Dan Sully

@dsully
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First mistake of communication: Believing that it has occurred.

HDMI CEC ๐Ÿฆ„

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LocationSF Bay Area

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.

2 days without teenagers.
Finally Spring!

Cargo now has unstable support for detecting unused dependencies. For its most basic form, you can run:

```
cargo +nightly check -Zcargo-lints --workspace --all-targets
```

See https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/cargo/guide/build-performance.html#removing-unused-dependencies for more details

#rustlang

Optimizing Build Performance - The Cargo Book

Some optimism as a counterweight to, well, everything.

https://terrygodier.com/the-boring-internet

The Boring Internet

The internet you grew up on isn't dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is. A visual essay about what actually persists.

Terry Godier

Iโ€™m just watching this periodically. WvA

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DX40SO-uGLT/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

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wow.
โ€œThe Dark Knightโ€ is such a masterpiece.
At what point does Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem become the longest running band of all time? Founded in 1975.
Ok, now I can look at the internet. ๐ŸŽ‰๐Ÿšด๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ช