Great, this means Telefonica reliability goes from zero nines to still below zero nines.

Joining a select club that includes GitHub and Anthropic yay

Nah, those two have a proud one nine of reliability. It just feels like it must be less when you eat every single outage to your face.

The lofty .88889

Negative nines

QoL is more important than hustle culture to most people

The investors are their customers - not the users of the end-product.

Early investors make money when later investors buy them out at inflated valuations.

Well sure, all market signals should be considered. As a casual observer, my received signals have been indicating that AI is getting sold at a loss to get market share, and more recent signals have indicated that users are really really sensitive to both costs and performance.

The weakest signal to me is investor money, because when you think of it, investors are betting on a future that may or may not be there. Heck even trends aren't guaranteed, "past performance is no guarantee etc etc"

Have you seen the business models for these companies? Literal underpants gnome memes. OpenAI's goes like this:

1. Build AGI

2. Use said AGI to tell us how to become profitable

3. Profit!

Anthropic seems to be going all in on enterprise sales. Which means they don't actually have to please customers, or it's what ThePrimeagen humorously calls a "yacht problem"—a problem that only needs a solution after the IPO. For now all they have to do is convince corporate leadership that this is the future of work and sow enough FOMO to close those sales contracts and their projected sales, and stock valuation, goes through the roof.

Of course that value will collapse if they go without delivering on their promises long enough. That's why they call it a bubble. But by then, hopefully, Dario and the early investors will be long gone and even richer than they were to start. Their only competitor, OpenAI, is confronted with the same issues: the scalability problems won't go away, and addressing them doesn't drive stock valuation the way promising high rollers that AGI and total workforce automation are just around the corner does.

> What damage is that? (excluding the present case)

That seems to be an introspective question.

Extrospection is valid spection

I must have a really really outdated version of K+R C.

Think of it as RGB lighting in DIMM format and it makes a lot more nonsense.

I'm excited! Almost everyone here is looking forward to big future payouts of gigs that require cleaning up during emergency slop outages that impact the loss of a critical line of business.

And the odds are good you use the models and understand them in detail while the CEO is just buying the hype, ill informed or not.

Well, I want to reduce the rate at which I have to intervene in the work my agents do as well. I spend more time improving how long agents can work without my input than I spend writing actual code these days.

Except, there is correlation.

You're holding the statistics wrong - the chart you're looking at is upside-down.

I have been porting an existing pub-sub to Rust (no_std) that runs over serial UART. The published serial protocol is very similar as this one: COBS encoding with CRC32 checksum not CRC16. These docs have a great reference on backpressure for any micro and will be helpful.

Thanks for sharing this, that sounds really interesting.

COBS with CRC32 over UART is very close to the kind of problems I’ve been thinking about too. Glad the docs were helpful!