With these numbers, I'm holding my breath for the pelicanbench.

LXC is a jail and qemu is an extra layer of emulation. Why pay that extra cost? Just because it serves a wsl image isn't really an answer. How is that worth the extra layer?

EDIT to not be a dick about it: I think the key detail here is the difference in isolation between containers and VMs, and where emulation comes in.

Just a reminder that the Hacker News community generally frowns on caustic dialog. Let's make sure this place doesn't turn into slashdot. :-)

Agreed. Edited. I do feel like I was just following the existing tone set by OP, but no excuse.

We still have developers because we can't outsource responsibility to AI. If shit breaks, we still need someone to fix it. Maybe you think that can also be automated. I have a counter-example. AI will rarely use the existing state when solving a bug. It will tack on it's own event queue, it will make up it's own messaging system, it is a cancerous growth. And this observation is based on both opus5.5 and gpt5.6-astra. The results are way past magical at this point, but you still have to weigh in pretty heavily for orderly code growth where solutions are succint, focused and preserve the existing structure. They are still noobs at fixing/adding stuff.

Same here

That very similar history is shared by us dinosaurs. I especially remember tuning the 1530 datasette to play differently recorded tapes, then moving to DOS and discovering how much faster it was to run something compiled by turbo pascal. Then discovering "infinite memory" since you could create a pointer pointing at a place in memory which had... another pointer!!! (I was a very happy kid after discovering that)

I don't have a voice or likeness in my code. Sure, I have a very specific style in all the code I wrote for the past couple of decades, but you can achieve the same outputs with completely orthogonal styles as well. (like AoS vs SoA) so what would I even negotiate for when everything I ever thought of got distilled into neural network weights to be high-pressure sprayed to the masses?

> so what would I even negotiate for when everything I ever thought of got distilled into neural network weights to be high-pressure sprayed to the masses?

For your unique approach to the problems at hand. Yes, 90% of the code written is CRUD, but when it's not, how it's solved matters.

This is why we have grown with id Software games. They solved the problems, created new paths and methods for limited hardware for their time.

This is why we praised DivX and XviD back in the day. They solved problems again which are caused by the limits of the computers.

The way one solves problems matter, makes one valuable. This is why we do research and create new ways to do things.

In short, your creativity is being sold/sprayed to masses.

Then do it. Hypothetically claiming the job can be automated as an excuse to pay people less is older than everyone alive today. Lying to exploit workers is nothing new.

Until you actually remove the need for a human, you have to pay full price for human labor. Which if you used AI is never really going to happen. Someone has to evaluate what AI creates to make sure it does what was asked. This trend of not prosecuting crimes conducted by AI cannot last forever. The CEO would be the only one arrestable as the CEO is the only person with decision power in the company.

Used claude since 7/2025. Switched to codex after fable got blocked. It was still 5.5 but I knew they had to come up with something. As soon as I switched, wow. It wasn't super intelligent, but it was stable. Every day it was the same performance. This consistency is definitely worth paying for.

Oooh real 64bit ide instead of the crippled 32bit junk they gave as a demo for the past 10 years. Good improvement.

I used to get wrist pain from using mouse and keyboard back 20 years ago. I did no exercises. No stretching, no rock climbing, no triathlons, it just slowly subsided and went away. Maybe I just became aware of positioning and strain to such an expert degree that I just instinctively do the correct moves.

At that revenue, why not make your own filesystem, database and index structure? There is no way mysql is the best possible software for this use case. Why stop innovation and hand everything over to ops?

Most likely? Time.

Using off the shelf software means you mostly design how to plumb things together and how to make them correct , safe and scalable.

The things you mention, on the other hand, carry the same requirements but are also much complex to develop AND to maintain.

The social network VK internally uses highly specialized database engines per business domain. They don't use stock DBs. They have a DB engine for posts, a DB engine for likes, etc. They have a team of DB engineers. Their DB load was around 250 mln RPS 3 years ago. Stock DBs were harder to scale for them. I guess if you have immense highload, having a team of DB engineers can be cheaper because you can save a lot on servers. I reviewed their code. A DB engine's source code is pretty compact and simple (relatively speaking) because they deal with very specific domain entities, so they don't have to account for all the possible user query combinations that a general-purpose DB would have to support. It was mostly shards+binlog+snapshots+views in RAM. Considering that Telegram was founded by former VK engineers, I suspect they have something similar.