8 comments

  • cousinbryce 1 hour ago
    Can this be used with the ponytail skill? https://github.com/DietrichGebert/ponytail/tree/main
    • bealesh 56 minutes ago
      It should be compatible yeah - ponytail was the inspiration for this - ideally one could use ponytail for application code and neckbeard for infra.
  • manlymuppet 13 minutes ago
    The real Gilfoyle would self-host.
    • bealesh 10 minutes ago
      do as neckbeard says, not as neckbeard does.
  • hangrybear666 52 minutes ago
    It does sound cool and as an infra nerd myself it reads sensible, I just don't see why I would want another abstraction layer between my cloud deployments being rolled out and the tf/hcl files that I maintain. Why would I want to install another interface between me, the planfile and the running environment? Genuine question
    • bealesh 45 minutes ago
      It’s opinionated and built around a reference architecture- think it kind of like using rails or phoenix instead of just writing ruby or elixir. LLM’s are fantastic syntax generators, but they have no real opinions on architecture or finops.
      • hangrybear666 15 minutes ago
        Oh so more an orchestration interface with sane defaults for an LLM to use as a reference when implementing deployment changes, especially new rollouts? It seems to be aimed at small to medium sized cloud deployments and more as a starting point to get customers up and running?

        Because I'm already administratrating a large AWS environment and the networking, especially as regards route tables, transit gateways, DMZs and extensive security group rules managed in multiple distinct layers across teams (and don't even get me started on IAM and Active Directory Forest) don't seem to fit into the abstraction layer I'm seeing.

        • bealesh 12 minutes ago
          Exactly - and it's pretty much aimed at 'built this cool TS app on vercel and supabase and want to scale it' or the like. I build my career migrating rails apps off heroku, and this is kind of inspired by a lot of what I learned.

          Are you using IaC to administer all of this or just handjamming in the console? I'd love to expand neckbeard to handle more complex enterprise motions - the landing zone scenario your speaking of is particularly an interesting use case, I'll start thinking on it!

  • Stitch4223 43 minutes ago
    Sometimes the name of a product makes me want to use it, even if I don’t have uses for it. This is such a name, I just keep on grinning.
    • bealesh 29 minutes ago
      This makes my day - I genuinely love naming things, as an artist and a technologist it's fun to inject some creativity into the code!
    • manlymuppet 12 minutes ago
      I have the opposite feeling about CoackroachDB. Great database, but man, what a terrible name.
  • janwirth 1 hour ago
    Why not opentofu and ansible? Version and run it. I don’t see why i need this.
    • bealesh 1 hour ago
      If you write your own tofu and use ansible you probably don’t - this is aimed more at containers/serverless.
  • zshn 1 hour ago
    Something to try for sure. Company recently migrated some ancient on prem databases to AWS, would've been useful then perhaps.
    • bealesh 1 hour ago
      Thanks! Give it a try next time you need to provision infra.
  • luckydata 19 minutes ago
    the readme is cringe and painful to read. please take a minute to tone the claudisms down.
    • bealesh 11 minutes ago
      definitely on my todo list - I was educated in the American south so you might regret this!