There is definitely hype around AI but there is also value in it.
The realistic scenario for a well functioning organization is not to replace their entire DevOps team with AI agents and then realize the hard reality that their entire tech infra is on fire but to actually use these as a tool that makes their best DevOps person more efficient and make their DevOps resources much more leaner. This increases the productivity for the same cost. Even though this sounds grim for the future of work, this is what I feel is going to happen.
This holds true for ML models too when the data is large. I've seen people(myself included) when the data is small, the iteration is faster when selecting the features but when the data is large then you have to think about the features that you want to select a bit more deeply, test it out on a sample and then submit it to the larger data set.
This general idea makes a lot of sense because the company will actually be _happy_ to have someone sit mostly idle, as long as there's always someone to fix it when it breaks. You won't have to constantly feel like you're hiding your idleness / lying to peers.
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I may have to rewatch it, but I recall that movie being fairly entertaining, even as an adult.
I also will say I went to watch it without having seen the original Cars, so perhaps I really had no expectations for the film (other than it was a Pixar film)?
I've not had any interest in it, so I haven't really say through it.
The weird thing is that Cars has this emotional center around facades and regret and abandonment and the differences between the journey and the destination and it's this beautiful look into a town that got bypassed. And more to the point it has this emotional weight that was still really accessible to a young me that a lot of other kids studios didn't really trust kids with (except for like Miyazaki films and stuff).
And then Cars 2 was a mistaken-identity spy movie a la Johnny English or Get Smart. I don't doubt it was an entertaining movie or something, but it felt so outside the Pixar brand, like something Disney or Dreamworks or any other studio would make.
It was also the first sequel outside of the Toy Story series, from a studio that somewhat famously refused to do sequels if the world didn't have more story to tell.
Like I said, it was just such a weird departure to do seemingly do a sequel just because the world was popular enough.
> but it felt so outside the Pixar brand, like something Disney or Dreamworks or any other studio would make.
Maybe that's why they wanted to do it, to try something different?
I have always found the Pixar Shorts to be some of their best story telling. They don't have a lot of time, and don't seem to be afraid of trying new ways to tell a story, or a different type of story.
+1. This would be an incredibly useful tool when I have to search private company repos I'm unfamiliar with. Currently I use GitHub's 'search current repo' functionality but it's not great.
I often browse private code in github when I intend to store or share links to certain lines in our codebase. e.g. to use in tickets or PRs, or during Slack discussions.
For the 1st, a critical mass has to be reached in order for it to become a problem. Even if it does and slows it down, then the places where the speeds are fast will become attractive for the same people. This is just a hypothesis, it will be interesting to see the dynamics created by such service.
I appreciate apple's attempt in the privacy space as well as loathe their 30% mandatory in app purchase integration which EPIC is fighting against. You need someone who is big like Epic to stand against apple as they the resource to battle it out legally.
One of my clients is a small player and they have stripe integration for their service. The android platform uses the stripe integration where as the apple platform has forced in app purchases down their throat. In app purchases should be an option and it should be upto the customer if they want to use it or not.
The realistic scenario for a well functioning organization is not to replace their entire DevOps team with AI agents and then realize the hard reality that their entire tech infra is on fire but to actually use these as a tool that makes their best DevOps person more efficient and make their DevOps resources much more leaner. This increases the productivity for the same cost. Even though this sounds grim for the future of work, this is what I feel is going to happen.