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Comment · 1 month ago
We will see, but (first thoughts):

- for the economies of scale, you might develop your custom solution 20x faster now, but you're still in competition with the established provides with templates for most of the cases (who btw have the same LLM capability at their disposal)

- for the change in business -- you can ask an LLM which changes this induces, and it will give you most typical impacts. And then you're back at square deciding if it's better to roll your custom DSL and the custom system downstream, or just use off-the-shelf stuff that covers 95% of it from day one (well, maybe day two or three)

Comment · 1 month ago
At least two reasons:

- economies of scale no longer work, and you end up doing a custom ERP for your business from scratch.

- your business changes might invalidate your model quickly. You sell through distributors, but open an online shop -- and suddenly your customer is not one of few dozen well-known businesses with a known address and tax number, but user2252 who bought something late at night last night. And you want to understand the needs and behaviors of both.

Comment · 1 month ago
... and I think you will both find it intellectually stimulating to explore the complexity behind ERP systems that makes a common DSL near impossible across industries, or as businesses change.

DSL presumes agreement on semantics, and that's often the most difficult part.

Comment · 1 year ago
As a law-abiding civic-minded migrant I also feel unwelcome.
Comment · 1 year ago
> workplace sexual harrassment training

Well, it’s in the name already. The fact it’s not called “anti-harassment training” always makes me chuckle…

Comment · 1 year ago
Would this hold for median car prices?
Comment · 1 year ago
You could not replace them entirely with renewables, so fossil fuels were used
Comment · 1 year ago
It’s easy to dismiss the genuine needs of someone else if one’s not impacted though.

Ideology or not, exclusion does not help.

Comment · 1 year ago
You may want to consider NixOS as yet another option.
Comment · 1 year ago
Regardless of the topic of the discussion at hand: please stop dehumanizing adversaries.
Comment · 1 year ago
Would that not apply to sociopathic serial killers too?
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
> these bans have never been about stopping crime anyway.

Genuinely curious European here: what in your view was their purpose?

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