https://fireworks.ai/blog/quality-first-with-kimi-k2p5

I hope that with LLMs, answering security questionnaires will be much less time consuming for companies and less would opt out to get a full blown SOC2 cert. But it will probably play the other way.

Ok, wait, why?

Sure, but this holds true for the blog version as well, right?

To be clear, I'm not advocating for The Little Schemer version, and am not arguing that the blog version is the best it can be, but surely we can agree that book padding phenomenon does exist.

By the way, I have read parts of your book over at O'Reilly Learning, and I do think it is a good book. So I'm not trying to take a dump on your work. My criticism is aimed at publishers.

I have a hard time with this point. It feels to me like a lot of books have A LOT of unecassery padding all over the place.

The example of taking 28 words and turning it to 120 is pretty good at showing this. The first paragraph is totally pointless - we are reading a book about 100 most common mistakes, obviously this mistake is very common, how did this increased the value?

Then we have another line that explaining what happens in the code, which is totally useless because the code is super trivial.

Then the code, with more explanations on the side as if the previous line was not clear.

And only after that we get to the crux of the issue.

I understand that book publishers feel they need to justify the price of a book by reaching the 300p mark in some or other way, but in my way this only makes the book worse.

But sometimes you just need more compute and you are the type of organization that buys compute by the floor space and power consumption...

Regardless of the nuances of each situation, I think jsiepkes's comment meant to say that in the data center you can buy pretty killer hardware that will be totally overkill for the moment and won't require you to count active timeseries in order to not pay $300k a month for your metrics, and at the same time will last you for the next couple of years.

Also, for most companies, the next point of inflection will never come and this server will probably last them for a very, very long time.

I'm sharing my point of view as someone who works at an organization that took money as the only consideration and managed to grow over the years to now having to start taking both time and money into consideration because taking only money into consideration proves to be too expensive.

I also don't think that every organisation that needs file storage must build a storage solution that should compete the reliabiltiy and features of S3. Most of the times you can get by just fine at fraction of the cost.