Dave Beckett

And that was my last day at Twitter. Laid off by email. The experience has been indescribable from chaos to hilarious.

Sovereignty as an SRE problem. The political ask is independence. The engineering work is SLA, staffing, complexity, and creating an operational surface for a sovereign operator with a hyperscaler's stack. Three years on Google Cloud Dedicated / S3NS. dajobe.org/blog/2026/05/1…

Faux dystopian ads now. Made me look and made me take pic. No call to action in the new whatever.

@osidenko_ Yes it's broader. Look for verifiable public work; arguably some legal work/verification in case laws IS public except locked behind (pseudo?) paywalls.

@dajobe seeing this in legal AI. the model is basically a commodity now. the real value is years of a company's actual contracts, playbooks, decisions. whoever holds the context holds the moat.

Coding LLMs spread because public code spread. Production engineering data is private by default, so AI for-ops concentrates around whoever has it. The data plane matters more than the model. dajobe.org/blog/2026/05/0…

Sadly Replay didn't pay for a durable website or possibly WiFi. So no conference schedule for me. #replay2006 fail

My first lanyard in like 4 years. #replay2026

LLMs got good at code because it's verifiable: tests pass or fail. Production engineering isn't. Same change, different outcome depending on live state. No cheap reward signal. dajobe.org/blog/2026/05/0…

A file is a table. A line is a row. `comm -12` is intersection, `comm -23` is set difference, `join` is an inner join, `sort -u` is SELECT DISTINCT. A small line-oriented relational algebra hiding inside POSIX. dajobe.org/blog/2026/05/0…

Fleet automation lesson four years on: the caps on your destructive operations bound count. They don't bound concentration. Sorted host lists correlate with physical topology, and 'head -n 5' will cheerfully take out a rack. dajobe.org/blog/2026/04/2…

Presidio Tunnel Tops Park, San Francisco. Let’s hope Orange Felon won’t screw this one up since he hates Pelosi and walking.

I spent Q1 2026 interviewing for Staff+ SRE roles at AI infra companies. Both sides using LLMs. No one asked to see my tool setup, or how I decide when to generate code and when not to. The bar is still Judgement. The interview format hasn't caught up. dajobe.org/blog/2026/04/2…

Most AI takes come from the outside looking in. Five Crusoe leaders share what they're actually seeing in AI infrastructure right now. An authentic view from inside the machine: crusoe.ai/resources/lear…

Day 5 was 2. So total meetings for week 1: 13

Day 4 was 4 in the end. future day 5: 2 so far

New job calendar meetings. Day 1: 1. Day 2: 1. Day 3: 5. Future: Day 4: 3 so far. Day 5: hoping for zero #onboarding

Today I started work as a Senior Staff Production Engineer at @CrusoeAI in SF. dajobe.org/blog/2026/04/1…

Given Trump’s Easter threats to carry out new war crimes in Iran, we should think one or two steps ahead about a coup attempt connected to the war. And then deter it. (1/17)

Kamala Harris was right about everything.

In a surprise twist, the Epstein files released the attorney general.