you'd need to ask one of the billion claude sessions they have doing whatever in their cloud rn

OCI layering on top of running systems a la bootc? or OCI as the desired state storage for CM?

SRE here, OCI for storing deployment config information, most of time, Kubernetes manifest files/Helm Charts.

Gotcha, that's what I figured but I was still curious. I've got a side-project that was originally designed for traditional GitOps but got OCI support as a feature submission from a user. I've been seeing more usage of the OCI backend these days and originally figured it was a side-effect of the project domain (Podman Quadlets) but maybe it is an over all field shift.

In the last couple of weeks, I've been moving a deployment stack off ArgoCD pointing at Git, and ended up settling on Flux fetching OCI artifacts from ECR. The artifacts are built and pushed by GitHub Actions. It seems like a nice way to "have GitOps" without needing GitHub to be up all the time.

I think so, Argo CD appsets are even getting an OCI generator in the next release (3.6)

ECR just seems to work really well for most people and IAM is nice compared to Github Apps + rate limits

> "It'll use too much water." - It's going to use less water than the farm that used to run on this land. The county is gaining water from this.

comparing water for food(?) is a bit crazy to compare water for AI speculation

There are a lot of good reasons to have data center moratoriums and it's so they can be regulated at the federal level and every city has to start at the same starting line. You currently have data centers doing a race to the bottom between desperate cities

it’s kinda crazy but i do think we’re seeing a turn

my company was easily spending $1m/month on tokens

sonnet 5.5 drops - we barely cracked half this month

it has to go down too, carbon is interesting, china has qwen 4 soon

coding isn’t sustainable growth - RLRVF is really effective for software development - labs are cracking the code, these models will have to get better at other things to be worth it

We’ve seen a similar drop in spend. 3-5x less for entire teams comparing September and October.

It’s not clear whether people are being more careful, or if the price per effort is in free fall.

Since Sol 6.1 came out, I have come nowhere close to my daily token budget. Previously, it was basically every day.

Would it partly be explained by Haiku 5.5?

At work I am stuck with Claude, but I was always mindful of the cost of that thing.

With aggressive clean session management and some judicious compacting, I get Opus to plan, Haiku to code, Sonnet to review.

I managed to reduce costs from ~$200 to ~$50 in a month, even when I started to use Claude for more tasks than I did before.

haiku maybe a little, i don’t think it had much usage, my company there aren’t many power users, they use the default which is sonnet 5.5 on medium with autocompact at 300k

most people probably still by hand or using it to review code usually

most of the spending was actually coming from a minority of power users

1m/month? whoever is running your company is out to lunch.

~2000 engineers with low adoption

anthropic subscription does not allow 3rd party harnesses i believe

true, but it's also super easy to switch models via Bedrock (my harness switches subagents between A\, OAI, Kimi, Grok, etc... GLM 5.3 is locked behind some dumb request system which I personally believe is because Amazon is heavily invested in A\) and you're not locked in with the Claude Enterprise features (i swear to god if someone sends another claude artifact instead of publishing to git...)

did you ask the LLM to make a CNN instead haha, might’ve won

i’ve seen it and Cyrillic in the 5x family

Omnivoice is pretty good

i think SOC2 is about audibility more than anything - my guess - and i’m not an internal auditor or anything - is soc2 needs auditing for human changes, but a machine is just a “system behaving on its own”