The solution is quite evident is it not? Regulatory bodies to set response latency and limits with over-life degradation as an additional parameter.
Only reason "they’re just being asked to turn lead into gold and often get silver." happens is because automakers know they can get past all regulatory approval with lead/silver or whatever metal you prefer.
Gotta say, while I respect the hell out of repl.it and the product they've built, I simply cannot fathom how they justify a $1.1B valuation for what is at it's core an online coding platform/IDE
In a parallel world, repl.it is a bootstrapped, open source, dev-friendly platform that generating $10-30M ARR in revenue, but in our universe, it's more likely that they'll soon start going the way of once-great tools like Postman, who raised at massive valuations and then had to build out silly "enterprise" features and became much more sales-led companies, all but abandoning their dev-tools roots
When someone points a money cannon at you, you don’t say “no no no this is outrageous we are a web based IDE with a reasonable yet modest ARR target put your checkbook away.” You smile, nod, and cash the check. “Thank you for your confidence in the team.”
It's a two-edged sword no? Accepting $$$ at skyhigh valuation is great, but in 4-6 months time, the same "investors" will come in asking for you to justify the valuation you've raised at, asking questions like "Where revenue hockeystick? Where enterprise features? Hurr durr"
Grafana OnCall is an OSS alternative (with a cloud offering) that works great out of the box if you are using Grafana/Grafana Alerting for monitoring your systems and want to have a pager-like system with phone/SMS/telegram integrations + it's own app. Best of all, it's self-hostable as well, which keeps me completely in control of my infra.
For user-facing documentation, I noticed Docusaurus (https://docusaurus.io/) coming up in conversations more and more, so finally bit the bullet and moved our customer-facing documentation to use docusaurus as well (originally using a modified mkdocs).
Gotta say, Docusaurus has worked out great for us. Smooth migration if you have markdown already, everything just works, and a lot of sane defaulting
I also love docusaurus and their easy of migration and use with markdown is something I've tried to bring to my tool as well.
Glad you are happy with it and if you just migrated you probably don't want to do it again this soon but if any of our other features interest you or you need online wysiwyg editor as well, definitely keep us in mind.
What alternatives exist today? Honestly, I think langchain just fills a void for having a more streamlined "api" for LLM-driven app workflows which is why it's hyped. Plus the fact that they have bindings for both JS and Python makes it easy to get up and running and building custom "agents" for different tasks.
If anyone's interested in the history of the early internet, I recently read the book "Where Wizards Stay Up Late" by Katie Hafner and it is a very interesting read about how we went from ARPA to WWW, including a lot of the warts you associate with large scale projects like ARPANet grew into (and the book features Metcalfe quite extensively when talking about Ethernet and ALOHAnet).
Honestly, it's nice to see technology like ethernet, which is both "as simple as it should be but no simpler", and has also stood the test of time get recognized and rewarded!
It's honestly scary for some of these old-school Google products that have become vast stores of knowledge.
Besides Google Groups, I worry a lot about the future of Blogger/Blogspot. I personally have a blog that I have maintained from 2007-08 and I often worry about Google just wiping off a part of my internet presence (my own little corner of the web). Google has pretty much left Blogspot to die for better half of the last decade.
And speaking unselfishly, I often find blogger/blogspot blogs on obscure tech topics (usually with the default blogspot template) and I worry how much info we'll just lose to the void if/when Google decides to pull the plug (even with a grace-period, I'm sure most folks wouldn't bother to move this data).
Really shows the value of archival services on the internet and why we need to ensure they can function over time!
Only reason "they’re just being asked to turn lead into gold and often get silver." happens is because automakers know they can get past all regulatory approval with lead/silver or whatever metal you prefer.