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Deleted my personal and business accounts on Fly.io. Maybe it's an overreaction to their blog post on LLMs, but it's easy to move elsewhere for cheaper. The convenience of fly-cli is only slightly better than bash, ansible, makefiles, or whatever works for you.

Where are you going instead? And actually because they like LLMs not because of how wildly unreliable it is?

DO temporarily, it's reliable and easy to setup. For my EU clients, they'll be moving over to boxes on Hetzner. For my Canadian clients, Robson Inc in Vancouver. Yes, these three hosts have GPUs and talk about LLMs - But they aren't going out of their way to glorify them, and chastise those against.

I've used LLMs - running models locally, integrated into my editors (gemma3:4b is pretty alright in this situation). Overall they're fine. For small things, good autocomplete but somewhat annoying when they're way wrong.

I vibe coded with cursor on Friday - properly - no peaking at the code, just build the thing to see if I like overall concept. It wasn't anything better than I can sketch quickly in a notebook and plan (or even the stack I would chose - loves tailwind 2 for some reason...).

I did get a working artifact to hand over to a client to continue talks on actual work (which would not be vibe coded).

Overall, I don't find much of an improvement in speed over snippets and lsp autocomplete, and sometimes after relying on it too heavily I feel stupider and takes me longer to figure out what I want to do.