perching_aix

> in a world that has had deterministic calculators for the better part of a century

so rewind that clock and see the above comment miraculously start making sense

i.e. they burn a fraction of the cost it would otherwise take and it may end up as a discarded dud?

yeah, i think they'll survive whatever the outcome

I work a "dev"ops job, and like yeah, I'm pretty sure this field is even more fucked than software engineering is.

IaC codebases, configs, utility scripts are relatively tiny, and fit into context windows whole. Models are eating them for breakfast.

They're really good at incident response. Sadly, much better than our dedicated colleagues from <location> ever will be. They'll chew through cloud service logs, application logs, application code, iac code and config, CI output, etc. to get whatever is needed, cause wide knowledge is no issue. Even disassembling stuff is no barrier, tracing things down from app level, to runtime level (e.g. JVM), to native calls.

They're really good at handling deployments, end to end infra setup and migrations, following checklists. Hell, they don't even really need checklists. Something that cannot be said about other dedicated colleagues from <location>, who cannot breathe without a checklist, will skip over steps, or otherwise very creatively misinterpret them or improvise something wicked.

They're really good at spinning up mad nice dashboards, and keeping business types happy with impressive looking write-ups they'll never read. It's really refreshing to not have to write those write-ups anymore (or the aforementioned checklists).

It's straight up both not looking good and looking better than ever. Having it be fully hands off remains an issue though.

Something tells me they were not very big on doing that even prior to 1 BC (Before Claude).

i envy the folks who can actually make sense of msdn docs. they were tedious and overwhelming decades before ai made that the premiere style this year.

some parts are better than others, but god is it a quest to find anything in there.

I'm guessing it was the easiest quick workaround available, but obv wait for official confirmation.

Reads like Cursor's extension marketplace got compromised, hence how the OpenVSX and MS marketplaces can be unaffected.