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1. monkeydust · 1789977093 · focus · HN ↗

   Bit of a Jev explosion going on. Is it because it's taking us back to a simpler time we understand better? Classification models have been around for a while.

   1. badatnames · 1789981075 · focus · HN ↗

      It reminds me a bit of what Ansible got right: user communication. The underlying tech may have existed for a long time, but the genius is presenting it to a regular developer in a way that reads "yes, even you can understand ML, just using a little JSON". The contribution of that should not be understated, as has been clearly evident recently.

      1. colordrops · 1789985775 · focus · HN ↗

         Yeah except it doesn't really work. It constantly breaks underneath you. The whole system has to be managed, e.g NixOS, or else it's a house of cards.

         1. badatnames · 1789987283 · focus · HN ↗

            I'm also not personally a fan of Ansible, but to claim it doesn't really work is quite breathtaking given the size of the installed base.

            1. stonogo · 1789997616 · focus · HN ↗

               Arguably, it doesn't. Instead of a team of people doing break-fix on golden images you have that same size team of people doing break-fix on upstream playbooks. Lots of software doesn't achieve the goals but has a huge deployment story; not sure those things have ever been related.

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