the problem with "microservices" is the "micro". Why we thought we need so many tiny services is beyond me. How about just a few regular sized services?
I have always understood "micro" to be referring to "scope", not to "size".
Readit Newspan69 commented on Microservices should form a polytree bytesauna.com/post/micros... · Posted by u/mapehe
pan69 commented on Vibe coding: Empowering and imprisoning anildash.com/2025/12/02/v... · Posted by u/zdw
I was working on a new project and I wanted to try out a new frontend framework (data-star.dev). What you quickly find out is that LLMs are really tuned to like react and their frontend performance drops pretty considerably if you aren't using it. Like even pasting the entire documentation in context, and giving specific examples close to what I wanted, SOTA models still hallucinated the correct attributes/APIs. And it isn't even that you have to use Framework X, it's that you need to use X as of the date of training.
I think this is one of the reasons we don't see huge productivity gains. Most F500 companies have pretty proprietary gnarly codebases which are going to be out-of-distribution. Context-engineering helps but you still don't get near the performance you get with in-distribution. It's probably not unsolvable but it's a pretty big problem ATM.
> What you quickly find out is that LLMs are really tuned to like react
Sounds to me like that there is simply more React code to train the model on.
pan69 commented on PC-Man and the spark of childhood wonder intotheverticalblank.com/... · Posted by u/nanochess
More and more projects are moving to Codeberg, and I'm wondering; at what point will a critical mass be reached? Or will we end up with a fragmented ecosystem?
> fragmented ecosystem
This sounds a bit like an oxymoron. More diversity will only help the ecosystem IMHO.
pan69 commented on Accenture dubs 800k staff 'reinventors' amid shift to AI theguardian.com/business/... · Posted by u/n1b0m
pan69 commented on Anti-patterns while working with LLMs instavm.io/blog/llm-anti-... · Posted by u/mkagenius
Perhaps we can add that using LLMs for logical, creative or reasoning tasks (things the technology isn’t capable of doing) is an anti-pattern.
I use LLMs as a sounding board for logical, creative or reasoning tasks all the time as it can provide different points of view that make ME think about a problem differently.
pan69 commented on The realities of being a pop star itscharlibb.substack.com/... · Posted by u/lovestory
The Dire Straits song "Money for Nothing" is one of my all-time favorite 80s hits. Mark Knopfler pretty much composed the lyrics simply by transcribing some remarks he overheard from blue-collar servicemen working at an appliance store, and adjusting them a bit to make them scan and rhyme.
The deliberate irony is that contrary to the servicemen's belief that rock stars live a life of ease, the life of a musician can be grueling. You have to spend years mastering your instrument(s) and then win the record-deal lottery; after which your time is pretty much divided between being in the studio recording, on tour performing and promoting the album on a round-the-clock schedule, and with the rise of MTV shooting music videos. It's no wonder rock stars are prone to hedonism; they probably think they have to drink deeply of relaxation and pleasure while they have the opportunity, in order to reset and be ready for the next album, the next concert tour, the next press event...
In similar vein, the U2 song Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me has similar self-deprecating lyrics on what it is to be a pop star.
They want you to be Jesus
They'll go down on one knee
But they'll want their money back
If you're alive at thirty-three
pan69 commented on Ask HN: How does one stay motivated to grind through LeetCode? · Posted by u/blutoot
You don’t. I have never grinded leet code and never will. I have personally ended interviews where they tried to get me to do these. Not worth my time.
Any company that wants me to regurgitate toy problems that don’t have any relevance to the role is not one Im willing to bother working for.
I fee like if you’re “grinding” the goal is to memorize the solutions, which is kinda defeating the purpose anyway.
I agree. But it also depends on the role you're hiring.
When I hire grads or juniors onto my team I will focus a lot more on leetcode style problems because a) they don't have much work experience so delving into real-world problems they have solved is typically not useful (exceptions there) and b) leetcode is usually closer to their recent experience which tends to be more academic in nature.
More senior roles typically have very different requirements. I don't need a staff or principal engineer to pass a leetcode test as it typically isn't relevant to that role. I respect their lived experience so I dive into real world problems they have solved, not just software but also people, culture, etc.
pan69 commented on We got a $60k tax penalty for a zero-revenue side project · Posted by u/lukaslukas
Well sure :) but we expected to pay a "normal" fine, not $60,000 right away. Especially since we had zero revenue. Today we would do many things differently...
In your post you say:
> "Hey, the federal portal says we owe $60,000 in penalties for not filing a tax return."
That doesn't sound like they're asking you to pay tax on your $0 income business. It sounds like you need to pay a fine for not filing a tax return.
What's a "normal" fine anyway? The point of having a fine being a large sum of money is to create incentive so you to do the thing they want you doing, which you didn't do.
pan69 commented on OpenTelemetry: Escape Hatch from the Observability Cartel oneuptime.com/blog/post/2... · Posted by u/ndhandala
The C++ SDK is a masterpiece of over-engineering.
So is the JavaScript/TypeScript one. Very steep learning curve, very fragmented but clearly also very powerful once you know how to use it.