anthropic just published a blog highlighting a pattern I've been using for weeks: a search tools tool
instead of loading all tools into the context window of the model, I load a "search tools" tool the model can use to browse a catalog of tools
just-in-time tool discovery
I don't really understand why we keep trying to "estimate" how much time building software would take
engineers know it's bollocks
tech leads know they are useless
PMs know it's finger the air estimations
yet so many teams still do this silly dance
Cost of writing a single line of code...
Software developer: $8.40
GitHub Copilot: $0.008
Assumptions:
Median dev salary = $105k
250 working days per yr
50 lines of code per day
Copilot = $100/yr
Realistically, a dev oversees Copilot & could ship more than 50 lines w/ 🤖 help.
"Changing master to main changed less than nothing. Because nothing was or is ever enough in this arena. As soon as this word battle was won, it was just on to the next and the next (and the next)." world.hey.com/dhh/forcing-ma…
I spoke with a team yesterday that is moving away from serverless in favor of managed k8s on aws
it wasn't an easy decision for them and they went through a thorough review of their architecture
the reasons they highlighted to me are: