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guyfhuo05/15/20252 repliesview on HN

This seems a self servingly literal interpretation of the op’s original comment.

Clearly something like “server telemetry” is the datacenter’s “CRUD app” analogue.

It’s a solved problem that largely requires rtfm and rote execution of well worn patterns in code structure.

Please stick to the comment guidelines:

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


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sshine05/15/2025

Just to say: setting up oauth and telemetry are harder than building CRUD, because it comes later in the learning progression. But it’s still mostly just following a recipe; LLMs are good at finding recipes that are uncommon, but available in the dataset. They break more when you go off script and you don’t take tiny steps.

tptacek05/15/2025

I'm laughing at the idea of server telemetry being "the data center equivalent of a CRUD app". I'll just pull out my Telemetry On Rails framework and run some generators...

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