the simplest one (and the one we're targetting) is multi-tenant services. You want to sandbox your service so that it doesn't affect the rest of the services running.
<shameless plug> We're building a container runtime to do this, and we are comparing alternatives, that's how we got there: https://github.com/urunc-dev/urunc</shameless plug>
a number of reasons -- power budget, form factor, experimenting as a testbed for more "elaborate" setups (like robotics combined with a low-end TPU like the coral, or a jetson nano)
consider that you can take advantage of all the cloud-native goodies, all wrapped up in a 10x5 box with 5-10W (or 25-30W if you consider jetson boards).
Maybe not, but in the past some here see that the blog is the product that is being promoted here.
Even in this thread alone https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47314929 some commenters here are clearly annoyed with the way AI is being shoved in each place where they do not want it.
I don't care, but I can see why many here are getting tired of it.
> As a principal engineer I feel completely let down. I've spent decades building up and accumulating expert knowledge and now that has been massively devalued. Any idiot can now prompt their way to the same software. I feel depressed and very unmotivated and expect to retire soon. Talk about a rug pull!
Really?
The vibe coders are running into a dark forest with a bunch of lobsters (OpenClaw) getting lost and confused in their own tech debt and you're saying they can prompt their way to the same software?
Someone just ended up wiping their entire production database with Claude and you believe that your experience is for nothing, towards companies that need stable infrastructure and predictability.
Cognitive debt is a real thing and being unable to read / write code that is broken is going to be an increasing problem which experienced engineers can solve.
Problem is, it's the people in higher positions who should be aware of that, except they don't care. All they would see is how much more profit company can make if it reduces workforce.
Plenty of engineers do realize that AI is not some magical solution to everything - but the money and hype tends to overshadow cooler heads on HN.
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