At the same time, $100 a month is A LOT of RAM.

I guess ten minutes is the limit attention span of an average adult these days?

We can keep this up and in a few years we'll be down to bathroom-break long 15-second-per-short courses.

If you mean "we have no intention of spending the extreme cost it would take to rewrite" then say that, and it would be fine. If you instead say "we have no intention of re-writing in rust" you've said something very different, using a different set of words, which changes the meaning. Especially, if you say it directly in response to someone asking you whether you're going to rewrite or not like was the case here, and say that there's a high chance you'll just be throwing it away, to get the other person off your back. If then you go ahead and do it, expect them to call you out for it.

This is a very simple concept that can generally be understood by children at around age 4. Trying to cover it with vague terms and using the defence of "well I said I had no intention, and I probably won't do it but you see, I saw the results so I changed my mind so the chance was small but not zero", that's what a slightly older kid will try to do to see if they can get away with it, and as any kid discovers, that doesn't fly.

Saying you have no intention of doing something then doing it is not engineering, it's being dishonest. He could have said "well decide when we see the results", why didn't he?

Saying you don't intend to do something and then doing it is free will.

It's also lying. They are not mutually exclusive.

Changing your mind is okay, for example if someone said it was impossible to do the migration with current LLMs and it turns out they did it in four days, that person can and should admit they were wrong. That's not what he did though. What he did is say he had no intention of doing it, and then did it. That is lying. If he was testing and he didn't know if the change was going to be worth it, he could have said for example:

"This branch is a test, it's not a given it will work so until we see the results we won't decide if we'll be migrating or not."

He didn't say anything like that though, he basically said:

"We have no intention to migrate."

Why did he said the latter and not the former? Because he wasn't being honest, he was just trying to get people off his back, and so he didn't say what he was doing, the best for his own interest. We have a saying in my country: "it's easier to catch a liar than someone who's lame".

Also, before you come and say but he said he had no "intention" not that he wasn't gonna do it. A five year old might think that's a valid argument, but this person is an adult and we're all adults here, so it's not, it's equivocation and it's a logical fallacy.

> I am so sick of emotionally frail software engineers.

Then don't look in the mirror, you're probably being the biggest crybaby in this thread so far.

LLMs are a great tool, but more often than not it does show if the person using them knows what they're doing or not pretty clearly. Especially if it's anything larger than a trivial small change.

For me it's far from a stretch, in fact it matches closely a pattern that I've seen repeated many times over at this point.