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[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and its impossible to have rational conversations about it with them. I can't name any specific people because they include personal friends I deeply respect, but I worry about how this plays out.

I lived through the great MTBF vs MTTR (mean-time-between-failure vs. mean-time-to-recovery) reckoning of infrastructure during the transition to cloud and cloud automation. All those arguments are rearing their ugly heads again but now its... the whole software development industry (maybe the whole world, really).

It's frightening, because the psychosis folks operate under an almost absolute "MTTR is all you need" mentality: "its fine to ship bugs because the agents will fix them so quickly and at a scale humans can't do!" We learned in infrastructure that MTTR is great but you can't yeet resilient systems entirely.

The main issue is I don't even know how to bring this up to people I know personally, because bringing this topic up leads to immediately dismissals like "no no, it has full test coverage" or "bug reports are going down" or something, which just don't paint the whole picture.

We already learned this lesson once in infrastructure: you can automate yourself into a very resilient catastrophe machine. Systems can appear healthy by local metrics while globally becoming incomprehensible. Bug reports can go down while latent risk explodes. Test coverage can rise while semantic understanding falls. Changes happens so fast that nobody notices the underlying architecture decaying.

I worry.

[advincze @advincze]

Wanna rename items in Google authenticator ? Swipe right. I hope AI doesn't replace UX guy's job.

[advincze @advincze]

Finished Severance. Worst piece of garbage I've seen in years.

[Charlie Holtz @charlieholtz]

starting to leave comments in the code for the AIs

[Kevin Naughton Jr. @KevinNaughtonJr]

99% of coding is just not giving up when you're stuck

[Simon Willison @simonw]

I figured out this prompting pattern for getting Claude to produce fully self-contained Python scripts that execute with "uv run" using PEP 723 inline script dependencies - and now I can one-shot useful Python tools with it

[Matthew Carrigan @carrigmat]

I almost spat water all over my screen while reading the LLM benchmarks on r/LocalLLaMA

[advincze @advincze]

Google has still too many employees if they have time to change the authenticator app logo - 1 minute of my life finding another 🌈🤦‍♂️

[ern0  🎹 @ern0plus4]

nem nevettem

[Adam Dymitruk @adymitruk]

Me everyday.

[advincze @advincze]

@rahulj51 @josh_wills For udfs the Terraform provider is excellent nowadays

[JosH100 @josh_wills]

This is the best thing I have ever read about the transformative power of schemas for data teams; I haven't enjoyed a blog post this much since "I ❤️ Logs"

Well done @aerialfly 👏👏👏

https://t.co/XXlPqZ0Pl9

[vicki @vboykis]

🎉🚨This is real. 🚨🎉
#NormConf is happening.

https://t.co/9roskd3MMD
December 15.
Online.
Free.
A day of normcore data takes.
It’s gonna be great.
Registration is open.

[advincze @advincze]

why nothing ever works on a different minor version of python ?

[Chris the DM 🏳️‍🌈 @confusatron]

Ok I wanna do this one on hard mode, because it's fun:

Put a song in people's heads with ONLY ONE WORD

[advincze @advincze]

@soobrosa És a fröccs?

[advincze @advincze]

@rahulj51 To me meaning/clarity is a synonym for "easy"/"simple". Almost everything you do in modeling is for analysis

[Alex Cohen @anothercohen]

7 billion people use the internet.

But no one realizes how terrible their SaaS tools are.

Here are 7 software companies with the shittiest user experiences:

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Building a LEGO-powered Submarine with automatic depth control

[📹 YouTube's Brick Experiment Channel: https://t.co/HT8gLJMjEt]