DHH effect. He has a very strong following, and there's a certain amount of trust/prestige attached to his name in the tech/startup world. For a lot of these people, DHH building something is probably enough to get them interested and willing to throw money at it.
Why? I watched all of the supposed controversies around him happen in real time and they were all non stories.
“Hey, you can be political on social media but don’t bring it into our work chats. We are here to do a job. If that is a problem, here’s a generous 6 month severance package.”
That was what politically blew him up and he was unwilling to apologize for a completely reasonable take.
Now he’s giving his time and money freely to make a great Linux distro.
It says more about the anti-DHH crowd than it does about him.
> Because the sacred cow here is not just that mass migration must stop going forward. It's also that millions who are already in Europe must go.
He's suggesting we round up all the brown people and deport them... (He's smart enough to not put it in those words but I don't see what else it could mean.)
> Remigration is a far-right concept referring to the ethnic cleansing[1] via mass deportation of non-white minority populations, especially immigrants and sometimes including native-born citizens, to their place of racial ancestry.
I wonder if that will change now he's gone from edgy opinions that rile up woke people (e.g. immigration is too high in the UK) to actually advocating ethnic cleansing (not the murdery kind but still...).
It's always the same give these people enough prestige and power that they feel untouchable and their true nature comes to the surface. No more dogwhistling needed he thinks, I have powerful wealthy backers and their lawyers now.
I think it's pretty obvious that genAI is a very smart technology in terms of the implementation, but a dumb technology in that enables devastatingly dumb outcomes. It also enables very smart outcomes, but they are overshadowed by the misery and visibility of the dumb outcomes. Like crypto, but with way more legitimate uses and a wider array of outcomes.
And by "outcome" I mean holistically - not the literal output of a model.
Maybe a smidge dramatic? What I'm seeing is the most money-losing technology being shoe-horned into virtually every system with little to no benefit, but definitely producing a more dystopian future in terms of unemployment and the environment. But even AI fans expect a market correction because they can't hemorrhage cash forever. So in that context, watching employers hire AI-evangelists to force workers to use AI seems even more absurd.
Congrats on the launch! While the focus is on humans, I found many of the principles here to be very relevant for building with AI.
With LLMs able to generate the "magic" with ease, I can see the role of frameworks shifting a bit. Instead of hiding complexity, it's surely more beneficial to expose the primitives clearly enough that both you and an LLM can follow the request lifecycle.
The bet on Cloudflare is pretty bold, but it does make sense given how unique their products like DO and Workers are. I suppose there's not much of an escape hatch if you ever needed one?
> With LLMs able to generate the "magic" with ease, I can see the role of frameworks shifting a bit. Instead of hiding complexity, it's surely more beneficial to expose the primitives clearly enough that both you and an LLM can follow the request lifecycle.
100%.
I kinda feel like we've fooled ourselves into creating these domain specific languages for frameworks, where we glue things together using magic, and just dealing with the features of the language, the browser and the network make a lot of sense in the AI world. And our framework is actually much less complicated than I think a lot of them are...
> I suppose there's not much of an escape hatch if you ever needed one?
I of course don't want to be vendor locked in, so I've started working on something called open durable objects, and I have a concept for something called open bindings.
these are the two core technical solutions that the framework really needs from Cloudflare. This does not include durability in the same way you get it from Cloudflare: it will run on a single machine.
But jokes aside, I use Beanstalk quite a bit and it's mighty leaky, don't find it all that comparable to stuff like fly.io, although in spirit it's the same thing I suppose.
Before these changes go live (and before the grace period begins) you'll be able to see your current pricing vs. new pricing in the dashboard, so you can optimize from there.
Also a fan of Vercel and I'm very appreciative of the work they contribute to the React/JS ecosystem. Errors in human judgement happen and while they may have taken the appropriate action against the employee, I don't feel like they've reassured me enough that there are processes in place to prevent this happening in the future.
How do you handle global infrastructure on AWS/GCP?
The performance is great in the US for my Next.js app on GCP/AWS as that's where I deploy to, but elsewhere the TTFB is poor. Deploying to multiple regions would probably end up costing more than Vercel for us.
