gtCameron

Do you have any evidence of this assertion? What is 'cost price' and what is being sold below that?

We've all been raised in a world where we got to practice the 'art' of programming, and get paid extraordinarily well to do so, because the output of that art was useful for businesses to make more money.

If a programmer with an exoskeleton can produce more output that makes more money for the business, they will continue to be paid well. Those who refuse the exoskeleton because they are in it for the pure art will most likely trend towards earning the types of living that artists and musicians do today. The truly extraordinary will be able to create things that the machines can't and will be in high demand, the other 99% will be pursing an art no one is interested in paying top dollar for.

My 9 year old can sit down with the Replit Agent and make a simple game that entertains her for hours.

She couldn't make a business application and go out and start selling subscriptions, but there are whole categories of tools that can be created that are ultra simple CRUD apps that bring specific value to one person. Code quality and/or understanding how it works is irrelevant for that use case.

There isn't a return for shareholders if the valuations are lower. The problem is not management holding the business hostage today, the problem was investing at unsustainable multiples a few years ago.

Now the only options are to either cash out at a lower valuation and not make any money, or wait and hope the business grows to the point where you can get a higher total valuation despite the lower multiple and see a return on your capital.

So Twitter/Blue Sky/Whatever implements a “report abuse” link.

Who does it report abuse to? What happens to the post? What happens to the person who powered it?

I was not, we are a Laravel PHP backend, using the standard PHP stuff for connection management

We have been running PlanetScale as our production database for about 6 months, migrated from Aurora Serverless. I love it, their query insights tool has been a game changer for us and has allowed us to optimize a ton of queries in our application. Their support is always available and highly technical.

For a sense of scale, we have ~150gb of data running around 5 trillion row reads + 500 million row writes per month

We moved from Aurora Serverless v1 to PlanetScale a couple months ago and love it so far. Tools like this are super helpful for someone like me who is a full stack developer with limited DB expertise to keep our platform running smoothly.

Their team is awesome, I requested a couple features in the CLI and they were there within a few hours. Support is responsive and the sales team was super helpful getting everything running and migrated.

How would they “address” that? It’s outside of their control

I don't think "real" engineering is necessarily any better at estimating. Take a look at any large construction project and the norm is to be over time and over budget.

There are lots of reasons for that, which can fall outside of the scope of engineering, but the same is true for software.

“Has Y Combinator lost its way when the latest company is a backup app you can already build such yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem”