Sounds like me without coffee.

So it is ngrok 10 years later?

In addition, please check out Sentinelese tribe from the North Sentinel Islands in India [1]. It is more mindblogging than this, in my opinion.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sentinel_Island

Not even close.

genie is out of the bottle.

People IBM get fired for setting up IBM stuff [1]

[1] https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/many-employees-ibm-2026-la...

> Code generated these days with fable and sol are near perfect.

If you're doing a simple CRUD app, sure.

If you're doing anything more involved they get the job done with dozens of shortcuts that bite you in the ass the moment you have on-call duty.

Way too much code and repetition and hacks.

Especially in GPU code, but also in other fields.

You have a very interesting definition of "perfect", then.

We have been running Agents on infrastructure and letting to create resources, scale up and down, security scans etc.

I agree with premise of thr blog. The question i have been asking internal does knowing your system really matter if you can recreate it in minutes.

We recently had a situation, where in with our internal platform and claude we recreated everything in minutes.

Management in the end cares about the outcome and not how the meat is made.

I can attest to this. People say the Netherlands is among the best countries to be an entrepreneur. The visa policies for starting a business are good. But man, the whole tax system, shares, and holding management—belasting breathing up your neck—is horrible when I am trying to do firefighting. You never know when you might get hit by a tax bill. The tax system is built towards benefitting large organizations, and they can afford expensive tax consultants who can help them dodge it. The VC ecosystem is limited and not risk averse.

Having operated in multiple geographies, US is really business friendly.

>the whole tax system, shares, and holding management

You don't have to set up a holding management structure for your company. It's there if you want to, but why make it complicated if you don't want a complicated structure?

If you're small, a simple eenmanszaak will suffice - which you can fill online, and then complete within an hour at the KvK.

>belasting breathing up your neck

Honestly I never had any issues with the belastingdienst, as long as you file your reports every quarter/year, and you're willing to pay the taxes you owe.

Any time I ever had issues, I just had to talk with one of their inspectors, go over my paperwork, and we sorted it out there. When I had issues with paying, it was one phone call to defer it for 2 years and set a payment scheme.

Netflix was torchbearer of projects that defined thr bigdata and cloud era. They were used as an showcase example for microservice architecture.

Their recommendation system was seen as industry standard best in class.

I wouldnt potray them in negative light.

That depends on when you are talking about...

Compared to modern social media platforms they are eons behind ofc social media has more content and more data ofc.

But their BigData and stuff was bleeding edge in pre-2018 in 2026 they really are 5-8 years behind they have not progressed much from what I can tell in both my usage experience, and their technical outputs over the years.

And yes that's the thing about modern development you fall behind really quickly.

Think about it Google was the company to create modern LLMs but people now dog on their LLMs. Apparently even SpaceX is ahead (I don't exactly know but maybe it is).

Being ahead once doesn't mean you are ahead today.

Netflix excels at maximizing engagement. The idea that you should A/B thumbnails for individual users, for example.

All the world-class data science doesn’t change the fact that the catalog doesn’t actually have many “hidden gem” titles. I find it somewhat hypocritical to argue that naive recommendations skew to the mean, when Netflix will happily pull funding for quirky shows that underperform in front of a general audience.

emphasis on past tense

a nation can emerge as a superpower with advanced infrastructure at one point in time, and still have antiquated infrastructure in the present, no high speed rail and overly complex solutions to make up for it

> Their recommendation system was seen as industry standard best in class.

When was this? 2014?

Background check softwares do this too.

Some of the low cost options now a days do not have human in the loop. They often miss obvious red flags or do too much false positives.