What performance? None of these companies have established "performance" and they are all still burning money in a race to be the industry leader.

There is no evidence these companies can be profitable without some kind of significant hardware advance.

If the SEC was doing it's job, there would sanctions or jail time for those numbers.

The list is long and includes things like people not being able to afford AC anymore; why are you trying to figure this out?

These people HATE that developers have been necessary and highly paid and, in their view, prima donnas. I think most of the people running these companies actually despise developers.

What is the point of Backblaze at all at this point? If you are a consumer, all your files are probably IN OneDrive or iCloud or soon will be.

This is not too unusual. I've completely given up on bug reports, it's almost always a complete waste of my time.

I'm currently going around in circles with a serious performance issue with two different vendors. They want logs, process lists and now real time data. It's an issue multiple people have complained about in their forums and on reddit. The fact that this exact same thing is going on with TWO different companies ...

> [Snapshots] get created automatically, often during deletion workflows, and nobody thinks to look for them.

creating random backups of things you are shutting down "just in case" that you must then remember to go back and delete. It's especially annoying if you stood up an EC2 instance or whatever, realized you messed up the configuration and immediately shut it down. Now you have a pile of poop running up your bill that you need to find and delete.

and

> Or do I want an insightful, well-thought-out response, even if it is LLM-enhanced?

What is the difference? What's the line between these two?

The prompt: "Analyze and respond" is pretty clearly "I would just ask it." and, the prompt: "here's my comment, please ONLY the check the grammar and spelling" would probably be ok.

What about prompt:"I disagree with using LLMs for commenting at all for . Please expound on this and provide references and examples". That would explode the word count for this site.

FYI: You can click on the user name and from there see their full comment history on hacker news.

Wild that you even mentioned this, considering the context.

> As Wittgenstein put it, we’re playing language games.

Yes.

Yes. It is "wildly uneducated" to have, and express, strong opinions about ANY field of endeavour where you are unfamiliar with large parts of that field.