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Terraform deskilled us too. No one is saying, "SREs should configure their infra by hand sometimes to not lose that skill".

If AI can handle it, great! We have a new tool -- let's make the tool better.

Let's figure out how to use AI to make us detect and resolve issues faster, and even better, prevent issues. I've always said we can't consistently hit 5 9's without automatic detection and remediation. We are there now.

Let's get everyone to 5 9s with AI!

No one in Google is lying. If what the person in the Twitter post says is true, then everyone at Google is telling the truth, and so is OP.

And given all the replies to that post on Twitter, it sounds like it's true.

You should submit this as its own story. This is big if true, so they say (and based on the replies, it is true).

Sure, you could operate without DD. You can also operate without advertising, but it makes it a lot harder to reach customers.

Elsewhere in this post a store owner talks about how DD is a necessary evil. How they have convinced a big chunk of customers to only use DD to order food, and you will lose out if you aren't on the platform.

> What I don't understand is why DD gets any cut of the store's profit. T

In theory it's because that customer wouldn't be purchasing without DD. In practice it's a shakedown.

No but at the current price you can just carry two phones. :)

That's why "They have orthogonal capabilities" matters. You need to find the one that's best suited to your particular task.

But the model names are linear by price.

Part of the confusion is that it's not linear capabilities. One model is not strictly "better" than the other. They have orthogonal capabilities.

I think the names are more of a reference to price. Luna is always cheaper than terra which is cheaper than Sol which is cheaper than Astra (for the same model number).

So you don't have to do the math, at a midline valuation of $1.7T, the Amodei's each will have about $25B. It mentions that they have pledged 80% of their stock to charity in a non-binding agreement.

This is interesting advice. When I was coming up as a sysadmin, the advice was always "run a home lab it's the best way to learn all the details". So I did and it was helpful.

But you never heard someone say "you should still code in assembly so you can understand what your compiler is doing".

Is this more like case one or case two? Will it matter if you understand in a few years?

Or maybe Codex/Claude Code got better and more people are just using those?

Or more people are using harnesses that do what openrouter does so they don't need it anymore?

Or they are using other GPU providers directly to run their open source models?

I don't think this data is conclusive. It's a very unique subset who are using openrouter.

Thought it was great, didn't want to pay. We made it free for the basic todo, paid for groups and templates.

We also didn't have the advantage of good whisper models so voice input wasn't a thing. I feel like that hurt adoption as well.

I've been a Principal Engineer for a while, so this is how I've worked for a while. Sometimes when you're a PE, you either design something and then junior engineers implement the details, or you're dropped into a project that was already designed and built by more junior engineers, and you have to quickly understand the design an as many details as you can.

With AI, everyone now gets to act like a PE. Your job is to design, the AI builds like the junior engineers. Then you review their work. You may never understand the details, and that's ok, as long as you know the main ideas and where to ask for the details (in this case the LLM instead of a human).

I tried to build a todo app a few years ago with a similar thesis -- that the problem with todo apps was triaging the list.

So we built an app that did it for you, just like yours, using machine learning and AI (and some simple rules based on due date and expected time to do the task).

Turns out people don't want to pay for that, even at $2/mo. We even had group features, so that a parent could put tasks on their kid's list, or a group of students could use it for a group project, or a team at work could use it to coordinate team tasks.

We also had templates -- tell us you're a single person who lives alone, and we would auto-add tasks like washing the sheets and cleaning the toilets. Or we could add a daily exercise routine or even a daily bible study if you told us you were a religious Christian.

Feel free to take these features. I hope you have better luck than I did.

I've been using it for a long while in SF. I love it. Never had a problem.