I think Kelsey is right that non deterministic automation sucks. He’s wrong on the outcome - it will be that we build the right deterministic layer for agents to work with to solve our problems. Think “plain language compiler”. The LLM must do *as little as possible* to be effective.

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A System Initiative had a problem: they had production infrastructure in AWS that they built by hand, and they needed it to be automated. They pasted their architecture diagram into our AI Agent, and asked it to discover it. 15 minutes later, they had it all done. One shot.

Come on Start Trek, you just remade Enemy Mine? It’s weak sauce.

Tomas Lindberg has died. One of the greatest heavy musicians of all time. At The Gates forever. Rest in peace. :(

"getting COVID won't help you thrive in an AI-native world" @adamhjk.me #o11yDay #honeycomb He's doing a great talk, but he has COVID so we have to watch it on video. 😭

@systeminit.com’s platform turns generative AI prompts into solutions that you can simulate before deployment. By @hjoslyn.bsky.social feat. @adamhjk.me

Cage the Elephant is great live. On the record they are so flat - but live they rock hard.

If you have a bunch of infra in AWS, check this out.

Folks struggle all the time to understand what exactly they have inside their AWS accounts. @systeminit.com's got you. Discover your resources, then start asking questions about how it works, its security posture, and more. systeminit.com/blog/underst...

@systeminit.com’s platform turns generative AI prompts into solutions that you can simulate before deployment. By @hjoslyn.bsky.social feat. @adamhjk.me

@systeminit.com’s platform turns generative AI prompts into solutions that you can simulate before deployment. By @hjoslyn.bsky.social feat. @adamhjk.me

My friends at the @changelog.com remastered the interview I did with them a year ago and put it up on YouTube. It was so fun to do, and I'm grateful for the remaster! www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSfI... If you give it a listen and want to know more about System Initiative, I'll give you a tour. :)

Our friends at Cloud Life were directly the inspiration for what SI is today. www.cloudlife.io/resources/in...

Starting today, the way you will build infrastructure automation is AI Native. You'll prompt the agent, and then System Initiative will get to work building your automation for you in a safe, simulated change set. Come try it - it's so fun. www.systeminit.com/blog/ai-nati...

. @systeminit.com is launching the world’s first AI Native Infrastructure Automation platform. Read more about how to supercharge your productivity on our blog, www.systeminit.com/blog/ai-nati..., and get started today: systeminit.com

Also great in new music the new Halestorm. Lzzy always delivers, but this album feels like it just hits harder from beginning to end.

The new Rise Against album, Ricochet (their 10th) is good so far (only a couple tracks in.) A big thing I'm struck by is the production - this is almost album rock production, with the kind of separation you usually hear on pop records. I love it. Same band, sounds like them, but fresh. Smart!

You're going to be blown away by how good using AI with System Initiative is. It's already handling fairly complex AWS deployments, troubleshooting issues, doing comprehensive summaries of changes. Having real high fidelity models, with an API that maps 1:1 makes it look easy.

This is the “I hope the Lakers win the Super Bowl” of rockstar quotes.

My friends. This is not a good idea: www.wired.com/story/silico... - take it from every single wisdom tradition in the history of the world. You can love your work, but your work cannot love you back. Have more respect for yourself and your peers. Work hard. Do good work.

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Rest well, Ozzy. Everyone listen to Tribute in his honor today. music.apple.com/us/album/tri...

I mean, who hasn’t deleted a production database on accident? HugOps to Replits AI agent. :)

System Initiative turns traditional devops on its head. It translates what would normally be infrastructure configuration code into data, creating digital twins that model the infrastructure. (Story by @doerrfeldbill.bsky.social)

Oh no, mst has died. www.shadowcat.co.uk/2025/07/09/r... - when I was first learning that I might be a "real" programmer, it was Matt who encouraged me to contribute more. I learned a lot from him, and his belief in me made a real difference in my life. Rest in peace, sir.

While I'm thinking about Ozzy's last show - Isaac Carpenter, the new drummer in Guns N' Roses, fucking crushed that show. I've seen them a lot, and I didn't mind Frank's drumming.. but it didn't stand out. Isaac's does. He's got technical precision and the swing Adler had. A great fit.

Finished watching Back to the Beginning. That was the best rock concert of all time, and couldn’t have been a more fitting send off to Ozzy and the mighty Black Sabbath. Teary eyed.

This looks sick. github.com/psviderski/u... - habitat had many similar design goals. I love that the swing here is "just docker". Great work!

We'll see what happens, but I'll be surprised if the primary way we interact with coding agents is through our editors in a few years. It'll become more and more clear that the game is actually working together, and having separate space makes more sense.

If you aren't using claude code while you write code, you're making a mistake. It's great.

I am disappointed in the AI discourse steveklabnik.com/writing/i-am...

The vast majority of concerns around "drift" are cargo-culted from a time when we built and maintained all our operating systems and data centers by hand, and when the complex bag of state that is a server was constantly shifting the ground underneath you. That's not the modern cloud at all.

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I have published the text of my talk on Sustaining Open Source Software, for those who prefer reading to watching long YouTube videos: pivotnine.com/research/pub...

Mekka is so right so often.

Strong disagree. It's still a great time to be a young man, relative to every other age/gender combination. There are plenty of better and healthier pathways. If you like the right-wing message, or don't care to steer your sons away from it? Just say that. But life is not harder for men and boys.

www.prnewswire.com/news-release... < NATS stays, Synadia will make a proprietary server if they want to.

"Copyleft obligations for thee, not for me." I don't want to teach others this strategy, because I care about the social movement more than helping companies bend it in service of their needs. From a community PoV, I think it was bad when MySQL started it, and it's bad now.

So now both Redis and Elastic are open source again, under the AGPL. Yay! When we teach folks how to do this in the future, we need to start by explaining how copyleft can work for a business. In both these cases, they're using copyright assignment to ensure they don't have to abide by the AGPL.

Paging @adamhjk.me, they went with AGPL as an alternative license option for users, alongside the SSPL. A win for your theory that copyleft is the right route for OSS with corporate monetization?

osuosl.org/blog/osl-fut... - they’ve done so much good, I hope they find a way to remain open

I feel a great deal of empathy for synadia and for the cncf. But what I actually want is for us to remind each other that we have a shared moral center, and can build our communities and businesses from that shared place. We’ve lost it.

We hung out and kvetched on Oxide and Friends last night. It was fun. But here is what I think the practical advice should be: 1) we should look for communities that are formed as *actual* communities; where what people want are clear, and they're together out of choice.

This very much reminds me of Peter Norvig's thing about test driven development. You can't write tests for something you don't understand, i.e. don't have a complete theory for. All the tests in the world won't get you there. Relying on LLMs for the theory fails in the same fashion.

I think about this all the time. Naur is the way to understand the shift, and its why agents are more interesting than inline editing: ratfactor.com/cards/naur-v...

There is no question I’m becoming more of a copyleft person with every passing day.

I don't buy for a second the retro-active villain narrative. Many of the folks behind NATS are open source true believers, or at least they were once. Putting that code in the CNCF was a bad decision. It's expensive to fix. I wouldn't have fixed it the way they are.

Rich is 100% on the money here though. They can fix their problem (that the ASP is too low, and too many NATS users pay $0) without changing the license. Red Hat makes billions doing this every single day.