Most cloud sustainability tools are built for sustainability officers. They pull three-month-old billing data, run it through a proprietary model, and produce a PDF that engineers never see. By the time you know your us-east-1 cluster emits twice as much as us-west-2 would have, it's been running for a quarter. The architecture is locked in. The carbon is already burnt. The only moment you can act
You asked Claude to build a feature. It worked. You shipped it. Six weeks later, you're adding something related, and nothing makes sense anymore. The code is technically correct but completely opaque. You can't remember why anything was structured this way. Claude can't figure it out either — it starts guessing, and the guesses start breaking things. This is the scenario I keep seeing. And it's n
Ages ago when CSS grids came with a repeat() function to simplify defining repetitive columns and rows, I was not alone in wishing for this function to be made generic and work in any context. After seeing Wes Bos on BlueSky wishing for this exact concept, specifically for repeating segments in a shape() definition, I chimed in with my +1's on making repeat() generic across CSS Without delay, @no