Jeremy Morrell

Principal engineer @ Cloudflare Observability

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[Jeremy Morrell @JeremyMorrell]

@thomas_ankcorn There’s way more to life, and computers aren’t going anywhere ❤️

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@threepointone I’ve never seen someone have Zitron on where it didn’t just feed the viewer a ton of bad info

It would be hard to push back even if the interviewer were an expert tbh since he gish gallops constantly

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@threepointone Apple’s product team:

[Hunter Leath @jhleath]

it seems pretty obvious that things are rapidly going to pivot this way, and i'm always finding myself in conversations about it.

agents running inside of sandboxes is the same thing as renting a VPS with LAMP on it was in 2003

why did we move away from that model?

it turned out that identifying the fact that all of these website workloads were similar allowed us to build multi-tenant platforms [github pages, netlify, vercel, wix, framer, webflow] which not only made building websites more accessible to the broader developer community, but also significantly improved security (since not everyone can lock down a VPS), AND allowed everyone to capture economies of scale -- driving down prices and improving the overall experience

the idea that agents are uniquely going to sit in this mid-stage of the internet where you rent egregiously over-provisioned single-tenant infrastructure for each of them, is just not going to be tenable in a few years

i've started to think of this simply:

sandboxes are great for building *one* agent, but building an agent platform requires infrastructure like archil.

the thing that is going to stick around is like this AWS thing -- massively multi-tenant the harnesses and then provide some serverless, yielding tool calling

we know how to do this, the industry just hasn't gotten there yet

[Richard Artoul @richardartoul]

If you like databases this is a lovely read

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@litacho @HarmonicMath @tachim @vladtenev Very cool! I suspect formal methods are going to get so much more important very quickly

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@mattzcarey @thomas_ankcorn Honestly I think otel/api should just be a part of the library rather than a plugin or config option so all you need to do is register an SDK

We're working towards supporting this out-of-the-box on workers, but it'll be a minute before we can get there

[Thomas Ankcorn @thomas_ankcorn]

Me and a band of plucky misfits (@maks_mak_0 and a few others), codename the Alertocats 🙀, have started rebuilding Cloudflare's whole notifications and alerting experience.

First up: a brand new UI. Find it in the dash at Observability → Alerts 👇

[Jeremy Morrell @JeremyMorrell]

@_wperron I may or may not have reinvented cloudflare/computer from first principles

“Oh! That’s why it’s like that”

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@_wperron For myself, I got about 3 days into building my own agent sandbox before I realized “wait, everyone is building exactly this thing. I should just do the simplest possible thing instead”

That exploration was good for learning tho!

[Jeremy Morrell @JeremyMorrell]

@de_stroy @irvinebroque Yes, but you can propagate now by setting up cloudflare tracing https://t.co/Ym60ys75HX

[Jeremy Morrell @JeremyMorrell]

@MaheshtheDev @irvinebroque @ritakozlov This should already work with effect-cf https://t.co/QR9MTNKhN3

[Linus @thesephist]

Few people could help us understand such current design problems with as much respect for historical & human context as @Mappletons. In addition to being generally great, I also appreciated that I ended with more questions than I began, which accurately reflects how early we are.

[Maggie Appleton @Mappletons]

New talk! About the divided human & agent worlds, boundary objects, and building thicker interfaces

I've been exploring how to improve "planning", aka. deciding what agents should build, how you want it built, & making the whole team part of that process

https://t.co/JS73DCdSXi

[Jeremy Morrell @JeremyMorrell]

see also https://t.co/cGLbOYMWwC

[Jeremy Morrell @JeremyMorrell]

I unironically think that having an agent spend 100k+ tokens making it easy to digest a 20 line change is a Really Good Idea

[Jeremy Morrell @JeremyMorrell]

"we need to use the relatively cheap and infinite labour of agents to construct rich layers of translation that serve humans really well"

[Steve Krouse @stevekrouse]

been thinking about these @Mappletons images a lot

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@zeeg @irvinebroque We also have the nicer interface for the 95% of cases https://t.co/OEzvkWMfYA

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@zeeg @irvinebroque We also provide tracing.enterSpan which will (soon) handle all the try / catch nonsense for you in addition to automatically closing https://t.co/5V5XqPyWFB

[Jeremy Morrell @JeremyMorrell]

@zeeg @irvinebroque but there are very much times when you want the lower level control

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@zeeg @irvinebroque We also provide tracing.enterSpan which will (soon) handle all the try / catch nonsense for you in addition to automatically closing https://t.co/5V5XqPyWFB