sudhirj

I use LLMs and agents to only do what I could have done myself, given enough time and hands and keyboards.

If I'm working with something I don't understand, I ask the LLM to teach me first, with as many references and correlations as I need to fully know what's going on.

I also do the architecture myself, but ask for periodic suggestions for improvements and checks on how other systems are doing it. If I see a newer system I think makes sense, again I ask for explanations until I understand it.

Idea is always that the agents assist me in doing something I could have done myself if I didn't happen to only have 24 hours in a day and other parts of my life to live.

The take still holds, although it is a bit more nuanced than it seems at first. 12 Factor was written by the founders of Heroku, for context, and that's exactly how Heroku worked. The app code would be submitted into a system, and run in a pre-container era container-ish environment where any instance specific data would be supplied as environment variables.

This is actually in place in most hosting providers today - don't know if Heroku does it, but many others like Vercel and Fly will also encrypt your secret env vars and decrypt and inject them only at the last minute.

AWS itself has something similar with its secrets manager. Even in the absence of credentials, like using role based IAM when running on EC2, it probably makes sense to note that the code must access credentials by hitting a local-only metadata server - and of course this is available only when running on EC2.

For other secret like payment processor tokens, etc, there's you do need to store secrets somewhere.

Putting secrets in plaintext in the files on the execution platform is of course a problem - but that's not a problem in the 12 Factor idea - it's a security lapse in the design and architecture of the platform that is supposed to be running your 12 Factor app, if that makes sense.

Did the Max plan ever promise unlimited anything? I’m on it, and I remember seeing and paying for 20x, not infinity.

There is a case to be made that they sold a multiple and are changing x or rate limiting x differently, but the tone seems different from that.

This is a rebuild of the antithesis of Tailwind on Tailwind. Bootstrap had this for decades (Daisy even copies the same semantic class names in some cases). Tailwind was supposed to break away from this, to specific actual styles directly, but looks like we're coming back full circle again. Why not just use Bootstrap?

How does the version of Tailwind itself make difference? The look depends on what styles are applied using Tailwind, not the ability to specify styles. Think the problem is the most tailwind sites have a similar set of styles applied, most likely copies of the docs or examples. TailwindUI is a paid system, but yeah, could be a case of most of the defaults copying that.

If a human meeting had lot of silence (assuming it's between words and not before / after), I would consider it a very efficient meeting where there was just enough information exchanged with adequate absorption, processing and response time.

Please ask the agent to help write a workflow script (GitHub Actions yaml or makefile or similar) instead of using it as a runner - if you do that the release pipeline changes with each execution. You do not want a non deterministic release pipeline that's mostly correct. You want one that's checked in to version control and always does exactly the same thing, with all logs and artefacts recorded.

By all means use whatever AI agent you have to help set that up.

Well yes. With the possibility of high upside also comes a chance of a downside.

It depends on your perspective. If you internalize God mode, where you spin your disk world while leaving the sun in place, it's very intuitive.

This is context based dichotomy, not a person-based one.

In my personal life, I’m curiosity-oriented, so I put my blog, side projects and mom’s chocolate shop on fully self hosted VPSs.

At my job managing a team of 25 and servicing thousands of customers for millions in revenue, I’m very results-oriented. Anyone who tries to put a single line of code outside of a managed AWS service is going to be in a lot of trouble with me. In a results-oriented environment, I’m outsourcing a lot of devops work to AWS, and choosing to pay a premium because I need to use the people I hire to work on customer problems.

Trying to conflate the two orientations with mindsets / personality / experience levels is inaccurate. It’s all about context.

Not entirely. If a load balancer is set to buffer say 4kb of data all the time, your SSE is stuck until you close the connection.

I think there is a HTTP/2 flush instruction, but no load balancer is obligated to handle it and your SSE library might not be flushing anyway.

Nothing this does that Caddy can’t do, but Thruster is more the omakase type thing. It’s set up to automatically handle one scenario very well - a single server rails app running defaults. If you have a single server rails app running defaults, this is actually shows up automatically in the automatically generated Dockerfile.

Why, wasn’t The Martian an example of hard sci-fi, a story that conforms strongly to the known laws of physics? Not necessarily probability, economics or politics, but hard sci-fi is written to be plausible.