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New comment by TeriyakiBomb in "VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare"

TeriyakiBomb — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:57:51 +0000

I just hope there's not some bullshit publicity stunt coming in a few weeks.

"We just ported Vite to ActionScript in 11 minutes, we swear for legit technical reasons"

New comment by TeriyakiBomb in "The Green Side of the Lua"

TeriyakiBomb — Thu, 28 May 2026 09:00:11 +0000

I think it’s a question of investment. Google had incentive to pour tons of cash into V8. In recent years Shopify have been more involved with Ruby directly with yjit and zjit. The former bringing a pretty substantial performance improvements to the language.

New comment by TeriyakiBomb in "Ruby for Good"

TeriyakiBomb — Sun, 24 May 2026 21:32:12 +0000

We've gotten to a point now where ultimately there needs to be a very short elevator pitch for any language to gain any traction at all. Anything longer than a sentence, it generally won't go far relatively speaking. It's like a calcification/maturity thing in big sectors of software engineering. You need a VERY good reason to upset an incumbent. "Because we know it/because everyone uses it" is a powerful motivator.

New comment by TeriyakiBomb in "Ruby for Good"

TeriyakiBomb — Sun, 24 May 2026 21:28:11 +0000

There's a huge amount of wonderful people in the community too.

New comment by TeriyakiBomb in "Deno 2.8"

TeriyakiBomb — Fri, 22 May 2026 18:03:02 +0000

It really doesn't. You think Anthropic will still be in business in 10 years? If they are, it's not likely they'll be in the same shape.

New comment by TeriyakiBomb in "The Companies Cutting Headcount for AI Will Lose to the Ones Who Didn't"

TeriyakiBomb — Fri, 22 May 2026 13:56:03 +0000

Exactly this - the late 00s and 10s we were riding the wave of the internet and smartphone adoption. Those markets have matured now and this is ultimately just the response. Covid was like some weird last hurrah for irrational spending. LLMs are just where all of that silly energy is going.

New comment by TeriyakiBomb in "The Companies Cutting Headcount for AI Will Lose to the Ones Who Didn't"

TeriyakiBomb — Fri, 22 May 2026 13:54:18 +0000

That's the less common third kind. late 10s tech spending was absurd, it's the same excuse as the first but again, an easier way to reduce Capex for staff they don't need.

New comment by TeriyakiBomb in "The Companies Cutting Headcount for AI Will Lose to the Ones Who Didn't"

TeriyakiBomb — Fri, 22 May 2026 13:41:47 +0000

In reality there are two kinds of layoff going on.

Idiots who truly believe that AI will actually replace a significant amount of the workforce (Long term, it will not but some jobs displaced) and those who have internalised that ZIRP is over, they need to be more lean as VCs have closed their wallets and saying "We've revolutionised our workflow with AI" than "We haven't turned huge investment debt into profit in 5 years and we need to reduce headcount for even the slightest chance of that happening, or at least raise again by saying 'AI' over and over" has far better optics.

New comment by TeriyakiBomb in "Was my $48K GPU server worth it?"

TeriyakiBomb — Fri, 22 May 2026 13:34:10 +0000

It reminds me of the Crypto mining bubble - I look forward to buying my heavily discounted Mac Studio soon.

New comment by TeriyakiBomb in "Microsoft reportedly cancelling Claude internally due to cost"

TeriyakiBomb — Fri, 22 May 2026 09:21:24 +0000

Only on this blog so far and India Today, so pinch of salt for now. Hilarious if true.

Microsoft reportedly cancelling Claude internally due to cost

TeriyakiBomb — Fri, 22 May 2026 09:21:24 +0000

Article URL: http://www.thelowdownblog.com/2026/05/microsoft-cancels-internal-anthropic.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48233645

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

New comment by TeriyakiBomb in "I don't think AI will make your processes go faster"

TeriyakiBomb — Sun, 17 May 2026 14:18:45 +0000

While this is true, it doesn’t stop businesses being overzealous with AI. It’s a compound issue of a decade of ZIRP, grow at all costs and then covid overhiring and AI is suddenly poised as some kind of magical panacea.

The broader issue is the sheer number of businesses that build massively overcomplicated stacks, bought heavily into bandage solutions like AWS lambda, got on dumb tech bandwagons like big data, nosql etc. This is just another one.

I think you can engineer yourself into being leaner, in some businesses AI will help but we’ve had over a decade of “we can just add more complexity” and it just does not work.

I’m a rails guy. People forget for every unicorn there’s 10 9 figure businesses just ticking away on some niche with a VPS, rails and like 4-10 devs.

New comment by TeriyakiBomb in "Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged"

TeriyakiBomb — Thu, 14 May 2026 10:04:46 +0000

I hope the Deno lot take the opportunity to capitalise on this

New comment by TeriyakiBomb in "SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format"

TeriyakiBomb — Thu, 07 May 2026 11:54:26 +0000

I think the concurrent write thing is not as much of an issue nowadays with the speed of NVMEs and WAL.

New comment by TeriyakiBomb in "Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like"

TeriyakiBomb — Thu, 07 May 2026 08:24:59 +0000

Plenty of cars can get off the line faster than an F1 car. But around a track, an F1 is by far the fastest in the world.

Going fast isn’t the difficult bit.

New comment by TeriyakiBomb in "I am worried about Bun"

TeriyakiBomb — Tue, 05 May 2026 07:01:58 +0000

I can respond directly to this, I’m a former VFX industry person and still fairly well connected.

The the former you suggested. Background plates and the like. The lack of actual creative direction tools, trite visual style, lack of consistency/repeatability and complete inability to be edited or adjusted easily make it a non-starter for most tasks. Compositors are fast, LLMs are slow at that scale. There are tools like ComfyUI that sit in the “we’re running experiments/useful sometimes” category.

Loads of ML tools are in use and incredibly handy, but fit into that tool category, but actual wholesale video/image generation is not that prevalent, no.

New comment by TeriyakiBomb in "From CVS to Git, thirty years of source control"

TeriyakiBomb — Mon, 04 May 2026 15:37:01 +0000

Ah ok, I don't have much bearing, I'm not super au fait with the rust ecosystem.

New comment by TeriyakiBomb in "From CVS to Git, thirty years of source control"

TeriyakiBomb — Mon, 04 May 2026 13:11:46 +0000

Why in rust times?

New comment by TeriyakiBomb in "From CVS to Git, thirty years of source control"

TeriyakiBomb — Mon, 04 May 2026 13:11:03 +0000

My experience was actually close to the one from the article. I used SVN for a year or two, moved to git and never looked back

New comment by TeriyakiBomb in "From CVS to Git, thirty years of source control"

TeriyakiBomb — Mon, 04 May 2026 09:50:03 +0000

Reading this as someone in the process of migrating several projects to Fossil, interesting to see no mention of it all

A great article though!