it is disappointing, but is it shocking that people most driven by gaining money/power are the ones the most successful at achieving it?

What sticks out to me most is that humanity consistently fails to weed these creatures out and regulate society. It's a bug in our social software; we seem to like these broken people rather than recognize that they're a liability.

Most people don't care as long as it does not affect them directly.

Trust is not a bug

You need to accept that every generation some people are going to try and fuck things up.

Then you get to decide to stop or help them

I don't know if it's guaranteed to work, but the strategy is real. I know Notion won vs. competitors in the space because they focused on consumer first, and consumers then brought Notion into their workplaces.

I am amused that you think IT is going to respond to an unmanaged LLM tool that operates outside of the LLM policies all serious enterprises have set up by now and say 'wow, that is cool and maybe we should buy in to this!'

What is going to happen is that the emplyee who tries to sneak OpenAI into our org is going to have two meetings set up by the end of the day, one with IT to ensure the whatever tool they installed is burned out with fire and one with HR to ensure they know the company policy and acknowledge that another fuck-up like this is a firing offense.

Isn't that exactly how the iPhone won though? As another commenter said, once the cool gadget becomes a must have for executives, IT will be told to find a way to make it work.

What if that employee is in the C-suite?

Then the business was already screwed and this makes little difference?

I think Prisma does type-safe ORM really well on the typescript side, and was sad it doesn't seem to be super supported in python. This feels sort of similar and makes a lot of sense!

Thanks! Haven't used Prisma much myself, but glad the approach resonates.

seems nice. I imagine the strategy here is going for expanding user base so Apple can sell more software services?

just one q: have you been to china before?

I think there are profitability requirements, right?

Profitability in both 3 month and 12 month spans. Also minimum 12 months of trading history after IPO.

See page ~9 of https://www.spglobal.com/spdji/en/documents/methodologies/me...

+1, very polite way of saying it. of course there's a difference between the two posts. open source is interesting but not enough with a financial app, since it's all about trust + usefulness.

landing page needs to look good and communicate the value prop super effectively. If it doesn't look good you'll lose people's interest in about 2 seconds.

probably the "slapping steamOS" part of that

my only minor critique is using lorem ipsum examples. It tends to make me want to gloss over instead of reading; I prefer seeing realistic data. other than that, it's a really cool post

You may be interested in http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/exampledb.py -sql -n 2 example.sql:

    begin;
    insert into cust (id, name, company, streetaddress, city, state, zip) values (1, 'Jacqueline Gagnon', 'Baker Group', '218 Miller Dr.', 'Riverside', 'KS', '51859');
    commit;
    begin;
    insert into cust (id, name, company, streetaddress, city, state, zip) values (2, 'Wayne Bennett', 'FF Petroleum LLC', '4375 Moore Dr.', 'Mount Vernon', 'MS', '98270');
    select setval('cust_id_seq', 2);
    commit;
    begin;
    insert into product (id, name, unitprice) values (1, 'Biological blue steel doll', 30.4);
    commit;
    begin;
    insert into product (id, name, unitprice) values (2, 'Gray cotton electronic boxers, size L', 13.3);
    insert into product (id, name, unitprice) values (3, 'Blue cotton intimate blazer, ages 2–5', 37.3);
    insert into product (id, name, unitprice) values (4, 'Daily beige steel car', 14.6);
    insert into product (id, name, unitprice) values (5, 'Black spandex daily blazer, size L', 24.1);
    insert into product (id, name, unitprice) values (6, 'Blue wool dynamic briefs, ages 3–10', 79.0);
    insert into product (id, name, unitprice) values (7, 'Blue spandex ultrasonic dress, child’s size', 31.9);
    insert into product (id, name, unitprice) values (8, 'Gold wool daily boxers, ages 3–10', 8.85);
    insert into product (id, name, unitprice) values (9, 'Red cotton utility boxers, ages 2–5', 28.9);
    insert into product (id, name, unitprice) values (10, 'Gray polyester ultrasonic briefs, ages 3–10', 15.3);
    -- ...

It also creates the tables, including invoice and lineitem tables. It's still a bit of a dull accounting example, rather than something like food, superheroes, social networks, zoo animals, sports, or dating, but I think the randomness does add a little bit of humor.

Although now we have LLMs, and maybe they'd do a better job.

Was going to post the same thing. Lorem Ipsum makes the data too hard to distinguish. I get that due to the dynamic nature of the examples the text needed to be generated, but Latin isn't the best choice IMO.

Otherwise great article, thank you!

It's the same for me when foo and bar are used as examples.

Someone gave me the advice to use animals, ideally animals of very different sizes or colours. People instantly picture them and remember them.

right, it is just syntactic sugar, but if that wasn't helpful then why have it in dev either? I find it more confusing to have asserts be stripped, which creates an implicit dev/prod discrepancy