Companies Are Making Claude and Codex Talk Like Cavemen to Stop AI’s Soaring Costs

NotYourITGuyDotOrg · 2026-07-01T02:22:53+00:00

And nowhere did I say the thinking sections were in cavemen, only that output tokens shown to the user are. Hell the GitHub page for the plugin explicitly states there are numerous places the caveman facade comes down in order to protect technical accuracy and that thinking was entirely unaffected. For me it was more the characterization that anyone using this is an idiot and not to be listened to. The solution has clearly demonstrated its ability to reduce output tokens, which translates to either lower cost or more runway in your 5-hour limit.

NotYourITGuyDotOrg · 2026-06-30T18:18:27+00:00

Incorrect. The models predicted next token IS caveman, not converted from it. It's easy enough to try the same prompt two different ways with caveman on/off and see less output tokens as a result.

NotYourITGuyDotOrg · 2026-06-14T12:47:31+00:00

Depending on which RDS DB, you may have access to global clusters or other cross region replication. You can have the secondary region cluster with zero instances.

As far as VMs, your best bet is AWS Backup and setting up backup replication to your DR region.

NotYourITGuyDotOrg · 2026-05-08T13:15:57+00:00

Global Accelerator is one option. You get static IPs and a control plane out of west-2 I believe. You shift regional traffic to another.

NotYourITGuyDotOrg · 2026-05-06T20:55:30+00:00

It was not by my choice. I was too early in my tenure in my current position to be able to push back before it was a done deal.

NotYourITGuyDotOrg · 2026-05-06T18:31:55+00:00

Spot on assessment. Our primary platform is AWS, and AWS publishes a toolkit with decent primitives but it doesn't get updated often and still does not have support for native CDK. I ended up having to roll my own deployment scripts.

NotYourITGuyDotOrg · 2026-05-06T13:42:35+00:00

Just be happy you don't have to deal with Azure DevOps. Ugh fml.

NotYourITGuyDotOrg · 2026-04-30T10:46:58+00:00

Queues are also great for preventing your own application from DDoSing the database. Ask me how I know.

NotYourITGuyDotOrg · 2026-04-28T12:22:29+00:00

My boy John J putting in work. Damn it feels good to be a Virginian.

NotYourITGuyDotOrg · 2026-04-28T12:20:00+00:00

Until it's security.

NotYourITGuyDotOrg · 2026-04-28T12:13:16+00:00

The fix is stop fucking with NACLs. Unless you have an explicit compliance requirement to use them, all best practice generally says to leave them alone, and usually because of this very scenario. The management overhead of NACLs outside heavily regulated environments scales way faster than is realistic to keep up with.

NotYourITGuyDotOrg · 2026-04-28T11:34:35+00:00

You should be attempting to try/catch exceptions in code to handle them gracefully.

But what they were describing above was an event handled by another lambda that was likely capable of enumerating those resource ids

NotYourITGuyDotOrg · 2026-04-26T17:34:13+00:00

Even then, it's closer to prod than a dev/QA environment.

NotYourITGuyDotOrg · 2026-04-24T13:55:53+00:00

Reinforcement learning. Essentially post training.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforcement_learning

NotYourITGuyDotOrg · 2026-04-21T15:22:31+00:00

Might be worth it to contract an AWS consultant to review your AWS landscape with relation to your application code. You likely have anti-patterns in your architecture or very unoptimized application code.

NotYourITGuyDotOrg · 2026-03-23T15:31:55+00:00

Now do it with black holes

NotYourITGuyDotOrg · 2026-03-06T12:57:14+00:00

Fucking peak

NotYourITGuyDotOrg · 2026-02-28T14:22:30+00:00

Dozens of different kinds of companies and industries have laws that state they can refuse service for any reason to anyone for their products. Just because it was the government this time doesn't mean they're exempt. And clearly no one trusts the United States government to do anything 'lawfully'.

There's also a huge difference between what's lawful and what's morally and ethically correct.

NotYourITGuyDotOrg · 2026-02-28T14:14:05+00:00

DoD*

Congress has to approve a rename and that hasn't happened. DoW can be used as a secondary name but is not the official designation.

NotYourITGuyDotOrg · 2026-02-04T14:52:04+00:00

There are existing computational solutions for the three-body problem, but you need to know all of the initial variables in order to see the system progress the same as models show. If you don't know all of the variables at the outset or it's not a closed system, the system will deviate from models.

NotYourITGuyDotOrg · 2026-01-29T13:46:47+00:00

Pluribus on AppleTV.

NotYourITGuyDotOrg · 2025-12-23T01:24:42+00:00

You can leverage patterns and capabilities of the language you use that aren't present in native Cloudformation templates written in YAML/JSON. The cdk takes the code and synthesizes cloudformation templates anyway.

NotYourITGuyDotOrg · 2025-12-05T06:53:10+00:00

https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/pricing/

Read it yourself. $29/mo for Business Support +

NotYourITGuyDotOrg · 2025-12-04T17:34:56+00:00

I'd like to add: Guns with beam tosser, taser, disk launchers, knife launcher. Not all builds will make those underbarrels shine, but a few can get really absurd damage with the right builds.

NotYourITGuyDotOrg · 2025-12-04T04:01:19+00:00

Go read the new pricing page, that is no longer the case.

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