Can I just say how tired I am of these kinds of remarks? They're getting more and more common as the internet has become armchair experts on all software and businesses. We build best in class software and make it available completly free. No one else in our category does that. No one. Don't want it? Dont use it. Sentry will absolutely run just fine on 32gb of memory, but thats not even the point. Its complex. That complexity comes from nearly two decades of development. Some of it is avoidable, some of it isnt. This is why cloud services exist - because we can amoratize the cost and complexity vs spending every waking hour optimizing every small part of a system to run on random low powered VPS. "Rewrite in Rust" - you don't maintain the software, nor do you undrestand what that means. An important chunk of Sentry is already in Rust (which could be C++ or Go!). The rest makes absolutely no sense to even suggest that. No one wants to work on a user facing web service with Rust, waiting on compile times non-stop. Nor do our customers. They want a great product, and they want to keep seeing improvements to that product. Our time is spent making it actually better for our 100k customers, not optimizing for your single use case. There is always opportunity for improvement, but takes like this are both ignorant and entitled.

i find it amusing that people poach folks from sentry just so they can clone sentry as if those people they're poaching dont have equity value that they're being asked to destroy (historically, unsuccessfully) you can replace sentry with any company

Like others - post the great RL of making them endlessly write junk tests - I too have done a ton of forced test refactor Dropped most tests which aren’t true integration tests. Put more deterministic caches and helpers in place to limit errors. Skill/memory to dedupe and follow policies.

You’re living in a bubble. You need to understand that a whole world lives beyond the constraints you have manufactured or imagined. For example the codex harness provides very little in terms of actual functionality - the same goes for most coding harnesses. They will be generally superseded by more capable specialized harnesses. Even if you scoped codex to only a coding-focused harness - which it really isn’t - it is lacking compared to purpose built coding harnesses that compete with it. Right now labs have the advantage and can somewhat dictate terms but you should not believe that will be true forever. There’s seemingly a belief that we should be thankful for the (limited) capabilities we’ve been given- that we should allow a few companies in the world to dictate what we can and can’t do with technology. That’s never worked before and nothing makes this tech any more defensible. In five years we will almost certainly be consuming local models for a majority of daily tasks, and for the things that can’t be done locally it’s going to be entirely commoditized. Once that’s true it means vendors will have to start competing by giving up more to the customer rather than the increasing restrictions being done today.