I don't predict ever going back to writing code by hand except in specific cases, but neither do I "vibe code" - I still maintain a very close control on the code being committed and the overall software design.
It's crazy to me nevertheless that some people can afford the luxury to completely renounce AI-assisted coding.
I've been recently researching if I could replace American cloud providers with something like OVH or Hetzner (the latter I occasionally use for VPS) and there is no fucking chance. It's great that 37signals and DHH can do it, and I have no trouble believing they have saved money, but for situations in which I operate, both startup and enterprise environments but where devs are scarce and teams small, it's simply not realistic.
Well for one thing, call me a sell-out or accuse me of lacking craftsmanship, but I like my databases managed. Then also storage buckets, IAM, general cloud security and other niceties.
And I don't think it's for a lack of skills, I know my way around a Linux box - it's just that I save so much time. I'll occasionally build small projects in a VPS (sometimes cramming the db in there too!) but I don't feel I can do it for other more serious work projects.
Hetzner has basic load-balancing and security around the VPS and that's it, OVH has a bit more but it all looks quite green.
Oh, I wasn't trying to say you're wrong. Just wanted to share that for me, the bottleneck has been elsewhere, and that I personally found GSuite harder than the compute cloud.
> Well for one thing, call me a sell-out or accuse me of lacking craftsmanship, but I like my databases managed.
I had the same worries and then we moved to OVH and Hetzner and had no issues.
AWS RDS is about 10x more expensive than bare metal with maybe 1/4th the disk performance.
Regarding operations I simply setup a primary and read replica together with a PGBackRest continuous archiving and backup solution to a S3 compatible storage service.
Has worked like a charm in the last two years and recreating the database is a breeze.
Margaret MacMillan is a modern historian with a liberal world view and no ideological incentive to defend Bismarck, and in her phenomenal work The War that Ended Peace (2013) she largely supports this view.
I chuckled in many scenes and more generally with the Hotel California vibes, but the book is also transcendental, mystical and dead serious at times. The mix of it all is what makes it arguably a masterpiece.
In my experience, juniors are absolutely terrified of asking any sort of question at all during a meeting. Senior engineers are far more likely to ask interesting, useful questions.
We hire juniors so that we can offload easy but time-consuming work on them while we focus on more important or more difficult problems. We also expect that juniors will eventually gain the skills to solve the more difficult problems as a result of the experience they gain performing the easy tasks.
If we stop hiring juniors now, then we won't have any good senior engineers in 5-10 years.
I had to warm up a Gemini API project worth a few thousand hours during weeks so that I could get to the tier that allowed me to carry out the workload.
How can you have any tokens if you haven’t finished your tokens?!
As fully-featured as possible, because as much as I like building stuff, I don’t give a shit about coding stuff that has been figured out since the 90’s. Another question is whether semantics and operations get bloated or affect development speed in a framework but I don’t think it’s the case with the Django.
It's crazy to me nevertheless that some people can afford the luxury to completely renounce AI-assisted coding.
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