"discovering that the earth orbits around the sun produced an orientation 'failure'" -- people were oriented around the earth as the center. Uproar. Noticing that gender is not binary, this is an orientation failure. People are very oriented around M/F. The religions react with violence.

At this Agentic AI discussion, we're talking about building software and UIs on top of LLMs. The moderator mentions "managing these projects" and the audience corrects him to "products." Product thinking is essential for building on top of AI. There is no "correct" only "useful"

We are on the raggedy edge. We have to build good telemetry. We have to build good evals. ... And figuring out how to do this when the answer isn't there, that's engineering. - Tim Williamson from Bayer, on building with AI. Arch Data event, Agentic AI in St Louis

More information, more summaries, more information, more summaries, and more entropy at every crank of the handle. It’s a singularity, yes, but a singularity of busywork. - Duncan Brown mechanicalsurvival.com/blog/team-dy...

The work is not about simplifying the system, but about designing the connective tissue that enables complex organizations to act with coherence. - John Cutler (cuttlefish. What is his bluesky?)

"Going for lots of data isn’t a firehose, it’s a sewer pipe" (overheard)

“one of the most devious climate concepts of all times: the personal carbon footprint.” - Benjamin Franta It’s a distraction invented by BP to deflect blame onto individuals, when the “necessary, and largely sufficient” solution is: stop burning fossil fuels.

3 Things the Winners Do with new tech: 1. Deeply understand it 2. Learn how to use its strengths, get around weaknesses 3. Adapt your domain to the tech. @adamhjk.me #o11yDay @honeycomb.io We have to change what we do to get the most out of the tech.

"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. 😭

"We have to do the things [like documentation] that make human engineers better before we can delegate to machines" - Dave Williams #o11yDaySF @honeycomb.io

I see from @kentbeck.com ‘s newsletter that @gitpod.io has rebranded as Ona, and is now an AI-assisted code thing in the cloud YES THANK YOU! This is what I want! Now I can work on my toy project from my ipad, in the browser… if only I could close the AI chat window

Higher privilege leaves you ignorant. When people defer to you, then you're insulated from reality, since they present what you want to see, confirm your beliefs etc since that smooths their lives. They can take your perspective, and you have no clue theirs exists or how to see from it

@jessitron.bsky.social discusses how AI and observability are shaping the future of software. We’re gathering the community to explore what that means. Join us at o11yDaySFO on Sept 11! 👉 Register now: buff.ly/Ainycoh #honeycomb #observability #o11yDaySFO

Everything's bullshit at scale - @avdi.codes

The first article in the series is about all of the great things that can be learned from my favorite @jessitron.bsky.social presentation and how developers work best in a Product Dev team: programmersstone.blog/posts/how-wi...

agreed on incentives problem, especially when everything seems to be betting on "rub some AI on it" as an "efficiency" solution the latest o11ycast with @.grimalkina.bsky.social is _way into_ this stuff and I loved every minute of reading its fantastic transcript www.heavybit.com/library/podc...

In my latest toy project, I sadly hit a limitation and realized I shouldn't have used htmx, this is a state-based web app. 'convert from htmx to React' is a one-line change now

Putting all your controllers in one directory and your views in another Is like putting the cortisone and hemorrhoid cream in the drawer with toothpaste because they're all tubes.

AI as part of the writing process: big win AI as the entire writing process: big fail

Tests tell us our software can work. Observability tells us our software IS working.

If I stop learning new things, then my existing knowledge isn't worth much - there's value in the combination.

Today I am doing some serious work in a large codebase written with heavy LLM assistance and it kind of makes me cry. The design has so much "but WHY???"

Me, at the grocery store with the teenager: I want some Spicy V8 Teenager: That sounds like the grossest drink possible! The only thing grosser is if you mixed it with tonic. Me: Good idea! (confirmed, it is a good idea)

If I haven't undone anything today, have I really done anything? (this brought to you by coding and by making a new kind of friendship bracelet)

Before AI agents, a “big mistake” was "now I've wasted a few days/weeks." Instead, now it's "well, there goes my evening..." That's not bad at all. @krimple.bsky.social

Evaluation is not a yak, it is core. If we had good enough evaluation, an AI could optimize the software for us. - Morgante Pell

On real problems, one cannot define away the complexity of the world in the interest of devising an elegant solution. - preface to Software Fundamentals, Parnas.

Opened Claude Code today. It presents me with a prompt. There is only one thing I can type > look around

If you want to encourage people to use AI, measure their productivity on LOC. As a measure, it's proven to be destructive (more code is more maintenance work, not more value). But hey, if your goal is AI use at any cost, that's a problem for the future.

OH "as @jessitron.bsky.social, my boss would say, the ultimate root cause of every incident is, inevitably, capitalism" ~ Martin Thwaites (with @olane.bsky.social and coworker, at @honeycomb.io o11y days London)

If you allow data to be your one true overlord, you're gonna get yourself in trouble. @abangser.bsky.social #observabilityDay @honeycomb.io

When the world is cruel and unjust in meaningless ways - "The system is against me" is one interpretation "The system doesn't work" is a more useful belief

whenever somebody pastes some LLM output at me TL;DR

the prettier the day, the more horrible machinery noise

If you want to lead a team of developers without any people management, your time is here.

The boring part: [] make our agent output a record of its conversation with the LLM into a JSON file ... @augmentcode.com does this just fine

The AI-generated code reminds me of images with too many eyes... it loops within loops, catches the same error many times, tries 6 times to do a thing (in 4 ways).

When a collective comes together to bond over the devaluation or debasing of another person or group of people, it does not heal disconnection. It feeds it - Brené Brown, Braving the Wilderness

Now I’m implementing a simple agent. @augmentcode.com is dead sure I said “write this in Python” … maybe because I used the word LLM?

today in @augmentcode.com Can it read a whiteboard diagram? I gave it this one. It used the playwright MCP to open it in a browser and take a screenshot (how is that better?) Then it described… the flow that I described elsewhere, not at all what the diagram says :-(

This weekend’s @augmentcode.com adventure starts with: My mom’s website died, she needs a new one hey, we have 1.5 hrs, let’s see what the agent can do! :boom: cynditaylor.com

That is the most programmery question ever If it has a definition they would not call it "vibe"!

You can't solve collective action problems by opting out of them. So if you hate what AI is doing to art or the environment, Try vibe coding. Find out where people are coming from. So your critique has weight. @charity.wtf @ferd.ca youtu.be/twl_PdIpRA0?...

We are born, we form expectations, and then when those expectations are violated we get traumatized.

“What I’m doing is not vibe coding. It’s mom coding. For one, because I’m guiding it along, keeping an eye on it and giving it approaches. For two, because I’m interleaving it with my other household tasks. Like a Mom.” @avdi.codes

There are, in principle, two different planning strategies. There is planning in order to maximize gain, and there is planning in order to minimize disaster. - Ursula Franklin, The Real World of Technology

Today I'm in a Centurion lounge with a friend I hereby declare United Club better.

Closing keynote at #exploreddd is gonna be great. It's @rebeccawb.bsky.social !

Definition: an incident is anything where the incident response process is needed to respond to it. Eric Dobbs #ExploreDDD Like you need to bring in multiple teams, and incident command to coordinate.