Ana Hevesi

The relationship is the product

*chef’s kiss*

Let’s do more of THIS

@jay.myatproto.social @grimalkina.bsky.social Like Christmas morning 🥹

What helped you realize this could be a jumping off point for teaching each other? Because it’s so nice to see someone make this connection

Like I told you when we were writing together, you are an athlete

No one paved a path for me into tech, so I got to watch the paths other people took, learning how chaotic and emergent they actually were

This, it turns out, is why the complexity of large technical ecosystems is pretty comfortable for me

Great day for going ham on my drum machine

Okay but now that we've made computing systems that can make clusters of words and simulate human reasoning, what are we as humans doing to stay grounded and sane through this? 🤔

Because dawg

we like to think we're pure cognition but our human reality is also physical, emotional, and biological

New project day 😀

*MacGyver, ofc

This one was such a treat

I've been adamant for years that yes, there may be defaults to how LLM-powered tools are designed, but we don't have to accept the wrong constraints

We can McGyver these things into shapes that serve human-centered goals

My love language is remembering whether you use Spotify or Apple Music and sending you tracks on the right platform

Having hope is scary. Recognizing there’s a job to do is scary

the reality that your users have an inner world and your product's impact on it influences your success is hella inconvenient so

But every codebase is still a commons where the resource of attention needs to be negotiated

That being flipped over from “this is tenuously sorta held together” to “our shared reality is in shambles” is going to create some difficult emotions

I say this as someone who’s benefited enormously from Claude Code. I’m not anti-agent coding by any stretch

And IMO the code was always an approximation of what matters, not the thing itself

Okay but have we talked about how codebases were some of the last really rich online communities and them being flooded with AI-generated code presents an enormous sense of loss…?

Nailed it

Now entering the stage of conference talk prep where I'm wondering just what it is I've put myself up to

WE ARE SO BACK BABY!

The City We Became - Wikipedia

NK Jemisin’s The City We Became is the truest depiction I’ve seen in any piece of media

Never mind that it’s a fantasy novel

When people say they’re thinking about moving to NY, I tell them to read this

“This is what will help you understand the place”

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cit...

The place can be hard. It’s so hard

Personally I grew up there without a wall of money to protect me

I’ve seen the knife’s edge under the glitter. Stared into the cracks, almost fallen in

But most of the sharpest edges come from those who would encounter this shared humanity and push it away

The richness and cultural variation is gorgeous

Stellar bagels baked by a Buddhist from Thailand

A Black woman from Mississippi who can school me on every variety of Chinese dumpling Flushing has to offer

When you understand how much joy, pain, creativity, novelty can exist at once when you walk less than a mile, it changes you

The best part is how those ingredients interrelate to make something new. Constant conversation

They don't stay tidy, they don't stay distinct. Nor should they

Oh dang, I missed this too

I love New York, the city I was raised in, for more reasons than I can count

but one of those is that every second of every day is living, experiential proof the world contains multitudes

So many things are true at once

I’ve watched people do it

Accelerated iteration without judgment and oversight is a massive liability

We’re likely entering an era where the meta skills of changing gears in one day—from running agents to discerning if they’ve done the right thing for users—are what we have to practice

A lot of the SREs in my life sure think so. This fwiw is why I’m so interested in instigating human collaboration around agent output (i.e. the pair prompting sessions I’ve been facilitating). Shared human sense-making of agent output is absolutely necessary to get durable org-level results

It should be faster to stop killing people than to stop feeding them.

To be fair, the folks I was interviewing were often recognizing and holding these in tension, trying reconcile one with the other, glue work people as they were

But also yes