alt Hacker NewsThis is specifically what they said about sharding
> The primary rationale is that sharding existing application workloads would be highly complex and time-consuming, requiring changes to hundreds of application endpoints and potentially taking months or even years
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simonw • today at 3:15 AM
Genuinely sounds like the kind of challenge that could be solved with a swarm of Codex coding agents. I'm surprised they aren't treating this as an ideal use-case to show off their stack!
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zozbot234 • today at 2:10 AM
I know they said that, but in fact sharding is entirely a database-level concern. The application need not be aware of it at all.
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> potentially taking months or even years
On one hand OAI sell coding agents and constantly hype how easy it will replace developers and most of the code written is by agents, on the other hand they claim it will take years to refactor
Both cannot be true at the same time.