As long as I can choose the person, I’d do it. Win/win.

Except, now, they represent a higher opex cost than even payroll.

That’s usually because the on-prem equiment was hidden somewhere in capex, not opex.

There are a lot of cases I’ve been involved with where AWS comes out way cheaper than an on-prem solution, once you take all the costs into consideration. But there are plenty of other cases where it has turned out to be more costly, especially if some bonehead attemted a “like-for-like” migration with no effort to minimize AWS service costs. Take every on-prem VM and stand up a corresponding EC2? Replicate the same rat’s next of connectivity that’s in the legacy system? That’ll probably cost you.

That’s consistent with our experience using AI “assistants.” If it’s a common problem, the training set will be large enough that there’s a chance the AI will return a correct answer, though without contextual knowledge that might be important. But in a case like that, you could also just go and look it up on Stack Overflow. And if it’s not a common problem, the AI-proposed solution is likely to be crap, and one unlikely to take into account nonfunctional requirements, architectural guidelines, maintainability or best practice.

My own principle is that if AI was involved at any step in the coding process, that means we need to test that code even more than usual, because programmers who remain in the business learn not to do stupid things over time, and AI doesn’t. When an AI makes some stupid coding suggestion, there’s no feedback loop telling it that it fucked up.

I wouldn’t sign up for shit using my ID or anything right now.

That’s some sound advice there.

He’ll just fail upward. CEOs are protected from the consequences of failure except in exceptional cases.

Trump hates us too. Don’t kid yourself.

If he croaks before the end of his term, it’ll be a good day for USA’ians.

It’ll be even more unstable with Vance in charge.

He’ll leave office in a few years (let it be very few), whether walking, dragged, or feet-first.

The Republicn Congress will probably saddle the US taxpayer with the upgrade and maintenance bill too.

Yeah, fuck the Emoluments Clause.

That’s why she has MAGA support.

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The slow coup continues.

Trump has never been arrested for anything connected with Maxwell. Unless you meant Esptein when you said “him,” despite the discussion being about Trump.

And as for justice being dead: there is no justice when there’s elite impunity. And we’re neck-deep in it.

Von der Leyen has just tried appeasement, we’ll soon see how that pays off. Hopefully it’ll destroy her career.

We’ll see how long until he chickens out this time.

I wonder if there’s a point of diminishing returns with pump-and-dump.

Speaking of which, when is this rapist of trafficked children going to release the Epstein files?

weird al goes death metal?

It’d have to be slopcore.

State terror.

All it takes to join MAGA is some severe brain damage.

So now we’re already in the show-trials phase?

Frankly, I’d never hire or do business with a fundie. It’s hard to put my finger on it, but there’s something about their desire to enslave or kill nonbelievers that makes me uncomfortable.