brightball

It’s not the HA features that are the selling point for me.

The combination of lightweight processes with their own HEAP and the preemptive scheduler means that millions of processes can run on the same machine with consistent execution time, no GC pause, and no worry that a single resource heavy process is going to slow down everything else.

The balance tradeoffs allows you to do a lot of things that would otherwise be poor architectural choices.

LiveView is just one example, where you’re able to completely forgo the need for a frontend framework but get all of the same benefits with lightning fast execution times.

There’s a lot of wins that come from it.

From a AI standpoint, functional code is simpler to trace and maintain because the AI doesn’t have to worry about side effects.

The HA perks are a bonus.

Elixir is great from a syntax perspective. It gets compared to ruby a lot for some reason but they're nothing alike. Elixir syntax is very deliberate about everything.

The BEAM runtime is the real win. Your options are Erlang, Elixir and Gleam to get the BEAM.

Out of the 3, I prefer Elixir and Jose is a brilliant leader for it.

I’m using Elixir for every (web) project now specifically because the cost is negligible. I can't think of a reason to use anything else and the agents are _really_ good at writing it, particularly given the excellent structural guardrails that are in place.

Being able to ensure all of the test run freakishly fast async is a huge win too.

I have and the biggest unlock compared to Hermes is that it comes with no setup and its own computers for each agent. While I’m perfectly capable of setting up my own Hermes, controlling access over my tailnet and setting it up with my other AI plans most non-tech folks are not.

Having this just work for non-tech people and still have advanced capabilities for the people who want to use it is a huge UX unlock.

The other thing thats critical is that it’s exceedingly cautious by default. My risk profile and concerns eased quickly.

I haven’t heard anyone give bots comparison.

It can do that too, but you can tell it that it’s allowed to access specific computers it’s installed on. I allow it on a couple of computers on my network and from there it can SSH elsewhere.

It can send all bot traffic through those computers too so it’s less likely to get blocked.

I gave it access to a box on my network and it spins up agents in herdr with whatever prompts I give it. Works really well with any agent you tell it to use.

Over the weekend I decided to try Lauren Tan’s pstack via her Dr Eggbot and had it built a bot that would run a build for me for a few days. It was a complex enough prompt that it triggered something to let me tell it which models to use and ended up settling on Opus 5.5 for planning and review with Grok 4.7 for the actual coding.

Ran for the weekend and completed 5 phases of a project with about 15 PRs. Reviews caught several things and sent them back premerge.

I enjoyed a fun weekend with my daughter clearing Escape Rooms in Colorado. Came back to a completed project.

It was great.

I will be shocked if anything can beat Grok Bot for usefulness at this point.

It took me 2 days to hit “how did I ever survive without this” and it’s only gotten better.

It’s a leap to claim anyone loves a federal agency.

I followed a lot of the news about them regarding this thing. If I own a business or even simply act as a manager and I know of a constant threat to my staff I would take any action I was legally allowed to protect them. Doesn’t matter if it’s ICE, the postal service, a gas station, theme park, etc.

It’s basic self defense.

ICE agents didn’t start covering their faces just because, they did it because people were doxxing them and going after their families.

People are going to protect themselves and their staff. It’s basic human nature.

The article is talking about a license plate scanner website that was being used to track the movements of ICE vehicles, follow them and harass agents.

If people started doing that to UPS delivery trucks I would expect UPS to do everything in their power to protect their staff.

Correct me if I’m wrong here, but wasn’t this in response to a massive organized anti-ICE operation?

Headline makes it seem like ICE just did this in a vacuum.

Yea, I thought the whole Lavabit episode made it clear that privacy oriented solutions based in the US were going to have a hard time. Most Proton’s whole selling point is their location.

It does happen. There’s just enough people who have realized the negative side effects of going along with it that fewer and fewer people are willing to.

“Moderate Democrats” say hello

They do. It's the entire Libertarian wing of the party.