Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48219919

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You can’t have contracts defined in comments in code because there’s no guarantee they won’t be deleted or changed.

Even better, we need the ability to embed directives to LLMs which are NOT comments, but a type of programming construct specifically for this purpose.

If not then I’m not using it.

Cancelled my account 3 months ago, only Claude code level capability would bring me back.

This tech won’t change anything.

Certainly not me - you have to be a great artist /designer to even imagine what to do with it.

“If AI is so great why hasn’t it reproduced (some incredible cathedral of software built over 40 years of intensive hand crafting).”

Don’t feed the trolls folks - nothing you say in reply can convince the poser of the question because it’s a trap not a question, designed to validate the askers worldview that AI is somehow fake.

You keep mentioning employment… but I was a customer never an employee of AWS.

Please reread the post….

I think you misunderstood the blog post. I was never employed by AWS, I was a customer.

Since there’s people here from AWS I’ll give some feedback that might prevent posts like this……. if you suspend/restrict someone’s account - put yourself in their shoes - they probably want it back on line real fast. AWS needs to analyse the customer experience of restricted accounts/suspended accounts.

Go back and read the support contact records of each customer account restriction/suspension - how long did it take AWS to respond, did the customer know clearly what steps to fix it. Etc etc

Also if the support form says they’ll respond within 24 hours then really there should be a response within 24 hours. Also there shouldn’t be special insider knowledge needed to “use the chat, they actually respond to it, versus the web messages”.

You might even get customer obsessed about it. :-)

The ancient forgotten art of Vertical Scaling.

By the time I joined, 18 months after development had started, a giant, complex, hideously tentacled software beast had been built that used every possible AWS service that the massive offshore team of developers could find to use.

It should have been built on a single Linux box by a single senior developer with Python and Postgres or nodejs or Ruby or whatever.

They went out of business after not too long and I couldn't help wondering if things might have been different if they hadn't spent a fortune building a giant money making machine for AWS, instead of making a web application on a Linux box.

Every AWS project I have worked on has had some significant work put into programming AWS instead of writing business functionality.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48073201

Points: 853

# Comments: 650

Why? Because I only want real world relationships. I don’t want to be in contact with everyone I’ve known. Because I’m not myself online. Because others aren't themselves on line.

Never regretted it for a second, glad to be out.

BUT I did create a fake account for Facebook marketplace. I’m addicted to that.

I enjoyed your book greatly, back when you were alive.

Please give my condolences to your family.

Don’t be too sad about dying, Cliff - everyone has to go and you had a wonderful fulfilling life.

And remember, stay away from the light.

@dang can we have a black banner on HN for Cliff Stoll?

Says the team at OpenAI whose job it is to ensure you thought that.