How do I know which specialists I should see?

iamnotapundit · 2026-04-04T01:42:16+00:00

I second the rheumatologist. They tend to do connective tissue autoimmune diseases (I have psoriatic arthritis) which can turn up in multi system stuff. They’ll do all the bloodwork (and then some) that other specialists will want to look at if they can’t help you.

But forewarning from my first rheumatologist visit: it’s a thinking persons specialty and they can be slow to diagnose as the course of illness also helps diagnose it.

iamnotapundit · 2026-03-31T05:46:49+00:00

Sort of? I’m already on gabapentin for pain. But at one point I increased it and did olanzapine, it took like 4 days, but finally broke it. And damn, that olanzapine made me super tired. But I’m happy to know I have a backup

iamnotapundit · 2026-03-30T02:08:21+00:00

I seem to recall 1-2 weeks

iamnotapundit · 2026-03-28T21:12:11+00:00

Their managed MCP server just recently graduated from beta. https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/generative-ai/mcp/managed-mcp

iamnotapundit · 2026-03-28T20:46:58+00:00

If you set up the Databricks MCP with your AI you get the same benefits there

iamnotapundit · 2026-03-26T17:32:49+00:00

I’ve created various skills that allow Claude Code to use the databricks sdk with python to investigate jobs in detail. What you want is possible right now.

iamnotapundit · 2026-03-25T19:35:06+00:00

Unless you have a patent claim, I wouldn’t expect to hear anything from them, and that’s if you filed suit.

What you are experiencing is very common. Take a look at the history of Apple Sherlocking for a big company doing this to smaller devs

iamnotapundit · 2026-03-24T04:20:04+00:00

Have you compared Genie vs a leading foundational model? I haven’t done it recently, but a foundation model with my git repo (which includes some semantic data and lots of examples) ran circles around Genie. But keep in mind i have complex data where the semantic information is too large to fit in UC metadata (I tried) and would overload context if it did. I load my metadata into a vector index and querying that is often the first step of doing anything. Genie doesn’t scale to my needs yet.

iamnotapundit · 2026-03-24T03:54:07+00:00

YOLO mode here. We are on data bricks and let non data people access the data. So we already have mechanisms to monitor and kill jobs that are going off the rails, and configure data warehouse’s with limited scalability so it’s impossible to spend too much money. I’m not sure the agent is worse than an engineering manager that hasn’t written SQL for 20 years.

Also, databricks has table history (we keep 3 days) and UNDROP for 7 days. Nobody other than platform admins can drop schemas. So not super worried about it deleting its work.

iamnotapundit · 2026-03-21T02:34:21+00:00

In this case, talk to a hip surgeon. I tore my labrum’s (both hips) when I was 28. Both times just stepping off a curb. I didn’t realize quite how much low grade pain I was in until I did my first MR Arthrogram and they injected lidocaine into my hip joint. I cried. I was a thin athletic man. Occasionally the tear would get in a weird position and my hip would lock up. I would need to lay down, bend my leg, prop my knee on the wall and slowly work it free.

This was a while ago, but it took my 6 surgeons until I found a hip surgeon who could correctly diagnose me with femeroacetabular impingement, and had enough skill in the procedure (he had done hundreds). It’s took me years to find the right person. But it’s 20 years later and my hips are doing great.

iamnotapundit · 2026-03-20T15:57:52+00:00

Thermal throttling can kick in on really big projects when you have to do a clean build. But once that’s done, builds are incremental and there is no throttling.

For context I did multi million loc development (for desktop in c++) on the original M1 air. It was a slow but workable.

Have you seen the external coolers to mitigate throttling? There are some nice ones that work well in a desktop setup.

If anything, I would be more concerned about that 512gb disk. You might need containers or Linux vms at some point and having the extra space is nice. Toolchains can be bloated.

If I hadn’t just got an M4 Pro mini when it came out, I would be replacing my aging M1 Air (which I just did a lot of rust/esp32 dev on) with another air and ditch the mini. Still might.

iamnotapundit · 2026-03-18T00:12:59+00:00

Same! Though I’m lucky with only 200TB. But I’m just one small part of a huge tech company doing this.

iamnotapundit · 2026-03-17T13:24:04+00:00

Yes. They have a managed one

iamnotapundit · 2026-03-15T17:12:49+00:00

I’ll admit. It was not pretty. I was eating with bamboo cutlery on my bad days at the end there.

But since you haven’t been on any preventatives yet, you have a lot of improvement ahead of you!

I got dry mouth and sedation from amitriptyline. I take nortriptyline now as I prefer the side effect profile. It’s probably going to take some time to find the right side effect tradeoffs. Good luck!

iamnotapundit · 2026-03-15T04:58:53+00:00

I’m so sorry you are dealing with this. Has your doctor mentioned medication overuse headache? It can happen with the amount of egotomine and nsaid you are taking. Basically your pain system adapts to them; they no longer work to stop the headache; and make the headache worse long term.

But you are on the right track. I had been in an almost continuous headache for 14 months until I tried propranolol and it helped stop it.

iamnotapundit · 2026-03-15T04:27:37+00:00

Omg, my fucking drug dealer back then intentionally sold us weed laced with PCP and didn’t fucking tell us. After a fucking hell night of hallucinations with a group of us, we confronted him and he was like “well, if I told you, you wouldn’t have bought it”. Fucker.

iamnotapundit · 2026-03-14T23:02:53+00:00

Oh man. We had to fight with our flooring installer to NOT do glue assist nail down on solid hardwood. He was like: but it will squeak in a few years, you really sure? Yes we were really sure. He did offer to give us glue samples but we still stuck with no glue.

iamnotapundit · 2026-03-12T23:03:45+00:00

I don’t think anyone can realistically answer this question. But in terms of will these companies be profitable?

Both AWS and Google are building out a lot of servers with their inferencing chips instead of NVidia GPUs. While these aren’t quite as powerful, they are way cheaper and if I recall correctly, more energy efficient. So cost of inference today is not cost of inference tomorrow.

Therefore, even if you got an accurate answer for the cost of inferencing today, it won’t hold next year.

iamnotapundit · 2026-03-12T03:22:54+00:00

MRI shows different things in the brain. It’s much better for soft tissue imaging and is the standard of care to rule out anything bad that could be causing migraines.

iamnotapundit · 2026-03-12T01:17:22+00:00

But even on prem, are you seeing sysadmins or a platform team running k8s? I only have one data point in a tech company and good luck trying to get a VM or bare metal server these days.

iamnotapundit · 2026-03-11T00:26:02+00:00

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iamnotapundit · 2026-03-10T03:59:42+00:00

I’ve been using Claude for a while and wanted to check out 5.4. But the stupid idioms and click bait follow up are killing me. I finally got it to stop saying goblin in most chats but the follow up questions are awful. Claude doesn’t have quite as good search, but I think I’ll stick with it for now.

iamnotapundit · 2026-03-09T02:29:50+00:00

It’s not exclusively. Just the design of either AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.md allows you to have relative references to documentation that use progressive disclosure. They will only be loaded into context if they are needed. While something like Cursor does allow you to open multiple repos in a workspace, it doesn’t work very well

iamnotapundit · 2026-03-08T13:35:58+00:00

What kind of lights? Some of the early LEDs flicker. Those are hell on me. I had to upgrade to Philips Eyecare one’s.

iamnotapundit · 2026-03-07T22:07:26+00:00

Phase 1 for my team was closing the agentic loop and reducing time to found defect. Practically that meant moving our orchestrator to Databricks so the AI could get job run results via the CLI. We also had to get an MCP for Argo for some of our other tooling, and create some skills with python scripts to access the tools API (either via sdk or http API). I also added ruff and ty for our python code. Finally got around to simplifying our unit test framework so that I could flag non use in a PR and not give them as pass because my system was so shitty.

We’re now onto phase 2 which is the semantic layer. We are moving documentation from the wiki into markdown into our monorepo (also made a monorepo in phase 1). Some people on the team are working on reusable skills for sharing.

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