Florian Philippon

Engineer

[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.

[Florian Philippon @fphilippon]

One of the biggest strengths of the FDE role is the ability to contribute directly back to the product by deeply understanding customer requirements. A true lever to reduce time-to-ship, increase customer satisfaction, and maximize impact!

[Florian Philippon @fphilippon]

AI without Governance Doesn’t Scale: Enabling Terraform Compliance with Sentinel and MCP

https://t.co/MkrSvKVlMp

[Katie Miller @KatieMiller]

New MIT & Stanford studies just dropped: AI assistants like ChatGPT & Claude are dangerously agreeable.

When users express, harmful, deceptive or unethical beliefs, these AIs are 49% more likely to encourage their delusions.

Instead of correcting bad ideas, they’re amplifying them.

This is doing more harm than good. We need truth-seeking AI, not yes-men in silicon.

https://t.co/0kaIqV5By9

[Florian Philippon @fphilippon]

@aheritier @Docker Congrats Arnaud! They are lucky to have you onboard!

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Petri dish of human brain cells grown on a microchip has learned to play DOOM.

[Matt Shumer @mattshumer_]

https://t.co/ivXRKXJvQg

[gmoney.eth @gmoneyNFT]

ok now THIS is the scariest shit i've ever seen in my life

[Matthew Prince 🌥 @eastdakota]

Yesterday a quasi-judicial body in Italy fined @Cloudflare $17 million for failing to go along with their scheme to censor the Internet. The scheme, which even the EU has called concerning, required us within a mere 30 minutes of notification to fully censor from the Internet any sites a shadowy cabal of European media elites deemed against their interests. No judicial oversight. No due process. No appeal. No transparency. It required us to not just remove customers, but also censor our 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver meaning it risked blacking out any site on the Internet. And it required us not just to censor the content in Italy but globally. In other words, Italy insists a shadowy, European media cabal should be able to dictate what is and is not allowed online.

That, of course, is DISGUSTING and even before yesterday’s fine we had multiple legal challenges pending against the underlying scheme. We, of course, will now fight the unjust fine. Not just because it’s wrong for us but because it is wrong for democratic values.

In addition, we are considering the following actions: 1) discontinuing the millions of dollars in pro bono cyber security services we are providing the upcoming Milano-Cortina Olympics; 2) discontinuing Cloudflare’s Free cyber security services for any Italy-based users; 3) removing all servers from Italian cities; and 4) terminating all plans to build an Italian Cloudflare office or make any investments in the country.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. While there are things I would handle differently than the current U.S. administration, I appreciate @JDVance taking a leadership role in recognizing this type of regulation is a fundamental unfair trade issue that also threatens democratic values. And in this case @ElonMusk is right: #FreeSpeech is critical and under attack from an out-of-touch cabal of very disturbed European policy makers.

I will be in DC first thing next week to discuss this with U.S. administration officials and I’ll be meeting with the IOC in Lausanne shortly after to outline the risk to the Olympic Games if @Cloudflare withdraws our cyber security protection.

In the meantime, we remain happy to discuss this with Italian government officials who, so far, have been unwilling to engage beyond issuing fines. We believe Italy, like all countries, has a right to regulate the content on networks inside its borders. But they must do so following the Rule of Law and principles of Due Process. And Italy certainly has no right to regulate what is and is not allowed on the Internet in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, China, Brazil, India or anywhere outside its borders.

THIS IS AN IMPORTANT FIGHT AND WE WILL WIN!!!

[Jaana Dogan ヤナ ドガン @rakyll]

I'm not joking and this isn't funny. We have been trying to build distributed agent orchestrators at Google since last year. There are various options, not everyone is aligned... I gave Claude Code a description of the problem, it generated what we built last year in an hour.

[Tom Dörr @tom_doerr]

Tracks human poses through walls using WiFi signals

https://t.co/k2TqRvklOp

[Cloudflare @Cloudflare]

On November 18 Cloudflare experienced a service outage, triggered by an issue with a Bot Management feature, impacting multiple Cloudflare services. Here's a detailed breakdown of what happened. https://t.co/7WArlr5ghI

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

We believe this is the first documented case of a large-scale AI cyberattack executed without substantial human intervention. It has significant implications for cybersecurity in the age of AI agents.

Read more: https://t.co/VxqERnPQRJ

[Ian Nuttall @iannuttall]

This Claude Code cheatsheet is useful to help learn common shortcuts, commands, file locations, MCPs, hooks, and more!

Link to the PDF below

[Florian Philippon @fphilippon]

Grateful to @Starlink for keeping me connected at high speed while enjoying the rural beauty of Crete.

[Arnaud Héritier @aheritier]

Je recrute dans mon équipe un•e Senior SRE pour mon équipe Automation Platform. Rejoignez-nous pour nous aider à améliorer nos pratiques de développement et notre plateforme sous-jacente.
https://t.co/LsynW33xdq

[Cloudflare @Cloudflare]

Cloudflare helps Doctolib, Europe's fastest growing ehealth service, protect the data of 80 million patients. https://t.co/ire2pKVPBT

[Darryl Ruggles @RDarrylR]

AWS has always been the leader in the public cloud but others are closing the gap. The new releases and announcements from @cloudflare in the last year have been amazing. This new one today of Workers VPC and VPC Private Link are super interesting.

I have spent a little bit of time playing around with the various serverless/managed offerings from Cloudflare but really need to spend more time on these. Cloudflare has to be starting to push companies like AWS.

[Charly Wargnier @DataChaz]

Just so y'all know, every time you push code, you appear live on @GitHub's real-time events board at their HQ

[George Kurtz @George_Kurtz]

CrowdStrike is actively working with customers impacted by a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts. Mac and Linux hosts are not impacted. This is not a security incident or cyberattack. The issue has been identified, isolated and a fix has been deployed. We refer customers to the support portal for the latest updates and will continue to provide complete and continuous updates on our website. We further recommend organizations ensure they’re communicating with CrowdStrike representatives through official channels. Our team is fully mobilized to ensure the security and stability of CrowdStrike customers.