igorzij
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Comment · 4 months ago
also forgot to mention that 90% of the work (and time) is bouncing markdown files back and forth until the design is clear and I feel happy about it. design docs, working docs, etc. implementing then is where I can engage way less and switch to a different tab in cmux to drive it
Comment · 4 months ago
im finding it way way more "flowy" than pre-ai. all the boring trivia is gone, i can focus on what i actually care about - the shape of what i am building, tradeoffs, second- and third-order consequences of decisions.
the trick to get it uninterrupted is "selective multitasking". i don't like having too many Claudes / Codexes in parallel on auto-pilot; this way im finding i'm getting _something_ that is perfectly plausible, but rarely what i wanted. but I have N going at any given time, just enough to be basically non-stop reading. problems need to be related; within one project, ideally adjacent areas that are complementary. then my "flow" is just switching between reading and typing non-stop. never felt time flying by faster in my life, pure flow
Comment · 1 year ago
Hi HN - one of the founders of Digger here, the company behind Project OpenTaco.
Allow me to explain the initiative. Under per-run and resources-under-management pricing models many organizations have adopted workarounds and shortcuts that slow the growth of IaC adoption, and are incredibly frustrated by the arrangement. ([1], [2])
But wait - what about OpenTofu?
With OpenTofu, the community already has a credible open-source CLI alternative to BSL-licensed Terraform by Hashicorp. However that only solves half the problem: while the CLI helps teams avoid lock in to BSL licensed Terraform, it doesn’t address governance or collaboration challenges at scale any bigger than a single laptop. That's what TACOs are for; but so far, no open source project was able to challenge Terraform Cloud / Terraform Enterprise.
This is what led to the idea behind project opentaco. The project aims to add the missing enterprise workflows (currently proprietary and extractively priced) to Terraform and OpenTofu: secure remote runs, granular access controls, automated drift detection, enterprise SSO, and stack management, to be delivered as an open, self-hostable tool.
We feel this is Terraform’s “backstage” moment. Backstage did for Internal Developer Portals what we believe Project OpenTaco will do for IaC automation. Before Backstage, enterprises had scattered service catalogs and homegrown portals; Backstage created a standard, defined the category of IDPs, and won adoption at some of the world’s most recognizable companies [3]. We are building OpenTaco to follow the same path for Terraform and OpenTofu orchestration as the open standard.
We’re happy to launch v0.0 today (demo here [4], docs here (5)), you can try it starting today, we’d love any and all feedback!
[1]:https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7376235... [2]:https://www.linkedin.com/posts/coquinn_am-i-getting-this-rig... [3]:https://github.com/backstage/backstage/blob/master/ADOPTERS.... [4]:https://www.loom.com/share/046b75fdc4e54cfa8d5089a1eb02f272 [5]:https://docs.digger.dev/ce/state-management/architecture
Comment · 2 years ago
Yeah the ultimate impact of LLMs might be the end of SEO and copywriting. Rhetoric is cool again, as in skill to convey as much meaning as possible using as little words as possible. "Content" was always a bit of a silly term: the inherent value of it is always negative (proportionate to size), offset by the new knowledge conveyed in a piece. The attention economy is collapsing right in front of our eyes.
Comment · 2 years ago
I feel betrayed after reading the first few sentences. No human ever would write like this:
"Qatar Airways has taken the future of in-flight connectivity to greater heights by operating the world’s first Starlink-equipped Boeing 777 aircraft..."
"Qatar Airways has just made aviation history by launching the world's first Starlink-equipped Boeing 777 flight. This groundbreaking development promises to revolutionize how we stay connected at 35,000 feet. Let's dive into what this means for travellers!"
Comment · 2 years ago
Founding Sales
Also while not exactly about sales, "Softwar" (a bio of Larry Ellison) has a ton of great insights on enterprise sales
Comment · 2 years ago
Why Claude 3.5 Sonnet is missing from the benchmark? Even if the real reason is different and completely legitimate, or perhaps purely random, it comes across as "claude does better than our new model so we omitted it because we wanted the tallest bars on the chart to be ours". And as soon as the reader thinks that, they may start to question everything else in your work, which is genuinely awesome!