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Does anyone use MCP servers in their dev workflow?
15 points by htormey 2y ago|3 comments
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by htormey 2y ago
This has been down for multiple hours now. During this time we have migrated off of fly to coolify/digitalocean. This is the second time this happened in recent months. The last straw was one of our customers reaching out and letting u
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Exploring the limits of Postgres: when does it break? – StepChange(stepchange.work)
3 points by htormey 2y ago|0 comments
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Beyond the APM: Gaining Postgres Insights for Rails Developers(stepchange.work)
4 points by htormey 2y ago|0 comments
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Scaling Rails and Postgres to millions of users at Microsoft(stepchange.work)
202 points by htormey 2y ago|91 comments
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Migrating Coinbase's 56M Users to React Native: Key Lessons and Takeaways(stepchange.work)
10 points by htormey 2y ago|2 comments
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by htormey 2y ago
Pretty handy collection of prompts to do basic things with LLMs. I’ve had good results with using Claude to explain code, tag sentiment and extract emails or other specific content from free form text. If you plan on using any of these at s
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by htormey 2y ago
I don’t trust anecdotes on twitter because every time I’ve tried an agent that’s been hyped up it’s been more expensive and time consuming than just using GitHub co pilot with Claude/ChatGPT and putting up a PR myself. Hence I’m skepti
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How Do AI Software Engineers Like Devin Compare to Humans?(stepchange-blog.ghost.io)
7 points by htormey 2y ago|2 comments
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by htormey 2y ago
AI software engineers like Devin and SWE-agent are frequently compared to human software engineers. However SWE-bench, the benchmark upon which this comparison is made, only applies to Python tasks, most of which involve making single-file
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by htormey 3y ago
This article is about Cognition Labs Devin and what’s in the benchmarks used to assess it and AI on coding tasks.
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Can You Replace Your Software Engineers with AI?(htormey.org)
9 points by htormey 3y ago|6 comments
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by htormey 3y ago
To summarize what I think the author is trying to say with this article: 1) The stock market is in a bubble due to a decade of low interest rates and tax slashing by “right wing” governments. 2) Big tech in particular has been doing well bu
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by htormey 3y ago
Personally I don’t believe theirs a conspiracy regarding this but just to play devils advocate. Clearly, the heads of HR and other people who define corporate compensation talk to one another, “hey what are you guys doing to manage pay cuts
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by htormey 3y ago
Yeah, on point observation. I worked at both companies. I left Apple to work at Facebook because I wanted to be able to participate in open source projects and talk about my work with my coworkers openly.
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by htormey 3y ago
I disagree, I don’t think this is just about adoption curves and hype cycles. I think fundamentally the infrastructure required to build decentralized applications is hard and has pushed the limits of computer science (zero knowledge proofs
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by htormey 3y ago
I don’t think comparing the timelines of vastly different technologies like this is helpful. Prior to the web, in the 1960s/1970s we had packet-switching networks, such as ARPANET which were the basis of modern computer networking. The
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by htormey 3y ago
After Microsoft swapped out the CEO. New guys better than Balmer.
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by htormey 3y ago
“You're inside a bubble though. The 100 MAU is certainly totally misleading, maybe 1/10 of that in reality, and something that's only out for a few months can easily rollercoaster up and down as people try it once for novelty
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by htormey 3y ago
I disagree. ChatGPT reached 100 million MAUs 2 months after launch. It’s one of the fastest-growing consumer applications in history. Anecdotally, lots of my non technical friends (and me) are using it for everything from cooking to learni
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by htormey 4y ago
Coinbase is fully remote, i.e no local talent pool dependency, with no expectation of coming into the office, can hire from anywhere in the USA and still it mainly hires people in those locations. It's not the only remote company where
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by htormey 4y ago
The Bay Area usually commands a premium because a) quality of talent b) the ability to scale out a team. Quality of talent means not only intelligence and skill but also people who have spent years working on the specific thing you are buil
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by htormey 4y ago
Agreed re this taking longer to play out than expected. My frame of reference is 2008, which felt like it happened really fast. This seems to be more of slow role out in stages. I could totally see this taking another quarter or two before
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by htormey 4y ago
This is why I still think we are early on with tech stock corrections. I.e current P/E ratios assume that past earnings are still accurate. Specifically apart from rising rates I would expect this to eventually hit public company earni
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by htormey 4y ago
Network states are online communities that have collective agency (governance of some kind) that eventually try to materialize on land in the physical world. A DAO, could potentially become a network state but it could also in theory emerge
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by htormey 4y ago
The big missing piece of this article is a sense of at what scale and why should a startup decide to invest in a piece of infrastructure like Kubernetes. The author mentions other things he considers red flags such as using a different lang
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by htormey 4y ago
Scenario I’m worried about: inflation continues, rates keep increasing and this to impact public company earnings. In an effort to mitigate this, companies will cut costs by firing people, slowing hiring and cutting services and advertising
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by htormey 4y ago
Nah, I disagree. I work in crypto (coinbase) and was working in tech in the Bay Area in 2008. As of today, many crypto companies have money from 2021/early 2022 raises and are still hiring. In 2008 the private tech market reaction to t
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by htormey 4y ago
All this panic about tech layoffs seems a little premature given we haven’t even begun to see the impact of rates hikes on quarterly earnings yet. Many companies still have open recs and budgets to keep hiring. I work at a company that just
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by htormey 4y ago
Care to give some specific examples?

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