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Ruxbin commented on Things we learned about LLMs in 2024 simonwillison.net/2024/De... · Posted by u/simonw

mvkel · a year ago

I'm surprised at the description that it's "useless" as a programming / design partner. Even if it doesn't make "elegant" code (whatever that means), it's the difference between an app existing at all, or not.

I built and shipped a Swift app to the App Store, currently generating $10,200 in MRR, exclusively using LLMs.

I wouldn't describe myself as a programmer, and didn't plan to ever build an app, mostly because in the attempts I made, I'd get stuck and couldn't google my way out.

LLMs are the great un-stickers. For that reason per se, they are incredibly useful.

Ruxbin · a year ago

May you expand how you did this? I'm seeing a number of apps that claim to do just this and there are number that are becoming super popular.

Not just the development of the code but the entire the thing from the code, infra, auth, cc payments, etc.

Ruxbin commented on New rules for contractors have unexpected consequences for strip clubs sfexaminer.com/news/new-r... · Posted by u/dsr12

Ruxbin · 6 years ago

To my understanding strip clubs got looped into this because their business and employees were classified much differently than your typical business. They aren’t open 24x7 and overwhelming majority of girls work part-time - that’s it.

The problem you have is with companies like Uber and other who have for nearly decades have abused contract work but strippers were classified as the same.

It’s too bad they got lumped and really shouldn’t have been but we’ve had enough major corporations screwing the middle class evading taxes.

Ruxbin commented on Microsoft has developed its own Linux: in-house software-defined networking OS theregister.co.uk/2015/09... · Posted by u/Jerry2

buffoon · 10 years ago

Heavy Windows server user here. We have 100+ windows server 2008 R2 and 2012 R2 machines in production and a massive .Net/C# codebase.

Currently it's a complete bastard of an operating system. It's expensive, hard to manage even with powershell and DSC etc, difficult to update, difficult to provision, complicated and to be honest absolutely terrible licensing hell that costs us days a year. Hyper-V just adds complexity before anyone suggests that.

Exchange on-site deployments are dead. Everyone is moving away from them now and into Office 365 and Google Apps. There is no rational cost justification to use anything else now. Even the big orgs (5000+ staff) are moving off it as it's cheaper to get a fat pipe in than it is to keep 2-3 windows admins and a pile of kit and a SAN on the payroll just to run groupware.

Biztalk is also dead and has been for a few years. People who were using it heavily seem to be holding onto it due to cost reasons and everyone else who has been using it and have done any platform re-engineering have moved off to Windows Server AppFabric, NServiceBus and custom integrations or to AWS/SQS.

Microsoft are pushing Windows Server 2016 with container support as the up and coming new thing. I'm really not interested in this myself. I don't think anyone else is either other than a select number of core windows bloggers. It's simply a "me too" move.

As we re-engineer our application, what our endgame currently looks like is deploying disposable Linux VMs (CentOS) on AWS running ASP.Net 5/golang, microservices, lots of small PostgreSQL nodes (RDS) rather than massive 48 core SQL Server boxes, using OAuth2/OpenID authentication and getting rid of our extensive operations team who are incidentally more of an obstruction than an aid to the organisation.

IMHO Windows Server is probably circling the drain. There are very few places it fits in a modern business and this is only going to get worse going forth as well.

The remaining killer is Active Directory but you can already get Microsoft to deal with that for you on Azure, pre-integrated with Office 365 and sharepoint etc.

Microsoft I suspect will end up a services company like Google with some hardware being sold on the side. And you know what? That's fine.

Ruxbin · 10 years ago

You're right in that Windows is complex operating system but how is it any different than CentOS? Sure, Powershell/DSC does make life easier but how are these utilities necessarily any worse or better than a combination of bash, python, kickstart?

Exchange Onsite deployments aren't dead, on-site email is dead. Unless, you're "too big" for the cloud (>20k users) because of <$Requirement> then Exchange is an option.

Keeping data On-Premise has always been a challenge, SAN are expensive but that's what it takes if you want data locally.

I can't comment on the rest but we're comparing Apples to Oranges here.