A few AI automations/skills we run at @PlanetScale:
* e2e sweeper, constantly goes over flakes and finds the root causes, tries to debug them.
* doc refresher. Runs every 6 hours, makes sure any doc is up-to-date, and opens a PR with fixes. Human reads it and merges it. We love docs, humans read them, but also makes sure future agent runs are not confused.
* A bespoke /kube-review skill that runs alongside Bugbot. Makes sure some of the best practices we have about running k8s controllers are implemented.
* Backup sweeper. Checks backups failures across all of PlanetScale fleet, checks slack for any previous conversations, debugs it in production with read-only accesses, and suggests a fix with commands that show exactly why a Backup has failed. We have a rule that backups are always taken. If there is an issue with any customer for straight 2 days, we'll open an incident.
* Feature flag removal check. Checks the whole fleet, making sure a feature flag is either not used, or if in use that it's rolled out to %100. It's triggered only if a feature flag is removed from the codebase.
* Recreate detector check. Ensures that any changes do not cause fleet-wise disruptions or mass-recreate/rollouts of Kubernetes services/objects.
We also have a few more automations that go over slack messages, reads any complaints (i.e.: `looks like a false positive, it's not a backup failure, but a flake`), and then literally adjusts the SKILL that runs the automation. It's making sure the skills are constantly up to date.
So far we really like these. However, I realized that creating initially an automation requires still quite a bit of clean-up and maintenance until it's good enough. It needs tuning because they are not deterministic. Or sometimes the prompt is too vague. But the great thing about them, especially when you use Cursor's automations for example, each automation is an agent run, so you can just jump into it, and continue the agent loop. It's very powerful.
SOMEONE CAUGHT FABLE 5 LEAKING ITS UNFILTERED INNER VOICE, AND ITS JUST MUTTERING AND GRUMBLING TO ITSELF THE WHOLE TIME
he gave it a brutal competitive programming problem, and instead of a clean answer the web interface spilled out its actual chain of thought
this is what claude is thinking behind the scenes:
> bursts of "DATA DATA DATA. GO." while it works through the problem
> "GRRR" and "GAAAH" when its clearly frustrated
> a little "PHEW" when it finally gets somewhere
> the whole thing reads like frantic caveman shorthand, not full sentences
the clean, readable answers these models give you are the polished output
underneath, the model is basically talking to itself, reasoning in its own compressed shorthand thats faster and more token efficient than proper english
its basically built its own private language to think in
Open-source is dead.
...unless you fight fire with fire. We've been deploying agent automations for issue triage to separate the signal from the noise 👇
Everyone said this was impossible.
ClickHouse is a massive multi-threaded engine. Porting it to WebAssembly — a single-threaded runtime — was supposed to be a non-starter. Every AI we asked told us the same thing: can't be done.
But years of working on this engine gave me a different intuition. From first principles, there was no fundamental barrier. Just a hard problem that everyone had assumed away.
So we pointed AI at it — refactor, regress, repeat — instead of taking "impossible" for an answer.
The result: https://t.co/OgmJ09qJpC
A full ClickHouse OLAP engine, running entirely in your browser tab. No server. Query local files and S3 Parquet in-process.
Huge thanks to @wudidapaopao for the relentless work that made it real.
Gen z is actually amazing and brilliant. My friend lives in a rented apartment. He got a wifi router and paid for a subscription. He then asked his upstairs neighbour to split his wifi bill with him. He also asked his downstairs neighbour to do the same thing. Did the same...
Boeing 777X crossing the iconic taxiway bridge at Paine Field, passing directly over the highway between the Boeing Everett Factory and the flight line.
📹: aircraftworldusa
The RTX 5060 is a breathtakingly powerful computer. I can't get over it! The first GPU I bought was this hideous monstrosity: a 9800gx2 for which I paid nearly $800 in today's money. The 5060 cost about half that much for 25x the power, without even considering RT or tensor cores
A new 120B parameter model just dropped that's built for conversational AI and text generation. It's open source under Apache 2.0 and already has over 4 million downloads. This one is a game changer for the community.
Just had a real 'the vitamin' moment because the doctor put a camera down my throat and went "oh you have a really bad mold infection, no wonder" and it turns out i've been walking around with my entire body inflamed the past fucking year
Le bilan du mois de juin cumule tous les superlatifs :
➡️Juin 2026 signe la deuxième plus grosse anomalie mensuelle observée en France depuis 1900, à minima, avec +3.8°C 😲 ! Même 2003 n'a pas fait mieux (+3.7°C). Janvier 1990 reste devant avec +4.0°C.
➡️Juin 2026 dépasse 2003, sauf qu'il n'est plus isolé. Les mois de juin se réchauffant, l'exception vient de devenir la norme.
➡️Juin regroupe à la fois la matinée, l'après-midi et la journée les plus chaudes jamais observées en France.
➡️Sur les 54 derniers mois, 48 ont été largement au-dessus des normes, 4 dans les normes et 2 sous les normes : le froid n'existe plus en France depuis plus de 4 ans.
Ce début d'année est incroyable : 2026 marque pour le moment, tout simplement (et de TRES loin), l'année la plus chaude jamais observée en France jusqu'à présent.
Graphique de Dataclimat.
hello internet stranger,
read this book 2 times
would love to talk about this book ... if you are junior or just starting with this book just for interview purposes go through chapter 3, 5, 6, 8 and 9 thoroughly although you will find the book a little hard for the first but sticking with it will be worthwhile
If you read it really carefully and very slowly, the content is fantastic and can’t be faulted.
I have ordered the second addition but I had to cancel my order on halfway will see next time :)