Just last week, I was trying to map the weird and wonderful column names emitted by a NetScaler’s detailed REST log into OpenTelemetry semantics.

The NetScaler is basically abandoned by its dying vendor. Hence, its new features like sending logs directly to Splunk compatible receivers are basically undocumented. I’m sure there’s like three of us masochists out there stumbling our way through the brambles.

The Open Telemetry end is a mess of “deprecated” and “beta”, copying the shifting sands of other cloud native projects like Kubernetes.

Even with carefully curated Markdown documentation references and sample logs, every modern “frontier” AI makes basic mistakes and hallucinates like crazy no matter how I stuff their context.

This isn’t an Erdős problem! This is just getting logs from point A to point B.

Personally my opinion in this regard is highly consistent over time.

I don't think people realize how small the gap between free to cheap models have from frontier models. It's going to be commoditized a lot faster than marketing will catch up. Once cash gets tight or prices rise it's more or less done for.

Especially considering some of the small free/cheap models can one shot code now.