There’s probably more off the top of my head. Not that I necessarily advocate for the micro in services. Just the sliding scale of macro-micro services.

These are more problems in larger companies.

Sometimes you want to have some shared infra abstracted behind a single interface and a single auth model.

Having a service gives you that single isolated unit/abstraction.

In practice it’s always a scale. Some services will be bigger and some will naturally be split out.

I think also having the right server platform that makes it trivial to deploy/standup infra quickly makes this much easier.

At the end of the day you pretty much gotta direct and iterate over and over.

For me it still pretty much looks like slop.

With the right objective function and enough compute I think you can definitely make progress. A lot of problems can be framed as search.

I think some of these proofs coming out is a good example of this.

Both exist. I would say single player games tend to content in the range of 10+ hours. Think First Light, Ghost of Yotei in recent years.

Competitive and multiplayer games will tend more towards what you are thinking. CSGO, FIFA, and of course many others.

But I feel like even that doesn’t really capture the full range of everything.

Practically Luddite

Polls are already a thing, and people love giving their opinion on things.

Combining social media and gambling while maybe not morally great. Seems like has potential to make a shitton of cash.

Betting is all over the place right now.

The limits are 100 workers on free and 500 on paid.

And if need more then you can always go their platform which supports tenancy.

As long as you have a cronjob or similar to clean up the cost of having per PR preview is pretty much zero.

I think diy homelab/hosting is more accessible than ever.

Cut costs on cloud spend and invest into AI spend.

For a solo dev on a budget, I think it just makes sense.

Strategy would be the use software to achieve business goals.

Essentially why are we doing this at all.

Is architecture operations?

The problem of course is that no one agrees on which subset that is.

Comes out cleaner because overriding a default argument doesn’t force you to also do all the positional arguments in front of it.

Designated initializers make it look really nice imo. I feel like the brackets are no big deal.

Python has sort of the opposite when you need to use *kwargs.

But using some kind of metrics as guardrails/steering seems interesting.

I feel like people expect Claude to just 1 shot a good story from their 2 sentence prompt.

But even a human needs to sit down and apply a structured or semi structured process over a non trivial amount of time/turns/iterations.

If you asked most people to write a short story out of nowhere with no context and 1hr. Most of them are gonna write some generic stuff.