John

@tranceash.bsky.social

obsessed with technology

One day the industry will recognize the drawbacks of AI agents and nondeterministic automation, and rediscover the UNIX philosophy of chaining together small purpose built tools in a low cost and predictable way, otherwise known as shell scripts.

After the AI bubble pops there will be a lot of sweet deals on H100’s from companies selling off all the assets in bankruptcy. I sure hope some of that hardware reaches the general public instead of just going to the top few surviving mega corps…. But that might just be hopium.

I was thinking Apple was having their Windows 8 moment with the horrible UI baked into Sequoia... but no, this is worse than that. It's like they didn't even test the macOS UI on actual Macs or with human beings using them. Team stay-on-Sequoia here...

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This redesign of the AWS website is an abomination. Horrendously low information density. The most important thing here is to be able to compare across many options quickly. Now I have to scroll scroll scroll and flip back and forth between pages.

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Today’s my last day at AWS working on the Rust compiler. Unfortunately, back in July I received notice that I had to choose between moving to Boston from NYC, or leaving the company due to RTO policy. I unfortunately couldn’t abandon the city I plan on being my long term home.

Most trend pieces hang on 3 cherry-picked datapoints. This one? 1. GPT-5 flopped. 2. MIT says 95% of AI projects fail. 3. Nvidia dipped post-earnings. My take: AI’s been overhyped. The impact’s real, but OpenAI isn’t on the verge of birthing Skynet. Everyone wants to give them a reality check.

Tech's hottest industry is facing a brutal reality check. That's a good thing in the long run.

Between Nvidia's recent earnings and OpenAI's underwhelming GPT-5, it's clear AI is entering its "meh" era. That's good news for everyone.

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