The future of software engineering is SRE

Charity Majors@charity.wtf · 6mo ago

Get your code in production *with* enough instrumentation, context, cardinality, and precision tooling that you (or your agentic swarm) can validate precisely what it's doing. That's the burden. That's the bottleneck. Happy Friday.

"The Hierarchy Is Bullshit (And Bad For Business)": I don't know how it happened, but I re-read this AMAZING post by @charity.wtf from 2022 and I think that any person in a "management" position should read it ASAP 😊🙏🏽 charity.wtf/2022/09/23/t...

The Hierarchy Is Bullshit (And Bad For Business)

My friend Molly has had an impressive career. She got a job as a software engineer after graduating from college, and after kicking ass for a year or so she was offered a promotion to management, w…

charity.wtf

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

"Qué hacer cuando la gente no reacciona al feedback" open.substack.com/pub/flopezlu...

Cuando la gente no reacciona al feedback

Hace un par de semanas estuve en la Pamplona Software Crafters… y gracias a https://bsky.app/profile/franmosteiro.es surgió una charla muy interesante sobre las personas que no reaccionan al feedback.

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Félix López Luis 🇺🇦@flopezluis.bsky.social · last yr.

Escribiendo un una newsletter (ya tocaba) con un tema que salió en la @pamplonaswcraft ¿qué hacemos si una persona no reacciona al feedback? Sneak peek de cuando el caso es crítico

Quedan menos de 100k firmas para esto y acaba hoy. Dedicadle 30 segundos, anda.

Kamapon🌸@kamapon.bsky.social · last yr.

European Friends out there, please sign this initiative to ban conversion therapies forever This is actually revised and discussed in the European Parliament so every signature counts!! eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...

Le preguntan a GPT-4o que invente una historia sobre una persona con diferentes profesiones y los pronombres que usa son estos 👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1... 100% femeninos - receptionist, secretary, flight attendant 100% masculinos - electrician, automative technician, mechanic #AIEthics

Quién nos iba a decir que estaríamos en este punto. Pues estamos. Y habrá que hacer algo.

let this be a reminder that the world you’re seeing on your phone is designed to keep you stuck in an infinite loop of anger and despair. no matter where you are there’s work to be done. find your people and get out there

Any asshole can build an org where the smartest, most experienced engineers in the world can get shit done. A truly great engineering org is one where normal, workaday software engineers, with decent skills and ordinary experience, can move fast, ship code, and move the business forward day by day.

It’s fun starting a new hobby with ADHD because I never know if I’ve found a new lifelong passion or if I’m going to spend $2000 on stuff and immediately lose all interest

A gentle reminder for anyone in a manager-ish position: please, do NOT play the "psychologist" with the people in your team(s) 🙏 1/5