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by justinsaccount 968 days ago
It also makes sense if you look at things in the context of Choose Boring Technology [1]. If you have a working PHP app and want to scale into the cloud, you can use a single innovation token to move the app into lambda. This is the key sentence:

> To do a controlled migration, the team deployed the application both to the servers and to AWS Lambda. Only 10 lines of code needed to be changed to run the monolith on AWS Lambda.

[1] https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology
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mikece 968 days ago
Interesting to re-read that article again and see that technologies he cites as so cutting edge you're spending innovation tokens on them are now mainstream and very well understood. What would the new "you can use those but you're spending innovation tokens!" technologies would be. Rust? AI? CGP?
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djbusby 968 days ago
AI for sure. Rust maybe less. The big thing about these tokens is, folk spend them too early and try to use them for everything.

Part of choose boring is more about choose the right tool.

Would you build a PoC webapp by having AI generate Rust? Or, just bang out a few lines of PHP or JS? If the objective is to build a working business tool it's choice B; if the objective is to test AI making Rust then A

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