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amtamt commented on What twenty years of DevOps has failed to do   honeycomb.io/blog/you-had... · Posted by u/mooreds
politelemon · 25 days ago
If your developers weren't looking at dashboards before, they won't use a chat interface to interrogate it either. That doesn't really bring it to them any more than their existing capabilities. There's also a worrying underlying assumption being made here that the answers your LLM will give you are accurate and trustworthy.
amtamt · 25 days ago
> There's also a worrying underlying assumption being made here that the answers your LLM will give you are accurate and trustworthy.

I first hand saw in, AWS devDays, an AI giving SIWINCH as "root-cause" of Apache error in a containerized process is in EKS for a backend FCGI process connection error. It has been extremely hard since that demo to trust any AI for system level debugging.

amtamt commented on The 500k-ton typo: Why data center copper math doesn't add up   investinglive.com/news/th... · Posted by u/thebeardisred
zekyl314 · a month ago
I saw this too, awesome to report on a typo when you yourself have a typo. What are the odds?
amtamt · a month ago
but one weighs half a million ton ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
amtamt commented on Netflix Migrates to Amazon Aurora: 75% Performance Boost and 28% Cost Reduction   infoq.com/news/2025/12/ne... · Posted by u/rbanffy
amtamt · a month ago
Why Griffiths Waite website does not have netflix in "we have helped" customers list?
amtamt commented on Parental controls aren't for parents   beasthacker.com/til/paren... · Posted by u/beasthacker
alembic_fumes · a month ago
This pervasive desire to block, protect, monitor, and control your children's online activities through nebulous supervision tools seems like a particularly American solution to a particularly American problem. Much like how little Timmy simply can't go out to play without a GPS anklet and an air tag behind each ear, so too can't he go online without a supervised account on a supervised device on a supervised connection.

Take an earnest interest in your child's activities, both online and offline. Guide them how to behave in strange, even weird and scary situations with strangers. Be the reliable adult in their life to whom they can tell when they encounter something unpleasant, online or offline. Under the guidance of a parent your children will be safer than behind any amount of protective layers that these so called child-safety apps provide, and they will also know how to help their friends to navigate risk and avoid danger.

Or put another way, if your child must eventually swim in the sea, would rather that they know how to swim, or strap a fifth flotation device onto their back?

amtamt · a month ago
While this is a sound theoritical advice, the real world has changed a lot. Parents and elder siblings are not the only people kids interact with. For every parent mindful of dangers of unsupervised internet access, there are many parents who give unrestricted access to tiktok (and rest of the internet) because everyone other person does that, and then kids share.

Businesses don't care for the careful minority when they know such advices will be shared, silencing those who really care.

Even the feature name "parental control" is chosen to induce guilt in parents.

amtamt commented on The 70% AI productivity myth: why most companies aren't seeing the gains   sderosiaux.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/chtefi
orwin · a month ago
If we take out most of frontend work, and the easy backend/Ops tasks where writing the code/config is 99% of the work, i think my overall productivity with the latest gen (basically Opus 4.5) improve by 15-20%. I also am _very_ sure that with the previous generation (Sonnet 4, sonnet 4.5, Codex 5.1), my team overall velocity decreased, even taking into account the frontend and the "easy" tasks. The amount of production bug we had to deal with this year is crazy. To much code is generated, and me and the other senior on my team just can't carefully review everything, we have to trust sometime (especially data structures).

The worse part is reading a PR, and catching a reintroduced bug that was fixed a few commit ago. The first time i almost lost my cool at work and said a negative thing to a coworker.

This would be my advice to juniors (and i mean basically: devs who don't yet understand the underlying business/architecture): use the AI to explain how stuff work, generate basic functions maybe, but write code logic/algorithm yourself until you are sure you understand what you're doing and why. Work and reflect on the data structures by yourself, even if generated by the AI, and ask for alternatives. Always ask for alternatives, it helps understanding. You might not see huge productivity gains from AI, but you will improve first, and then productivity will improve very fast, from your brain first, then from AI.

amtamt · a month ago
>> Kernighan's Law - Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.

Now question is..

is AI providing solutions smarter than the developer using it might have produced?

And perhaps more importantly, How much time it takes AI to write code and human to debug it, even if both are producing equally smart solutions.

amtamt commented on Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn   theocharis.dev/blog/kidna... · Posted by u/JeremyTheo
amtamt · a month ago
Way back in 90's, when I arrived on an Indian Railway station about 10 minutes before the train's scheduled time, I was pleasantly surprised to find the train at the platform.

Only when I checked the passenger reservation list, I found this was train from yesterday, late by 23:50 hours.

(for the curious... No, I could not get my reserved birth and had to travel on unreserved ticket, but at least I reached destination on my planned time.)

amtamt commented on Upcoming Changes to Let's Encrypt Certificates   community.letsencrypt.org... · Posted by u/schmuckonwheels
amtamt · 2 months ago
Don't miss DNS-PERSIST-01 challenge introduction, a related change: https://letsencrypt.org/2025/12/02/from-90-to-45#making-auto...

It's not final yet, but interesting development.

amtamt commented on Claude Code's DX is too good. And that's a problem   bharath.sh/writing/claude... · Posted by u/lnbharath
lnbharath · 2 months ago
Author here. I wrote this because everyone is talking about Claude Code right now and it's all over my timeline. Claude Code has this effect where you KNOW it's good but can't quite say WHY.

So I spent the weekend digging into the DX decisions that make Claude Code delightful.

amtamt · 2 months ago
> I wrote this because everyone is talking about Claude Code right now and it's all over my timeline.

Feels more like peer pressure induced post, than evaluating a tool critically for pros and cons.

> Claude Code has this effect where you KNOW it's good but can't quite say WHY.

Definitely gives the "vibe" of social media's infinite scroll induced dopamine rush.

Overall, this post just seems to be enforcing the idea that "fuzzy understanding of business domain will be enough to get a mature product using some AI, and the AI will somehow magically figure out most non-functional requirements and missing details of business domain". Thing is that figuring out "most non-functional requirements and missing details of business domain" is where most of the blood and sweat goes.

amtamt commented on Ask HN: Senior people, how did your career evolve?    · Posted by u/Seb-C
amtamt · 3 months ago
> have pretty-much mastered all areas and layers of the stack (infra and cloud, databases, backend, network, front-end and even a bit of mobile...)

Congratulations!! You could try consultancy, training others, writing books/ blogs.

amtamt commented on I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thousands of dollars   rameerez.com/send-this-ar... · Posted by u/sebnun
matt-p · 3 months ago
One way of solving for this is to just use K3s or even just plain docker. It is then just kuberneters/containers and you can hire alot of people who understand that.
amtamt · 3 months ago
Absolutely recommend k3s. Start with a single node and keep on scaling as customer base increases.

u/amtamt

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