MrDarcy

Terraform, as with any language, is mostly useless for humans now. It is for the agents full stop. You are correct though, we need to know the underlying architecture and most importantly why it is the way it is.

We’ve been trusting (or distrusting) our agents for all of recorded history. The choice between Claude or Codex matters. Trust matters.

I think this is the comment that drives me off this site permanently. It’s been a good decade and a half.

> But how do you find a respectable one, in a gold rush?

Look for those who are trying to serve established respectable professions, ideally have already done so for many years or decades. Accounting, Legal, Healthcare, Journalism (in the ideal sense).

Then look at their own mission. Then look at their own work. Do they show their work? Are they open? Do they willingly allow their customers to audit their work product? Does how they talk about their work match the work product itself? Does the thing do what it says on the tin? Are they hypocrites with respect to those they serve or those they manage?

These are my strategies and I’ve found they lead to working almost exclusively with people who have high Integrity.

The article is incorrect and misleading. Railway did have an account manager and they did call them and they did pick up the phone and work with them to restore service.

Google restored access but did not resolve the problem. VM’s were still shut down.

It’s almost impossible not to any more. This is victim blaming at this point.

3800 is low for an org like GitHub. Glad it’s highly likely not all their repos are compromised.

Nobody has taken away the freedom to program like we used to. Punch cards may be more expensive now, but vim and emacs are still as free as they ever were.

Clearly a matter of opinion and circumstances. Plenty of people with effectively zero cost access to agents who see value in implementing an operating system from scratch. The team who made the demo for example, and those of us who see the possibilities the demo inspires for another example.

There’s no way this was automated or silent.

The only reasonable explanation is Railway lost control of their estate and something was happening that warranted a group of humans to decide flipping the kill switch was the best of a set of bad alternatives.

That’s strange, when I interviewed with the founder a few years ago he told me they were on AWS wanting to move to firecracker.

Why wouldn’t you want to?

Which is good. Why reinvent this particular wheel? Even I, a grey beard 30 year vim user appreciate VScode as my daily driver.

The error and omission of not enforcing mandatory security training covering posting plaintext passwords to public sites for CISA contractors is itself an act of gross negligence.

So much so the contracting company’s insurer would cite it as the reason why the claim is not covered by their policy.