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Comment · 22 days ago
The dice roll prediction is about the way the prompt is setup misunderstanding how Jev works (they treat the confidence score as a probability score, which it isn't).

If you instead give it a list of probability for each number and ask it whats the probability of each number, the result will be accurate.

Comment · 22 days ago
I honestly was worried for them. Now, even with all the clones, they generally still come up on top in price and latency, but "good enough" is often sufficient.

Guess the (investment) market has spoken.

Comment · 22 days ago
Is this playing in the same space as the like of gvisor?
Comment · 23 days ago
D1 is their bet there but considering hyperdrive, a real Postgres would be cool.

I also wish they expanded jurisdiction more. I worked at companies that couldn't use Cloudflare because of specific location requirements in contracts

Comment · 1 month ago
The whole nerfing narrative puts in the spotlight now crazy supertitions come into being. The group think every day that everything is falling apart is crazy.
Comment · 1 month ago
Yup. LLMs can do almost anything. Can they do it at the speed, cost and confidence of a model like Jev is a different story. In Jev output tokens are straight up free because it's not doing text token generations.
Comment · 1 month ago
There's a bunch. I got pissed during one of the last GitHub outages and had an AI agent one shot a clone with PR, stacks, actions, and full compatibility with the git client running on Cloudflare workers and R2. Only limitations is it was https only because CF workers don't have tcp to implement and without an enterprise account.

Works great to this day. And I was far from the first.

Comment · 2 months ago
This whole mess brought to like just now little moat there is left in the AI world.

Like, everyone talks about how you can just prompt a new CRM instead of paying for Salesforce.

But in this case, I raced with Fable and Sol and had time to build a full featured, fully functional CI/CD workflow system that has most of the features of GitHub actions (not the ecosystem obviously) and costs less than the GitHub runners per minute, while being able to scale to millions of workflows... And I had it working end to end before the outage was resolved and was already running my apps deploys through it.

It would take a little longer to do in a company with red tape and more investments in the GitHub ecosystem, and of course it only replaced actions. But it works.

There is no moat.

Comment · 2 months ago
in the world of AI, forking is so much easier.

I was messing with a closed source tool from a vendor, and turns out they didn't support my use case (they were Mac only, I needed a Linux version. And I wanted it in a different programming language than they had used for maintenance and performance).

Pointed Fable and Sol at the binary and the symbols (most of the work was through http, to be fair), and a few hours later I had a fully functional version with additional features.

now of course the legality of that being closed source is iffy, but it was for personal use. In this case its open source. Need to run this on another platform ? You probably can get very far with a prompt or two.

Comment · 2 months ago
Cloudflare is hit or miss there.

They move pretty quick so they tend to ship a lot of product very quickly that have a lot of potentials. But they are very much MVPs, and you'll hit a lot of limitations that aren't always obvious at first blush. And then it can take years before they mature, at which point they'll pour a ton of resources and they'll go from useless to top tier in like 2 months.

It's really hard to tell.

The Vite plugin for Cloudflare Worker was one of those. It was really rough at first and I wasted hundreds of hours getting stuff working as advertised. And then in a week they fixed all the bugs.

AI Gateway is another. We used it at first because it seemed to check all the boxes, and turns out it had tons of limitations and almost none of the features of other offerings, with very few updates months+. And then recently they basically added all the features it was missing in a few weeks/months and now its good.

Agent SDK too, it was always behind with outdated dependencies and missing features all other agent frameworks had. And then one day they started iterating super fast and now its legitimately good.

You can never tell reading the docs, so you have to try it, curse because you only find the limitations once you're running the thing for real in production, abandon it, then a few months later its everything you could ever want.

I have a love hate relationship with Cloudflare. Mostly love, but still.

Comment · 7 months ago
SOC2 is just "the process we say we have, is what we do in practice". The process can be almost anything. Some auditors will push on stuff as "required", but they're often wrong.

But all it means in the end is you can read up on how a company works and have some level of trust that they're not lying (too much).

It makes absolutely zero guarantees about security practices, unless the documented process make these guarantees.

Comment · 1 year ago
CC would explode even further if they had official Team/Enterprise plan (likely in the work, Claude Code Waffle flag), and worked on Windows without WSL (supposedly pretty easy to fix, they just didn't bother). Cursor learnt the % of Windows user was really high when they started looking, even before they really supported it.

They're likely artificially holding it back either because its a loss leader they want to use a very specific way, or because they're planning the next big boom/launch (maybe with a new model to build hype?).

Comment · 1 year ago
Yup, but Article 3 point 2.a has a fairly strict definition, where for an entity outside of the US to be considered as "offering service" to EU members requires some kind of strict ties. The de facto examples is offering a product by specifically mentioning payment in Euro, or having presence on an domain with a top level TLD of a member state. If there's no ties that shows the offering is made to EU members, it doesn't apply.

Very very little tie is required (eg: just having one employee in the EU in a 50,000 people org would do it right there), but the law has been fairly consistently interpreted as such.

I get where you're coming from, but this isn't a if or but or theoretical. Its just how GDPR gets applied. I probably confused things by trying to introduce poor analogies, when the law itself is fairly clearly interpreted a specific way.

Comment · 1 year ago

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