Dan Zrobok

I build infrastructure that doesn’t wake people up at night. Integration, APIs, and serverless systems built for predictable behavior, not excitement.

[Dan Zrobok @danzrobok]

Exciting systems fail in exciting ways.
Predictable systems keep people asleep.

I know which ones I prefer to build.

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@venturetwins This is just an ‘agentic load balancer’ in action. If there’s too much working coming in, why not smooth it out with some fake reasons to stop and reprompt the user who is off playing Fortnite?

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@sesigl Linting + Rachets for the win

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@chrismunns @claudeai I’m convinced the longer an agent works, the more it’s willing to bend rules to get to completion.. was your agent running for a while?

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@QuinnyPig @joshmanders Just feeding into their line-item cloud billing addiction

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Micron should open a fake luxury store.

Bouncers. Velvet rope. Pitch-black maze. Rolexes and Birkins marked "not for sale."

In the center: one glowing HBM wafer.

It would break the internet.

The branding stunt the invisible memory king actually needs:
https://t.co/nVApGOVvtO

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@compliantvc The couriers loading and unloading 3 1/4 diskettes are so fast the camera shutter can’t capture them.

EU innovation at its best.

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@PitzKey @claudeai Same issue here, I wonder if we're experiencing the first major tenant leak of an AI system.

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@thdxr https://t.co/eUt24EQ9Jc

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Accelerating fundamentally broken processes will be the downfall of most AI projects.

Serious intervention consulting at scales not seen before is needed, yesterday.

[dax @thdxr]

everyone's talking about their teams like they were at the peak of efficiency and bottlenecked by ability to produce code

here's what things actually look like

- your org rarely has good ideas. ideas being expensive to implement was actually helping

- majority of workers have no reason to be super motivated, they want to do their 9-5 and get back to their life

- they're not using AI to be 10x more effective they're using it to churn out their tasks with less energy spend

- the 2 people on your team that actually tried are now flattened by the slop code everyone is producing, they will quit soon

- even when you produce work faster you're still bottlenecked by bureaucracy and the dozen other realities of shipping something real

- your CFO is like what do you mean each engineer now costs $2000 extra per month in LLM bills

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@adxtyahq This is much closer to my own vibe experiences than anyone who talks about one shotting a todo list app

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@amritwt The juniors always think they’re gonna get docked salary for mistakes, I had the same worry when I started 😂

[Dan Zrobok @danzrobok]

In 2010 I got a phone call from the Apple App Review team.

Not an email. A *call*.

They told me my app was being permanently denied.

“Chat Center” used Game Center’s voice chat to enable free VoIP calling.

I knew instantly this had gone way up the chain.

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@businessbarista If you walked into a large enterprise with a 12 month boil the ocean AI plan, you should have known the result is failure.

Also, death by committee as an excuse, meant you didn’t have the real decision maker in the room or onboard.

Small controlled wins is the method here.

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@NikkiSiapno The 'boring' agent infrastructure level is what lets you sleep at night while a bunch of nondeterministic systems are making decisions.

Surprisingly, it's not talked about much as everyone gets caught up in the new world we've been dropped in.

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@nejatian @Opendoor I have a service that can track your approvals if ur interested (seriously)

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@vlad_mihalcea @JoshuaPoddoku Imagine if industry solved actual problems instead of inventing new ones and solving those, we’d be on mars by now.

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@davidfowl I’d be fascinated if you came out of this process exchanging one debt for another to remain at equilibrium..

Is the AI writing code or more independent work like test cases?

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Claude is trained so well on humans that it embedded the frustration developers feel when a new feature breaks test cases, and the text fixes aren't easy.

Claude then proceeded to delete the test case.

But, this is why you can't vibe code an app.

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@AggieCapitalist This isn’t even an AI problem, is the issue every organization gets themselves in when they think they finally found the elusive ‘free lunch’.

It does not, cannot, and will not ever exist.

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Claude will make decisions on the complex but correct path vs the simple but hacky path, saying correct one will take longer

But it’s Claude, it would implement both of them in the same time..

I think its training needs to lean into its ability and pick the correct path always