>>which actually deals with the finiteness of the list of problems that a machine successfully exhausts.
This is already the case with most DevOps jobs with Claude Code. There are only that many finite issues that need fixing in production, even for very large systems.
So you don't need all that many people to run ops these days.
If we're being anecdotal, I haven't had a single outage of anything affect me at all this year, but have had many in previous years. Often the thing blamed publicly has been incorrect too.
I am kind of saddened by technology in general that we need LLMs to deal with it in the first place.
It used to be that you compiled an executable, copied it onto the target computer and it worked. Then came servers, where you had to open some ports, set up some init scripts, maybe a db connection string.
This has evolved into a fractal of awfulness of a myriad of options and problems, each of which more elaborate and specifically limited than what came before, so you can't really use any one of them, but a combination, which is bound to interact weirdly, giving you some unique problems.
LLMs are great at solving these kinds of problems, but these problems should not exist in the first place, and they just waste everyone's time.
When it comes to actual meaningful product questions (and not just 'how/where does this code run'), LLMs are basically next to hopeless.
Since LLMs are very good with dealing with the BS, I hope they'll be useful in making people recognize and do away with BS altogether, and we can go back to the simple olden days.
Well you see we need to migrate system A to B and X to Y and here's another new integration to look at and we need to finally get off of this EOL distro and... It'll never stop.
>>Elon firing half of Twitter just normalized layoffs to such an extent that it’s considered par for the course now
The site was broken for eternity after that, but people continued to use it as it was the only source of real time news. In many ways its not the old Twitter at all.
Now the head counts dont even matter because its all agents writing the code, reviewing the code, and deploying the code.
Similar here, though I didn't quite get as far. I started wondering about performance of all the things, when one has only 2 stacks to work with, and then discovered some library that implemented arrays somehow. I tried using GForth in Advent of Code and needed to read in lines from a file. Lines of different lengths and so on and that's where I failed. I think I would have had to learn a lot about how to use and manage the "pad" or some other surprising technique, that I didn't see anywhere. Since I couldn't manage to read in the lines and discard the old contents of a line, if the next line was shorter, remnants of the previous line persisted and I got wrong line readings. That's where I stopped.
I am sure someone more knowledgeable would have been able to breathe right past that issue somehow.
But I remember one moment that actually humbled me a little: There was a puzzle, where the input were some kind of "instructions" of how to move or for some device. Of course I built some logic that interprets those instructions and only then does something.... but then I saw on reddit, that people simply defined the words that literally are the instructions and took the input as Forth code, duh!!! So simple! Made me feel a little silly.
>>Deepseek will be sanctioned and therefore no provider will offer it anymore.
That is possible inside the US. How do you do it all over the world? You have to convince every country in the world not use frontier models? Even worse how do you convince all the countries to not build their own models?
You are correct that it’s inside the US and it doesn’t apply to the whole world. But it will apply to the western world and much further which trades in dollar because else secondary sanctions apply. The shocking number is roughly 175-180 countries of 193 follow along US sanctions, that’s 90%.
Unlike in the US the citizens of those countries will not be prosecuted for circumventing the sanctions but assets like bank accounts and wallets may be seized and Visa issues may arise.
With the already ongoing legislation against foreign AI players and the recent national security threat assessment it strongly looks like just a matter of time until they implement the mechanics to sanction any disfavored AI. This will flush most users back to US companies.
With the limited self hosting options and insanely strong export limits for datacenters it’s already established that countries can’t build their own models with the same power.
The tech got so advanced people kind of used the advanced tech, but looked pretty much like a how medieval society would. Even their politics.
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