undefined | Better HN

0 pointsbshimmin1mo ago0 comments

Honestly, you just need cron (and Ruby/Python/bash/whatever) on an EC2. It's not very fashionable, but it works, will continue to work forever, and costs hardly anything.

0 comments

maccard1mo ago

To use an example in the article, what does

> Analyzing CI failures overnight and surfacing summaries

Look like on ec2 with python? Because with Claude, it’s that prompt, and with your solution it’s infra + security groups + multiple APIs + whatever code you actually write

duped1mo ago

I would suggest the prompt is an example of garbage in that's going to produce garbage out. Sitting down to confront the problem you're solving will show this, while Claude is going to happily spit out what looks like a plausibly functional system.

So for example the only "analysis" of CI failures are which systems failed and who/what committed the changes to those things. The only way AI would help me here is if the system was so jank that the sole primitive i can use is textual analysis of log files. Which granted is probably real for a lot of software firms, but I really hope I have better build and test infrastructure than that.

1 more reply

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse