People tend to think of human error as causing outages, but the reality is that humans prevent a lot of problems from turning into outages. And they’re able to do that based on those mental models they’ve developed of how the system works.
sunsofcarcosa Badge image. Feb 3 my dealer: got some straight gas. this strain is called "honorable knight" youll be zonked out of your gourd me: yeah whatever. i dont feel shit 5 minutes later: only in death does duty end my buddy pacing: i am the sword and the hand that wields it
Feeling real safe in the days of LLM guided warfare
There are some truly wonderful examples of Hibernowhimsy here.
move slow and repair things
I can think of quite a few Underwoods that might be useful for
This duration is within burnout recovery time too, so you might be experiencing having Lots More Thoughts for that reason alone
being wrong on the Internet scales really well
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.
Seizing the means of production (running an AI coding assistant locally)
Renewable resource!
(Though the environment is going its best to change that)
You are not here to appreciate my chortles, but I chortled nonetheless
“Three nines, except we’re not saying where the decimal point is”
"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...
Was chatting about AI stuff with a colleague and accidentally called LLMs “Large Magic Machines”
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."
Orgs like teenagers, extremely reluctant to have anything to do with maintenance (housework), reassured their parents just bought a Roomba
#hugops to the folks working on the one nine system
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
Commentary: Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course?
stepped outside for a vibe check and saw a beast fuckin hauling ass towards Bethlehem
You’re very kind Chastity, really appreciate it
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.
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.
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)
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A lovely interview.
I'm guessing this wasn't the plan.
meanwhile, in unrelated news, huge queues at the lead pipe wholesale provider
