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You're absolutely right!

Curious what people's experience is with these models. Anecdotally I tried these out earlier in the year and found it struggled with pretty basic full-stack coding I was doing, when Sonnet 4.6 and Haiku 4.5 didn't break a sweat. Was hoping to use it while my Claude usage was resetting but was disappointed.

The Economist | Several engineers and engineering managers | Birmingham, UK (On site) | £30-63k

The Economist is scaling its engineering team to the next level, growing from around 50 engineers in Birmingham, UK to around 75 engineers over the new few quarters.

We're hiring:

Engineers of all levels for our product engineering teams

Senior and mid-level engineers for or mobile product engineering teams

Engineering Managers for our DevSecOps / Security enablement teams

When the pandemic ends and it's safe to do so, we're planning to return to our central Birmingham UK office (walking distance to New Street and Snow Hill stations) around 3 days a week.

Just ping me if you have any questions or would like to apply.

Even more troublesome, IMO. This as a gate to interviews leads to a really uninclusive hiring process.

I'm with ya, but that's because I'm an American who finds himself in the UK! Every UK keyboard I use is ever so slightly different, which drives me a bit crazy.

You may be able to host your development environment cheaper. Hetzner works out to be almost the same price as electricity of keeping my desktop up all the time for me.

Interesting. Thanks for the heads up. I've had the 8.99 offering for a while now and haven't had any issues... yet.

I've been loving Scaleway. It's a great service and I'm glad to see they're expanding. Hopefully they'll come to the UK and North America next.

We use DbFit every day at our shop. It's really changed how we work (as DB developers). Was funny that I thought of this project right after reading this article, and how I should probably try and contribute, then I see this in the comments. :)

Thanks!

Ransomware have spread via exploitable, unupdated versions of RDP, which is worrying. Better to listen on another port of RDP must be exposed to the Internet.

There's a large income exclusion that means unless you earn a really kick ass salary, you're unlikely to be double taxed.

Also the biggest problem is that almost everyone else one sends an unencrypted email to is not "NSA-proof."

Baptism by fire, huh? :) I guess I was one of the unlucky ones, but it hasn't put me off. Hoping you guys expand to the UK (datacenter-wise) eventually!

They were down for 4 or 5 days last month. Was due to a power issue in their DC's building.

They kept everyone in the loop, and it's the only downtime I've noticed from them.