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by cobolcomesback 6mo ago
At every job I’ve had, across all the managers I’ve had, my immediate manager (and usually their manager as well) genuinely cared about me and my team and our well being as well as our careers. My _company_ and its executives surely didn’t
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by cobolcomesback 6mo ago
I work at Amazon and I’ve had almost the opposite experience. There are dedicated career check ins twice a year that managers are required to have (separate from pay change discussions). Each of the orgs I’ve worked in have also had their o
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by cobolcomesback 6mo ago
And too many people have their egos tied to its failure, too. Im a massive AI skeptic. If anyone were to be jumping up and down on the corpse of AI and this incessant drive to use it everywhere, it’d be me. But I also work at Amazon. I got
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by cobolcomesback 6mo ago
There was nothing mentioned in the meeting or messaging about PRs with AI contributions. There are no extra requirements for review or scrutiny of AI-generated-code. The media reports about this have been excessively misleading about this.
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by cobolcomesback 6mo ago
That really isn’t the culture at Amazon. There are all-team meetings that happen all the time, and every now and then there is a reminder that “hey we’re gonna be talking about an interesting topic so you might want to join”, but it is cert
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by cobolcomesback 6mo ago
The message and meeting being discussed here have nothing to do with AWS or any outages AWS has faced recently. I think you’re missing the point of the discussion. I don’t blame you, because this is just bad reporting (and potentially inten
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by cobolcomesback 6mo ago
It’s not false. But it’s also weaselly worded. Note that the article doesn’t say that he told staff they have to attend the meeting. It says he “asked” staff to attend the meeting. Which again, it’s really really normal for there to be an e
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by cobolcomesback 6mo ago
This “mandatory meeting” is just the usual weekly company-wide meeting where recent operational issues are discussed. There was a big operational issue last week, so of course this week will have more attendance and discussion. This meeting
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by cobolcomesback 7mo ago
This isn’t “a few billion”. Maybe you missed some of the earlier comments. The hyperscalers have hundreds of billions of dollars tied up in deals with Anthropic. You’re delusional if you think these boards aren’t going to have a back room t
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by cobolcomesback 7mo ago
> because it means years of efforts and tens to hundreds of millions of dollars rearchitecting entire platforms and renegotiating contracts. This is exactly why this announcement has not made Anthropic toxic. The entire industry knows ho
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by cobolcomesback 7mo ago
The DoD’s spend on cloud contracts is measured in single-digit-billions per year. It’s peanuts compared to the hyperscalers investments in Anthropic. Think of it this way: each of the hyperscalers have built a handful of data centers specif
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by cobolcomesback 7mo ago
The JWCC, which is larger than GovCloud, was only $9b, split across three companies, over ten years. It’s peanuts compared to the investments that the hyperscalers have with Anthropic.
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by cobolcomesback 7mo ago
None of the hyper scalers are going to stop offering Claude. All of the big 3 have invested billions of dollars into Anthropic, and have tens (if not hundreds) of billions more tied up in funding deals with them. Amazon and Google are two o
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by cobolcomesback 7mo ago
AWS/GCP/Azure all do business with the DoD and at least AWS and Azure use Claude a decent amount internally. AWS’s Kiro tool (which is used internally instead of Claude Code) relies entirely on Claude models. This is almost certai
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by cobolcomesback 8mo ago
It’s to run LLMs. In the before-AI world, it mattered a lot where data centers were geographically located. They needed to be in the same general location as population centers for latency reasons, and they needed to be in an area that was
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by cobolcomesback 8mo ago
I travel for work often (used to do it every week but now it’s once-ish a month), and fly business every now and then. I don’t think I’ve ever met any fellow work flyers who wanted the flying experience to be more focused on the “business a
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by cobolcomesback 8mo ago
And the original link about investment in India is also about fulfillment jobs and even worse, “investing in AI”, aka building data centers, which contribute essentially no jobs at all.
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by cobolcomesback 8mo ago
Where are you seeing “American” jobs? Amazon workers in India were laid off too. There are similar stories about Amazon investing in American cities too. Cherry picking a story that Amazon is renovating their office in India is ingenuine.
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by cobolcomesback 8mo ago
At minimum this thing should be installed in its own VM. I shudder to think of people running this on their personal machine… I’ve been toying around with it and the only credentials I’m giving it are specifically scoped down and/or ar
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by cobolcomesback 8mo ago
That list of movies is just the movies that Amazon Studios has been the distributor for via Prime Video. Amazon didn’t necessarily produce or fund all of the movies in that list. It’s a bunch of cheap movies that are likely meant to be loss
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by cobolcomesback 8mo ago
> it uses the Claude models but afaik it is constantly changing which one is using depending on the perceived difficulty Claude Code does the same. You can disable it in Kiro by specifically setting the model to what you want rather than
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by cobolcomesback 8mo ago
AWS sends out targeted notifications via email and via alerts in the console if you are a current customer of a service that is changing somehow. It’s pretty normal that they don’t send out a press release and blog post every time something
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by cobolcomesback 9mo ago
DuckDB does as well. A super simplified explanation of duckdb is that it’s sqlite but columnar, and so is better for analytics of large datasets.
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by cobolcomesback 9mo ago
V2 scales to zero as of last year. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/introducing-scaling-to... It only scales down after a period of inactivity though - it’s not pay-per-request like other serverless offerings
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by cobolcomesback 10mo ago
The very first paragraph of the first comment you replied to is about multi-master HA. The second sentence in that comment is about “every machine is equal”. k3s with sqlite is awesome, but it cannot do that.
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by cobolcomesback 10mo ago
This thread is about using multi-machine clusters, and sqlite cannot be used for multi-machine clusters in k3s. etcd is the default when starting k3s in cluster mode [1]. [1] https://docs.k3s.io/datastore
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by cobolcomesback 10mo ago
> MIT code, let Bun continue develop it, once project is abandoned hire the developers. Why go through the pain of letting it be abandoned and then hiring the developers anyway, when instead you can hire the developers now and prevent it
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by cobolcomesback 10mo ago
This is the Anthropic press release from last year saying they will use Trainium: https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-amazon-trainium This is the AWS press release from last month saying Anthropic is using 500k
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by cobolcomesback 10mo ago
A dependency that forms the foundation of your build process, distribution mechanisms, and management of other dependencies is a materially different risk than a dependency that, say, colorizes terminal output. I’m doubtful that alone motiv
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by cobolcomesback 10mo ago
Ironically these chips are being targeted at inference as well (the AWS CEO acknowledged the difficulties in naming things during the announcement).

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