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by dangus 237 days ago
These are my concerns watching this video:

1. In a team environment, this seems like it would cement bad long-term practices into your workflow. So much is happening outside of source control. I see there's a unified configuration feature but it seems like a GUI of various ways to make a big mess that your future DevOps team is going to facepalm about and untangle.

2.

> For years, my local development setup has been a fragile mess of tools that never quite played nicely together. On my mac, it was a constant battle with Homebrew services starting (or not starting) on boot, conflicting PHP and Node versions managed by `asdf` or `nvm`, and a collection of `docker-compose.yml` files that I'd copy-paste and tweak for every single project. The cognitive load was just too high.

This to me reads as "I don't know what I'm doing and I'm having a bad time." Me personally, I'm not copying and pasting docker-compose.yml files around manually, I'm using source control with a development team and using feature branches like a well-adjusted person. I'm not constantly battling with Homebrew, none of my development environments depend on Homebrew as that is not what the tool is for.

3. In the demo video, the use of AI imagery (of a particularly low quality) and the AI narrator seems very lazy and makes me think that I shouldn't use the app because it might be AI slop with lots of bugs and security issues. I'd rather see a demo given by someone who isn't the best speaker than hear a fake AI voice.

4. The "Why not just use Docker?" question has not been sufficiently countered.