danielklnstein

What is Instinct's future when its core product is commoditized and provided near-free-of-charge by OpenAI, Meta, and now Anthropic?

> So I think they have an indirect responsibility of promoting this culture.

Interesting comparison to compare the "standard" software fraudulence of fudging your activity numbers to Theranos' fraud.

I think when it comes down to it, it's a false equivalence - one is a temporary measure done to overcome an inherently short-term critical mass limitation, the second is an indefinite fraud trying to paint an impossible company as real.

"Fake it till you make it" is a legitimate and almost necessary strategy for an early-stage startup, I wouldn't conflate it with Theranos' fraud.

Agreed. Even the non-governmental example in the article - Nikola Corporation - was uncovered as a fraud more than six years ago. And the governmental examples as described aren't even fraud, they're corruption.

Even in this day and age of somewhat exorbitant company valuations, it's infinitely more difficult to replicate the kind of fraud of Nikola or Theranos. If only because of those companies setting a precedent for abject fraudulence and making basic due diligence that much more of a necessity/expectation. A company like Instinct wouldn't manage to get away with its current valuation if their technology wasn't front-and-center for everyone to see and use.

Time will tell - for all we know there's currently a large company more fraudulent than either of those, and we'll only find out in the future - but trying to paint it as the norm isn't based in any recent real-world examples.

I feel like non-professional vibe coders are scapegoated too often. I'm a professional software engineer with extensive experience in CI/CD pipelines. And I heap on 30x more stress on GitHub than I did before AI-powered development took over - because (1) I'm much more efficient and running many development tasks in parallel, and (2) CI runs are one of my tools for ensuring that quality doesn't degrade with velocity.

I think that even if you stripped out non-professional vibe coders from the equation - the problem is still there, and will keep compounding.

Just subscribed, the graph of satellite launches in your video is mind-blowing - I didn't realize just how exponential the launch rate has become. Would be great if a future video could go into why this is happening, and if it's sustainable.

Good luck with the new venture!

Missing a (2025)

FYI VSCode's SSH Agent is a godsend for remote development - the "disadvantages" that Fly lists are part of its advantages. I've worked in several teams that have made extensive use of the extension, and it's never been an issue. You can restrict SSH access arbitrarily to ensure whatever security or access guardrails you need.

From that same article - "The agency said it has identified nine crashes potentially linked to the issue, including one fatality and two involving injuries. It is also reviewing six additional crashes that may be related."

Fifteen crashes - though not to be trivialized - is not a damning number at all in this context. What's more, per the article it's unconfirmed that the crashes are related, so it's hardly fitting to dismiss Tesla's approach based on this.

I think it's great that serious efforts are being made in different approaches to autonomous driving - and in this thread's context, it seems possible that Tesla's approach might eventually be revealed as the optimal approach given modern AI.

That incident and article is from ten years ago.

FYI, I might be missing something but I think your billing system might not be working well - I'm not seeing any indication in the UI that my usage is being deducted from the $5 of free credits.

Works much better now! Got 103.9 tok/s, not quite 200 - but still amazing! Thanks for sharing

I tried in your playground and got 14.2 tok/s?

This is a boggling level of disdain for customer security - even putting aside the insanely low levels of data security, it's mind boggling that the website remained up for months after the disclosure, and that even after being taken down the vulnerability remained open.

Great post!

In case you ever decide to return to AWS, its Cost Explorer is far from perfect but it can show you where your expenses are coming from, especially if your costs are pennies. In the last re:invent they even released daily granularity when grouping by resources (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws-cloud-financial-management/...).

Yeah, I see what you mean - that'd indeed render this method ineffective. Like you said I'm sure this would bother a lot of customers, but it's not a completely unrealistic overhaul of S3 pricing.

That being said, that'd be sort of "mean" of AWS to do - the data is already replicated across AZs whether you pay for it or not because of how S3 works.

Thanks for the feedback! I don't think it's nitpicking, you're right that it's misleadingly phrased - in fact, the only S3 costs I observed weren't storage at all, but rather the API calls.

I updated the phrasing.

I'm not sure how this could be removed - the fundamentals behind it are basic building blocks of S3.

Maybe raising the cost of transient storage? e.g. If you have to pay for a minimum of a day's storage - but even if that was the case this would still be cost-effective, and at any rate it seems very unnatural for AWS to charge on such granularity.

+ I would guess that S3 is orders of magnitude more profitable for AWS than cross-AZ charges, so I'm not sure they'd consider it a loss-leader.

This is great for saving on S3 storage costs!

But in the context of data transfer costs, this would actually increase the costs, because there's a small surcharge for Intelligent Tiering - and the only relevant storage class for sidestepping data transfer costs is standard storage (because it's the only one with free download), so Intelligent Tiering won't provide value.

I understand the sentiment behind your frustration - but it's worth noting that these support tickets are usually answered really quickly.

Specifically as it relates to Lambdas there's solid rationale behind these limits, but I agree that in many other cases the limits seem arbitrary and annoying.