Olivier Daire
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Olivier Daire
@olivdr.bsky.social
Software engineering
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This post is awesome eavan.blog/posts/implem...
Please Implement This Simple SLO
eavan.blog
November 6, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Seems like an appropriate time to re-share the @aaronboodman.com thread.

"Chrome was delivered without any sprints at all"

xcancel.com/aboodman/sta...
September 9, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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There is some confusion about whether or not we understand LLMs. The answer is yes and no, but mostly no. It's a complicated enough question that it seemed like it needed an article.

www.verysane.ai/p/do-we-unde...
Do we understand how neural networks work?
Yes and no.
www.verysane.ai
August 13, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Worth a watch:

Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
June 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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> There’s [nothing] pulling anyone to the middle. The only thing that draws engineers to look at the middle of their system is pure blinding rage. Given enough exposure to the neglected center someone will eventually make time to fix the things that bother them.

jackdanger.com/infrastructu...
Infrastructure Gravity & Domain Engineering | Jack Danger
The following is an excerpt from Executive Engineering.   “You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, in The Little Prince   Each company draws its own ...
jackdanger.com
May 17, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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How security, reliability, and design teams can get other teams to do work for them.

I share some things I learned from watching a world class security team hack a huge organization to get security work done, but in a way everyone appreciated.
Jade Rubick - How security, reliability, and design teams can get other teams to do work for them -- the Objective Expert Model
Security, reliability, and design teams can use the objective expert model to get other teams to do work for them, in a scalable way that encourages good relationships with other teams.
www.rubick.com
March 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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I wrote up a post about how we hugely improved the write performance for Bluesky's timelines/following feed.

If you want to learn more about how we did it, check it out.

Some nuggets in there about embracing imperfection in some parts of a system to scale better.

jazco.dev/2025/02/19/i...
When Imperfect Systems are Good, Actually: Bluesky’s Lossy Timelines
By examining the limits of reasonable user behavior and embracing imperfection for users who go beyond it, we can continue to provide service that meets the expectations of users without sacrificing s...
jazco.dev
February 19, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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The average AI product experience is bad right now, and it’s because teams haven’t figured it out how to build with these tools yet.

Building a prototype is 10% of the effort. The rest of the journey is uncharted waters and can be a real struggle.

blog.lawrencejones.dev/ai-mvp/
Beyond the AI MVP: What it really takes
The gap between demo-ready AI products and production-grade systems is much larger than most realise. This post explains the four stages of AI product maturity, what tooling you actually need to build...
blog.lawrencejones.dev
February 2, 2025 at 10:50 AM