I really dread the chatbot or AI customer service. They make incredibly difficult to reach a human and have templated solutions to problems which are typically not helpful. Most customer service issues that can be solved with a bot can also be solved with a tool. Like canceling subscription or processing a return.
The other day I had a unique problem at Amazon and took me a while to get to a chat with human. They solved it in an instant. But the bot or AI previously was just asking questions that was irrelevant and making it difficult to get to the solution.
$20 codex has been working great for me and I don’t think I ever hit a limit. It works great because I typically break down the tasks small enough that I can fully review and accept.
I’ve always wondered what’s the business case for spending more as I personally feel I am getting so much done.
Using the game theory, shouldn’t the nice, forgiving and not being a pushover the winning strategy?
I’ve always felt the US won trust and respect with these characteristics. It looks like we are now shifting strategy and I wonder where this will lead to.
I doubt this will clear the government/regulatory approvals as it seems clearly monopolistic. But these days anything can happen and I might end up being surprised. Netflix stock seems stable in-spite of this news.
Unmeshed.io is a newer startup in the space - and works like a charm. Temporal seems like more targeting durable executions, but scheduling a different game. It starts with crons but soon you got to deal with holidays, adhoc skips and holds and more especially during maintenance and upgrades.
Unmeshed has all of these, managing holiday calendars etc and makes it super easy. It even has agents for AS400 server commands if that is still a thing you need.
This reminds me of Dwight from the office in the episode where he doesn’t tip the delivery driver and says: I never tip for anything I can do myself. I can deliver this if I want to.
Unmeshed - it’s not open source. It’s a new version of Netflix Conductor. Scales really well and has a GitHub actions style agent that can be used to run commands orchestrated by the platform. It’s probably the cheapest commercial tool you can get.
I have to admit that I’m inspired to get rid of k8s for a couple of situations based on all the recent posts. There are some clusters that are not required and costs way too much to run compared to a single VM.
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