Kief Morris
@kief.com
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Author of Infrastructure as Code. Distinguished Engineer at Thoughtworks.
Apparently people who work at Palantir call themselves Hobbits?
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Let's feed his notes into chatgpt and have it extrude the rest of the series. Can't be any worse than what Benioff & Weiss did with it.
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17 days ago
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Birgitta B
21 days ago
I enjoyed reading an OpenAI team's report on building a "harness" for a no-manual-coding-allowed codebase. Refreshing to read concrete ideas about where the rigor might go, rather than just hoping âbetter modelsâ will magically solve maintainability
martinfowler.com/articles/exp...
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Harness Engineering
Notes from my Thoughtworks colleagues on AI-assisted software delivery
https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-gen-ai/harness-engineering.html
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Jonathan Edward Durham
21 days ago
I think one of our big problems is that weâre limiting Dickensian villain ghost visits to just one night a year like clearly the market can sustain some expansion
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Bala
22 days ago
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Pete Hodgson
24 days ago
It's hard to find balanced opinions on AI coding. Lots of the people pushing the envelope on AI-Assisted Engineering also have somewhat bonkers AI-maximalist perspectives. Here's some people who're in the thick of it, advancing the field but who I also trust to bring a thoughtful, balanced take đ§ľ
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Naomi Alderman
24 days ago
argh. the thing is. vibecoding is so *fun*? it's so so fun. in his podcast with Ed Zitron this week, Cal Newport describes it as "a hobby, like making a model railway" and that is *exactly it*. it's really fun to make a thing with it. like whittling a wooden spoon and then you use the spoon.
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Dare Obasanjo
24 days ago
You canât build a Jetsons future with a Flintstones government
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Naomi Alderman
27 days ago
v good point from the Economist Boss Class podcast: chess-playing programmes have been beating chess grand-masters for decades. But people are still watching humans playing chess not AIs. Also however fun F1 is, it's still not OK to compete in the 100m sprint by getting into a car
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The post
@systeminit.com
folks have decided they don't want PRs on their open source project. They want descriptions of the changes contributors want, which the team can give to the agents to implement.
about 1 month ago
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@adamhjk.me
again.
about 1 month ago
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Here's what
@adamhjk.me
is taking about today at
#configmgtcamp
. The rumours of
@systeminit.com
's demise seem to have been exaggerated
about 1 month ago
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Yes! +100 every word of this article
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about 1 month ago
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Platform every time I use it: "You should pay for a subscription to get rid of these popups!" Me: Buys subscription Platform every time I use it: "You should upgrade your subscription to the family plan!" (My family will never use this platform)
about 2 months ago
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Esther Schindler
about 2 months ago
"A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history, with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila."--Mitch Ratcliffe, in Technology Review April 1992
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What do you call a technology whose own creators can't distinguish it from magic?
about 2 months ago
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Cheshire Cat ááá˘,
2 months ago
Alt text
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Pete Hodgson
2 months ago
"Why is Claude Code better/worse than [other coding agent] - theyâre both using the same models under the hood?" A reasonable question, so I spent some time reverse-engineering Claude Code's interactions with the model to illustrate why coding agent matters
blog.thepete.net/blog/2025/12...
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Same Model, Different Results: Why Coding Agents Aren't Interchangeable
Reverse-engineering Claude Code reveals why it performs differently from other agents that use the same Anthropic models. The answer lies in sophisticated context engineering and tool orchestration hi...
https://blog.thepete.net/blog/2025/12/10/same-model-different-results-why-coding-agents-arent-interchangeable/
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It's a picks and shovels bubble. Tired: making money selling picks and shovels to people speculating on the bubble. Wired: going broke speculating on picks and shovels.
2 months ago
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World Bollard Associationâ˘ď¸
over 1 year ago
We might have FINALLY met our matchâŚ
#WorldBollardAssociation
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Rob DenBleyker
3 months ago
always remember: 1. sending someone a text message is 1000x more meaningful than a social media post 2. a phone call is technically assault
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Bala
3 months ago
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AI amplifies humans. Whatever humans are capable and inclined to do, they can increase it by an order of magnitude with AI.
3 months ago
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People are complaining about politicians destroying civilization, and I just saw an ad for "Dating Naked UK", and maybe it's time to call it.
3 months ago
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Pete's been putting out pragmatic, useful advice on AI coding, and is now offering an online course.
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3 months ago
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Esther Schindler
3 months ago
You know it's true.
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Marjorie James Keenan
3 months ago
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
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"The time since [event from your childhood] is now more than the time from that event to [event from before you were born]".
3 months ago
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Should be, "ordering *himself* to release the Epstein files." Which he could have chosen to do months ago.
4 months ago
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"Huh, I notice a lot of people seem to be using our Torment Nexus product to do unpleasant things đ¤ˇ"
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4 months ago
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Adam Bienkov
4 months ago
Your regular reminder that there is absolutely nothing "hard" or "tough" about targeting the poorest, most vulnerable, and least able to defend themselves groups of people on the entire planet
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Pardoning people who tried to retroactively rig the 2020 election is a message to those in a position to tamper with the 2026 elections. There will be no consequences for openly breaking the law. No holds barred.
4 months ago
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Jessica Elgot
4 months ago
Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
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Cats with Jobs âď¸
4 months ago
Hello, tech support? The engineers you sent are making everything worse.
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Alan Allport
4 months ago
Perhaps the NYT should run some articles about how the Republicans need to listen to the concerns of ordinary Democratic voters.
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Sid Rini
4 months ago
fuck sake stop saying robots have self awareness.
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Ajay Chankramath talking about platforms and DevOps at
#DevopsDays
Istanbul
4 months ago
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Jason Gorman
4 months ago
"Many developers are surprised by the changes they have to make to their workflow when they're using AI. For example, <proceeds to describe eXtreme Programming>"
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GOTO Conferences
5 months ago
"You can't not have a framework. Either you use one or you create your own - and yours probably won't be well documented or maintained."
@brikis98.bsky.social
and
@kief.com
discuss why infrastructure automation needs standardization, not more custom wrapper scripts.
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Fundamentals of DevOps & Software Delivery ⢠Yevgeniy "Jim" Brikman & Kief Morris ⢠GOTO 2025
This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club. #GOTOcon #GOTObookclub http://gotopia.tech/bookclub Read the full transcription of the interview here: https://gotopia.tech/episodes/405 YevgeniyâŚ
https://youtu.be/Zyz_2lELqG8?list=PLEx5khR4g7PJbSLmADahf0LOpTLifiCra
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GOTO Conferences
5 months ago
A decade of Infrastructure as Code and whatâs next.
#GOTOpodcast
:
@abangser.bsky.social
and
@kief.com
explore how the field evolved from server configs to complex cloud systems â and what AI, abstraction and platform engineering mean for its future. đ§ Listen now:
gotopia.tech/podcast
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Anil Dash
5 months ago
More than *anything* the people who actually know how technology works, who actually build things, wish that people would treat LLMs like every other technology, and be normal about them. Don't build a religion about them, don't force them on people, don't ignore the problems. Just be normal.
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Birgitta B
5 months ago
I tried to make sense of "spec-driven development" by looking at 3 tools: Amazon's Kiro, GitHub's spec-kit, and the Tessl Framework
martinfowler.com/articles/exp...
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Understanding Spec-Driven-Development: Kiro, spec-kit, and Tessl
Notes from my Thoughtworks colleagues on AI-assisted software delivery
https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-gen-ai/sdd-3-tools.html
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GOTO Conferences
5 months ago
đĽ âAgile is dead,â says Dave Thomas. In our latest
#GOTOPodcast
, he tells Thoughtworksâ CTO Sarah Taraporewalla why agile lost its soul & how devs can reclaim simplicity with his OrientâStepâLearn framework. đ§ Listen now:
gotopia.tech/podcast
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Jonathan Edward Durham
5 months ago
Canât wait till one of these knocks on my door for tweeting about a late night talk show host or whatever
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Is this like taxi drivers giving stock tips? When the BoE notices we're in a bubble it's already too late ....
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5 months ago
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Esther Schindler
5 months ago
"That day, not only did the Xerox not write The Great Gatsbyâit literally caught fire."
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Book Review: The Great Gatsby by the Xerox 914 Photocopier
Amid the rise of artificial intelligence, technophobes and Luddites have continued to insist that machines âcanât really writeââat least not the wa...
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/book-review-the-great-gatsby-by-the-xerox-914-photocopier
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Rebecca Parsons, Barry O'Reilly, Gregor Hohpe, and Andrew Harmel-Law talkin' architecture at
#GOTO2025
#GOTOCopenhagen
5 months ago
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Birgitta B
6 months ago
One of the challenges with service templates is that once a team instantiated a service with a template, itâs tedious to feed template updates back to those services. I wonder if anchoring AI agents to a template or reference application could help make that easier?
martinfowler.com/articles/exp...
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Patton Oswalt
6 months ago
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Jason Gorman
6 months ago
"we can also see intent in the behaviour of pets, weather, dishwashers, etc etc. So we shouldnât be too surprised if something thatâs designed to statistically reproduce human creativity and reasoning has that effect on many of us to a much greater extent."
codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/09/12/c...
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Clever Hans Couldnât Really Do Arithmetic, and LLMs Donât Really Understand.
Iâve joked in the past that what really makes LLMs work is our tendency to see faces on toast, but thereâs a more serious point there about how much of our perception of the ability of âŚ
https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/09/12/clever-hans-couldnt-really-do-arithmetic-and-llms-dont-really-understand/
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