dkowalski

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by dkowalski 14d ago
I needed realistic OTEL data generator for metrics, logs and traces. I also needed to speak native OTEL to a proto-compliant collector. But my issue was I need different permutations and I don't want to stand up many different containe
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Show HN: Snowglobe: a whole distributed system's OpenTelemetry, from one binary(github.com)
2 points by dkowalski 14d ago|1 comments
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by dkowalski 17d ago
I know plenty of senior engineers who couldn't delegate to save their life ;) There is always someone less experienced to make the metaphor work: "Imagine you are doing a group project at school with someone who's sometimes
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by dkowalski 17d ago
> Top-tier developers might still outperform AI That's never been true. It's like saying they are outrunning cars. Where your expertise is key is when you call out the mistakes it AI and ensuring you are not enabling slop. In t
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by dkowalski 21d ago
I agree with you that encoding yourself in a system is kind of disconcerting. But i disagree with you encoding your judgement. You have your judgement from years of work and when you see something stupid I'm sure you stop it. So your j
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by dkowalski 21d ago
I would shy away from anchoring on "taking your job". Maybe it is, i don't know you. But generally, you own the outcome. Not looking at AI output or understanding what it does is what outmodes you. Go down the path of making
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by dkowalski 21d ago
I love writing code most of the time. If that's your fun mode, totally go for it. But otherwise, if it's saving you time or able to help you with stuff you don't actually know, I think it's very useful. I wouldn't t
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by dkowalski 21d ago
I feel the same sometimes. Then I look at it as handing it off to an intern to do the preliminary work. As long as I actually look at it sanity sake then I'm still on the loop. That opens doors for more tasks. If I want to research I c
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by dkowalski 2mo ago
Hey man, you are not "pushing yourself out of a job market". You can give AI to different people and get different quality work. Think of AI as a good tool not as a replacement. You are right, a ton of startups and even grown up c
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by dkowalski 2mo ago
Shit breaks man. But i've been there too: worn down by the hype and it all seems related to you or somewhat more relevant because it happened in close succession. I am waiting for my Dell R-whatever 1U server to kick it any day now. Mi
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Show HN: TraceGen – realistic OpenTelemetry traces, incl. AI-agent, one binary(github.com)
3 points by dkowalski 2mo ago|0 comments
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by dkowalski 6mo ago
this is exactly the problem we keep running into. the cost isn't just "how many tokens did this call use," its "how many tokens did this entire user action consume across all the agent loops, retries, tool calls, and emb