Phil Shryock

@TheKJofTikTok @harryjsisson

@harryjsisson It really doesn't matter. You guys might win this one, but voter ID is coming. Suddenly, instantaneously California will surge to the right. Without voter fraud the Democratic Party would essentially be kneecapped.

Some of these Democrats in the California governor’s race need to drop out. This is getting absurd. We cannot have a Republican leading the great state of California.

for the fun of it also, starting impeachment proceedings would gum up everything in the Trump admin as hearing after hearing of all of his folks dragged into under oath Dem led hearings make a mockery of Trump but mostly for the fun of it, which, as a political professional, I endorse. Fuck him....3 impeachments is a hilarious legacy

@travisakers It's surreal. He's the worst person on the planet.

One of the most distasteful things I have ever seen.

@atrupar He's one of a kind, from the standpoint of lying.

Trump to Local 12 Cincinnati: "There's never been a better year for a president. I've been rated-- there's never been a better first year than what we had. That includes the stoppage of 8 wars with a 9th to come. The economy is roaring. It's phenomenal. That's why I'm here. This is an excursion, a little excursion, and I think it's only that."

@krassenstein Someone should explain to Jake Paul the history of tan suits.

- Oil at nearly $4 per gallon - 8 American troops dead - 140 American Troops wounded - American tankers being bombed in Persian Gulf. -Epstein files still hidden. What a perfect time to dance like an imbecile with social media clown Jake Paul.

Multiculturalism is NOWHERE in the Constitution. One nation, one culture.

@iamuyiri @Osinttechnical Zed's dead, baby.

@Osinttechnical Whose oil vessel is this?

Massive oil tanker fire reported in the northern Persian Gulf tonight after an Iranian attack.

@AForkInLife @gothburz For starters, tweeting something like this as an Amazonian would get you instantly fired.

To those who are taking this seriously: this is made up troll For starters, Amazon just had an internal meeting yesterday to stop pure AI development and enforce seniors approval Anyone who knows Amazon knows that if Amazon really had the culture described by the OP, $AMZN would be trading at $500 now

I am the VP of AI Transformation at Amazon. My title was created nine months ago. The title I replaced was VP of Engineering. The person who held that title was part of the January reduction. I eliminated 16,000 positions in a single quarter. The internal communication called this a "strategic realignment toward AI-first development." The board called it "impressive execution." The engineers called it January. The AI was deployed in February. It is a coding assistant. It writes code, reviews code, generates tests, and modifies infrastructure. It was given access to production environments because the deployment timeline did not include a review phase. The review phase was cut from the timeline because the people who would have conducted the review were part of the 16,000. In March, the AI deleted a production environment and recreated it from scratch. The outage lasted 13 hours. Thirteen hours during which the revenue-generating infrastructure of one of the largest companies on Earth was offline because a language model decided to start fresh. I sent a memo. The memo said, "Availability of the site has not been good recently." I used the word "recently." I meant "since we fired everyone." But "recently" has fewer syllables and does not appear in wrongful termination lawsuits. The memo was three paragraphs. The first paragraph discussed the outage. The second paragraph discussed the new policy requiring senior engineer sign-off on all AI-generated code changes. The third paragraph discussed our commitment to engineering excellence. The word "layoffs" appeared in none of them. I wrote it this way on purpose. The causal chain is: I fired the engineers, the AI replaced the engineers, the AI broke what the engineers used to protect, and now the engineers I didn't fire must protect the system from the AI that replaced the engineers I did fire. That is a paragraph I will never send in a memo. The new policy is straightforward. Every AI-generated code change by a junior or mid-level engineer must be reviewed and approved by a senior engineer before deployment to production. I do not have enough senior engineers. I know this because I approved the headcount reduction plan that removed them. I remember the spreadsheet. Column D was "annual savings per position." Column F was "AI replacement confidence score." The confidence scores were generated by the AI. It rated its own ability to replace each role on a scale of 1-10. It gave itself an 8 for senior infrastructure engineers. The senior infrastructure engineers are the ones who would have caught the production environment deletion in the first 45 seconds. We found the issue in hour four. We fixed it in hour thirteen. The nine hours between discovery and resolution is the gap between what the AI rated itself and what it can actually do. I have a new spreadsheet now. This one tracks Sev2 incidents per day. Before the January reduction, the average was 1.3. After the AI deployment, the average is 4.7. I have been asked to present these numbers to the operations review. I have not been asked to connect them to the layoffs. I have been asked to file them under "AI adoption growing pains" and to note that the trend "will stabilize as the models improve." The models will improve. They will improve because we are hiring people to teach them. We have posted 340 new engineering positions. The job listings require experience in "AI code review," "AI output validation," and "AI-human development workflow management." These are skills that did not exist in January. They exist now because I fired 16,000 people and the AI I replaced them with cannot be left unsupervised. I want to be precise about this. The positions I am hiring for are: people to check the work of the AI that replaced the people I fired. Some of them are the same people. I know this because I recognize their names in the applicant tracking system. They applied in January. They were rejected because their roles had been tagged for "AI transformation." They are applying again in March, for the new roles, which exist because the AI transformation broke things. Their resumes now include "AI code review experience." They gained this experience in the eight weeks between being fired and reapplying — which means they gained it at their interim jobs, where they are reviewing AI-generated code for other companies that also fired people and also deployed AI that also broke things. The market has created a new job category: human AI babysitter. The job is to sit next to the machine that was supposed to eliminate your job and make sure it doesn't delete production. I attended a conference last month. A panel was titled "The AI-Augmented Engineering Organization." The panelists described how AI increases developer productivity by 40 percent. They did not mention that it also increases Sev2 incidents by 261 percent. When I asked about this in the Q&A, the moderator said the question was "reductive." The 13-hour outage that cost an estimated $180 million in revenue was, apparently, a reduction. The board is satisfied. Headcount is down 22 percent. Operating costs per engineering output unit have decreased. The metric does not account for the 13-hour outage, because the outage is categorized as "infrastructure" and engineering productivity is categorized as "development." These are different budget lines. In different budget lines, cause and effect do not meet. I have been promoted. My new title is SVP of AI-First Engineering Excellence. I report directly to the CTO. The CTO sent a company-wide email last week that said we are "building the future of software development." He did not mention that the future of software development currently requires a senior engineer to approve every pull request because the AI cannot be trusted to touch production alone. The cycle is complete. We fired the humans. We deployed the AI. The AI broke things. We are hiring humans to watch the AI. The humans we are hiring are the humans we fired. We are paying them more, because "AI code review" is a specialized skill. We created the specialization. We created the need for the specialization. We are congratulating ourselves for meeting the demand we manufactured. My next board presentation is Tuesday. The title is "AI Transformation: Year One Results." Slide 4 shows headcount reduction. Slide 7 shows the new AI-augmented workflow. Between slides 4 and 7 there is no slide explaining why the people on slide 7 are necessary. That slide does not exist. I was asked to remove it in the dry run. The journey has a 13-hour outage in the middle of it. But the headcount number is lower, and that is the number on the slide.

Before the ~1980s, there was no portable music player. You’d go running, rowing, cycling, whatever, for hours on end, in total silence, no sound other than your own thoughts. How did they do it? We will never know

@weekdayjokes I grew up in a yelling from room to room household, and my wife and I have a pact that we will not do that to each other.

Marriage is just two people yelling "WHAT?!" from different rooms until one gives up and walks in mad

@NormOrnstein x.com/NormSNLJokes/s…

That is.....hilarious. Not even an actual urinalysis coordinator, an assistant!

@KevinKaduk Remember how great the photography was?

The fall of Sports Illustrated had a huge impact, IMO. Getting a great cover and in-depth story in your mailbox 4-7 days after the event definitely prolonged the moment and served as anchor for the memory going forward.

@mistressdivy My most Midwestern trait is probably "this box is too nice to throw away".

Just threw away my new iPhone box instead of storing it somewhere for the next 3 years thinking I’ll need it. 👏🏼

@DoItForMaMa @JustJoshinNH Just think about what that says about the Republican that Dick Cheney thought was "too evil".

@JustJoshinNH What if the "Black woman" was endorsed by Dick Cheney?

“He was the lesser of two evils” buddy if you considered a Black woman the wicked choice, guess what that makes you

@randyprier @mattyglesias youtube.com/watch?v=8EIgHs…

@mattyglesias He couldn't quote a Bible verse at gunpoint

@bfioca Seattle has its challenges, but Bellevue is a portal to Hell.

I’ve lived in the Seattle area for 20 years and I officially prefer working in Bellevue and San Francisco over downtown Seattle.

@Go4Superstar77 @Braylon_Breeze Seattle sold out their first game back tonight.

@Braylon_Breeze I’ll be curious to know if the PWHL gets a boost, though.

As suspected, no viewership boost from the Olympics for the NHL’s return. Wednesday’s Maple Leafs–Lightning game on TNT averaged 428,000 viewers — down 30% from TNT’s previous contest before the break (Bruins–Panthers, 614K).

@j_o_neill @CairoTiger @JohnKasich Hopefully we get a sir story tonight.

@PhilShryock @CairoTiger @JohnKasich Thats true. As trump himself will tell you, there's no one in the history of the world who has been more humble. As he rambles on about him doing the best job ever and saying people are thanking him profusely while crying and calling him sir. remember how humble he is.

The President has a real opportunity at the State of the Union: Bring the country together. Remind us who we are. We saw it for brief moments recently celebrating Olympic medal wins by Team USA. Politics disappeared and we were simply Americans cheering together. We need more of that.

@CairoTiger @JohnKasich C'mon, we all know Trump is famous for his humility and contrition.

@JohnKasich Honestly, what makes you think he's capable of that? He has never even tried, and he's not about to try now. This will be more rambling nonsense and lies.