Better Offline’s “Hater Season” continues as @edzitron.com talks with @quinnypig.com, Chief Cloud Economist at Duckbill, about the realities of LLMs and the chaotic world of Amazon Web Services.
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"We kept the keyboard shitty so you'd know it was a Macbook."
Here’s this week’s Better Offline. I’m joined by @quinnypig.com to talk about the realities of LLMs and the chaotic world of Amazon Web Services.
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Tomorrow 10 AM PST / 1 PM EST. Office Hours. Got an RI strategy losing you money? Convinced AWS makes up charges? Want to argue about CloudFront pricing? I'm here for it.
It seems to me that if this were an awesome business, Strava would be the “Strava of tennis.”
My daughter is having fun with stickers in her bathroom this morning @quinnypig.com
It wasn’t hard, as Azure office security is made from the same tissue paper as their cloud security.
We avoided Roblox but the YouTube is about to find itself blocked at the firewall.
Alarm clock company stock plunges 30% on the news.
I watched it live. The “ums” weren’t noticeable.
Real instructive, those. “MAKE HER TIDDIES BIGGER” is some real next-level prompting.
did he call himself “copilot?”
"I initially prompted Billie to be 'snarky but professional.' That lasted about three iterations before I decided he should be 'burned out, cynical, and one email away from unemployment.' His current directive is to write emails that are technically professional but carry an undercurrent of menace."
Flawless: "If AWS customers start defaulting, Amazon will still make money shipping dog toys and underpants to punters. Google will still be selling ads against search results and turning off beloved services. Microsoft will still be a law firm in a trench coat, playing stupid games with licensing."
Amazon execs aren't lying about AI demand, says @quinnypig.com. But "the gap between 'every enterprise is experimenting with AI' and 'every enterprise is running production AI workloads at scale' is a chasm that $200 billion worth of GPUs can't bridge on its own." www.theregister.com/2026/02/17/a...
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I’m sorry, a password manager didn’t have a dedicated security team previously? If you use these clowns you’re negligent.
They should also sue Amazon for stealing Autodesk’s trademark UX nightmare approach.
Well they picked the right day of the week for it.
Honestly, jailbreaking ChatGPT is almost certainly some dudes’ love language.
I want to deliver the rebuttal.
It’s a database.
Maybe? Sounds kinda familiar.
…and all but about twenty bucks of that is OpenAI.
This might be my favorite thing @quinnypig.com has ever written
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A challenge coin for Techdirt sponsors
Huh I think @techdirt.com sent me a bitcoin
At 10 am Pacific, join a rare double feature of @mikejulian.com and I both on Duckbill Office Hours.
Will he snap and strangle me? Let’s find out!
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But they did such a good job trying to Frugal their way to a frontier model themselves.
And so it does!
It’s amazing how many people will upgrade when you literally do not give them a choice in the matter.
