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cheriot commented on Coursera to combine with Udemy investor.coursera.com/new... · Posted by u/throwaway019254

cheriot · 5 days ago

Udemy figured out that selling to enterprise is way more profitable than individuals. Coursera figured out that University/Company brand is more valuable than Joe's Ultimate Course.

But in the last couple years both have been horribly run. Hopefully the AI threat lights a fire. I suspect a well designed course with some context engineering can become far better than ChatGPT by itself.

cheriot commented on Agent design is still hard lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/11/... · Posted by u/the_mitsuhiko

cheriot · a month ago

It's a library design flaw. The agent SDKs focus on an "easy" high level API and hard code all its assumptions (AI SDK, LangGraph, etc). There's no lower level primitives to recompose when you discover your requirements are different than what the library author thought of.

So for now the choice is, "all in one for great prototypes and better hope it has everything you need" or roll your own.

If someone knows of a library that's good for quick prototypes and malleable for power users please share.

cheriot commented on Kubernetes Ingress Nginx is retiring kubernetes.dev/blog/2025/... · Posted by u/TheApplicant

SlavikCA · a month ago

Reading few blogs and forums about it today - people talking about switching to Gateway API (from "legacy" Ingress).

And I do not understand it:

1. Ingress still works, it's not deprecated.

2. There a lot of controllers, which supports both: Gateway API and Ingress (for example Traefik)

So, how Ingress Nginx retiring related / affects switch to Gateway API?

cheriot · a month ago

I think it's that Gateway is new (relatively speaking) so there's a lot of places it's a good fit that haven't adopted it yet.

cheriot commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025) · Posted by u/david927

01HNNWZ0MV43FF · 2 months ago

Brutally honest? I hope it shows the huge amount of land needed for parking lots :P

I heard that the SimCity devs have had to fudge that out for gameplay's sake ever since the oldest versions

cheriot · 2 months ago

Cities: Skylines as well. One of the core municipal land use decisions!

cheriot commented on Why I chose Lua for this blog andregarzia.com/2025/03/w... · Posted by u/nairadithya

behnamoh · 3 months ago

I don't know man, every time I tried to learn Lua (to write nvim plugins and HammerSpoon spoons) I disliked the ergonomics of the language. I don't understand why people say it's an easy language—

    easy ≠ simple

cheriot · 3 months ago

Agree, I find it a PITA. I think the good reviews are in contrast to C++ and vimscript. Fine for a small embedded script, but I hope WASM or some better language ecosystem starts to fill this niche.

cheriot commented on The old SF tech scene is dead. What it's morphing into is more sinister sfgate.com/tech/article/b... · Posted by u/jakemontero24

cheriot · 3 months ago

SF's culture war against tech is so tiring.

The AI boom replaced the SaaS/Gig boom. We no longer have a dozen large caps in hyper growth at the same time and market conditions are less profligate so the hiring market is different https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1Mm40

Gig work was yesterday's punching bag, but I guess we're nostalgic for it now.

> Overall, it feels like we’ve drifted past a point of no return

Every day.

cheriot commented on Our data shows San Francisco tech workers are working Saturdays ramp.com/velocity/san-fra... · Posted by u/hnaccount_rng

cheriot · 3 months ago

More specifically:

Saturday corporate card transactions for restaurant, delivery, and takeout by employees at San Francisco-based businesses are 0.4% more than last year.

Everything else in the article is guesswork.

cheriot commented on The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong derekthompson.org/p/the-a... · Posted by u/rbanffy

ThinkBeat · 5 months ago

There is an incredibly large lobby group who is fully invested in house prices rising or at least not falling, namely homeowners. and since most politicians at a high level usually own one or more houses, they are fully invested in it as well.

cheriot · 5 months ago

Many of the home owners would win in a freer market because their land would be worth more.

cheriot commented on Cognition (Devin AI) to Acquire Windsurf cognition.ai/blog/windsur... · Posted by u/alazsengul

spongebobstoes · 5 months ago

that's not the market they're thinking of, they're thinking of the total amount of money spent on developers per year, globally, and capturing a percentage of that

cheriot · 5 months ago

Will require a lot of barriers to entry to charge %. Not disagreeing with your statement of their thinking, but will be v surprised if that pans out.

cheriot commented on Cognition (Devin AI) to Acquire Windsurf cognition.ai/blog/windsur... · Posted by u/alazsengul

cheriot · 5 months ago

Very curious how we'll look back on Google spending 2 billion dollars to "license IP" and hire a handful of people.

If there's 47m software engineers in the world, at $200/month, and 50% gross profit that's a $56 billion TAM. Not crazy to think it's more if we include the adjacent space of analyst roles that write software (sql, advanced excel, etc).

They'll have to crush it to make a $2 billion acquihire look reasonable, but it's possible.

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