Could it actually be that the United States is in a plain old recession?
I know the stock markets are higher than ever due to AI investment. But the real economy may not be in a great shape hence the layoffs.
While the cause may be not be AI, but instead policy, e.g. tariffs. But also multiple conflicts ( Ukraine , Iran, Lebanon), leading higher oil , gas, critical raw material prices. China heavy exporting economy but not having domestic demand to fuel growth and bilateral trade with other countries.
All leading to less consumer consumption, slower economy , more layoffs to cut costs, less consumer consumption etc.
So no ai related but many external factors at the same time. But ai is hiding the pain due to the high stock market valuations. Which may explain that despite all the usual recession symptoms we aren’t treating it as a recession.
Are there local models dedicated to programming already any good? That could be a way to deal with anthropic or others flipflopping with token usage or limits
How do you market your software?
Did you learn how to become a marketer and took it as a persona? What have you learned how to market your software in the past 20 years as a developer?
Good article, sometimes a bit hard to read with all the links to other blog posts.
However there are some good nuggets in this article like this one:
"That’s when I realized: we’d built a dependency on one person’s specialized knowledge. And that knowledge had nothing to do with our actual product."
I see that at more smaller orgs, where they want to have technology X but fail to realize it requires a small team. Not because its a 3 man job to operate but because if 1 leaves or is unavailable the knowledge is gone. The knowledge can be acquired but it takes some time, and that in between period can be painful. When you tell them that and then they start to calculate the costs, it can be sobering.
The advice to keep the tech boring and widely embedded in the organization is something I agree with.
I really liked reading about the history of your homelab.
How do you like the 3d printed rack enclosure? Is it strong enough to hold the weight and heat from the server?
Man, this is such a fun project. I understand where you are coming from. You can do this with music too. There a lot of children audio books or songs where you have the same “issue” that a parent has to operate YouTube or Spotify.
I just realized a new thing what i dislike about scrum. That is this argument people bring up:
“Scrum works … if it is being properly implemented and followed.”
Sure that is with almost everything. In addition if you need an army of scrum coaches to implement scrum and you see many failures in the industry isn’t it time to rethink the process how we create software?
Maybe scrum isn’t the solution but just a stepping stone that came after waterfall.
I don’t have the source, but I read that before the Dutch VOC came there were also quite a lot of Arabic traders active in the region that brought with them their religion.
We are running opentelemetry collector in production for about a year now.
Overal I am very happy with it.
I would recommend it.
Good:
- I like that with Otel you can build a vendor agnostic architecture. By that I mean you could easily swap visualization tool and you are not depending on a vendors own agent.
- It works.
- lots of plugins, receivers, processors and exporters.
- run it as deployment or run it also as agent you can get k8 metrics.
Cons:
- Documentation can be improved. There is the website and then is their GitHub repo. To me it feels like the website only explains the architecture and some components, but to implement it you need to read the readme and values.yml in the GitHub repo from the various receivers and exporters.
- for some it this might be a con. It doesn’t have a ui. Like Calyptia Core
I haven’t tried the auto instrumentation. That is still on the to do list.
It is there but I wish there was a more comprehensive network of high speed rail in Europe.
Going from Amsterdam to Spain the plane seems to win on price and travel time.
One thing that isn’t infrastructure but could easily be improved is buying international train tickets. So often I see that one needs to call or you can only book one month ahead.
I never liked the calendar from apple if I quickly wanted to look something up.
After looking at the OP website I was already thinking this is what I want.
However after learning from you that I could also type "cal" in the terminal, mind blown.
I don’t know his motivations to become a programmer.
However with his experience as a CEO, CFO. He might want to look into becoming a Data Engineer, BI consultant, Data Scientist or Data Analist.
With the experience you mentioned he might be better at understanding how the “business” thinks and what they need.
Therefore a lot of his domain knowledge could be applied while being in a technical role.
Most of the roles I mentioned involve some programming but often that can also be drag and drop tools.