Wasn't "lo-code" a BIG thing a few years ago... that would destroy programming and make every PM a developer? Whatever happened to that? 🤔
Edit: read the HN comments. If I ever go back to consulting, I'm 10x-ing my rate to work on cleaning up this slop. I'm not anti-AI coding and use it for my own projects, but if you just give it a prompt and walk away, you will be very sad later.
There's a BIG difference between prototypes and something others have to use. As the lo-code folks found out the hard way.
Two of us did a 25-mile bike ride along San Francisco shoreline a couple weeks ago.
Was fully expecting to ride over homeless people, drug addicts, and raging anarchists. All we saw was pleasant weather, a beautiful coast line, and people just doing their thing. Horrified at how damn sedate Sunset Dunes and Golden Gate Park were.
The most annoying thing was out-of-service BART escalators. Expected having to dodge gang-wars and knife attacks while going up and down the stairs.
When traveling for work to new locations I always made sure to have multiple connectivity and VPN options (including commercial VPNs with in-country PoPs). It's amazing what will work and won't because of a hotel or conference venue setting.
Also, always good to get a local SIM with a roaming data plan and hotspot support. You can get the SIM in U.S. (pricey) or when you land. Hotels can help with that. Forgot to do it once and got reamed by the home carrier and their 'international travel' plan, especially with SMS/MMS messaging.
Push notifications go over internet so that needs a data plan. I would also go through all unnecessary apps and disable pointless notifications before travel (I don't need realtime baseball scores while traveling). For local activity, nice to download larger files like maps, music, ebooks, audiobooks, and hiking guides.
As others have said, be careful not to violate local data sovereignty rules. Also, some folks have had issues with electronics seizure when returning at U.S. ports-of-entry. May want to slim down what you take with you.
Some non-tech thing. Make sure you talk to your healthcare plan about international travel. Best to make sure you have coverage while traveling. Also, may want to install and set up WeChat and AliPay mobile apps and configure payment before heading over. Many places won't take cash or ATM cards. Before bringing back souvenirs, make sure they're OK. Liquor, agricultural products, and unlicensed electronics usually have restrictions.
Lastly, sure hope you all update rfc2549 to support Meshtastic 😬
Alex Ziskind on YT tests a number of on-site AI devices: https://youtu.be/QbtScohcdwI