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Key point here is that it isn't a new kind of "developer," it's an entirely different approach.

Alan Greenspan coined “irrational exuberance” to describe investors driving asset prices beyond what fundamentals justified. What’s happening with AI model selection needs its own term. Call it “irrational intelligence”: the persistent, unnecessary reach for the most powerful model available, conducted by people who don’t bear the cost, don’t see the environmental impact, and have no incentive to ask whether a cheaper model would work just as well.

Claude Code is a lock-in play. Use Cursor or OpenCode.

Definitely not the only model doing this, but this one's a little more complicated. The GitHub repo for R1 just has an MIT license, and most people commenting on this across both tech and general news reports are missing this.

Everyone keeps on reporting that it's covered by the MIT license. I will acknowledge this model is more transparent and visible than proprietary alternatives, but the acceptable uses of the model it is derived from just make it unusable for many.

Even the technical people I'm talking to about this one keep on reporting that it is 100% open. None of these are.

Done. Apologies, and thank you for leaving this reply.

Look at the list of acceptable uses, and then look at the governing jurisdiction. Never have I seen so many people celebrate something as being "open source" without bothering to understand the implications of an agreement.

OMG who cares. I'm sorry, but this is just technology startup navel gazing nonsense.

If you are really good at what you do, and if you understand how real startups work, it becomes clear that location is the most irrelevant factor to success. I second Jason's views. If someone isn't going to work with you because you refuse to move to South End, Mountain View, or Brooklyn, then they can go fuck themselves. I travel to these places quite a bit though, and I love having a career that brings me to both coasts often.

The Midwest is the perfect place for a startup. Now that being said, Chicago has an entertaining startup scene. Entertaining in that I feel like they are trying too hard to be like San Franscisco.

Some background, this database stores data in a hierarchy data structure using a B+tree. I did some writing about this a while back, and talked to some of the developers. What's interesting about this database is that for specific use cases, it'll blow a plain old RDMBs out of the water in terms of performance because they've written a query optimizer and an execution engine that can take advantage of the proximity of related records.

Ah, watch out for JSF, it's a dangerous place. JPA on the other hand is surprisingly good these days try Spring 3 Oliver Gierke has done good things.

Spring 3 is excellent BTW. I originally started to blog about a Spring 3 application I wrote, but then it turned into this Rails rants.

And, I don't hate Rails at all. Really. I don't.

"An admirable direction and quite the opposite of Java." What are you talking, specifics please? Is Java a framework with features comparable to Rails?

Why is the laundry list of technologies absurd, these are the technologies that I run a business on. I think what's absurd is the level of reaction in your comment. Rails people now have this defensive reaction, and I've noticed it in person as well.

It reminds me of the reaction of Java zealots in 2007. It really does. "Oh, really, you couldn't be serious, I mean it's absurd to think that Ruby...." It wasn't absurd to challenge, and neither is this challenge.

You are joking right, "Try not to stuff your app with everything you can possibly think of." Like providing a admin interface on Refinery as well as authentication with Devise is "everything and the kitchen sink".

I think you may be trying to defend something.

Hey, don't forget Gradle - http://www.gradle.org - Gradle syntax for declaring dependencies is similar to Maven.

But there's a very close comparison between Bundler and managing dependencies with Maven or Gradle. And there's a huge difference. Maven Central has never been compromised because they have a secure method for deploying artifacts, RubyGems? You've had a fun month with RubyGems, right?

No Java is like a Lepton and Rails is like a Neutrino. Neither interact with the Strong force. Got it?

No, please don't let this article affect your experience with Rails. Rails is awesome. It is. It's a great framework to learn and the problems that the author of this piece was discussing are really just a critique of his own faults. He made some awful decisions about architecture and framework and now he's paying the price.

Ignore this idiot and continue on.

Also, I wrote the original piece.

I don't know. I'm running a business on a Rails site and it's sort of sucking right now in terms of what I can get done and how fast I can get it done. Why? Because learning rails isn't the easiest thing in the world any more especially when half of the application is custom work around to jury-rig different frameworks together.

One of the developers came to me just last week and showed me a POC in Java that was cleanly assembled, easy to understand, and lacked all the enterprisey stuff that scared me away from Java years ago. That's why I wrote the article.

I'm not burning the chapel to build a new one. I'm setting sail for the fatherland in search of Silk and Spices. (I didn't mean to make sense with that ending, but you read it, didn't you?)

Who said anything about Dynamic typing?

I agree with you that Rails still excels at allowing you to slap together a quick prototype, but I think that the world has caught up with Rails (and possibly bested it at this point).

But, Devise is one of the better frameworks out there. Along with Omniauth it saved a huge amount of work. I'd reconsider Devise and look at Omniauth, it is a huge time saver.

New Relic is awesome, but expensive and they do have an aggressive marketing automation thing going on with the emails and such. But, you can't blame them for that, they have to pay the bills and more power to them for that.

To be fair, at the time it was introduced, Rails was, in fact, the 2nd coming of Jesus. I've met DHH in person I can attest to the fact that when he walks, the faint sound of angels fills the air. It's true.

Oh c'mon it's much much worse than that. Oracle runs the JCP not the W3C.

And, yes, I admit it, I'm a jerk.

I don't think it's the build vs. buy trade-off, I think it is more a question of efficient platforms for vendor collaboration resulting in the emergence of voluntary standards that create efficient and open markets kind of problem. Ruby has a DIY ethic which is respectable, but there's little infrastructure to support market-wide discussions throughout the ecosystem.

Really, if you want to make analogies. Rails is essential loose federation covered under Articles of Confederation while Java is to be appreciated as a strong Federal system that allows for states to innovate.

You want that. Ok? I'm not sure you are going to like the results. But, if you want a follow up, I'll happily supply it.

Oh I disagree entirely. After having spend two days debugging someone's versionless Gemfile / bundler problem on my CI server, I want someone to pay for my pain.