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“teaching engineers to build production AI systems” in bio
Claude Code wiped our production database with a Terraform command.
It took down the DataTalksClub course platform and 2.5 years of submissions: homework, projects, and leaderboards.
Automated snapshots were gone too.
In the newsletter, I wrote the full timeline + what I changed so this doesn't happen again.
If you use Terraform (or let agents touch infra), this is a good story for you to read.
alexeyondata.substack.com/p/…
ALT A console screen shows a critical warning about a destroyed database and missing backups, outlining deleted infrastructure components.
I created a living server, no restarts, no downtime, no deployments, I talk to it and it patches itself real time
glensargent.com/living-serve…
you can get an m4 mac mini for the price of 32gb ram
Tech Companies: "omg RAM prices are insane. We have to raise prices of our products RIGHT AWAY!"
Apple: "Here's 20% off on our M4 MacBook Air with 16GB of RAM!"
Apple cares about long-term market share and services revenue, not short-term margins.
Link: geni.us/ozXeb
proper sad state of affairs when people are citing typescript as a go to example of static typing
Here's the shortest way I know how to explain why static types aren't a substitute for unit tests. Types declare contracts, and that is valuable, but they do not describe nor control runtime logic.
ALT TypeScript function named sum with two number parameters that incorrectly returns a - b instead of their sum.
the actual ui part of lg is less important to me than the having keyboard shortcuts in terminal for git part, which i think is its actual value prop
glen retweeted
Krunker Users 👋
I got early access to API requests and made a stream overlay that allows you to equip items if you own them! 😼
Which items should I add next? Basically all dyes are done! 👀
Live now for a bit testing it out: twitch.tv/code_barrybee
Got into an argument with someone who doesn’t feel that AI is making them more productive.
Said that not arguing about productivity but I would not have been able to write
- History navigation and command editing for ocamldebug
- DWARF debugging information for native OCaml debugging on macOS
- Static binaries for Julia
- A brand-new Lisp compiler that generates machine code for two platforms
- A non-LLVM Zig backend for macOS
- A bunch of complex Rust PRs
- A Lisp-based cross-platform app
all in the span of 1 month without AI.
Am I being productive? Beats me!
Am I putting out a metric shit-ton of working code? It sure looks like it!
not to shill for epic games here but their value prop for indie developers is much more enticing, steam feels like the only platform in the world that for some reason, doesn't ever get criticised for it's effective monopoly and also, just ftr, completely sucks to use ?
"off chain nfts" the single funniest statement i've heard this year, web3 guys are so cooked
polygon.com/counter-strike-c… Steam implements items as basically off-chain NFTs - they benefit from the secondary market when it suited them, then evaporate all economic value when it doesn't.
Every time something like this happens it's a pull to more decentralized approaches.
it is a rancid experience compared to purpose made fp languages, but decent experiences still exist, especially in languages that are more expressive, effect in typescript is quite nice, fp-go is a chore
