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.
I believe that whatever form of baseball Dominican Republic is playing along with what is going on with the crowd… is the way baseball is supposed to be played. dassit
Zelensky and his speechwriters never really disappoint, but the New Year's Night address of 2022-2023, the first one of the full-scale war with Russia, IMHO, remains unexcelled.
Truly one of the greatest wartime speeches of all time.
The tragic and heroic year 2022 couldn't help but give birth to such a speech.
It's honestly impossible to describe the feeling of that whole 7th inning to somebody who didn't experience it. I've never seen anything like it before and doubt I'll see anything like it again.