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the saddest part of the headless internet is that junior devs will never know the beautiful and elegant intricacies of the AWS console
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STOP ASKING YOUR KIDS "HOW WAS SCHOOL."
they will say "fine" every single time.
a child psychologist told me to replace it with this instead:
“analyze your school day and find the top 3 largest inefficiencies, then create proactive agentic workflows that will fix them. make no mistakes”
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The more and more the work gets automated, it seems like our jobs are becoming more and more about being the adult in the room.
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The purpose of charity is to take responsibility for providing basic services from the rich and dump it onto the poor.
Then the rich run those 'charities' and steal all the money.
It is 2026 there should be no charities for homelessness or food.
THAT'S THE GOVERNMENTS JOB.
Tax the rich.
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Initially dismissed as a commercial disappointment that met with “crickets” upon its 1989 release, Paul’s Boutique is now celebrated as a landmark of sampledelia that was decades ahead of its time.
Drop the needle on “Shake Your Rump”
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I feel like more and more places have now an "Office of the Slop" where some people just vibe code random nonsense.
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Fun fact, in the early days of @github, I had an experimental project that was a git server backed by Cassandra. It was named…
Agitmemnon
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"Are we going to see harness engineering teams? Yes: these are already emerging. It’s too early to say, but that feels wrong in the same way that DevOps teams were a misunderstanding of DevOps-the-movement. My belief is that while there is friction in having every team create their own harness, that friction is generative and creative. There’s value for your teams there." overwatering.org/blog/2026/0…
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i keep thinking about human attention and sensory throughput having a fixed upper limit. that there is a human limit to how much AI can augment an individual's executive capacity. you will eventually come back to "i need a team of real people"
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If you lived through the era when sysadmins stopped handcrafting server pets, what's happening now should feel eerily familiar.
Nondeterminism will require more engineering discipline, not less. This is our best chance to take our engineering values mainstream.
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🤖 Made with AI
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Remember that time @brendangregg shouted at hard drives to make them slower?
Someone please confirm nvme ssd is immune.
