You just described one minor use case of the tools and claim it's not needed anymore
It's like saying cars are obsolete now because you only used yours to go to the church and use your bike for that now
Don't know about Postman, but Bruno has much more to offer. In our team we use an exported shared collection (stored in github) of all the extensive APIs of all the apps we share or even those we just use so that anyone can just import that and use them
I don't necessarily disagree with this post but I really disagree with how it is written and with the contempt it expresses towards a fellow tech guy.
First of all - after reading all that, I still don't fully know what the author exactly means by "software factory". Please define the term if you are to argue about it so we know exactly what you're talking about.
Second of all - the author is glorifying one approach to tech (the "idea guys") and severely downplaying other approaches. Just because he finds this fun and entertaining doesn't mean everyone does - and the world needs all of those people. Idea guys are cool and they just got a very powerful tool, but we still need those passionate devs who dedicate a lot of their time to building and researching massive projects even if they're not sure they make sense
>I don't necessarily disagree with this post but I really disagree with how it is written and with the contempt it expresses towards a fellow tech guy.
It's the same "look at how right I am" post we've all read dozens of times. Dismissive and condescending about what projects should or shouldn't be explored, and of the people who explore the wrong ideas. Same as always, just with a fresh coat of paint for the AI age.
I have thoughts on what may be fruitful and worthwhile to explore. But this post isn't about that, really.
what immediately came to mind for me is something like gastown. If that is the case I think I'd agree with the auther and a parallel from pre-AI would be "using kubernetes for personal projects is a waste of time" - so much time and resources spent on something that is way overkill and in many ways just would get in the way of just shipping something, anything and then going from there.
Sorry but this is such a manager thing to say. "Everything is replaceble by AI except what I do! - make decisions"
I don't find that true at all. We even have an LLM specialized in exactly that - making decisions
What I would agree on that LLMs maybe possibly will not replace us at that soon is "noodling" - just letting your thoughts wander around an idea, trying to come up with some cool and unique. Someone will probably run a bunch of agents soon and prove me wrong on this though
Ollama serves models on an OpenAI compatible API directly on the inference machine, which most open source harness software will connect to. The inference machine has a name like inferencemachine.local on my home network so the Ollama URL looks like http://inference machine:11434/v1 to connect to any model I've downloaded.
> AI agent on my phone I can long-press power button and give spoken commands ("add milk to the shopping list"). Uses private home inference machine, see below.
For this part, are you using a tool-calling harness like Pi or Codex? Or did you sort of hack it together with prompts that tell it what json to emit?
I just got the rest of the “application layer” for my setup working yesterday, with a small set of evals. Auto-filing voice notes is what’s next for me.
That's the way to go. Anyone who publishes any of their work in the open web and who values what they are doing should do whatever possible to block the AI scrapers (which is often difficult or impossible, I know) until all that's left for them to feed on is their own garbage.
Let the garbage-spewing machines choke on their own garbage
Allowing someone to create my persona which they control sounds like a fever nightmare to me. I'm not touching this with a stick until I can host it - and control it - myself
People don't like reading articles "redacted" by AI because that feels disrespectful
Imagine approaching someone you wanna talk to and they just silently point to their assistant, suggesting you talk to them instead. I want to hear your thoughts from you, not filtered by some assistant/machine
It's like saying cars are obsolete now because you only used yours to go to the church and use your bike for that now
Don't know about Postman, but Bruno has much more to offer. In our team we use an exported shared collection (stored in github) of all the extensive APIs of all the apps we share or even those we just use so that anyone can just import that and use them
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