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This is a really great point. AI tokens are expensive for quality today, and that will continue. We’re already seeing a bit of a plateau, and this whole “let’s slow down so we don’t kill ourselves” is propaganda, I think. AI companies that leverage “price to value” are going to succeed. I see Google Gemini fitting this mold long term, GLM, Kimi did fit this mold but their later models seem to jump in price pretty fast chasing Opus capability. If you take “capable models” as the standard for price to value and then charge what it actually costs (not VC subsidized), then you’re going to see a world where Software Engineers are probably back in high demand. I think the article points out the hard part: how do you grow new Sr. Engineers if you’re replacing Jr’s with Claude. (I think the obvious answer is that we shouldn’t be replacing Jr’s with Claude)

I think saying “we are all product engineers” is not accurate, but this aligns with stuff I’ve been telling my teams for a while. Everyone needs to start becoming closer to product and moving away from programming as the thing they’re valued for. (e.g. I’m not valued because I know Java inheritance rules) To be honest, it always should have been this way (it’s how I’ve lived my career), but some organizations have created this weird “product does the thinking, engineering does the programming” dichotomy and it’s in those situations where this argument makes sense. At a small startup where every new hire understands the business problem and works to achieve that goal is not where this argument makes sense.

My first job was “Analyst/Programmer I” - somewhere along the line it turned into “Programmer” and then “Software Engineer” – pushing the role farther into a technical silo and farther away from the product “because the product managers know best and the nerds need to make it happen by next quarter /s”. The success of individuals on the product side are going to be with folks who can shift to leverage AI for technical chops, and vice versa for Engineers shifting to put on their “Product Hat” more often. With any career, there’s going to be a spectrum of what skills fit into the role (e.g. some positions may be more or less technical or more or less business analyst), but I see the shift happening as a way to preserve ones career in an ever changing world. Those that do not adapt will find themselves on the outside looking in and wondering why (or as an alpaca farmer in northern Idaho because they noped out).

This guy stole my brain and dumped out all the thoughts I have.

I wanted to like only office, but it’s just not as good. Better than libre, I think. O365 is still the best (as much as I hate it).

So, I installed zwave lights everywhere. It was a giant pain!

I replaced them all with light switches that have motion sensors. Some turn off automatically after being turned on with no motion. Some turn on somatically with motion (and off again later.)

A small handful were turned back into normal light switches because I didn’t want the automation for those rooms.

To me, THAT is automation. Wherever I was thinking about using an app from my bed was not automation. I just moved the light switch to my phone.

Should people use OSS? Yes. Should it be illegal to not to? Hell no.

The advertising caveat there I can get behind, but that’s not about paid vs unpaid.

Policy and legality are two wildly different things.

I bounced around a bit after Storj decided to hate consumers and institute massive minimums.

I’ve landed on Backblaze B2, S3 compatible. Add others have mentioned, doing a shared NAS 2 NAS hookup with a friend or family member is a nice ideal way to do it without monthly fees.

I use Borg backup from my PCs to a NAS (QNAP), and from there using the built in backup software to go off-site. My self hosted PCs will mount NAS drives directly (like immich and audiobookshelf) and those are also in the NAS off-site job.

Reolink stores to a SD card with the option to upload to FTP backups.

I suspect a big 128 gb card would be good enough without off-site storage.

Mix tapes were the primary thing for me, and later burning custom CDs in the mid 90s.

I was the only one with a CD burner and I’d charge people $1 song to make them (I provided the CDs)

I know nothing of the full conversation, but I read the"meltdown". I sort of sided with the melt down guy. Everything he said there was reasonable, albeit slightly verbose.

IDGAF about the whole thing so it might just be that the final post was fine, but the rest was not :shrug:

I just picked up a Reolink, great privacy so far. I haven’t set up Home Assistant yet, but I’ve read it’s not great.

Sort of my point, actually. Most software now I’d argue is AI assisted.

This is most definitely AI assisted. I won’t say vibe coded, but this has the hallmarks.

I think it might have been related to being on Linux. I’m not using flatpack or snap, but it was just something that wasn’t supported. I wish I remember what it was.

I was unable to use Chromium. I forget why, but I snagged real Chrome after hitting errors and my Google search telling me the issue.

I then immediately removed real Chrome.

I understand why some would do this. It’s definitely a more secure setup, but I highly doubt “most”. I like having passwords on my work laptop. I couldn’t sync there with a VPN, for example. My wife, kids and parents aren’t going to run VPNs on their phones, etc.

Isn’t that there point though? Remote synchronizing?

What are you using for a reverse proxy? There’s some nginx websocket settings I had to do before things worked properly. I use cloudflare, but just for the DNS/cdn stuff, not their zero trust things.

server {
  server_name my.domain.com;
  client_max_body_size 2048M;

  location / {
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
    proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
    proxy_set_header Host $host;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $host;
    proxy_pass http://10.10.10.30:13378/;  # My Wireguard Tunnel up to the VPS
    # proxy_cache_bypass  $http_upgrade; # This was added by Certbot
    # WebSocket support
    proxy_http_version 1.1;
    proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
    proxy_set_header Connection $connection_upgrade;
  }

    listen 443 ssl; # managed by Certbot
    ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/my.domain.com/fullchain.pem; # managed by Certbot
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/my.domain.com/privkey.pem; # managed by Certbot
    include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-nginx.conf; # managed by Certbot
    ssl_dhparam /etc/letsencrypt/ssl-dhparams.pem; # managed by Certbot

}
server {
    if ($host = my.domain.com) {
        return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
    } # managed by Certbot

  listen 80;
  listen [::]:80;

  server_name my.domain.com;
    return 404; # managed by Certbot
}

I don’t disagree with you, but for a single server hosting multiple projects with differing system dependencies, docker is amazing. I’ve come around to using it for this practical reason.

Using docker over direct installation always feels like an unnecessary interface layer that just complicates things and introduces points of failure.

This feels 1000% like a chatgpt prompt copy and pasted into a webpage.