martin_drapeau (u/martin_drapeau)

martin_drapeau commented on Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI reuters.com/technology/at... · Posted by u/jp0d

karim79 · 2 days ago

I see. So AI is reducing the number of jobs in the tech sector because fewer people are needed to ship stuff (thanks to AI). And since fewer people are needed across the tech sector then we don't need things like Jira anymore because it can all be done on post-its or Google sheets or something, so there's no need for Atlassian accounts anymore. And Atlassian can now do more with less thanks to AI.

I can't wait for Atlassian physical sticky-notes to take over.

[Edit: grammo and formatting]

martin_drapeau · 2 days ago

In my last jobs Jira was used, and despised by all except product managers. It just becomes a mess. In my startup (now 20 people), we use Trello. Outsiders look at us funny. I respond that its the same company after all...

martin_drapeau commented on GPT-5.4 openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/mudkipdev

Philip-J-Fry · 8 days ago

I find it quite funny how this blog post has a big "Ask ChatGPT" box at the bottom. So you might think you could ask a question about the contents of the blog post, so you type the text "summarise this blog post". And it opens a new chat window with the link to the blog post followed by "summarise this blog post". Only to be told "I can't access external URLs directly, but if you can paste the relevant text or describe the content you're interested in from the page, I can help you summarize it. Feel free to share!"

That's hilarious. Does OpenAI even know this doesn't work?

martin_drapeau · 7 days ago

In Codex I was suggested to try Codex Spark for a limited time. So for my next session, I gave it a shot. It is much, much faster. However on the task I gave it, it spun around in circles cycling through files and finally abandoned saying it ran out of tokens. Major fail.

martin_drapeau commented on Intelligence is a commodity. Context is the real AI Moat adlrocha.substack.com/p/a... · Posted by u/adlrocha

7777777phil · 13 days ago

API prices dropped 97% in two years so the model layer is already a commodity. The question is which context layer actually sticks. The OpenClaw example in the article (400K lines to 4K) is a nice proof point for what happens when context replaces code.

I've been arguing for some time now that it's the "organizational world model," the accumulated process knowledge unique to each company that's genuinely hard to replicate. I did a full "report" about the six-layer decomposition here: https://philippdubach.com/posts/dont-go-monolithic-the-agent...

martin_drapeau · 8 days ago

100%

Currently integrating an AI Assistant with read tools (Retrieval-Augmented Generation or RAG as they say). Many policies we are writing are providing context (what are entities and how they relate). Projecting to when we add write tools, context is everything.

martin_drapeau commented on AI is a business model stress test dri.es/ai-is-a-business-m... · Posted by u/amarsahinovic

GrowingSideways · 2 months ago

Intellectual property was kind of a gimmick to begin with, though. Let's not pretend like copyright and patents made any sense to begin with

martin_drapeau · 2 months ago

They exist to protect the creator/inventor and allows them to get an ROI on their invested time/effort. But honestly today, the abundance of content, especially that can be generated by LLM, completely breaks this. We're overwhelmed with choice. Content has been comodotized. People will need to come to grasp with that and find other ways to get an ROI.

The article does provide a hint: "Operate". One needs to get paid for what LLMs cannot do. A good example is Laravel. They built services like Forge, Cloud, Nightwatch around open source.

martin_drapeau commented on Google, Nvidia, and OpenAI stratechery.com/2025/goog... · Posted by u/tambourine_man

martin_drapeau · 3 months ago

Most analysts seem to forget what actual consumers do. Normal people use ChatGPT. They accidentally use Gemini when they Google something. But I don’t know anyone non-technical who has ditched ChatGPT as their default LLM. For 99% of questions these days, it’s plenty good enough—there’s just no real reason to switch.

OpenAI's strategy is to eventually overtake search. I'd be curious for a chart of their progress over time. Without Google trying to distort the picture with Gemini benchmark results and usage stats which are tainted by sheer numbers from traditional search and their apps.

martin_drapeau commented on Companies are lying about AI layoffs? huijzer.xyz/posts/111/com... · Posted by u/huijzer

martin_drapeau · 5 months ago

A company replacing domestic workers by cheaper H1-B workers. As opposed to a company shutting down because foreign competitors took their marketshare. In either case, domestic company is not competitive. Protectionism won't make the domestic company more competitive.

martin_drapeau commented on AI Horseless Carriages koomen.dev/essays/horsele... · Posted by u/petekoomen

martin_drapeau · a year ago

Our support team shares a Gmail inbox. Gemini was not able to write proper responses, as the author exemplified.

We therefore connected Serif, which automatically writes drafts. You don't need to ask - open Gmail and drafts are there. Serif learned from previous support email threads to draft a proper response. And the tone matches!

I truly wonder why Gmail didn't think of that. Seems pretty obvious to me.

martin_drapeau commented on Understanding Aggregate Trends for Apple Intelligence Using Differential Privacy machinelearning.apple.com... · Posted by u/layer8

martin_drapeau · a year ago

I often write in Frenglish (French and English). Apple auto-complete gets so confused and is utterly useless. ChatGPT can easily switch from one language to another. I wish the auto-complete had ChatGPT's power.

martin_drapeau commented on Athena landed in a dark crater where the temperature was -280° F / -173° C arstechnica.com/space/202... · Posted by u/01-_-

1970-01-01 · a year ago

Still unclear what happened. Did they not anticipate a big moon hole or did navigation fail when the rangefinder failed?

martin_drapeau · a year ago

Scott Manley has a great video explaining what he thinks happened. https://youtu.be/ISZTTEtHcTg?si=0LZFyiCysBiFZrMz

martin_drapeau commented on Laravel Cloud app.laravel.cloud/... · Posted by u/pier25

danpalmer · a year ago

I'm surprised that there are new language specific hosting services like this cropping up. It just seems like the wrong level of abstraction, particularly for frameworks like this. Infrastructure makes sense at a few levels of abstraction...

- Servers you can run what you like on – VMs, bare metal, etc.

- Containers that you can put what you like in, but which run in some system you don't control – Kubernetes, ECS, even things like Heroku are here now.

- Language specific micro-plugins, where a small piece of code is hosted in a common server process – AWS Lambda, Cloudflare workers, all the FaaS stuff. These are sometimes language specific, but I expect them to align on WASM.

Being PHP and Laravel specific doesn't really fit any of these, it's a model that sort of existed around the early Heroku days, but seemed to lose out to first Heroku and its generic buildpack system, and then eventually to containers.

What happens when a team wants to add a little Node process for some frontend thing? Do they need to move their entire hosting? Who is the target audience of a provider like this, and perhaps more importantly, can they stay with a provider like this for very long?

martin_drapeau · a year ago

I see Laravel Cloud as devops as a service.

I run a B2B SaaS on Laravel and this was a dream of mine for many years. Laravel + Vuejs is sufficient to cover 99% of features we need to build and scale our business. I want my devs to build features, not infrastructure.

I'm looking forward to playing with Laravel Cloud and do hope we can migrate our production environment to it one day.