I would keep a more open mind and think about how you can contribute to the CEOs vision. As a lead dev, how can you incorporate AI into you and your team’s workflow? If you don’t agree with a tech CEO pushing for the latest tech adoption I would do some soul searching.

how do you decide when to build an app?

I mostly make apps that solve my own problems or to experiment with a new technology.

Have you looked into having the AI assistant parse through the explain output and recommend changes to database structure?

Not yet but I have it in my list of TODOs!

are we taking bets on when google shuts this down?

Not sure why you think it's unlikely, they told you they would in their privacy policy.

"We may disclose or share your personal data to entities other than iFIT for a business purpose"

https://www.ifit.com/privacy-policy

Fair point. But email, full name and address? That does not seem sustainable for the long term to me.

I would question why you are giving customers technical estimates instead of giving them expected release date.

Expected release dates should be broad, next month, next quarter, etc.

Estimated release dates take into discussion what is also being worked by development team.

I use Digital Ocean, GCP and AWS. I think each has a little bit of a different use case and as a dev we should be up for each of them. I can run a k8s cluster on digital ocean for like $20-30 a month and spin up multiple services for experiments.

However, there is not a great S3, Cloudfront equivalent on DO so I need AWS.

For ML/AI stuff, you need Google. There are probably a ton of these little variations.

Where do you find https://www.digitalocean.com/products/spaces falls down as something to handle the S3 role?

(I've been pondering using it for file storage for apps that I want to design to be relatively easily shiftable to AWS later if they hit a scale such that they need it, so I'm genuinely curious what you think)

i had lunch with a friend who was diagnosed with cancer, but then later found treatment to keep it at bay. i asked him what his thoughts were when he was first diagnosed, he shared that he wished he would have pushed things further to have more success in business.

maybe he was just sharing his business related thoughts with me, but i was left thinking about how i shouldn't put to much emphasis on achieving goals and just enjoying the ups and downs of the journey.

i think it is good to focus on accomplishments, but sometimes i just enjoy going through the motions of sitting down and completing one task, or debugging something that i won't figure out, or just drinking a cup of coffee and reading only one chapter of a book not to finish the rest.

Completionism isn't necessarily equated with achievement.Samuel Johnson claimed never to have finished a book.

The internet has exploded where mainstream is connected. I grew up with IRC, 56.6k modems, trading playstation ISOs, on genmay instead of hackernews, etc. We are still here, there are just more around us where you have to dig a little.

For the tech, I am really excited about VR and brain computer interfaces. Just made an arduino weather station last night with my son and on the weekend made a VR room builder for webxr. I go in cycles though, maybe you are in a down cycle?

Hey guys, we built this for an upcoming podcast and just thought we would post it online if anyone wanted to use it. Let me know if you would like to see any changes to it.