat the experience - even worse: one prompt for less than 10mins... and then suspended for 8 hours and a half. WTF?
The problem is that there's a part that's true (the “organic” label is based in part on “appeal to nature”, allowing certain stuff on the basis that it is natural, which truly isn't a great way of drawing the limit).
So of course, the (often paid) promoters of “YOLO agriculture” will use that as an argument, putting under the rug that the industry they defend is doing bullshit with people's health and the environment.
There ought to be a middle ground, but unfortunately we live in a permanent culture war so there cannot be reasonable discussion about anything, really.
It's common knowledge. Do more than 5 minutes of research into what it takes to earn a USDA sticker as well as the ingredients and administration practices of conventional pesticides.
There is ALWAYS a need to scale up, upgrade versions, migrate from one database or scheme to another, cut services into more microservices, melt them back into a monolith, integrate more stuff, deprecate other stuff, fix bugs, increase performance, tune caches…
Some things happen for reasons that make sense, others are done for the sake of it. The PO‘s of front end features need to evolve them. What do you do with a PO who says this is done? They don‘t have visibility, don’t get promoted and they don‘t get a bonus. We have created a dashboard that shows that A/B tested users like the new design more by 7%! The next redesign is already planned!
They've been moving it to Azure, presumably partly because they don't want to pay AWS for a thing they could (apparently) do, but more for the appearance of the thing.
I think that's financially sensible in the long run, assuming they believe they can run the thing basically as well on Azure, and aren't expecting major issues during the migration. These have turned out not to be good assumptions.
Line must go up. They're already the default choice for hosting software repos online, so it's time to look at the next thing, whether that be CI/CD or AI or whatever.
If line doesn't go up, some Ivy League business school grad who has holdings in MS might make slightly less money and have to cut back on the nose candy budget while summering in the south of France this year.
Ideally we’d have a project that’s truly open like Linux, trained by people in the community or possibly some benevolent _actually_ nonprofit entity like what OpenAI was supposed to be.
The next best thing is that the Chinese labs catch up and release open weight versions.
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