Jeff Nickoloff

Taco bell: Do you want to round up the price of your order to the next dollar? Me: Do you want to round down? No that sounds fucking stupid? IKR?

@rakyll It’s all commodity. In the absolute best case think of AI like vodka, the products are indistinguishable, and the only thing that matters is the relationship with your customer.

The value is either in agentic compute runtimes or building domain specific harnesses as products. Everything else in AI infra seems to be a commodity, or better or worse, a reference implementation.

I'm a capitalist and a lover of free markets. I think American companies who can meet the complex needs of government contracts are wonderful examples of these pillars working together. Not one tax dollar should go into any kind of bailout. No debt guarantees.

@ibuildthecloud We may as well turn off the internet at this point.

I'm am so absolutely lost on this. I don't get it at all. Not the technology I get that (sorta), but why micropayments? I just don't see how people are going to want to create businesses exposed in this fashion. Is there some big industry doing this that I don't understand?

@ProductHunt I follow Product Hunt.

tell me you're a founder without telling me you're a founder

@donnfelker @cursor_ai They work great in languages for which there is overwhelming public discussion, documentation, open source, and stolen closed source software... so JavaScript.

One thing that is very evident with my experience with @cursor_ai and other AI tools so far they work much better with dynamic languages. They still work with compiled languages, but dynamic languages are levels ahead with AI in my experience.

@austingunter It all sounds great until you ask someone to pay for it.

@egoiscof @levelsio It isn't about making games. It is about TALKING about using AI to make games. DUH

ok I get that @levelsio made an AI game and pulled in $70K+ | huge audience + smart execution but now everyone’s rushing to build the most basic AI game… with zero distribution strategy? Game dev is brutal to grow in. Some folks are in for a reality check 🙃

@ChrisShort Hustle culture killed RH.

Why don't we see Robin Hood out in the wild anymore? When I was a kid, there was always something going on with that genre. Robbing from the rich and giving to the poor is something we need nowadays.

@d_feldman It is a mistake to think of Tesla as a car company.

Some asshole got a promo for adding tabs to Google Documents. That is how companies die.

@webdevMason Who holds the liability in an AI pharmacy?

Yeah, I actually really don't understand why pharmacy still works the way it does "Notice weird prescriptions, check for drug interactions and dispense medication" seems like almost a toy problem for AI, and pharmacists make like $150k/year! Is it legal requirements? Liability?

@ibuildthecloud You got back to your Java roots?

Update on secret next project. Things are going well. I produced a 1.7gb docker image. So if size matters... But really, the whole team at Acorn is working on this project now. This is much more of product than a random one-off project I might do.

@t1agoB @duffysecops @kelseyhightower How long are your ballots? We regularly have very long ballots with many positions and measures.

@duffysecops @kelseyhightower Agree 😅 But voting works fine. I've been voting for more than 20 years and in the last decade I can't remember waiting in any line to vote.

@HighyieldHarry Maybe a suppository?

If you looked at this photo, with zero context, what would you think this is?

@mitchellh They can run games, or work makes them use Windows. That’s it.

I can understand engineers who use Linux. I can understand engineers who use macOS. I really don’t understand engineers who use Windows (except windows app developers). By understand I mean I can see the value system they operate under. It just seems bad for non-Windows dev work

Access to purchase a double decker taco is not worth installing a shitty single-purpose fast food app. I’m standing in your store and you won’t let me buy food without getting access to my phone. Guess I’ll make a sandwich.

Say what you will about the AWS definition of MVP, but Azure feels like a half-assed Frankenstein monster with half the parts missing.

@swardley Another, “Office encounters” is a thinly veiled name for workplace affairs and missed opportunities for sexual abuse and harassment.

X : Thoughts on a return to office policy? Me : It happens for two basic reasons:- 1) loss of status symbols (top floor office etc). Many execs need these to say "I'm the boss" 2) headcount reduction (i.e. people will leave) due to a weakness in the finances. Why?

@lucperkins TF Server / Cloud? CloudFormation?

I'm kinda surprised that config management as a service isn't really a thing. I'm talking hosted ZooKeeper/Consul. Or is it a thing?