> AWS Emulator is configured to collect and report usage data to AWS, to gain insight into how AWS Emulator is used. Telemetry is on by default.

They can't help themselves, can they?

I'll stick with Floci and Testcontainers.

floci is good

As the things stand, we used to have thousands of Excels with obscure macros heavy-lifting businesses. Now we have thousands of Claude artifacts doing the same. Nothing has changed, much less improved.

Wherever I've seen a pull back, it is all because of compliance or security. And that too not because of the purity of heart; but because some checkbox couldn't be ticked due to AI.

Excel macros are deterministic, don't leak BI and PII, aren't malware, and don't cost an extra engineer's salary per engineer. Comparing them to Claude is quite a disservice.

Not to forget versioned inside the document. The same spreadsheet produces same answers if it is not edited. Same can't be said from programs that can be recreated over and over again.

It's funny you mentioned excel macros not being malware. Various scripting systems provided by excel has been a long standing malware vector.

> don't cost an extra engineer's salary per engineer.

In fact they preserve an engineer's salary. Many front-office wranglers in finance have built rock-solid job security using impenetrable nest of excel macros that only they understand. Or was so, until recently. Now we have AI.

The obvious end state here is an ExceLLM.

https://spreadsheets-are-all-you-need.ai/

Pleasantly surprised to see this here. One of the most memorable shows that I watched ages ago. It was strong at the beginning but kind of dragged on in later seasons. Still very nice to binge.

In case you’re looking for some more shows related to AI, Cupertino by Robert King and Michelle King is currently airing and is pretty entertaining.

It did start to drag on but I still enjoyed it even though I was only able to watch it via Amazon's FreeVee with all their weird commercials. I watched it just to see root [1].

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN1sGIqdSUA

Amy Acker was definitely fantastic as Root.

I enjoyed it for a bit but it was one of those shows that just didn't grab me after a while. But, then, I'm like that with a lot of shows and don't really binge watch. The few times I've bought a full series which I enjoyed on DVD, I've found that I watch it some and then drift away.

Not my project but there's apparently plan for schema [0] (the link currently 404s).

[0]: https://github.com/soml-lang/soml/blob/main/schema.md

There's a comparison [0] where some differences are explained.

[0]: https://github.com/soml-lang/soml/blob/main/comparison.md

Siri

Thank you for pointing that out. We’ll bump the domed version by $100 to fix this mistake. /s

I’ve found that increasing the number of screens is not helpful at all for learning.

What worked for me was building a system that lets me think consistently everyday. And by system, I mean sitting in a library with paper books and if really necessary, with my existing laptop.

i've been mainly using chatgpt to learn. i can drill it endlessly for concept i dont understand. Previously i was forced to move on with holes in understanding.

also the new ui that is more visual is making a huge difference. only think i dont like is that i take a lot of detours but chat is linear instead of a tree.

I’d add Ranger’s Apprentice by John Flanagan in others’ recommendations.