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Title seems egregiously editorialized compared to the source title.

> periodically checking slow DB queries and finding ways to speed them up.

How does this work in practice?


At least for me, I have a couple dozen years of DB experience but robot, given performance metrics, can get really close to optimal on a tactical level (single query or pattern of queries) but can't yet do the full normalize/denormalize level of improvements without supervision. But really solid if you have one misbehaving query and give it explain analyze access on a read only account

> Why not just use claude Cowork?

Many people don't want to support a company pushing for regulatory capture.


Check the speakers at the startup school that happened just last weekend…

> Infact it would be nice to be a point of pride to be there to say how your security is handled.

Yes, a chance for mere mortals to touch the fingertips of god–er, chat. Same thing.


> In fact it used to be a common occurence during the heavy industrial pollution in the 20th century.

I remember watching news reports about acid rain in the 90s and being terrified that any ominous rain cloud might be full of acid rain which would melt away my town and family.


Not sure what you mean by toast bread, but you can't beat a good grilled cheese sandwich. My wife just makes them out of a cheap brioche bread with cheddar and American cheese. They're great when dipped in a tomato soup.

The brioche bread: https://www.walmart.com/ip/ART-BRI-BKY-BRD-20OZ/19883411944


> 2. Spray the stratosphere with SO₂. This reflects some some sunlight and cools the planet. It sounds scary, but is actually safe: [...]

The Pina2bo strategy!

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57094295-termination-sho...


Usually you hire a cleaning company who sends a person they've hired and vetted to clean, you don't have to deal with all of that stuff.

Then I have to deal with whichever random person they decide to send. I can't be the only one who finds this annoying (even if I'm not in the majority).

I miss Sleepy Joe. He had a few gross protectionist tendencies, but nothing like this nincompoop.

> Keeping a large release, like a total rewrite, on canary for a while to iron out bugs is a very reasonable software engineering practice.

I love reasonable engineering practices, like throwing out your entire codebase and rewriting it in a whole ass different language :)


letting AI do what it's good at, while constraining the overall system to follow the right practices, is like the ideal combo

are you a software engineer?


> letting AI do what it's good at, while constraining the overall system to follow the right practices, is like the ideal combo

What constraints? What right practices? What ideal combo? Maybe this whooshed over your head but I was sarcastically pointing out that just because you can do something doesn't mean it's a reasonable engineering practice or, uh, an "ideal combo."

> are you a software engineer?

Uh negative I am a meat popsicle


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