Jadon Naas
@djadonn.bsky.social
A humble opinion merchant. Software dev, sysadmin, cloud, and other beep boop type things. He/him
Some recent posts about focusing on the velocity of shipping code at the expense of quality and other things gives me big "I Love Lucy working at the chocolate factory as increasing amounts of chocolate spills out of the machine" vibes
two women are clearing a queue in a kitchen
Alt: A gif of the I Love Lucy TV show episode where Lucy and her friend Ethel, two adult women, seated at a conveyor belt in a chocolate factory. Individual chocolate candies move down the conveyor belt, and Lucy and Ethel work on wrapping the individual chocolate candies. The rate at which chocolates move down the conveyor belt gradually increases, and Lucy and Ethel desperately attempt to clear chocolates off the conveyor belt by wrapping them more quickly, eating them, and shoving chocolates into their clothes as the situation spirals out of their control.
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December 26, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Some recent posts about focusing on the velocity of shipping code at the expense of quality and other things gives me big "I Love Lucy working at the chocolate factory as increasing amounts of chocolate spills out of the machine" vibes
I think one true sign of software engineering skill is when you can solve a problem without any new code.
Even better is when you can solve a problem through only talking to people and building better relationships and mutual understanding
Even better is when you can solve a problem through only talking to people and building better relationships and mutual understanding
December 24, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I think one true sign of software engineering skill is when you can solve a problem without any new code.
Even better is when you can solve a problem through only talking to people and building better relationships and mutual understanding
Even better is when you can solve a problem through only talking to people and building better relationships and mutual understanding
I think one lesson folks should take away from using LLMs to make code is that the code wasn't really the important part to begin. Sure, you usually need code, but code is mostly the expression of someone's domain knowledge applied to fixing a particular problem at hand
December 24, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I think one lesson folks should take away from using LLMs to make code is that the code wasn't really the important part to begin. Sure, you usually need code, but code is mostly the expression of someone's domain knowledge applied to fixing a particular problem at hand
Honestly, I'd be willing to say Occam's Razor becomes a fallacy or a trap insofar as apparent simplicity isn't the same thing as real simplicity. Sure, pick the thing that appears simpler to you, but be ready to handle any unknown complexity that you missed in making that choice
December 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Honestly, I'd be willing to say Occam's Razor becomes a fallacy or a trap insofar as apparent simplicity isn't the same thing as real simplicity. Sure, pick the thing that appears simpler to you, but be ready to handle any unknown complexity that you missed in making that choice
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When I see folks on BlueSky mention some personal success, I make a point to reply to encourage and congratulate. It doesn't matter to me that they are strangers and I may never hear about their life again. What matters is that for the price of one reply, someone knows they're seen and supported.
December 18, 2025 at 10:41 AM
When I see folks on BlueSky mention some personal success, I make a point to reply to encourage and congratulate. It doesn't matter to me that they are strangers and I may never hear about their life again. What matters is that for the price of one reply, someone knows they're seen and supported.
As it turns out, having 16000+ filesystem mounts on a single Linux machine is not a good idea.
No one did that on purpose. It appears to be a configuration bug in Kolla-Ansible for OpenStack that mounts a Docker volume inside of another Docker volume.
Froze up systemctl something fierce
No one did that on purpose. It appears to be a configuration bug in Kolla-Ansible for OpenStack that mounts a Docker volume inside of another Docker volume.
Froze up systemctl something fierce
December 18, 2025 at 2:36 PM
As it turns out, having 16000+ filesystem mounts on a single Linux machine is not a good idea.
No one did that on purpose. It appears to be a configuration bug in Kolla-Ansible for OpenStack that mounts a Docker volume inside of another Docker volume.
Froze up systemctl something fierce
No one did that on purpose. It appears to be a configuration bug in Kolla-Ansible for OpenStack that mounts a Docker volume inside of another Docker volume.
Froze up systemctl something fierce
I saw someone on here talking about how metacognition is the way to save yourself from falling for LLM hallucinations. I think Baldur Bjarnason made a compelling case how that can precisely make you *more* vulnerable rather than keep you safe:
www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/trustin...
www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/trustin...
Trusting your own judgement on ‘AI’ is a huge risk
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
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December 18, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I saw someone on here talking about how metacognition is the way to save yourself from falling for LLM hallucinations. I think Baldur Bjarnason made a compelling case how that can precisely make you *more* vulnerable rather than keep you safe:
www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/trustin...
www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/trustin...
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Remember, hit www.eff.org/age for a full set of resources about age verification: Why it doesn't (and can't) work, why it hurts everyone's privacy — including kids, and what we can all do to push back.
Age Verification and Age Gating: Resource Hub
Age verification (or age-gating) laws generally require online services to check, estimate, or verify all users’ ages—often through invasive tools like ID checks, biometric scans, or other dubious “ag...
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December 17, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Remember, hit www.eff.org/age for a full set of resources about age verification: Why it doesn't (and can't) work, why it hurts everyone's privacy — including kids, and what we can all do to push back.
I saw the post about the top 50 Devin user finding AI code harder to review. I think one important loss from using AI to generate your code for you is missing out on constructing your own mental model of how the code fits the problem you are trying to solve and how the code fits together
December 15, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I saw the post about the top 50 Devin user finding AI code harder to review. I think one important loss from using AI to generate your code for you is missing out on constructing your own mental model of how the code fits the problem you are trying to solve and how the code fits together
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From top AI coding user globally to completely stop using it because it's so much harder to review AI code than write it myself. And they say all software developers jobs will be replaced by LLM. Life comes fast at you. 🤣
December 13, 2025 at 1:01 PM
From top AI coding user globally to completely stop using it because it's so much harder to review AI code than write it myself. And they say all software developers jobs will be replaced by LLM. Life comes fast at you. 🤣
Today I learned you can use the date command from GNU coreutils to do things "date --date='366 days ago'" to easily get the date 366 days ago, among other date math things. I was using this to write a short shell script to delete OpenSearch indices that are older than one year to run in a cron job
December 10, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Today I learned you can use the date command from GNU coreutils to do things "date --date='366 days ago'" to easily get the date 366 days ago, among other date math things. I was using this to write a short shell script to delete OpenSearch indices that are older than one year to run in a cron job
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I hope folks who think investing in their IT infrastructure is a waste of money/a cost center remember those words when the next big whatever is due in a week, everything breaks, and dozens of highly paid engineers can't do work because the team that keeps everything running was eliminated
December 10, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I hope folks who think investing in their IT infrastructure is a waste of money/a cost center remember those words when the next big whatever is due in a week, everything breaks, and dozens of highly paid engineers can't do work because the team that keeps everything running was eliminated
Apparently, Atlassian has partnered with some racing company, and, to celebrate, they are adding a "fun little racing game" as a treat in Confluence.
I'm not sure why someone thought *that's* what will get folks excited about sort of meh productivity software
I'm not sure why someone thought *that's* what will get folks excited about sort of meh productivity software
December 5, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Apparently, Atlassian has partnered with some racing company, and, to celebrate, they are adding a "fun little racing game" as a treat in Confluence.
I'm not sure why someone thought *that's* what will get folks excited about sort of meh productivity software
I'm not sure why someone thought *that's* what will get folks excited about sort of meh productivity software
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I see people asking "I have UI skills, how do I get better at UX?" My answer is: learn content design.
You can't hide behind whizbang styling when your medium is a sentence with hyperlinks to other sentences. Starting with the content also breaks you out of seeing work as a screen to be "laid out".
You can't hide behind whizbang styling when your medium is a sentence with hyperlinks to other sentences. Starting with the content also breaks you out of seeing work as a screen to be "laid out".
December 3, 2025 at 2:03 PM
I see people asking "I have UI skills, how do I get better at UX?" My answer is: learn content design.
You can't hide behind whizbang styling when your medium is a sentence with hyperlinks to other sentences. Starting with the content also breaks you out of seeing work as a screen to be "laid out".
You can't hide behind whizbang styling when your medium is a sentence with hyperlinks to other sentences. Starting with the content also breaks you out of seeing work as a screen to be "laid out".
I was reading the Wikipedia article about Context Collapse (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Context...) to understand the term better. The article used the phrase "a surfeit of different audiences", and I would like to consider "a surfeit of audiences" as a collective noun for audiences henceforth
Context collapse - Wikipedia
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December 2, 2025 at 9:10 PM
I was reading the Wikipedia article about Context Collapse (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Context...) to understand the term better. The article used the phrase "a surfeit of different audiences", and I would like to consider "a surfeit of audiences" as a collective noun for audiences henceforth
I do wonder how much of OpenAI's plans to delay ads is because they can't figure out a way to actually do ads well enough to make money.
I don't have any proof for this, I grant, but declaring a "Code Red" emergency before pivoting back to what you are comfortable doing sounds like a failure mode
I don't have any proof for this, I grant, but declaring a "Code Red" emergency before pivoting back to what you are comfortable doing sounds like a failure mode
December 2, 2025 at 8:46 PM
I do wonder how much of OpenAI's plans to delay ads is because they can't figure out a way to actually do ads well enough to make money.
I don't have any proof for this, I grant, but declaring a "Code Red" emergency before pivoting back to what you are comfortable doing sounds like a failure mode
I don't have any proof for this, I grant, but declaring a "Code Red" emergency before pivoting back to what you are comfortable doing sounds like a failure mode
I once failed to convince a CEO with whom I worked for several years of this exact phenomenon. Meetings with this CEO and other folks in the company often were really frustrating b/c CEO would make some off-the-cuff remark that immediately turned into a multi-team initiative and waste of time
November 26, 2025 at 6:59 PM
I once failed to convince a CEO with whom I worked for several years of this exact phenomenon. Meetings with this CEO and other folks in the company often were really frustrating b/c CEO would make some off-the-cuff remark that immediately turned into a multi-team initiative and waste of time
After weeks of terrible customer support calls with the appliance maker Bosch, I wonder if decades of scripted customer service/support calls primed people to be more likely to accept the outputs from LLMs/generative text. There are uncanny similarities between the call scripts and AI slop text
November 12, 2025 at 3:53 PM
After weeks of terrible customer support calls with the appliance maker Bosch, I wonder if decades of scripted customer service/support calls primed people to be more likely to accept the outputs from LLMs/generative text. There are uncanny similarities between the call scripts and AI slop text
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I only knew the modern meaning of "Luddite" until recently. Turns out, the Luddites were badass, actually. So you get a thread! And now you'll know too!
October 29, 2025 at 12:38 AM
I only knew the modern meaning of "Luddite" until recently. Turns out, the Luddites were badass, actually. So you get a thread! And now you'll know too!
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Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same
October 29, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same
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TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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The official home of the Python Programming Language
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October 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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I don't care how good LLMs *might* be getting at some things, *nothing* compares to how good it feels to *learn* something new and to acquire the knowledge you need to do something you've always wanted to do but didn't know how. 💪🏻
October 2, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I don't care how good LLMs *might* be getting at some things, *nothing* compares to how good it feels to *learn* something new and to acquire the knowledge you need to do something you've always wanted to do but didn't know how. 💪🏻
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you cannot get good with a piece of software unless you kinda hate it
September 24, 2025 at 8:07 AM
you cannot get good with a piece of software unless you kinda hate it
I saw a car commercial showing vehicles going through extreme environments to testify the quality/endurance of the vehicles, and I laughed at their idea of "endurance". Don't give me a car that can drive up a sand dune.
September 8, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I saw a car commercial showing vehicles going through extreme environments to testify the quality/endurance of the vehicles, and I laughed at their idea of "endurance". Don't give me a car that can drive up a sand dune.