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supermatttoday at 9:34 AM2 repliesview on HN

> NATS control-plane events: stream leader election / R3 quorum re-form during pod churn.

Whats is wrong with this?

I work with durable tracing (not using NATS, or k8s though) and this looks almost exactly what I would expect to see in a coordinator log after repartition of a storage cluster.

Obviously I don't know what your actual context was, though.


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rad-btoday at 10:04 AM

Not the OP, but I understand the sentiment they’re trying to convey. I will frequently work with AI to get done something that is not in my immediate area of expertise. And this kind of speak constantly happens, where you can feel it trying to please its RLHF expert teacher by being as concise as possible. Works ok when you’re deep in the weeds of what you’re talking about, but otherwise just feels overwhelming. Kind of like a feeling you can get when asking someone who is more interested in proving they are smart and know the answer than they are interested in actually helping you…

And yes you can prompt it to take it easier as you’re not experienced in this, but it’s usually a boiling frog situation. You work on something, need a small thing ajdecent to it, and three messages deep Claude is speaking to you in tongues unbeknownst. You knew what was happening at every turn but still got lost somehow.

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natsuckstoday at 3:51 PM

I have a deep expertise in a domain and when I read that example it was incredibly edifying. I regularly encounter statements that are so concentrated with information that it becomes opaque and I cannot interpret it without reading it over again several times.