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“More generally, reliability work isn’t just about putting in automated mechanisms to handle …#
“More generally, reliability work isn’t just about putting in automated mechanisms to handle known failure modes. It’s also about setting up the incident responders for success by providing them with as many resources as possible before the next incident happens.”
https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/03/12/quick-thoughts-on-github-ctos-post-on-availability/
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“That used to take months of compounding mistakes to reach crisis point. Last year I got a cod…#
“That used to take months of compounding mistakes to reach crisis point.
Last year I got a coding agent, and my side project reached crisis point in days”
https://boristane.com/blog/slop-creep-enshittification-of-software/
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Plans are helpful, but probes are more durable.
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“Running pipelines at scale made the failures obvious and immediate, which, for me, really unde…#
“Running pipelines at scale made the failures obvious and immediate, which, for me, really underscored an effective approach to minimizing the cascading failure problem: make deterministic work deterministic.”
https://www.oreilly.com/radar/keep-deterministic-work-deterministic/
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Related: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3762990
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uv was solid enough for me to get back into Python after a couple of years away. I hope they cont…#
uv was solid enough for me to get back into Python after a couple of years away. I hope they continue to properly support it.
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/19/openai-acquiring-astral/
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“Code” really needs some type of “operational back pressure” so that eager agents face some type …#
“Code” really needs some type of “operational back pressure” so that eager agents face some type of token cost. They’ll create CSS changes as rapidly as single-tenant DB stores with OAuth, IAM, Redis, PgSQL, and OpoenSearch all wrapped up as IaaS.
I recognize they’re both “code”, but they don’t all imply the same level of complexity, cost, or commitment.
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My graph paper books never looked this cool: <https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/03/pejac-graph-…#
My graph paper books never looked this cool: https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/03/pejac-graph-paper-graphite-drawings/