yonisto

For the past 2 weeks I started experiencing reliability issues with AWS (especially SQS) in eu-north-1: Messages are disappearing, being processed twice increased failures when sending new message. Does anyone else experience this? What did you do to solve the problems?

So I got lazy today and asked the AI to sort alphabetically a list of names I got from the internet.

I hope someone can do the math and tell me how much more power it required to sort the 11 items in that list? how much more instruction (CPU/GPU) it required?

How much it will require if the list had 100 or 1000 items?

Thanks,

So this week, I was teaching a new employee about the system. He is 30 years old and has been in the industry for six years now. At one point, I described an external tool that we use, which produces an XML file. Something felt off about his questions, and then a realization hit me:

"Do you know what XML is?"

He didn't.

I have a few takeaways:

1. I'm old. 2. I envy him—I hate XML. 99% of the time, it actively sabotages my work. 3. JSON simplicity won.

That's it. No moral.

I was tasked with building a "native language interface" to our database. After developing it for a month, it seems to me that I hit a wall with the correctness of the resulting SQL. 80-20 would be a good estimate. My feeling is that it something that cannot be used a regular user.

Did you do better and you have tips?

NOTE: I'm not talking about performant queries only about producing a correct result. I would say that only about 50% cannot be better optimized, but I don't care about that.

It seems that the next sprint will include an effort to connect our database with LLM.

while researching this, I noticed there was a lot of buzz last year. but now it is more quiet on that front.

Can you share how it worked for you? especially from the user perspective?

Thanks,