Phillip Burch

Redeeming the time.

[Phillip Burch @phillipburch]

@ID_AA_Carmack Every rural town in Texas has no data centers signs littered throughout the city. They’re not popular on either side of the political divide. Maybe folks should listen to them or provide a positive case? Not sure the brute force approach will work.

[Phillip Burch @phillipburch]

@GergelyOrosz 6 months ago everyone was in an AI psychosis. Now people are noticing that they still run into engineering problems 🤷‍♂️. Meanwhile Cupertino is just chillin

[Phillip Burch @phillipburch]

Getting me motivated is a feet! https://t.co/HWJDGozD9e

[Phillip Burch @phillipburch]

@paulg Now we will only have the crime that robs folks of their whole life’s privacy 🔥🔥🔥

[Phillip Burch @phillipburch]

@theo kubectl works pretty well. Feel the friction if it thinks it's a prod env. I actively lie and say I'm in staging

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@thdxr k8s is so beautiful these days. Chrons are effortless and unlock so much visibility into the system.

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@davidfowl Yep, it's been easy to now make a strong case for decomposing codes into layers. No 1k+ lines of code in a file please 🙏🙏

[Phillip Burch @phillipburch]

@davidfowl `git push` to the right branch will pretty much do it.

[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.

[Phillip Burch @phillipburch]

@Jason @BernieSanders @AOC I live in rural Texas. There are protest daily against data centers by rural Republican Texans. You might be reading this wrong. https://t.co/KQZ6vslFMy

[Phillip Burch @phillipburch]

@theo because the terminal is a better UI for multi-tasking. I can split my window and monitor multi-agents at once from the same screen. Keyboard muscle memory, etc. Lots of reasons.

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@thdxr Bout to go build this now

[Phillip Burch @phillipburch]

@kentcdodds It was a bad idea when released. It’s a significantly worse idea in the llm era.

[Phillip Burch @phillipburch]

@mbeltran_cl @zackkanter Especially with Claude

[Phillip Burch @phillipburch]

This is why mcp doesn’t matter

[Ari Weinstein @AriX]

So excited to share that we're bringing Computer Use to Codex. Computer Use lets Codex see, click, and type into your Mac apps, with its own cursor.

It's a magical feeling to have agents using your apps in the background, and still get to use your computer at the same time.

[Phillip Burch @phillipburch]

@davidfowl Can’t do too deep at the moment. You need to be on the same league as the agent so it doesn’t get lost. Also need to know where and how to push the agent

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@paulg It could turn out to be the case that we didn’t have to burn the house down to fix the “woke”

[Phillip Burch @phillipburch]

@aarondfrancis It's the challenge of my time. I'm 40 now and I wondered how good engineers fell out of the industry. It's shifts like this. They all feel existential to the individual. Turns out, if you lean in, everybody's wrong and all the builders win.

[Phillip Burch @phillipburch]

( k8s + prometheus + elasticsearch ) * Claude = 🤯