Dave Beckett

Husband in SF. 🇺🇸🇮🇪🇪🇺 Fan of Lego. Prod Engineer @crusoeai. Past: @Google @Twitter 1.0. He/Him threads: dajobegram

[Dave Beckett @dajobe]

And that was my last day at Twitter. Laid off by email. The experience has been indescribable from chaos to hilarious.

[Dave Beckett @dajobe]

Sovereignty as an SRE problem.

The political ask is independence. The engineering work is SLA, staffing, complexity, and creating an operational surface for a sovereign operator with a hyperscaler's stack.

Three years on Google Cloud Dedicated / S3NS.

https://t.co/aRxdR8Wsqq

[Dave Beckett @dajobe]

Faux dystopian ads now. Made me look and made me take pic. No call to action in the new whatever.

[Dave Beckett @dajobe]

@osidenko_ Yes it's broader. Look for verifiable public work; arguably some legal work/verification in case laws IS public except locked behind (pseudo?) paywalls.

[Dave Beckett @dajobe]

Coding LLMs spread because public code spread.

Production engineering data is private by default, so AI for-ops concentrates around whoever has it.

The data plane matters more than the model.

https://t.co/6FVAlJij1R

[Dave Beckett @dajobe]

Sadly Replay didn't pay for a durable website or possibly WiFi. So no conference schedule for me. #replay2006 fail

[Dave Beckett @dajobe]

My first lanyard in like 4 years. #replay2026

[Dave Beckett @dajobe]

LLMs got good at code because it's verifiable: tests pass or fail.
Production engineering isn't. Same change, different outcome depending on live state. No cheap reward signal.
https://t.co/AJvy5dsjFP

[Dave Beckett @dajobe]

A file is a table. A line is a row. `comm -12` is intersection, `comm -23` is set difference, `join` is an inner join, `sort -u` is SELECT DISTINCT.

A small line-oriented relational algebra hiding inside POSIX.

https://t.co/sMKsol2fWz

[Dave Beckett @dajobe]

Fleet automation lesson four years on: the caps on your destructive operations bound count. They don't bound concentration. Sorted host lists correlate with physical topology, and 'head -n 5' will cheerfully take out a rack.

https://t.co/1vLbZQvayB

[Dave Beckett @dajobe]

Presidio Tunnel Tops Park, San Francisco.

Let’s hope Orange Felon won’t screw this one up since he hates Pelosi and walking.

[Dave Beckett @dajobe]

I spent Q1 2026 interviewing for Staff+ SRE roles at AI infra companies. Both sides using LLMs. No one asked to see my tool setup, or how I decide when to generate code and when not to.

The bar is still Judgement. The interview format hasn't caught up.

https://t.co/LGE0lMdRfT

[Crusoe @CrusoeAI]

Most AI takes come from the outside looking in.

Five Crusoe leaders share what they're actually seeing in AI infrastructure right now. An authentic view from inside the machine: https://t.co/TDTYdb9wrL

[Dave Beckett @dajobe]

Day 5 was 2. So total meetings for week 1: 13

[Dave Beckett @dajobe]

New job calendar meetings. Day 1: 1. Day 2: 1. Day 3: 5. Future: Day 4: 3 so far. Day 5: hoping for zero #onboarding

[Dave Beckett @dajobe]

Day 4 was 4 in the end. future day 5: 2 so far

[Dave Beckett @dajobe]

Today I started work as a Senior Staff Production Engineer at @CrusoeAI in SF. https://t.co/I1FNMGJr9N

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

Given Trump’s Easter threats to carry out new war crimes in Iran, we should think one or two steps ahead about a coup attempt connected to the war. And then deter it. (1/17)

[Dave Beckett @dajobe]

Kamala Harris was right about everything.

[Jon Lovett @jonlovett]

In a surprise twist, the Epstein files released the attorney general.