Clay as in clay.com. But yeah, it shouldn't be assumed that people know that.

> Aside: Why are LLMs good at greenfield?

I have the complete opposite experience, where once some patterns already exist 2-3 times in the codebase, the LLMs start to accurately replicating them instead of trying to solve everything as one-off solutions.

> You can’t be inconsistent if there are no existing patterns.

"Consistency" shouldn't be equated to "good". If that's your only metric for quality and you don't apply any taste you'll quickly end of with a unmaintainable hodgepodge of second-grade libraries if you let an LLM do its thing in a greenfield project.

So does Cursor in the Plan mode.

If you totally alter the character model to fit the envelope of a Boston Dynamics Spot/similar "dog robot', sure.

Yeah, I foresee a bite of '27.

Yeah, same here. For the comments it took into account it made pretty great roasts, but would have been better if it was actually comprehensive over the course of the year.

I also think its fine and fair to charge for the general GHA infrastructure that one would also be using with self-hosted runners.

I suspect that they weren't looking to make money off of those charges, but rather use that as a forcing function to push more usage of their managed runner (which are higher margin) which didn't work out. Rather than everyone saying "damn that makes alternatives financially unattactive", a good chunk of the feedback was "sure I'll pay those charges as long as I don't have to use the shitty managed runners".

Anecdotally I've seen it get a lot more common to use third-party managed runners (e.g. Blacksmith) for anyone that needs slightly beefier machines and/or a caching system that actually works.

Yeah, we migrated to self hosted actions runnrers on hetzner 2 years ago, the speed improvement was massive

Why do you think a software engineer or computer scientist would be more qualified?

This site in general has a massive hate boner for any part of a corporate structure that isn't the engineering department. Sales, admin, marketing, legal, HR, etc... all get flak from the HN community for being irredeemably idiotic wastes of space.

"Hacker News commenters are frequently unaware that their use cases and customer preferences do not reflect the average customer demand in the market." - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46192577

There's a reason I put that in my profile. :^)

Sounds like HN users represent an underserved and untapped market and are being rational market actors while discussing their preferences.

One of my favorite examples of this is when HNers insist that if only an auto-manufacturer would make a simple car with tactile buttons and no screen or creature comforts it would sell like hotcakes.

I think those could sell, but you'd have to make the screens a luxury trim item again. Which could honestly happen if vehicle Right to Repair laws happen.

But we're way off topic here. :D

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