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CTO/cofounder of honeycomb.io, coauthor of DBRE and Observability Engineering. Likes whiskey, rainbows; is nsfw.

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Charity Majors @mipsytipsy@hachyderm.io

· 3mo ago

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@brainsik/116686989131056784 Your wish is my command. Just posted a follow up on the ethics of it all. https://charitydotwtf.substack.com/p/make-ai-boring-again

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.:. brainsik

@brainsik@hachyderm.io

This is a thoughtful essay on the tension between AI enthusiasts and skeptics in engineering organizations. Though, it avoids a huge part of the skeptic story (morality, climate, etc), possibly because there’s no solution. I’d be curious to hear from @mipsytipsy@hachyderm.io how that part gets dealt with, if it does. “And we need each other desperately. To chart a safe path between the Scylla of missed windows and the Charybdis of systems melting into slop, we need eyes on both threats as we coordinate, synchronize, and pull together. Hard.” https://charitydotwtf.substack.com/p/ai-enthusiasts-are-in-a-race-against

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Charity Majors @mipsytipsy@hachyderm.io

· 11mo ago

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@MongooseStudios@hachyderm.io @recursive@hachyderm.io aw, wow. good read (angry making, sad making, and good)

Charity Majors @mipsytipsy@hachyderm.io

· 11mo ago

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@drmorr those other things -- diagrams, planning, design docs -- can be very useful too! but shipping is when you learn whether what you learned from them was right or not. And far better to learn, and validate; learn, validate; learn, validate; in tight, fast, happy loops along the way, than to discover some structural flaw on the other side of six months' labor.

Charity Majors @mipsytipsy@hachyderm.io

· 11mo ago

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@andygrunwald@hachyderm.io Wait. Won't be published til June or July, but prerelease chapters will start dripping out soon, I think starting next week at kubecon? Whole thing will be available in prerelease sooner than that. And you can download v1 now from the honeycomb website for the price of your email address, anyway. 😉 and yes... it is ~80-90% rewritten, with 40-50% all new content, including a massive section on governance and tech leadership content that is currently killing me. but yes, wait.