As a former manager, I am sorry, but the last paragraph just sounds like normal rookie team members.

Including myself as well. It's how you grow into the role.

I'm the same as you. Very specific tasks. Just now I spent two hours in a conversation with claude code to change 5 lines of code that change a significant semantic.

On the other hand my buddy is spending $10k in tokens a day on agents to build something. He's a very smart guy, former developer so it's not just AI psychosis talking.

Still trying to figure it out. Not that I have $10k to spend.

What on earth is he doing with $2.6M in token burn per year? That's at the level where he is running multiple simultaneous frontier models 24/7.

Oh my god, is that in USD?

> $10k in tokens a day

What on earth is he building?

And how can I become so rich?

Yeah I heard a similar thing recently at a presentation. At that point wouldn't it be easier to just send the prompt around?

I see even smaller companies ask for that. Less about cost, European companies have a deep mistrust of US companies at the moment. I see companies a tenth of your companies size ask about local models.

I just want to point out you are saving 3 characters on the last one while making it a fair bit harder to understand. fileName is perfectly fine. fName could be firstName, fileName, finalName, foundName...

fn or fqpn should be well understood too given the context.

You are right!

We used a small embedded db in our desktop product only for durability and SQL semantics. After we got multiple database corruptions we switched to a small file based store written in Java with simple DB semantics.

Looking carefully at what happens when data is lost we found that it's basically all recoverable.

This lead to an amazing performance, as data is flushed only when necessary. We flush only every 10 seconds now or when the write through cache is full.

My lesson learned from that is to carefully think about the actual requirements when it comes to transactions and having loose constraints may be the quickest way to speed up performance.

For many applications even a second or two of lost data may not be a big issue.

I think AI is going to be the driving force behind technological innovation for at least the next 10 years. And the US has that market cornered expecially with the CHIPS act. I think that will drive growth in the US and be more relevant than the reserve currency status.

Can I just say that aside from the presented facts. I really liked the reporting. It clearly explained what the study showed and what the studies didn't show.

I think science reporting should be more like that. It's ok to have an article that says well we found a link but we are not clear yet on what's the exact cause, but we know what's not the cause

Aside from the clickbait-y headline of course.

It's because the publication is well funded from other sources. It's not dependent on drawing lowest common denominator people in to view ads.

Anders Puck Nielsen talks about this in his video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jabKKr3pstU According to him the hallmarks of a Russian Flag operation are

1. Bad production quality and a clear message

2. Intense media coverage in Russia

3. Positive message about the Russian state

Literally none of these points were apparent here. It shows a weak Russian state, was covered only as so far as necessary and what the message would be was completely unclear. Don't hire mercenaries?

I'm using C# and Java professionally. I've been using for a long time while I'm newish on C#. Also I'm on a older version of .net vs. a modern Java. Honestly to me the language doesn't feel that great. It always feels sluggish, to work with, like I'm fighting against the language. And then there is the ecosystem, Spring Boot is just such a breeze to get a web app running with all the integrations you could ever want being just there. Add in Lombok and Apache commons and it's a real pleasure to develop in Java for me.