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CEO Stanza Systems. Speaking in personal capacity. Author/instigator SRE books, Reliable Machine Learning, History of the Irish Internet. Photography at http://www.edge-cases.photos

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I can think of quite a few Underwoods that might be useful for

06.03.2026 23:18 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This duration is within burnout recovery time too, so you might be experiencing having Lots More Thoughts for that reason alone

06.03.2026 21:57 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

being wrong on the Internet scales really well

06.03.2026 19:10 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Noting for clarity that a lot of people working in software, including software engineers and designers, have a bad understanding of the software design process.

06.03.2026 16:46 πŸ‘ 109 πŸ” 23 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2

Seizing the means of production (running an AI coding assistant locally)

06.03.2026 03:35 πŸ‘ 64 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Renewable resource!

(Though the environment is going its best to change that)

04.03.2026 18:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You are not here to appreciate my chortles, but I chortled nonetheless

04.03.2026 17:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œThree nines, except we’re not saying where the decimal point is”

04.03.2026 17:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator
A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator YouTube video by ForbrukerrΓ₯det - Norwegian Consumer Council

"Make people dependent enough, and then make it shitty"

Still giggling at this hilarious video from the Norwegian Consumer Council "A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator" which seems a perfect embodiment of Silicon Valley and tech generally these days

www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...

03.03.2026 14:56 πŸ‘ 599 πŸ” 294 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 38

Was chatting about AI stuff with a colleague and accidentally called LLMs β€œLarge Magic Machines”

03.03.2026 08:43 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Agree all around; I think there's an interesting contradiction around "You don't need to know everything (or even much of anything) about this code your LLM yeeted into production... except in high-tempo, high-consequence situations."

03.03.2026 02:04 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Orgs like teenagers, extremely reluctant to have anything to do with maintenance (housework), reassured their parents just bought a Roomba

03.03.2026 08:58 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

#hugops to the folks working on the one nine system

02.03.2026 22:57 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I think what is happening is that the industry is going to rapidly move to expecting the building of understanding to happen at incident time (which it already does), but with the expectation that it will be faster (since it'll be facilitated with tooling).

Unclear if that's actually going to work

02.03.2026 19:11 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course? The human subconscious is such an interesting thing. No matter how much you think you’ve got it figured out, it’ll always spit out the most random stuff. Take me, for example. After coming home from a...

Commentary: Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course?

02.03.2026 18:10 πŸ‘ 7654 πŸ” 1420 πŸ’¬ 89 πŸ“Œ 62

stepped outside for a vibe check and saw a beast fuckin hauling ass towards Bethlehem

12.01.2026 04:31 πŸ‘ 3005 πŸ” 627 πŸ’¬ 44 πŸ“Œ 28

You’re very kind Chastity, really appreciate it

27.02.2026 21:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I cannot imagine Niall being unemployed for very long -- if you have interesting problems, you'd be a fool not to make him an offer before someone else does.

27.02.2026 21:06 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I now join the chorus of folks looking for a job. I’ve got some software and systems engineering expertise, some AI/ML expertise, and I’ve been in a business seat for the past few years, meaning I know a lot more about how GTM, sales, etc works than I did.

Let me know if you’d like to talk.

27.02.2026 20:16 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

Letter: 100+ Google DeepMind and other AI employees urge Jeff Dean to block US military deals that use Gemini for mass surveillance or autonomous weapons (Tripp Mickle/New York Times)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

27.02.2026 04:15 πŸ‘ 32 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 3

A lovely interview.

27.02.2026 09:23 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
26.02.2026 09:45 πŸ‘ 11276 πŸ” 3180 πŸ’¬ 62 πŸ“Œ 42
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I'm guessing this wasn't the plan.

26.02.2026 14:05 πŸ‘ 256 πŸ” 50 πŸ’¬ 35 πŸ“Œ 68

meanwhile, in unrelated news, huge queues at the lead pipe wholesale provider

26.02.2026 12:22 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

i am obligated to repost any ai criticism that appears to be coherent and aware of the facts

25.02.2026 07:59 πŸ‘ 97 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases

"Strange game. The only winning move is not to play [DELETE DELETE DELETE] get your retaliation in first"

www.newscientist.com/article/2516...

25.02.2026 17:18 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The fully automated killchain is upon us.

25.02.2026 16:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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ICEout.Tech on X: "Tomorrow at 1pm PT: join us for a live discussion about the Pentagon’s ultimatum to @AnthropicAI. https://t.co/UAsjXfc0Qz" / X Tomorrow at 1pm PT: join us for a live discussion about the Pentagon’s ultimatum to @AnthropicAI. https://t.co/UAsjXfc0Qz

x.com/ICEoutTech/s...

Live discussion on the Anthropic/Pentagon situation

25.02.2026 16:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
The Picture They Paint of You Musings on the way we frame Coding Assistants, AI SREs, and what this communicates in terms of how these roles are perceived.

The old development/operations high-status/low-status division playing out in [many] AI SRE products: ferd.ca/the-picture-...

23.02.2026 18:31 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0