What would be the usecases?

"consumer demand for inference chips, which will be badly utilised"

why do you assume it will be badly utilised? Can't be worse than what we have now which is chips already badly utilised for windows' bloatware

That's nothing like the issue of the main topic

I never thought about it but you've made me realise that a lot of people in our industry have been so enthusiastically working on random "creative" things that at best no one even asked for and it turns out to hurt the end users in ways no one even knows.

I used to be a front end dev and I always hated that animation was coded per element. There should be just a global graphics API that does all the morphing and magic moves that user can turn off on the OS.

Hilarious how people proud of the "open web" thinks that it is somehow about the (small) "web" or some shit, and not the "open"

so how is telemetry not open? If you don't like telemetry for dogmatic reasons then don't use it. Find the alternative magical product whose dev team is able to improve the software blindfolded

> Find the alternative magical product whose dev team is able to improve the software blindfolded

The choice isn't "telemetry or you're blindfolded", the other options include actually interacting with your userbase. Surveys exist, interviews exist, focus groups exist, fostering communities that you can engage is a thing, etc.

For example, I was recruited and paid $500 to spend an hour on a panel discussing what developers want out of platforms like DigitalOcean, what we don't like, where our pain points are. I put the dollar amount there only to emphasize how valuable such information is from one user. You don't get that kind of information from telemetry.

> Surveys exist, interviews exist, focus groups exist, fostering communities that you can engage is a thing, etc.

We all know it’s extremely, extremely hard to interact with your userbase.

> For example I was paid $500 an hour

+the time to find volunteers doubled that, so for $1000 an hour x 10 user interviews, a free software can have feedback from 0.001% of their users. I dislike telemetry, but it’s a lie to say it’s optional.

—a company with no telemetry on neither of our downloadable or cloud product.

> We all know it’s extremely, extremely hard to interact with your userbase.

On the contrary, your users will tell you what you need to know, you just have to pay attention.

> I dislike telemetry, but it’s a lie to say it’s optional.

The lie is believing it’s necessary. Software was successful before telemetry was a thing, and tools without telemetry continue to be successful. Plenty of independent developers ship zero telemetry in their products and continue to be successful.

Or by testing it themselves.

yes testing is the alternative to observability... in an alternative universe

All of this is caused by the "mcp is dead" mob. Instead of fixing the context problem or whatever and even add more security features they just hope that "shell as the interface" works, securely.

debuging and operational investigations. I would say half of my sessions with agent involves those

hahaha i feel that

No one even codes alone anymore.

Joking aside, maybe collaborative coding with AI will save coding? You're still prompting but immersed in the code and inline annotations, rather than a blindfolded chat. I know copilot did it before but we're still waiting to see the end shape of AI coding and maybe someone comes up with a new take?