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Jessica Kerr @jessitron.bsky.social · 13h

The work is not about simplifying the system, but about designing the connective tissue that enables complex organizations to act with coherence. - John Cutler (cuttlefish. What is his bluesky?)

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Jessica Kerr @jessitron.bsky.social · 6d

Ah yes, the happy-o11ydays!
That tool will still paint a heat map based on a small image you give it

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Jessica Kerr @jessitron.bsky.social · 15d

Oh neat! What do they do with it afterwards?

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Jessica Kerr @jessitron.bsky.social · 19d

"Going for lots of data isn’t a firehose, it’s a sewer pipe"
(overheard)

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Jessica Kerr @jessitron.bsky.social · 25d

It was a great talk! even recorded, your humor really came across.

Jessica Kerr @jessitron.bsky.social · 25d

book: Ignorance Unmasked, Essays in the new Science of Agnotology

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Jessica Kerr @jessitron.bsky.social · 25d

“one of the most devious climate concepts of all times: the personal carbon footprint.” - Benjamin Franta

It’s a distraction invented by BP to deflect blame onto individuals, when the “necessary, and largely sufficient” solution is: stop burning fossil fuels.

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Jessica Kerr @jessitron.bsky.social · 27d

Hallucinations are a feature.

LLMs contribute probabilistic creativity.
Tools contribute deterministic certainty.

Agents combine these in a loop.

@adamhjk.me #o11yDay

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Jessica Kerr @jessitron.bsky.social · 27d

3 Things the Winners Do with new tech:
1. Deeply understand it
2. Learn how to use its strengths, get around weaknesses
3. Adapt your domain to the tech.
@adamhjk.me #o11yDay @honeycomb.io

We have to change what we do to get the most out of the tech.

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Jessica Kerr @jessitron.bsky.social · 27d

"getting COVID won't help you thrive in an AI-native world" @adamhjk.me #o11yDay #honeycomb

He's doing a great talk, but he has COVID so we have to watch it on video. 😭

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Jessica Kerr @jessitron.bsky.social · 27d

"We have to do the things [like documentation] that make human engineers better
before we can delegate to machines"
- Dave Williams
#o11yDaySF @honeycomb.io

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Jessica Kerr @jessitron.bsky.social · Sep 5

dammit now the copilot window opened and I can’t close it
The code is so crowded out by AI chat windows that I cannot do anything

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Jessica Kerr @jessitron.bsky.social · Sep 5

It’s new, they’ll improve it. I want it though, take my $20/month so my environments persist for a day

Jessica Kerr @jessitron.bsky.social · Sep 5

I see from @kentbeck.com ‘s newsletter that @gitpod.io has rebranded as Ona, and is now an AI-assisted code thing in the cloud

YES THANK YOU! This is what I want!

Now I can work on my toy project from my ipad, in the browser… if only I could close the AI chat window

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Jessica Kerr @jessitron.bsky.social · Sep 2

Higher privilege leaves you ignorant.
When people defer to you, then you're insulated from reality, since they present what you want to see, confirm your beliefs etc since that smooths their lives.
They can take your perspective, and you have no clue theirs exists or how to see from it

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Jessica Kerr @jessitron.bsky.social · Sep 2

$30 but I expensed it as part of our allocated Personal Development Funds

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Honeycomb @honeycomb.io · Sep 2

@jessitron.bsky.social discusses how AI and observability are shaping the future of software. We’re gathering the community to explore what that means.

Join us at o11yDaySFO on Sept 11!

👉 Register now: buff.ly/Ainycoh

#honeycomb #observability #o11yDaySFO

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Jessica Kerr @jessitron.bsky.social · Sep 1

Everything's bullshit at scale
- @avdi.codes

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JEG2 @jeg2.me · Aug 11

The first article in the series is about all of the great things that can be learned from my favorite @jessitron.bsky.social presentation and how developers work best in a Product Dev team:

programmersstone.blog/posts/how-wi...

How will we know it works?

This article is part of the series JEG2's Questions. As programmers, our primary function is to achieve Product's roadmap. We will into existence the features Product believes will move the product fo...

programmersstone.blog

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Jessica Kerr @jessitron.bsky.social · Aug 26

... And I decided to keep state on the server and stick with htmx :-)

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Jessica Kerr @jessitron.bsky.social · Aug 26

I don't need performance at all

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arachnocapitalist @arachno.capital · Aug 17

agreed on incentives problem, especially when everything seems to be betting on "rub some AI on it" as an "efficiency" solution

the latest o11ycast with @.grimalkina.bsky.social is _way into_ this stuff and I loved every minute of reading its fantastic transcript

www.heavybit.com/library/podc...

O11ycast | Ep. #85, AI/LLM in Software Teams: What’s Working and What’s Next with Dr. Cat Hicks | Heavybit

In episode 85 of o11ycast, Dr. Cat Hicks unpacks AI’s impact on software teams from a psychological and social-science perspective.

www.heavybit.com

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Jessica Kerr @jessitron.bsky.social · Aug 15

In my latest toy project, I sadly hit a limitation and realized I shouldn't have used htmx, this is a state-based web app.

'convert from htmx to React' is a one-line change now

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Jessica Kerr @jessitron.bsky.social · Aug 8

of course, steal away

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Jessica Kerr @jessitron.bsky.social · Aug 8

True story: the guest comes in with "You f**! I just brushed my teeth with icyhot!"

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