Kief Morris
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Author of Infrastructure as Code. Principal Cloud Architect at Thoughtworks
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5 days ago
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Pete Hodgson
11 days 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.
12 days ago
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World Bollard Associationâ˘ď¸
about 1 year ago
We might have FINALLY met our matchâŚ
#WorldBollardAssociation
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Rob DenBleyker
21 days 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
23 days 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.
28 days 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.
about 1 month 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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about 1 month ago
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Esther Schindler
about 1 month ago
You know it's true.
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Marjorie James Keenan
about 1 month 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]".
about 1 month ago
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Should be, "ordering *himself* to release the Epstein files." Which he could have chosen to do months ago.
about 2 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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about 2 months ago
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Adam Bienkov
about 2 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.
2 months ago
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Jessica Elgot
2 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¸
2 months ago
Hello, tech support? The engineers you sent are making everything worse.
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Alan Allport
2 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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Cake Darling Entry
2 months ago
fuck sake stop saying robots have self awareness.
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Ajay Chankramath talking about platforms and DevOps at
#DevopsDays
Istanbul
2 months ago
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Jason Gorman
2 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
3 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
3 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
3 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
3 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
3 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
3 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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3 months ago
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Esther Schindler
3 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
3 months ago
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Birgitta B
4 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
4 months ago
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Jason Gorman
4 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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GOTO Conferences
4 months ago
Curious about AI's real impact on software delivery? Join Birgitta BĂśckeler as she cuts through the hype, revealing what works, what doesnât, and whatâs next for AI coding assistants.
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AI Assistance for Software Teams: The State of Play ⢠Birgitta BÜckeler ⢠GOTO 2024
This presentation was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2024. #GOTOcon #GOTOcph https://gotocph.com Birgitta BĂśckeler - Technical Principal at Thoughtworks @thoughtworksâŚ
https://youtu.be/pzlqeX9nh1g?list=PLEx5khR4g7PIEQ3L-GI-DF5e6pIm1alq7
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Took my 19yo to see Spinal Tap. He enjoyed it, but when I described the music genre as "heavy metal", he corrected me. Apparently it's called "dad rock".
5 months ago
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I'm finding GenAI agents very useful for turbo-charging my yak shaving. I have no doubt my increased productivity will soon be visible in the national GDP statistics.
5 months ago
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If typing code was the bottleneck for software delivery, then a magic code-typing box would be awesome. Typing code is not the bottleneck for software delivery. See also "software factories" and outsourcing development to low-skilled, low-cost coders.
5 months ago
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My take on "AI has killed the job market for entry level developers." 1. Grads are having a hard time finding jobs because of the economy, not AI. I had a hard time finding a job when I graduated in the 90's during a recession. It's the same story with every downturn.
5 months ago
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Dave goes much deeper than "vibe coding is stupid". A very clear explanation of the nature of software engineering and how it's changing with AI. "Programming moves from specifying implementation detail to more clearly and more precisely specifying the intent of the system that we want to build"
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Pulumi
6 months ago
Happening tomorrow in Chicago: Join Pulumi &
@thoughtworks.com
for an evening with "Infrastructure as Code" author
@kief.com
. Expert insights, real-world platform engineering tips, and free signed copies of the 3rd edition. RSVP now đ
hubs.ly/Q03wsJmQ0
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Platform Engineering Excellence: An Evening with Kief Morris
Join Pulumi & Thoughtworks on July 10, 2025, for an exclusive book signing event with Kief Morris, the author of "Infrastructure as Code".
https://hubs.ly/Q03wsJmQ0
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Dave Farley
7 months ago
Feature branching is a lie we tell ourselves. It feels safer and more controlled, but in reality, itâs slowing you down, increasing risk, and making your integration problems someone elseâs future nightmare.
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Esther Schindler
7 months ago
Yeah, this.
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If you're in Chicago on July 10, come and meet me!
@thoughtworks.com
and
@pulumi.com
are hosting an event where I'll be chatting with one of the Pulumi founder Joe Duffy, and signing complimentary copies of the new edition of my book, courtesy of Pulumi.
info.pulumi.com/kief-morris-...
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Platform Engineering Excellence: An Evening with Kief Morris
Join Pulumi & Thoughtworks on July 10, 2025, for an exclusive book signing event with Kief Morris, the author of "Infrastructure as Code".
https://info.pulumi.com/kief-morris-chicago
7 months ago
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Dave Farley
8 months ago
âThis is the book I wish I had 30 years ago.â Thatâs what readers are saying about The Software Developerâs Guidebook. Itâs practical, focused, and grounded in engineering discipline. Grab your copy here đ
leanpub.com/softwaredeve...
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The Software Developersâ Guidebook
The essential handbook for software developers by Dave Farley, packed with practical advice on writing better code, adopting effective developer habits, and building great software
https://leanpub.com/softwaredevelopersguidebook
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Catelli
8 months ago
Only 8 out of 10. "Real or AI Quiz: Can You Tell the Difference?"
britannicaeducation.com/blog/quiz-re...
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Real or AI Quiz: Can You Tell the Difference? Âť Britannica
Investigate strategies for detecting real versus fake images. Test your students' image evaluation skills with our interactive challenge!
https://britannicaeducation.com/blog/quiz-real-or-ai/
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Katie Mack
8 months ago
10/10 for me but some of them required a pretty careful look. The analysis of what to look for in each was useful, though thereâs no guarantees the âtellsâ will persist as the image generator algorithms improve, and even now not all generated images have them.
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I'm finding that GenAI has a kind of mediocrity gravity well that takes enormous effort to escape. When you ask for help shaping content that challenges the consensus it trained on, it keeps sludging it up. It's great where you're looking for the consensus on something you don't know well, tho.
8 months ago
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Gergely Orosz
8 months ago
Tomorrow (Thursday) you can join me, Tim O'Reilly, Addy Osmani, Kent Beck, Chip Huyen, Birgitta Boeckeler, Jay Parikh and several other tech professionals giving our take on how AI will change software engineering - but why software engineers won't be "replaced" by AI or "AI sw engineers." (cont'd)
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Julia Evans
9 months ago
types of terminal programs
wizardzines.com/comics/types...
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