Ryan James Spencer

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.

articles like these are rad. we need more interactive demonstrations of things. jakelazaroff.com/words/an-inter…

1. Hook up generator to Dijkstra's grave. 2. Train popular LLM to slip gotos into code. 3. Free energy?

AI optimism flips around ~$36k GDP per capita. Below it, countries are bullish; above, sceptical. Singapore's the only outlier; the government treats AI adoption as a national project. The backlash tracks income, not technology. justanotherdot.substack.com/p/the-vilifica…

Everybody's trying to predict our AI future. There's one where we aren't doing much AI after the bubble pops. But there's also a future where use of these tools increase and our job focus intensifies in areas that makes the most sense with LLMs. justanotherdot.substack.com/p/your-job-was…

Customers don't care you're using AI. justanotherdot.substack.com/p/people-want-…

Yes I program, how could you tell? Coffee, anyone?

Time management is time sensitivity justanotherdot.com/posts/time-man…

Default to trust justanotherdot.com/posts/default-…

Will people continue to align deck chairs on twitter until things get better and just stick here?

Weather in sydney finally feels like sydney again. Breezy, sunny, perfect for ice cream and swimming.

Fuck it bought Berkeley mono

k-d tree => korean drama tree, a lattice of narrative.

@justanotherdot@hachyderm.io and cohost.org/justanotherdot but we'll see if any of these take off.

To be clear this is justanotherdot without the leading underscore i needed to add to my twitter handle.

anyone ever run multiple blogs at once? e.g. substack + blog, where the content is cross posted to keep in sync.

put your own oxygen mask on, first. justanotherdot.com/posts/oxygen-m…

i don't dynamically generate images for opengraph tags and it was a limiting factor in my writing pipeline. i've shut them off my entire blog. sweet sweet unadultered writing.

this is genuinely a feature i think is accidental on twitter, but someone could built up a platform with it being a first-class citizen

one of my favorite things about twitter isn’t actually the active, up to date content, but searching through people’s likes, their top content, and rummaging around with advanced search. if twitter gets turned off it will be difficult/impossible to have the same experience.