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Comment · 5 days ago
Respectfully, I don't understand this. They never needed Next.js for a static blog.

This is like writing a post about how I didn't need a Ferrari to commute to work and I saved money by taking the bus.

Comment · 2 months ago
Comment · 2 months ago
What makes you say it's LLM?

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Comment · 2 months ago
I was under the impression Google engineers went through a rigorous hiring process, yet this is the sort of thing you get from lowest bidder consultants who have inexperienced devs.
Comment · 2 months ago
Are you paying for GitHub? Are you complaining about an outage from a product you aren't even paying for? You know the whole point of git is you don't _need_ a central server.

I don't understand the entitlement in your post here.

Comment · 2 months ago
He was fired 5 years after the zoom layoffs. That information is from the linked article.
Comment · 2 months ago
Interesting take considering Fastmail is very clearly not an American company.
Comment · 2 months ago
How is it NSA/DHS negligence? Neither is responsible for securing the infrastructure of state and local governments nor private companies.

They should provide guidance, but I’m not sure we really want the NSA inside of networks more than they already are.

If voters and CEOs don’t want to spend the money required to secure their infrastructure, that’s on them.

Comment · 5 months ago
You wildcarded any traffic to github.com and thought, "eh, they probably check" and are wondering who is at fault? It's you.

You didn't think through the consequences, and you could learn a bit more about DNS.

Comment · 6 months ago
Yeah, where are they getting the customers that want the big screen?

Are these people stupid? These product people have lost touch with reality. I'm driving, I want to focus on the road, not a 39 x 6" touch screen.

Comment · 6 months ago
Yeah, /plan is the only way I can work with them now. Too much "helpful" crap I didn't ask for. Having nightmares of former coworkers who would want to refactor 80% of the code base for a 3 line change. AI doesn't subscribe to "if it ain't broke, don't fix it."
Comment · 6 months ago
It's situational.

The blame on how the tool was used and whether this was negligence. If I hit someone with my car because I was looking at my phone, it's not the tools fault. If I hit someone because my brakes failed due to a manufacturing defect, sure blame the tool.

In this situation, the author didn't understand the API key they created. They also likely told the AI it could do a bunch of things (I have claude code ask me before doing anything except read/plan). So I'm sure he turned off some guardrails.

He expects an API to offer an "are you sure?" - it's an API.

He's blaming everyone but himself.

Comment · 8 months ago
Give me a break. The problem is the Waymo that is blocking a lane sideways and is not pulling forward out of the way of the ambulance, a move that even the worst human drivers would likely know to do.

It does no good to pretend there aren't problems with self-driving cars or make excuses.

It's not about the other entities.

Comment · 8 months ago
"Maybe, or maybe FL180 is a nice clean line for class A airspace. No need to bother transcontinental flights for a local issue."

Way more plauible

Comment · 8 months ago
It was 16 years...

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