Toots from 2025-05-06#
“This is unusual — did your boss ever have to send you a memo demanding that you use a smartp…#
“This is unusual — did your boss ever have to send you a memo demanding that you use a smartphone? Was there a performance review requiring you to use Slack?”
https://www.anildash.com/2025/04/19/ai-first-is-the-new-return-to-office/
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“The first step is recognizing that not everything broken is yours to fix. Not every tool needs …#
“The first step is recognizing that not everything broken is yours to fix.
Not every tool needs replacing.
Not every bad experience is a call to action.”
https://notashelf.dev/posts/curse-of-knowing?__readwiseLocation=
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January 2nd, 2024: “I strongly suspect we will get more LLM generated rubbish in our Hackerone in…#
January 2nd, 2024: “I strongly suspect we will get more LLM generated rubbish in our Hackerone inboxes going forward.” (Ref: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/01/02/the-i-in-llm-stands-for-intelligence/)
May 5th, 2025: “We now ban every reporter INSTANTLY who submits reports we deem AI slop. A threshold has been reached. We are effectively being DDoSed. If we could, we would charge them for this waste of our time.”
(Ref: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/danielstenberg_hackerone-curl-activity-7324820893862363136-glb1)
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“In 7.5 years, I never saw or heard about a four-time TT. That doesn’t mean it was impossible. Bu…#
“In 7.5 years, I never saw or heard about a four-time TT. That doesn’t mean it was impossible. But it was unheard of. TTs were usually limited to 5% of each level and absorbed totally by promotion candidates being pushed.”
https://radarblog.substack.com/p/decoding-amazons-new-pay-structure
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I agree that GenAI reliability entails new concepts and techniques. I also think there’s much mor…#
I agree that GenAI reliability entails new concepts and techniques. I also think there’s much more in common with existing systems than not. Consistently asserting how every technology is a discontinuity severely limits our collective ability to learn.
“GenAI cloud services demand a new approach to reliability engineering. Traditional monitoring, triage, and mitigation processes aren’t enough.”
https://rdel.substack.com/p/rdel-91-what-makes-production-incidents
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AI in the abstract is often touted as liberation and yet the in-app messaging consistently call…#
AI in the abstract is often touted as liberation and yet the in-app messaging consistently calls out efficiency.