Data in Real Life
I recently had a bit of a self-identity crisis; of course, it was tied to spending way too much time on social media. I do try to avoid the worst of it, got rid of Twitter (X) this year, and mostly stick to Substack, LinkedIn, YouTube, occasional Reddit, and Hacker News. Probably still too much. [ ] The post Writing Rust by Hand. No LLMs. appeared first on Confessions of a Data Guy .
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A few things have not changed in the age of AI, where the LLM has replaced 3/4 of the brain power of a whole generation of engineers who once found their meaning in the code they wrote. I mean, I hate to say it s true, but a lot of folk should have been finding their [ ] The post Don t say I found a problem. Say I found a problem, here s a solution .. and proof. appeared first on Confessions of a…
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When AWS announced Lambda MicroVMs, I was genuinely excited. After years of incremental services and endless feature releases, it finally looked like AWS had built something that filled the awkward gap between Lambda and EC2. On paper, it sounded perfect. You get VM-level isolation, more memory, persistent state, and startup times measured in milliseconds, all [ ] The post AWS Lambda MicroVMs: The…
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