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No product I’ve ever worked on has been successful enough to require the optimizations that microservices can provide.

Part of the reason they weren’t successful was because my managers insist on starting with microservices.

Starting with microservices prevents teams from finding product-market fit that would justify microservices.

Any tips for Mixtral? That’s what we tried

Congratulations on the launch! I was unable to use this library: I was trying to evaluate different non-OpenAI models and it consistently failed due to malformed JSONs coming from the model.

Any thoughts about using different models? Is this just a langchain limitation?

Those are some great quotes!

I’m working with a Derek right now. Highly motivated and highly incompetent. Usually it’s one or the other. How do you deal with people like this?

Quarto is great

I used to use it mainly to write unit tests, which is a nice use case because it’s obvious if it gets it wrong. (The test fails.)

One time I had to use the Go protobuff reflection API, and Copilot was actual crucial because the docs are so bad.

Can’t use it in my current role and I feel less productive.

This is like how CI forces developers to write better code by nudging us towards good behaviors. Is it annoying sometimes to write well-formatted code with high test coverage? Sure. Is it annoying to drive at the speed limit? Sure. Ultimately, it leads to a better outcome.

If this gets adopted, within 10 years people won’t be able to imagine how we lived without it

I’ve been trying to come up with a metaphor to explain the housing crisis in California to my friends in LATAM. Shoes are a pretty good. I want something punchier, though.

> You Don’t Need a Full-Size Pickup Truck, You Need a Cowboy Costume

That’s hilarious

Can someone please use this to improve the skyboxes in the KOTOR games? Please and thank you.

I’ve lived in San Francisco for 20+ years. Downtown is in bad shape, but the rest of the city is quite lovely. I think techies don’t explore the “villages” (Richmond, Hayes Valley, etc) and only see the more corporate, less flattering side of the city (SoMa). This will lead to an uneven view of the city. And a deservedly negative one.

The rumors of San Francisco death are exaggerated. They are also self-fulfilling because they discourage people from investing in the community.

My advice to techies: move West. Take a pottery class and eat a dumpling. Make friends with artists. It’s a richly cultural city once you get out of the bubble.

Neubig is the real deal. I’d take this paper seriously.

Better than StableLM chat, worse than ChatGPT. Seems like the best open-source chatbot?