Wonder what would happen if we pushed the envelope on physical fixes like endarterectomy like procedures and made them safer/more routine. Like getting your teeth flossed.

I don't necessarily use plan mode explicitly for this, but I might turn it on if I think something destructive is coming up, like a schema change or some other devops thing where claude may decide "oh we copied it all over so I can delete it from source" "oh I'm sorry I didn't catch that error code and assumed success, your data is now gone" lol. This happens a lot less but I've been bit right on the face by it before.

Are plans the wrong abstraction? You can use a big enough plan to spam tickets into linear and have claude burn them down. I find it increases subagent accuracy.

Big heavy holds will help encourage blood flow without stretching them / stressing them as hard as big lifts.

It seems weird because it goes again ROM ideas, but it has definitely helped protect my arms for rock climbing as well as less fatigue in my legs for big lifts.

The object permanence of not having to reinvent the world every time a model gets sunsetted has value.

Seems bad.

I work in several labs where I have to give this advice, which some labs are smart enough to make an ersatz backup that we store somewhere (PI's house) as a cheap offsite. Even a partial recovery is great in the face of fire/flood/explosion, or the most common error: IT fucks it up and then says "oh well".

Hope someone has some copies and they can rebuild, what a nightmare.

Bonne chance fired senior!

I have depicted you as the 100 line a day weakling, and myself as the 20k+ line chad.

The systems at bigcos are too ruthless to risk gambling your career on this kind of reasoning which you have no recourse to. Best to start small teams and destroy them from the outside.

Thanks for sharing, I'll def put it on.

Last time I was at a corporate gig, I got a 2+ year old base model MacBook Pro to do a data science. 16gb of ram is fun and all, but when you're using R you're going to have a bad time.

During my hired gun period I worked with two organizations that used gitlab, and they're doing just fine. One place I had no problem using their cloud for bigger runs, the other had a permission system that was pissing me off so I solved my own problem and billed them enough it didn't matter anyhow. Like I said, having extra cpus for big R runs you don't have to ask anyone for has a value all its own.

Happy computing!

If you're riding it every day, every little speed up counts. I don't wait on GitHub actions or external systems for my crunching. For that I have my local slurm cluster of mini PCs, 64 cpus and counting!

I assure you there is a better world outside of the fence, I am unlikely to return.

Sorry if this sounds really grim / cynical, I've simply seen enough of these kinds of migrations to know that it is fundamentally opposite of my perception of engineering philosophy. It often becomes more of a question of business rather than correctness. (Can we simply fire the smaller customers? -> yes.)

I see why it can reduce costs in a runaway cartel based system, but how does it prevent the two wolf scenario? (It's the same wolf in this scheme.)

Feels like two wolves negotiating on how much of the sheep (the sheep is you) they get to eat.

Dare I ask, who is for the "consumer"? If we should even use those words in this system, which in my mind should be for a nation keeping its citizens alive and well both of their own sake and the state's sake.

It doesn't matter what happens 6m-2y down the road, your odds of being laid off or job hopping are high in the current regime so this all makes sense. You pay some amount of your budget to make your life "easier" in the now.

The trouble comes 2-5y down the line when the service is bought out by , and you have to scramble to replace it or hold your nose and pay up.

(tbh, migration is not that hard, but the org will act like it is)

The matrix of authentications, compliances, and intranets will only go up as your company grows and often are enforced by people who do not suffer them daily.