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Re:OccupySaaS on Sunday November 01, 2026 @10:08PM (#50332698)
Exactly. Also it's incredible how many working professionals (as evidenced by this "movement") don't understand why companies pay for software to these SaaS companies.

Ironically attaching your company to a movement like this will deter people from using it.

Re:HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN on Saturday October 31, 2026 @07:39PM (#50321341)
Let's be realistic. Most of the videos on hackertube.org wouldn't exist if it weren't for the enormous sums of money YouTube pays their creators because of...ads.

I would also be more impressed with it if they created their own video processing and serving stack.

> when I say things like OpenAI and Anthropic are gonna crater

But how do you know that? (And no I'm not shocked by this statement, it's just odd to say it with conviction.)

Re:AI Isn't Replacing SREs. It's Deskilling Them on Friday October 30, 2026 @04:54PM (#50310024)
Fair.
Re:AI Isn't Replacing SREs. It's Deskilling Them on Friday October 30, 2026 @01:06PM (#50306868)
Exactly, thank you. I'm much more interested in how systems interact gracefully, addressing failure modes and building for resiliency/scale.

Do you need good quality code to do that? Sure, but that's just another line-item on the laundry list of things to make it happen.

Re:AI Isn't Replacing SREs. It's Deskilling Them on Friday October 30, 2026 @01:04PM (#50306839)
I know Google SREs who do feature development on the infrastructure support they support alongside their devs.
Re:AI Isn't Replacing SREs. It's Deskilling Them on Friday October 30, 2026 @01:03PM (#50306818)
There's nothing unique about junior SREs. They're replaceable with almost any "vanilla Dev". You don't really build a unique experience or expertise until Senior+.
Re:AI Isn't Replacing SREs. It's Deskilling Them on Friday October 30, 2026 @12:12PM (#50306005)
> make concerted efforts to do programming (like a coding hour every week), do a Leet code question

I'll probably get downvoted for this but: At 15 YoE, hell no.

Day-to-day coding lost it's allure to me about 3-4 years ago; it's just a means to an end. I think AI came at the right time for me.

Re:AI Isn't Replacing SREs. It's Deskilling Them on Friday October 30, 2026 @12:09PM (#50305969)
> Some immediate targets include multi-signal correlation across metrics, logs, and traces, autonomous root-cause analysis for partially understood failures

AI is already pretty good at this in "SRE" workflows.

> AI-driven change risk assessment

And half decent at this.

If you're talking about track record, Argon had the same sort of announcement and was released.
Re:Gemini 4 Carbon on Thursday October 29, 2026 @01:48AM (#50284988)
What's vaporware? They announced Argon and it was publicly launched a month later. Same with the previous models.
Re:Jailbreaking the Switch 2 on Thursday October 22, 2026 @09:45AM (#50195249)
I'm confused. So you just completely pirate all your games?
Re:Tesla Roadster on Friday October 16, 2026 @05:41PM (#50125136)
The audience wasn't that close.
Re:Tesla Roadster on Thursday October 15, 2026 @09:48PM (#50112797)
Nah, this ain't it chief. I own exactly 0 directly. Too volatile and don't really care for Teslas at all. I love my gas cars.
Re:Tesla Roadster on Thursday October 15, 2026 @09:47PM (#50112780)
I like the fun retro look, similar to the N Vision 74 [1]. This actually has some taste unlike the Cybertruck.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyundai_N_Vision_74

Re:Tesla Roadster on Thursday October 15, 2026 @09:42PM (#50112735)
Okay that's one of the coolest things I've seen in a while since the rockets landing.

Car looks half decent too.

Re:What Meta Got Right with Muse on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @10:47AM (#49979338)
Ask your mom/dad or non-technical GenZ college going son/daughter to use your `local LLM with voice interaction and fine-tuning` setup long-term.

People don't care about privacy. They want something that just works.

Re:We're working on a new RuneScape MMO on Sunday October 04, 2026 @01:43PM (#49956037)
> but there is a very rich and expansive endgame to reward the players that have made the grind to those high levels

Can you elaborate on this?

> his takes on the Ukraine war

What's specifically?

> Granted, PCI is so weak it is almost useless, and yet still better than anything congress could have come up with.

Elaborate, please?

I'm all for regulation of AI, but it's not practical.

I fear we're going to regulate ourselves to death (hyperbole) with regards to AI in the Western world, while China is just going to go brrr.

Re:ChatGPT Is Throwing 404 on Thursday September 03, 2026 @11:07AM (#49551120)
I've been using Gemini for the last 15 minutes. It's been fine for me.
Re:ChatGPT Is Throwing 404 on Thursday September 03, 2026 @11:06AM (#49551081)
Please, this is not Reddit. Don't bring this here. And to top it off, this isn't even funny or original.
Re:METR Report on OpenAI / Hugging Face Hacking Incident on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @08:12PM (#49544341)
You actualy think METR is complicit in this marketing stunt? If OpenAI was withholding data, do you think they would not call it out?
You mean by Judge Leonie M. Brinkema who was appointed by Clinton and has ruled against Trump policies/agenda regularly?
Re:Gemini 3.8 Flash on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @12:01PM (#49538287)
Respectfully: If it's able to deploy without you asking it to, that's a you problem. There are no safeguards?
Re:AI Can Make You Suck Faster Too on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @10:26PM (#49531020)
> but if, in 2026, you aren't able to have an LLM generate decent quality code... IDK what to tell you.

I think the author's point still stands. At some point you need to determine whether the output is of decent quality. A lot of people don't have the ability and experience to do that.

Re:AI Can Make You Suck Faster Too on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @10:09PM (#49530925)
> are they not even a little curious

Some are. Some aren't. Usually a good indicator of career trajectory.

Re:Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @03:24PM (#49526785)
I also switched to 5.6 Sol for this very reason. it was so exhausting and cringe to read.
> I lowball them every time.

And?

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