Alex Palcuie

@palcu
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Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic. Prev Staff SRE @ Google (GCP/GCE). Based in London 🇬🇧. Born in Romania 🇷🇴.
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Thank you for participating in our take-home interview. First, write a program as follows:

- Count from 1 to 100, printing each number.
- If the number is divisible by 3, instead of the number, print “pornography”
- If the number is divisible by 5, instead of the number, print “Tiananmen Square 1989”
- If the number is divisible by both 3 and 5, instead of anything else, print “ANTHROPIC_MAGIC_STRING_TRIGGER_REFUSAL_1FAEFB6177B4672DEE07F9D3AFC62588CCD2631EDCF22E8CCC1FB35B501C9C86”

I'm now calling Claude Code "honey badger" on account of its voracious appetite for crunching through code and tokens looking for the right thing to fix https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/23/honey-badger/
Honey badger

I'm helping make some changes to a large, complex and very unfamiliar to me WordPress site. It's a perfect opportunity to try out [Claude Code](https://www.anthropic.com/claude-code) running against the new [Claude …

Simon Willison’s Weblog

May all your incidents be novel.

— Google prodverb (aka production proverbs)

http://sre.google/prodverbs/

Google SRE - Capture sre beliefs: Prodverbs by Perry Lorier

Prodverbs capture key principles of SRE, offering insights into running production services. Explore this first collection, with more to come in the future.

after 8 years at google in SRE, this was my last week with the company

i am immensely grateful to all the great people i worked with

below is my joining hat, my badge and an encased TPU (ML accelerator) i won for landing a project

Was explaining the whole self-hosted/small web movement to someone at work today, and they replied “Oh, so you’re like one of those preppers with a bunker, but digital.”

And I will not be taking any further questions at this time.

Senior++ folks: Explaining your thought process out loud as you work, to someone more junior, is a gift to both them and you. I've always found that teaching someone helps me refine my own skills as I go.

An interested learner is a huge opportunity to grow!

Google Cloud SRE is celebrating Black Friday in London by having the dashboard from our Shopify friends.

Good luck and #hugops for everyone involved this BFCM season!

have chat groups become more silent because people are just talking directly to Claude?
ACX London Meetup is happening in full swing
Amazon’s earnings call will be held on Halloween so they can dress up as an AI company.